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

机构：南加州大学提案编号：0354068 PI：托马斯H. Jordan标题：REU研究中心：SCEC本科生暑期地震信息技术\（SCEC/ESTIT\）该项目在南加州大学南加州地震中心（SCEC）建立了一个新的REU站点。 本科研究实习生将使用先进的IT工具来解决跨学科的地震研究问题;将计算机科学和工程本科学习的通常独立领域与地球科学结合起来;并将非地球科学专业引入减少地震风险的实际问题。 SCEC已经在信息技术研究（ITR）奖下建立了一个本科生研究项目，这个项目将是这一努力的自然结果。 学生的研究将围绕LA 3D平台组织，这是一个用Java编写的开源、面向对象的可视化系统，可以以3D方式显示地震、断层和体积地质结构。 NSF的支持将资助12名实习生/年，为期3年。 学生们将实地考察南加州的断层系统以及其他先进的研究设施。 他们将接受培训，使研究报告和撰写研究出版物。

Institution: University of Southern CaliforniaProposal Number: 0354068PI: Thomas H. JordanTitle: REU Site: SCEC Undergraduate Summer in Earthquake Information Technology \(SCEC/UseIT\)This project establishes a new REU site at the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC), University of Southern California. The undergraduate research interns will use advanced IT tools to solve interdisciplinary earthquake research problems; bring together the usually separate fields of undergraduate study in computer science and engineering with the geosciences; and introduce non-geoscience majors to the practical problems of reducing earthquake risk. The SCEC already has in place an undergraduate research program under an Information Technology Research (ITR) award, and this project will be a natural outgrowth of that effort. The student research will be organized around the LA3D platform, an open-source, object-oriented visualization system written in Java, that can display earthquakes, faults, and volumetric geological structures in 3D. The NSF support will fund 12 interns/year for 3 years. The students will make field trips to fault systems in Southern California as well as to other advanced research facilities. They will receive training in making research presentations and in writing research publications.