This is my understanding of near term proposal activity for GEM.
We await reviews of KDI proposal but expect to submit a revised
proposal along similar lines to that last year. Given comments on
Saturday, the following changes are suggested.
1) Write a new introduction describing the next "wave" in earthquake
science in spirit of NRC report as focussing on "systems (of faults)".
It would be helpful to quote and cite report if possible.
2) In spirit of report, one can imagine activities with were
a) GEM-like
b) Involve observations
c) Involve linkage to ground motion simulations
d) Involve data assimilation
e) Involve novel complex system simulations with pattern analysis etc.
3) This new wave needs a substantial amount of infrastructure
including new linkages of people (multidisciplinary collaboration), as
well as some agreed interfaces between simulations of different
effects at different levels of resolution.
4) Proposal would be one contribution to moving field to this new
focus and do this by impacting in two ways
a) Contributing to the new infrastructure. Perhaps a section
describing this should be added. We could emphasize involvement of
those who have up to now had the more traditional "dig a trench"
orientation.
b) A "point end to end demonstration" which is the original proposed
simulation with parallel fast multipoles etc.
5) One could also imagine a very different proposal emphasizing
"avalanche science" where involvement of Hopfield and Santa Fe
Institute would be appropriate.