Outreach and Education
Students from the Riverside area inside the University of California at Los Angeles' mobile, satellite linked, seismic laboratory.
NEES@UCSB and the National Science Foundation are committed to providing educational opportunities for students of every age and their teachers. We welcome any who are interested in visiting the field laboratories or the University of California at Santa Barbara. If you wish to visit our field sites, please contact us for health and safety tips as well as possible insurance requirements.
In addition to visiting our site, we provide telepresence so that remote expriments can be viewed over the Internet. Please contact us directly for a schedule.
See the movie: Garner Valley Field Site Hightlights
See the movie: Constructing the Garner Valley Field Site
NEES: The legacy of George E. Brown Jr.
Outreach Projects:
- Undergraduate Students Visit Garner Valley, 2009
- Hollister Elementary Science Night, 2009
- Hope School Science Fair, 2006, 2007, 2008
- American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2007
- Ellwood School Visits NEES@UCSB, 2006
Useful Links:
Santa Barbara Earthquake History
- Historical information about Santa Barbara area earthquakes
Up-to-the-minute Southern California Earthquake Map
- For Java-enabled browsers only
Cal Tech's Seismo Lab
- The people you see interviewed on T.V.
The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
- (Museum of the City of San Francisco) Historical information about the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
U. S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center
- General interest earthquake information including maps
U. S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Hazards Program
- General interest earthquake information including hazard assessments
U. S. Geological Survey, Western Region
- Lots of interesting earthquake information
Surfing the Internet for Earthquake Data
- Mostly for researchers, but links to find maps, etc.
Earthquake Engineering Research Center
- at U. C. Berkeley Lots of historical photographs
San Francisco Exploratorium Earthquake Info
- "Hands on" earthquake education
Southern California Earthquake Center Data Center
- The source for southern California earthquake information
The Busy Educators Guide to the World Wide Web
- A collection of web links compiled by Marjan Glavac for educators
National Academy of Science
- Articles about scientific contributions to current technological advances
