John's Previous Work Page

This is a quick rundown of just some of what I did at the Caltech Seismological Laboratory and the SCEC Data Center from November 1995 to May 2000. It is (not surprisingly) primarily focused on the work I've done for the Web, with a little background material to give it some rhyme, reason, and perspective.

SCEC / Seismo Lab Work

As you might have guessed (somewhat counter-intuitively, but believe me, it makes sense) from the poor state of my personal pages, I worked primarily as a "webmaster" or whatever you like to call those folk in charge of improving and maintaining "official" web sites. Thus, after a long day of playing with HTML, I'm really not often in the mood to do it some more in my spare time... hence, the shabby personal pages. Alas....

I started with miscellaneous projects, focused on retrieving images and data from various sources, including the Amiga kiosk display in the lobby of the South Mudd building on the campus of the California Institute of Technology -- a display I helped create back in the summer of 1994. (You can see the animation of my name I made for the credits of that display here, as an MPEG.) Whatever I'd collect that seemed relevant, useful, or even just nifty got incorporated (once I've modified it in one of many ways) by myself or Katrin Hafner, into some online page or resource.

Towards the end of my time there, my work consisted mainly of creating, expanding and refining the SCEC Education Module entitled Investigating Earthquakes Through Regional Seismicity, which was a big, behind-the-scenes project that occupied my every waking thought for months and months. In addition, I was responsible for maintaining and adding to the SCEC Data Center pages, and responding to e-mail from Web users of that site. I also started work on an online, middle-school-level educational resource called the WHOLEarth Science module (Web-based Hands-On Lessons in Earth Science).

Some of my publicly visible projects include:

• SCEC Education Module -- Investigating Earthquakes Through Regional Seismicity
  
• a monthly seismicity viewer with data from January 1998 through July 1999 (also available in a side-control version)
  
• Depth of Seismicity (1983 through 1997)
  
• Annual seismicity plots and four select animations, from 1985 through 1997
  
• forty-five monthly animations of all southern California seismicity, January 1996 through September 1999
  
• an animation of southern California seismicity in April 1991, before the Landers and Northridge earthquakes struck
  
• the new look for the Los Angeles Basin Seismicity page.
  
• the yet again new and improved SCSN Digital Broadband Stations image map with Los Angeles area inset map and station files.
  
• the new Coso Earthquake Page and Coso Sequence Animation
  
• A Day in the Life of Southern California Seismicity
  
• two animations of the earthquakes in southern California of M 4.5 or greater, from 1932 to 1997
  
• additions (March 18, 1997, Calico earthquake, 1941 Santa Barbara earthquake, 1941 Torrance-Gardena earthquakes, 1899 Cajon Pass earthquake, and the 1899 San Jacinto earthquake) to the clickable guide to historic Southern California Earthquakes
  
• fault block animations for: normal, reverse, right-lateral, left-lateral, thrust, blind thrust, and numerous other types of fault slip
  
• the fault block diagrams in Reviewing the Basics, part of Putting Down Roots in Earthquake Country
  
• the improved menu of additional topics
  
• the block diagram in The Master Fault, another part of Putting Down Roots in Earthquake Country
  
• the new Earthquakes in Southern California title page
  
• the new look for the Putting Down Roots in Earthquake Country title page
  
• the clickable fault maps of Southern California
  
• clickable guide to historic Southern California Earthquakes
  
• the indexes for the two projects listed directly above
  
• and two Open File Reports about the LARSE project:
  
  LARSE93
  LARSE (1994) Marine-Marine OFR
  

I'd also created a somewhat weak and boring fault map of southern California... which has finally become a set of clickable maps at the Earthquakes in Southern California site listed above.

Lastly, here's a look at John's typical work day.

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