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

地震信息技术本科研究（USEIT）是一个基于团队的本科生研究体验（REU）网站，由南加州地震中心（SCEC）在其牵头机构南加州大学实施。SCEC负责协调南加州的地震研究，南加州人口超过2300万，约占全国地震风险的一半。SCEC科学计划解决了地震系统科学中最紧迫的问题，USEIT REU网站增强了SCEC可以利用的计算机科学和信息技术（CS/IT）专业知识，以实现其在强地面运动预测和地震可预测性理解方面的目标。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，可以对各种地理参考数据集进行交互式4D显示，用于分析、演示和发布。SCEC- vdo现在作为可视化平台在整个SCEC社区被广泛使用。更广泛地说，usit REU网站使参与国家减少危害计划（NEHRP）的所有联邦机构受益；特别是，它加强了美国地质勘探局的劳动力？美国国家科学基金会（NSF）在地震灾害测绘方面的计划，以及主要的nehrp相关计划，包括地球范围计划和乔治·e·布朗地震工程模拟网络。自2002年以来，来自全国各地的220名本科生参加了该计划，随着时间的推移，这些REU网站校友将发展成为新一代CS/IT精通系统科学的领导者，USEIT将产生最广泛的影响。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。地震也是最复杂的地球现象之一，地震动力学的建模是科学中最困难的计算问题之一。USEIT允许学生在多学科合作团队中工作，利用先进的信息技术工具解决跨学科地震研究中的重要问题，解决科学“大挑战”。这个主题每年都在变化，但它总是需要进行计算机科学研究，这是地震科学家、教育工作者和其他目标受众所需要的。usit的首要目标是利用这种基于团队的研究经验，在令人兴奋的地震信息技术领域，激励来自不同背景的本科生追求STEM职业。usit提供计算机科学/信息技术和系统科学的交叉培训，鼓励学生在大学里拓宽他们的课程，并考虑在计算机科学/信息技术、地球科学、网络基础设施和计算科学方面进行更广泛的研究生工作。

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.