Devany Brown, Marylin Contreras, Arnol Deolarte, and
Jakayla Walker
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Each year a grand challenge is given to the USEIT interns
by SCEC director Tom Jordan.
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The Grand Challenge for this year was to develop a
Seismic Crisis Visualization System using the Southern
California Earthquake Center Virtual Display of Objects
(SCEC-VDO) to display information needed for
operational earthquake forecasting.
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Use an open source content management system
called Drupal to deliver resourceful information to an
array of audiences by adding content to the already
existing USEIT website.
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This website can be accessed at
http://scec.usc.edu/internships/useit/
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Collected scientific research information from the
Science Research Team to create content.
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Gathered SCEC-VDO animations created by the
SCEC-VDO Production Team.
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Collaborated efforts with the SCEC-VDO
Development Team to develop the ability to live
stream the Real-time Earthquake Plug-in.
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Informs SCEC’s staff and
interns about each of the
groups’ and individual’s
goals during the course of
the Grand Challenge.
http://scec.usc.edu/internships/useit/progresst
rack
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Displays important
information about
earthquake forecasting
and participation
probabilities.
http://scec.usc.edu/internships/useit/events
Displays general information about earthquakes.
http://scec.usc.edu/internships/useit/eqbasicinfo
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Ability to Live stream
the Real-time
Earthquake Plug-in as
Seismic data is being
pulled from a Caltech
server that updates
every thirty seconds.
http://scec.usc.edu/internships/useit
/activity_updates
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2010 SCEC Intern Research Lecture Series
http://scec.usc.edu/internships/useit/lecture
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Updated 2010 All Intern Field Trip with
images
http://scec.usc.edu/internships/useit/book/1221
Dr. Tom Jordan
Dr. Robert de Groot
Michael Ihrig
Kaitlin Welch