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