Overview
San Diego, California - May 20-21, 2004
Community Workshop on Computational Simulation and Visualization Environment for NEES Lawrence, Kansas - December 1-2, 2003
The Second Annual Meeting of the NEES Consortium was held May 19-22, 2004 at the Catamaran Resort Hotel on beautiful Mission Bay in San Diego, California. The meeting was attended by 147 people.
Meeting Highlights
- Talks by NSF Programs Managers on NEES Research Funding Opportunities
- Updates on the NEES Equipment Sites
- Experiences of Early Research Usage of Equipment Sites
- Building Bridges Between NEES and the Geoscience Community
- Meeting of the Consortium's Committees: Education & Outreach, Information Technology, Site Operations, Data Sharing & Archiving, and Finance
- Live Wireless Polling of Members' Opinions
- Beachfront Reception sponsored by MTS Systems Corp.
- Demonstrations of NEW NEES IT capabilities
- Field Trip to UC San Diego's Shake Equipment Site (The largest shake table in the United States).
Annual Meeting Program Details and Pesentations
| WEDNESDAY - MAY 19, 2004 |
6:00-8:00 pm
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Hosted reception with hoes d'oeuvres, sponsored by MTS Systems Corp. PI's of the Equipment Sites and the SI projects were available to discuss usage of NEES with potential researchers.
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| THURSDAY - MAY 20, 2004 |
7:15-8:15 am
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Continental Breakfast & Meeting check-in
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8:15-8:30
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Opening of Meeting and Agenda Overview: Ian Buckle, President NEES Consortium
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8:30-8:45
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Welcome by NEES Consortium, Inc. Executive Director: Cliff Roblee
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8:45-9:15
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Welcome from NSF: Joy Pauschke, NSF NEES Program Director
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9:15-9:45
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The Shared Cyberinfrastructure Program: Sangtae Kim, Director, Division of Shared Cyberinfrastructure, Directorate of Computer and Information Science and Engineering, NSF
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9:45-10:15
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NEES Research Solicitations: Steven McCabe, NEESR Program Manager, NSF
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10:15-10:30
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NIED E-Defense: Toru Hayama, Executive Director, National Research Institute of Earth Science and Disaster Prevention
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10:30-11:00
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Break
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11:00-noon
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NEES Equipment Site "Travelogue," Part I: Shake Tables (UB-SUNY, U. of Nevada-Reno, UCSD); Mobile and Field (BYU/UCSB, UCLA, U. of Texas - Austin [see lunch speaker below.])
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noon-1:30 pm
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Lunch: Speaker, Kenneth Stokoe, University of Texas at Austin
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1:30-2:30
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NEES Committee Updates and Live Wireless Polling of Members: Andrew Neitlich
-- Education, Outreach, and Training: Thalia Anagnos, Chair
-- Finance: Craig Comartin, Chair
-- Data Sharing and Archiving: Andrei Reinhorn, Chair
-- IT: Cherri Pancake, Chair
-- Site Operations: Roberto Leon, Chair
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2:30-3:00
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Break
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3:00-5:00
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NEES Committee Meetings
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6:00-7:30
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Banquet
Guest Speaker: Luis Esteva, President, International Assoc. for Earthquake Engineering
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| FRIDAY - MAY 21, 2004 |
7:30-8:00 am
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Continental Breakfest
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8:00-9:30
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NEES Equipment Site "Travelogue," Part II: Tsunami (OSU); Large-Scale Structures (U. Illinois - Urbana-Champaign, Lehigh, U. Minnesota, UC-Berkeley, U. Colorado - Boulder); Large-Scale Lifelines and Geotechnical (Cornell); Centrifuges (RPI, UC-Davis)
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9:30-10:30
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Early Research Usage of NEES Equipment Sites
-- Cathy French
-- Roberto Leon
-- John Wallace
-- Sharon Wood
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10:30-11:00
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Break (w/ group photo)
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11:00-11:45
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Committee Reports
-- Education, Outreach, and Training: Thalia Anagnos, Chair
-- Data Sharing and Archiving: Andrei Reinhorn, Chair
-- IT: Cherri Pancake, Chair
-- Site Operations: Roberto Leon, Chair
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11:45-1:15 pm
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Lunch: Speaker, James Malley, President of SEAOC and Principal Engineer with Degenkolb Engineers
-- Keiichi Ohtani, NIED E-Defense Update
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1:15-1:50
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Community Input: Andrew Neitlich
Discussion and live wireless polling of the audience: Prioritization of NEES Consortium membership services, reactions to the first round of NEESR Solicitations/proposals, evaluation of this annual meeting, preferences for future meetings
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1:50-2:30
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Demonstration of New NEES IT Capabilities
-- Bill Spencer, System Integration Project
-- Tarek Abdoun, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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2:30-3:00
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Break
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3:00-4:00
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Building Bridges Between NEES and the Geoscience Community
-- Chaitan Baru, SDSC and GEON
-- Thomas Jordan, SCEC
-- William Leith, USGS and ANSS
-- David Simpson, IRIS and EarthScope
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4:00-4:15
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Closing: Ian Buckle, NEES Consortium, President
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| SATURDAY - MAY 22, 2004 |
8:30 am
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Depart hotel for field trip to UC San Diego Equipment Site
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NEES 2nd Annual Meeting: - May 20-21, 2004 - San Diego, California
