Partner Organizations:
US Geological Survey: In-kind Support; Facilities; Collaborative Research; Personnel Exchanges

Other collaborators:

Our main collaborator is Michael Rymer of the US Geological Survey. 
He has worked for a long time on the geology of the area and has much
valuable data for the area.  In addition, we are coordinating our
efforts--at the moment preliminarily--with Drs. John Hole (seismic
reflection and refraction) and James Spotila (tectonic geomorphology
and low temperature thermochronology) from Virginia Tech.

Activities and findings:

Research and Education Activities: 

Our major activities have been to build a geospatial data framework
and system for our research, to put the research team together, to
identify the focused science questions for our work, to reconnoiter
the area, and to prepare logistically for major field work starting in
mid April 2004.

Findings:

Our major findings so far are some intriguing ideas about the
tectonics of Middle Mountain near and in particular to the southeast
of the SAFOD site where Quaternary terrace units may be tilted. In
addition, the Southwest Fracture ZOne--activated in the 1966 Parkfield
Earthake, but actually about 1-2 km southwest of the main SAF trace
has notable tectonic landforms along it implying likely recurrent
motion.  The northwestward continuation of this structure is probably
the Buzzard Canyon Fault--a structure that will be encounterd by
SAFOD.

Training and Development:

Our major skills so far have been in the Geographic Information
Systems sense with digitization of important maps for not only our own
use, but also those of the scientific community working at Parkfield
(http://quake.usgs.gov/research/parkfield/2003site/SAF_surface_trace.h
ml).
Our students team has been improving its skills in this area.  In
addition, we have been reading scientific papers and discussing them
as a group to identify and articulat science questions relevant both
to the Parkfield area specifically as well as to strike-slip faulting
in general.

Outreach Activities:

Not much here except a web site
(http://activetectonics.la.asu.edu/Parkfield/) and general commentary
around our department and in some classes.

Journal Publications:
Book(s) of other one-time publications(s):

Other Specific Products:

Data or databases We have digitized the geological mapping data from Michael Rymer of the USGS for his work immediately around the SAFOD site. http://quake.usgs.gov/research/parkfield/2003site/SAF_surface_trace.ht l We are working with the USGS colleagues to see if we can get this published as an Open File Report or something similar.

Internet Dissemination:

http://activetectonics.la.asu.edu/Parkfield/ http://quake.usgs.gov/research/parkfield/2003site/SAF_surface_trace.html

Contributions:

Contributions within Discipline:

 So far, we are developing knowledge about the geometry of structures
and the deformation associated with them to constrain faulting process
models for the upper several km of strike-slip fault zones.  In
addition, we are working to understand the relative roles of lateral
offset and subsidence/uplift and fluvial erosion and landsliding in
the development of the landscape along strike-slip fault zones.

 We have trained a group of young scientists in both technical areas of
GIS and large-scale project logistics as well as in the scientific
areas of active faulting.

Special Requirements for Annual Project Report:

Unobligated funds: less than 20 percent of current funds Categories for which nothing is reported: Products: Journal Publications Products: Book or other one-time publication Contributions to Other Disciplines Contributions to Resources for Science and Technology Contributions Beyond Science and Engineering Special Reporting Requirements Animal, Human Subjects, Biohazards