REU Site: Undergraduate Studies in Earthquake Information Technology (SCEC/UseIT)

REU 网站：地震信息技术本科生研究 (SCEC/UseIT)

• 批准号: 1263272
• 负责人: Thomas Jordan
• 金额: $ 36万
• 依托单位: University of Southern California
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-05-01 至 2017-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1263272&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Undergraduate; Studies; Earthquake

Undergraduate Studies in Earthquake Information Technology (USEIT) is a team-based Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site implemented by the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) at its lead institution, the University of Southern California. SCEC coordinates earthquake research in Southern California, which comprises over 23 million people and about half of the national earthquake risk. The SCEC science plan addresses the most pressing issues of earthquake system science, and the USEIT REU Site enhances the computer science and information technology (CS/IT) expertise that SCEC can draw upon to achieve its objectives in the prediction of strong ground motions and the understanding of earthquake predictability. Over a period of 10 years, the UseIT interns have developed SCEC-VDO, a flexible object-oriented, open source software system that enables interactive, 4D display of diverse geo-referenced datasets for analysis, presentation, and publication. SCEC-VDO is now widely used as a visualization platform throughout the SCEC community. More broadly, the USEIT REU Site benefits all federal agencies that participate in the National Hazard Reduction Program (NEHRP); and in particular, it strengthens the workforce for the USGS?s program in seismic hazard mapping, as well as major NEHRP-related initiatives within NSF, including the EarthScope Program and the George E. Brown Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation. Since 2002, 220 undergraduates from around the country have participated in the program, and over time, USEIT's broadest impacts will come as these REU Site alumni develop into a new generation of CS/IT savvy leaders in system science. Earthquakes pose the greatest natural threat to the built environment in seismically active regions such as Southern California. Earthquakes are also among the most complex terrestrial phenomena, and modeling of earthquake dynamics is one of the most difficult computational problems in science. USEIT allows students to work in multi-disciplinary collaborative teams to tackle a scientific "Grand Challenge" where they use the advanced tools of information technology to solve important problems in interdisciplinary earthquake research. The topic varies each year but it always entails performing computer-science research that is needed by earthquake scientists, educators, and other target audiences. The overarching goal of USEIT is to use this team-based research experience in the exciting field of earthquake information technology to motivate undergraduates from diverse backgrounds to pursue STEM careers. USEIT provides the cross-training in CS/IT and system science that encourages students to broaden their coursework in college and to consider graduate work in CS/IT, in the geosciences, and in cyberinfrastructure and computational science more generally.

地震信息技术本科生研究(USEIT)是由南加州地震中心(SCEC)在其牵头机构南加州大学实施的面向本科生的团队研究体验(REU)网站。SCEC协调南加州的地震研究，南加州有2300多万人口，约占全国地震风险的一半。SCEC的科学计划解决了地震系统科学中最紧迫的问题，而USEIT REU站点加强了SCEC可以利用的计算机科学和信息技术(CS/IT)专业知识，以实现其在强震预测和地震可预报性方面的目标。在10年的时间里，UseIT实习生开发了SCEC-VDO，这是一个灵活的面向对象的开源软件系统，可以交互、4D显示各种地理参考数据集，用于分析、演示和发布。SCEC-VDO现在被广泛用作整个SCEC社区的可视化平台。更广泛地说，USEIT REU站点使参与国家减少灾害计划(NEHRP)的所有联邦机构受益；尤其是，它加强了美国地质调查局S计划在地震危险图方面的工作人员，以及美国国家科学基金会内与NEHRP相关的主要倡议，包括地球望远镜计划和乔治·E·布朗地震工程模拟网络。自2002年以来，来自全国各地的220名本科生参加了该项目，随着时间的推移，USEIT将随着这些REU现场校友发展成为系统科学领域精通CS/IT的新一代领导者而产生最广泛的影响。地震对南加州等地震活跃地区的建筑环境构成了最大的自然威胁。地震也是最复杂的陆地现象之一，地震动力学建模是科学计算中最困难的问题之一。USEIT允许学生在多学科协作团队中工作，以应对科学的“大挑战”，他们使用先进的信息技术工具来解决跨学科地震研究中的重要问题。这个主题每年都会有所不同，但它总是需要进行地震科学家、教育工作者和其他目标受众需要的计算机科学研究。USEIT的总体目标是利用地震信息技术领域令人兴奋的团队研究经验来激励来自不同背景的本科生追求STEM职业生涯。USEIT提供CS/IT和系统科学的交叉培训，鼓励学生拓宽他们在大学的课程，并考虑CS/IT、地球科学以及网络基础设施和计算科学的研究生工作。