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Adapting the AfricaArray Model – Building Capacity Around the World
Organized byAndy Nyblade, Pennsylvania State University
Art Lerner-Lam, Columbia UniversityRay Willemann, IRIS Consortium
Adapting the AfricaArray Model – Building Capacity Around the World
Special thanks toLibby Lyons, NSF Office of International Sci. & Engr.
Jim Whitcomb, NSF Earth Sciences DivisionLindsay Wood, IRIS Consortium
Workshop Goals
Enumerate leading regional science objectives that require long time series of high-fidelity seismological waveform records,
Identify broader regional social benefits from improved seismological capacity and sophisticated data products,
Suggest mechanisms for assessmentof technical capacities and performance of new and existing regional and national networks,
Introduce development experts and aid providers
to the need for integrated network solutions.
Science Needs External Information to Address Large Goals
Origin of the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI)
Monsanto wanted to recruit an African scientist to decide which root or tuber, and which virus the project should focus on. Said [Rob] Horsch, “We figured an African expert would be better qualified to know what was most needed in Africa, rather than making that choice in St. Louis.”
Fedoroff, 2004, p290
Why Mess with Success?
“Poverty in Africa has been rising for the last quarter-century while it has been falling in the rest of the developing world. Africa's distinctive problem is that its economies have not been growing. … The reasons lie not in African peculiarities but rather in geographic features which globally cause problems but which are disproportionately pronounced in Africa.”
Each Case Has Numerous Unique Circumstances
• Existing capacities
• Societal needs
• Trust mechanisms
• Scientific traditions
• International collaborations
• Public/Private partnerships
“Stay Rates”Are more and more foreign-born graduate students really heading home after receiving their U.S. doctoral degrees?
In reality, “stay rates” for this large and desirable pool of talent are rising despite the global expansion of the scientific work force. … Those with temporary visas are increasingly likely to remain in the United States 5 years after earning their S&E Ph.D.s …
“Science Statistics – NSF’s Indicators Has (Most of) the Answers”, Science, 319, 398 (2008)
Sunday
Building Capacity with Linked Observing Systems: Seismological Perspectives
Roger BilhamEarthquake Risk in Developing Countries
Paul DirksBuilding Capacity for Africa’s Natural resources sector
Gerardo SuarezThe FDSN and Sustainable Regional Seismic Networks
Agenda
Monday Morning
Introduction and Workshop Goals
8:45Ray Willemann Welcome
9:00Art Lerner-Lam Long-term instruments loans – Linking capacity building with geophysical monitoring
9:30Göran Ekström Training workshops – Successes and an outlook for improvements
10:00Break
Lessons from AfricaArray
10:30Andy Nyblade Envisioning AfricaArray
11:00Paul Dirks Building an academic program on a geophysical observing network
11:30Gerhard Graham Gaining societal and governmental “buy-in” to sustain a program
12:00Discussion
Agenda
Monday Afternoon
Identifying Existing Infrastructure and Needs in …
13:30 Gerardo Suarez Mexico, Caribbean and Central America
14:00 Sergio Barrientos South America
14:30 Fauzi Southeast Asia
15:00 Break
Agenda
Breakout Sessions, 15:30 – 18:00
RoomChairpeople Region
Sturbridge Marino ProttiMexico, Caribbean, Karen Fischer and Central America
Plymouth Edmundo Norabuena South AmericaSusan Beck
Marlborough Humayun AkhterSoutheast AsiaSteve Roecker
Tuesday Morning
Some of the Successful First Steps
9:00Marino Protti Quality Monitoring and science in a developing country: Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica, and the success of effective strategic alliances
9:30Jerry Carter Global capacity building by the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization
10:00Susan Beck Mutual benefits from graduate education at US universities
10:30Break
… and Some More of the Successful First Steps
11:00Humayun Akhter Leveraging temporary deployments to advance permanent networks
11:30Richard Allen Earthquake early warning: Adding societal value to regional networks and station clusters
12:00Discussion
Agenda
Tuesday Afternoon
Concluding Remarks and Discussion
17:00Rick Aster Next steps
Agenda
Reports from Breakout Sessions: Outlining a Way Forward – Each interval includes a 20-minute presentation and a 40-minute discussion.
Rapporteurs Region
13:30Rod Stewart Mexico, CaribbeanJay Pulliam and Central
America
14:30Daniel Huaco South AmericaGary Pavlis
15:30 Break
16:00Fauzi Southeast AsiaNano Seeber
IRIS WorkshopSkamania Lodge, Stevenson, WAJune 4 – 6, Wednesday – Friday
Scientific Program Committee• Suzan van der Lee • John Vidale
Plenary Sessions• Integrating Active & Passive Seismology
and Mineralogy• USArray Transformative Science,
Technology & Culture• Polar Activity – Seismology and the IPY• Breaking the Earthquake Mold – Episodic
Tremor & Slip• Synergy in Seismic Event Monitoring and
Research
Other Activities• Open Poster Sessions• Special Interest Groups• Pre-Workshop Symposia• Seismological Music• Field Trip: Landslides
& Viticulture