Research: Geoscience Network (GEON)

GEON is a large NSF-supported ITR (Information Technology Research) project of building a nation-wide cyberinfrastructure for geoscience. GEON will build an integrated geoscience databases, analyzing and visualization tools, and distributed computational resources to facilitate discovery of new sciences.

The GEON team at MU is responsible for developing geodynamic models capable of integrating multidisciplinary data provided by GEON to understand the continental deformation in the Rocky Mountain region, one of two testbeds of GEON. We are also working with the GEON team and other partners to explore the use of parallel and distributed computer grid in simulating geological processes that are difficult for conventional computational environment.

Recent and Ongoing Projects

• 4D continental deformation in the western US
• Fault intreaction and earthquakes in the San Andeas Fault plate boundary zone
• Automated parallel finite element computing for lithospheric deformation
  

last update: winter 2005
credits

copyright 1999 Mian Liu
and The Curators of the University of Missouri