NSF Org:	EAR Division Of Earth Sciences
Recipient:	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Initial Amendment Date:	August 13, 2004
Latest Amendment Date:	August 13, 2004
Award Number:	0444954
Award Instrument:	Standard Grant
Program Manager:	Kaye Shedlock EAR  Division Of Earth Sciences GEO  Directorate for Geosciences
Start Date:	August 15, 2004
End Date:	July 31, 2005 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount:	$15,000.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date:	$15,000.00
Funds Obligated to Date:	FY 2004 = $15,000.00
History of Investigator:	Thomas Jordan (Principal Investigator) tjordan@usc.edu
Recipient Sponsored Research Office:	University of Southern California 3720 S FLOWER ST FL 3 LOS ANGELES CA  US  90033 (213)740-7762
Sponsor Congressional District:	34
Primary Place of Performance:	University of Southern California 3720 S FLOWER ST FL 3 LOS ANGELES CA  US  90033
Primary Place of Performance Congressional District:	34
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI):	G88KLJR3KYT5
Parent UEI:
NSF Program(s):	EARTHSCOPE SCIENCE
Primary Program Source:	app-0104
Program Reference Code(s):	0000, OTHR
Program Element Code(s):	174100
Award Agency Code:	4900
Fund Agency Code:	4900
Assistance Listing Number(s):	47.050

ABSTRACT

EarthScope and associated activities will provide a wealth of data
from a wide range of disciplines about how Earth.s crust deforms on a wide range of
spatial and temporal scales. Interpreting these data in terms of the underlying processes
requires model-based inference. In order to gain better understanding of earth processes,
as well as to address adequately the high quality data that are increasingly becoming
available from geodesy, paleoseismology, stress measurements, and seismology, it is
crucial that substantial effort be devoted to improving our models. While in the short
term (important for siting of instruments, and guiding development of more sophisticated
approaches), we can make significant progress with relatively simple models; ultimately
a large-scale computational effort is needed in order to do justice to the data. We plan a
three-day workshop at Los Alamos, Aug. 16-19, 2004, with formal discussion periods, but
also with significant time to conduct hands-on work. The main objective will be to address the issues relating to meshing complex geologic problems. This workshop is open to all interested members of the EarthScope modeling community; by holding it at LANL, we can take advantage of local expertise in meshing and solving large FEM problems.

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