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.

地震信息技术本科研究 (USEIT) 是一个基于团队的本科生研究体验 (REU) 站点，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，该地区拥有超过 2300 万人口，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 站点增强了 SCEC 可以利用的计算机科学和信息技术 (CS/IT) 专业知识，以实现其预测强地震动和地震的目标。了解地震的可预测性。经过 10 年的时间，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，可以交互式 4D 显示各种地理参考数据集，以进行分析、演示和发布。 SCEC-VDO 现在作为可视化平台在整个 SCEC 社区中广泛使用。更广泛地说，USEIT REU 站点使参与国家减灾计划 (NEHRP) 的所有联邦机构受益；特别是，它加强了美国地质调查局地震灾害测绘项目的人员队伍，以及国家科学基金会内与 NEHRP 相关的主要举措，包括 EarthScope 项目和乔治·E·布朗地震工程模拟网络。自 2002 年以来，已有来自全国各地的 220 名本科生参加了该计划，随着时间的推移，随着这些 REU Site 校友成长为系统科学领域的新一代 CS/IT 领军人物，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中最困难的计算问题之一。 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。该主题每年都会有所不同，但总是需要进行地震科学家、教育工作者和其他目标受众所需的计算机科学研究。 USEIT 的总体目标是利用令人兴奋的地震信息技术领域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。 USEIT 提供 CS/IT 和系统科学方面的交叉培训，鼓励学生扩大大学课程，并考虑更广泛地考虑 CS/IT、地球科学、网络基础设施和计算科学方面的研究生工作。