Abstract

The Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) is a diverse, distributed scientific community drawn together by the shared vision of understanding the cause and impact of earthquakes. As such, the domain of scientific discourse ranges from understanding the localized causes of fault ruptures to modeling how resulting seismic waves travel through the complex fault structures underlying major population centers, such as Los Angeles. SCEC is an exemplar of a class of collaborations that have come to be known as virtual organizations (VO), distributed, dynamic, multi-institutional collaborations that are bound together by a common goal. While existing collaboration tools, such as video conferencing, mailing lists and web servers, can support some of the workflow associated with a VO, many of the Project tasks require a more fundamental sharing of all elements of the IT infrastructure associated with the …

Date

January 1, 1970

Authors

C Kesselman, H Tangmunarunkit, Y Gil, M Thiebaux, S Decker, TH Jordan, P Maechling

Journal

AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts

Volume

2003

Pages

NG11A-0180