Partners
Yehuda Bock is the Director of the Scripps Orbit and Permanent Array Center (SOPAC), Research Geodesist, and Senior Lecturer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. His research interests include development of space geodetic methods-GPS and InSAR, GPS/seismic integration, crustal deformation, tectonics, early warning systems for natural hazards, meteorological and climatological applications of GPS, precise GIS, and geophysical data archiving. He has an MS and PhD from Ohio State University , a BA from New York University, and a BS from Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. SOPAC's primary scientific role is to support high precision geodetic and geophysical measurements using GPS satellites, particularly for the study of earthquake hazards, tectonic plate motion, plate boundary deformation, and meteorological processes. SOPAC is a participant in the International GPS Service (IGS), serving as a Global Data Center and a Global Analysis Center. SOPAC maintains an archive of about 2000 global and regional continuous GPS stations, with a concentration of stations in the Western U.S. Bock is principal investigator of a NASA Advanced Information Systems Technology research project entitled "Real-Time In Situ Measurements for Earthquake Early Warning and Spaceborne Deformation Measurement Mission Support," a collaboration of Caltech/JPL, and Co-I on a NASA MEaSUREs project with JPL to provide higher-order projects such as daily position time series through the GPS Explorer data portal. Bock also maintains the California Real Time Network (CRTN), which serves and archives real-time 1 Hz GPS data from about 200 stations in California. He collaborates with QuakeSim on developing workflow, common interfaces, and research such as the Southern California Earthquake Center transient detection exercises.
Terry Tullis is Professor Emeritus and a Research Professor at Brown University. His research interests include laboratory measurements of the rheology of rocks and numerical simulations of earthquakes, using laboratory-based descriptions of rock friction, and its implications for preseismic deformation and earthquake prediction. Terry chairs the National Earthquake Prediction Evaluation Council advising the USGS and leads the earthquake simulators comparison group for the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC). He has also served the SCEC Board of Directors and is the leader the Earthquake Forecasting and Predictability focus group for SCEC. He was General Secretary of the American Geophysical Union from 2002 - 2006 and has served on numerous review panels. Terry received his MS and Ph.D. in experimental geophysics from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a B.A. in Geology from Carleton College. Terry has been a QuakeSim co-investigator at various times and contributed his PARK simulation tool to the QuakeSim suite of applications.
Open Hazards is a group of scientists, technologists, and business people dedicated to the proposition that, through advances in forecasting and sensor technology, as well as an open, web-based approach to public information availability and sharing, a more sustainable human society will be enabled for responding to severe, recurring natural disasters. The objective of the Open Hazards web site is to inform and educate the public worldwide. Open Hazards provides a free, open, and independent assessment of hazard and risk due to major earthquakes, using a self-consistent, global, validated methodology. The information displayed on the web site is based on the best available science and technology as determined by the professional, peer-reviewed literature, informed by many years of professional practice at the highest levels of academia and government. Open Hazards forecasts and risk estimates allow members of the public world-wide to understand and address, for the first time, their space- and time-dependent risk from major damaging earthquakes.
The E-DECIDER project provides decision support for earthquake disaster management and response utilizing NASA remote sensing and other available remote sensing data in conjunction with NASA modeling software. The project delivers web-based infrastructure designed for ease-of-use by decision makers, including rapid and readily accessible UAVSAR and InSAR interferograms, optical imagery, and derived data products both pre- and post- earthquake, standards-compliant map data products, and deformation modeling and earthquake forecasting results. Products and results are both automatically generated in the event of an earthquake as well as available in pre-event “scenario” catalogs. The approach is to develop decision support tools working in partnership with end users in the US Geological Survey and other decision making and first response agencies, work with partner agencies during project to incorporate feedback for design needs, and deliver web-based tools designed to aid in earthquake response and decision making.
Paul Lundgren is a research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He has a Ph.D. and M.S. in Geophysics from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He also holds a B.A. in Physics from Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota. Paul's research interests are on the nature of fault slip and crustal deformation during the earthquake cycle through a combination of seismology, and space geodesy observations to constrain inverse fault models. He studies and models GPS and InSAR observation time series to understand time variable plate boundary strain. He also applies synthetic aperture radar (SAR) interferometry to studies of volcano deformation processes, including magma transport, dike intrusions, and volcano spreading and collapse. Paul generously contributes radar interferograms that he has processed to the QuakeTables InSAR database.