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2006 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENT
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2006 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENT
FOR THE
S
OUTHERN
C
ALIFORNIA
E
ARTHQUAKE
C
ENTER
I. I
NTRODUCTION
On February 1, 2002, the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) changed from an entity
within the NSF/STC program to a free-standing center, funded by NSF/EAR and the U. S.
Geological Survey. This document solicits proposals from individuals and groups to participate in
the fifth and final year of the SCEC2 program.
II. G
UIDELINES
F
OR
P
ROPOSAL
S
UBMISSION
A. Due Date: Monday, November 14, 2005, 5:00 pm PST. Late proposals will not be
accepted.
B. Delivery Instructions. Proposals and annual reports must be submitted as separate PDF
documents via the SCEC Proposal web site at
http://www.scec.org/proposals
. Submission
procedures, including requirements for how to name your PDF files, will be found at this web
site.
C. Formatting Instructions.
Cover Page: Should begin with the words 2006 SCEC Proposal, the project title,
Principal Investigator, institution, proposal categories (from types listed in Section IV,
including the SCEC Intern Project category). List in order of priority three disciplinary
and/or focus group(s) that should consider your proposal. Indicate if the proposal should
also be identified with one or more of the SCEC special projects (see Section VII) or
advanced Implementation Interface projects (see Section VIII for examples). Collaborative
proposals involving multiple investigators and/or institutions should list all principal
investigators. Proposals do not need to be formally signed by institutional representatives,
and should be for one year, with a start date of February 1, 2006.
Technical Description: Describe in five pages or fewer (including figures) the technical
details of the project and how it relates to the short-term objectives outlined in the SCEC
Science Plan (Section VII). References are not subject to the five page limit.
Budget Page: Budgets and budget explanations should be constructed using NSF
categories. Under guidelines of the SCEC Cooperative Agreements and A-21 regulations,
secretarial support and office supplies are not allowable as direct expenses.
Current Support: Statements of current support, following NSF guidelines, should be
included for each Principal Investigator.
2005 Annual Report: Scientists funded by SCEC in 2005 must submit a report of their
progress by 5 pm November 21, 2005. 2006 proposals from scientists who do not submit
all of their 2005 reports (which may cover 2004 to mid-year 2005 results) will neither be
reviewed nor will they be considered for 2006 funding. Reports should be up to five pages
of text and figures. Reports should include bibliographic references to any SCEC
publication during the past year (including papers submitted and in review), including their
SCEC contribution number. Publications are assigned numbers when they are submitted to
the SCEC publication database at http://www.scec.org/research/scecnumber.
Labeling the Submitted PDF Proposal: PIs must follow the naming convention.
Investigators must label their submitted proposals and their annual reports with their last
name followed by 2006, e.g., Archuleta2006.pdf. If there is more than one, then the file 2
would be labeled as follows: Archuleta2006_1.pdf (for the 1st proposal) and
Archuleta2006_2.pdf (for the 2
n d
proposal).
D. Investigator Responsibilities. Investigators are expected to interact with other SCEC
scientists on a regular basis (e.g., by attending workshops and working group meetings), and
contribute data, analysis results, and/or models to the appropriate SCEC data center (e.g.,
Southern California Earthquake Data CenterSCEDC), database (e.g., Fault Activity
DatabaseFAD), or community model (e.g., Community Velocity ModelCVM).
Publications resulting entirely or partially from SCEC funding must include a publication
number available at http://www.scec.org/research/scecnumber/index.html. By submitting a
proposal, investigators are agreeing to these conditions.
E. Eligibility. Proposals can be submitted by eligible Principal Investigators from:
U.S. Academic institutions
U.S. Private corporations
International Institutions (funding will mainly be for travel)
F. Collaboration. Collaborative proposals with investigators from the USGS are encouraged.
USGS employees should submit their requests for support through USGS channels.
Collaborative proposals involving multiple investigators and/or institutions are strongly
encouraged; these can be submitted with the same text, but with different institutional budgets if
more than one institution is involved.
G. Award Procedures. All awards will be funded by subcontract from the University of
Southern California. The Southern California Earthquake Center is funded by the National
Science Foundation and the U. S. Geological Survey.
III. SCEC O
RGANIZATION
A. Mission and Science Goal. SCEC is an interdisciplinary, regionally focused organization
with a mission to:
Gather new information about earthquakes in Southern California;
Integrate this information into a comprehensive and predictive understanding of earthquake
phenomena; and
Communicate this understanding to end-users and the general public in order to increase
earthquake awareness, reduce economic losses, and save lives.
SCECs primary science goal is to develop a comprehensive, physics-based understanding of
earthquake phenomena in Southern California through integrative, multidisciplinary studies of
plate-boundary tectonics, active fault systems, fault-zone processes, dynamics of fault ruptures,
ground motions, and seismic hazard analysis. The long-term science goals are summarized in
Appendix A.
B. Disciplinary Activities. The Center sustains disciplinary science through standing
committees in seismology, geodesy, geology, and fault and rock mechanics. These committees
will be responsible for planning and coordinating disciplinary activities relevant to the SCEC
science plan, and they will make recommendations to the SCEC Planning Committee regarding
support of disciplinary research and infrastructure. High-priority disciplinary activities are
summarized in Section VII.A.
C. Interdisciplinary Focus Areas. Interdisciplinary research is organized into five science focus
areas: 1) unified structural representation, 2) fault systems, 3) earthquake source physics, 4) 3
ground motion, and 5) seismic hazard analysis. In addition, interdisciplinary research in risk
assessment and mitigation will be the subject for collaborative activities between SCEC
scientists and partners from other communities including earthquake engineering, risk analysis,
and emergency management. High-priority activities are listed for each of these interdisciplinary
focus areas in Section VII.B.
D. Special Projects.

SCEC encourages and supports several special projects including the
Southern California Continental Borderland initiative and the development of an advanced IT
infrastructure for system-level earthquake science in Southern California. High-priority
activities are listed for each of these interdisciplinary focus areas in Section VII.C.
E. Communication, Education, and Outreach. SCEC maintains a strong Communication,
Education, and Outreach (CEO) program with four principal goals: 1) coordinate productive
interactions among SCEC scientists and with partners in science, engineering, risk management,
government, business, and education; 2) increase earthquake knowledge and science literacy at
all educational levels; 3) improve earthquake hazard and risk assessments; 4) promote
earthquake preparedness, mitigation, and planning for response and recovery. Opportunities for
participating in the CEO program are described in Section VIII. Current activities are described
online at
http://www.scec.org/ceo
.
IV. P
ROPOSAL
C
ATEGORIES
A. Data Gathering and Products. SCEC coordinates an interdisciplinary and multi-institutional
study of earthquakes in Southern California, which requires data and derived products pertinent
to the region. Proposals in this category should address the collection, archiving and
distribution of data, including the production of SCEC community models that are on-line,
maintained, and documented resources for making data and data products available to the
scientific community.
B. Integration and Theory. SCEC supports and coordinates interpretive and theoretical
investigations on earthquake problems related to the Centers mission. Proposals in this
category should be for the integration of data or data products from Category A, or for general
or theoretical studies. Proposals in Categories A and B should address one or more of the goals
in Section VII, and may include a brief description (<200 words) as to how the proposed
research and/or its results might be used in an educational or outreach mode (see Section VII).
C. Workshops. SCEC participa