Overall Issues II -- Rundle/Henyey

• Working groups at Queensland Meeting Jan-Feb 99

  • data assimilation
  • algorithms
  • applications
  • microscopic physics
  • macroscopic physics

• Why GEM -- Analogy to Weather community

• GeoVision 2000: Future of field -- computation

  • Out of ~10 initiatives, only one solid earth

• Santa Fe October 97: first SCEC contacts

• San Francisco December98: GEM is a geophysical enterprise and not a specialized simulation activity

• March 10 99 USC SCEC Steering committee

  • GEM part of earthquake physics but perhaps too big?

• Future of SCEC: 3 more years to go but NSF will not fund existing centers

  • Goal is that NSF is catalyst for new ideas
  • Working with NSF on new funding models
  • Significant personnel changes at NSF

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