8:30-10:30 – Mexico, Rob Clayton – Sumatra, Kerry Sieh – Taiwan, Jean-Philippe Avouac – Western US, Mike Gurnis – Alaska,  Kerry Sieh – Large earthquakes, Jeroen Tromp, Don Helmberger– Subduction processes, Japan, Mark Simons – Iran, Brian Wernicke

10:30-… Discussion, tea and lunch around the posters for whole day

Tectonics Observatory2005- Annual Meeting

November 8

9:00-12:00: Round Table Discussion. Salvatory

1:00-4:00: Debriefing TO-faculty. Buwalda.

Tectonics Observatory2005- Annual Meeting

November 9

The Caltech Tectonics Observatory

• Take advantage of recent technological advances in Earth Sciences to gain some better understanding of the dynamics of the lithosphere that will renew/encompass current paradigms (Plate Tectonics, Elastic rebound model of the EQ cycle)

15 Faculty involved 11 students and 5 postdocs

• Stimulate cross-fertilization among the various earth science disciplines in the Division.

• Develop the use of most recent techniques for tectonic studies (CGPS, satellite imagery, thermochronology, seismic imaging, isotopic geochemistry …)

• Take advantage of new computational techniques and recent hardware advances.

We intend to create an stimulating multidisciplinary environment to breed a new generation of earth scientists who will conceive the future theory and models of the earth dynamics

Focus AreasTargeted field efforts in key areasData from existing and planned national networks (U.S., Japan, and Taiwan)

Analysis CenterComputationalGeochemicalGeological & Geophysical

(field obs. & remote sensing)

Implementation Strategies

People-Organization

• Steering committee: R. Clayton, J. Eiler, M. Gurnis, K. Sieh, M. Simons, B. Wernicke, J.P Avouac

• 15 Faculty, 5 Postdoc, 11 Grad Students.• Visiting faculty and students.

• TO Office manager: Heather Steele• Administrative assistant : Sheryl Garcia• GIS lab: Joanne Giberson• Computation: M. Turner, David Kewley• GPS: John Galetzka, X X• Imagery: F. Ayoub

Infrastructure

• GIS facilities• Beowulf• Deployment of CGPS networks: Sumatra,

Nepal, Taiwan, Chili, Western US• Geochemistry: Mass Spectrometers for Stable

Istopes and He• Seismology: 50 Broadband seismometers for

temporary deployement, Permanent array in Sumatra

GIS Laboratory 309 N. Mudd

GIS Software•ArcGIS: ArcInfo, ArcEditor, ArcView http://www.esri.com

Image Processing Software•ERDAS Imagine: http://gis.leica-geosystems.com/•RSI ENVI/IDL: http://www.rsinc.com/

Data Sets:•California Data: SPOT Images (10m), ASTER L1B, Geology, & So. Cal Faults (detailed) •U.S. Data: DEM NED (10m-30m), 1:24K Topo Maps, ESRI United States data set

(States, Counties, Cities, Zip Codes, Lakes, Rivers, Roads, etc) •World Data: ETOPO, GTOPO, SRTM (90 meter), ESRI World data sets (Countries,

Cities, Roads, Rivers, Faults, etc)

Computers & Hardware•8 Dell Workstations: DVD-ROM, CD-RW, 1-2 GB RAM, SCSI Hard drives, 64MB –

128MB Video cards, and Gb NIC.•HP 5500 Large Format Poster Printer: Wasatch SoftRIP software for fast printing. •External CD/DVD Burner, 300GB External hard drive, 512MB USB memory key.

GPS Division Resources

Library• HP815mfp 42” Large format scanner and printer located

in the Library map room. Contact Jim O’Donnell for more information.

Division Field Equipment• 8 Laptops: Windows XP with all available GIS, image

processing, and support software.• 8 GPS receivers: 7 Garmin ETrex & 1 Garmin 3+• Linksys Wireles Router

Regional Targets

Arabia and Indo-Asia collision zone

Sumatra

Peru-Chile America

Western North America

Taiwan

Japan

Middle America