Development Team

(see the Getting Involved section to find out how you can join the development team)


The current distributed technology framework for OpenSHA has been designed and implemented by:

Ned (Edward) Field (USGS/SCEC)
Nitin Gupta (USC/SCEC) &
Vipin Gupta (USC/SCEC)

The initial design and implementation of OpenSHA was by:

Ned (Edward) Field (USGS/SCEC) &

Instrumental Software Technologies, Inc.
(Sid Hellman, Steven Rock, and Paul Friberg)

The following are involved in the Java source-code, application development, testing process:

Edward (Ned) Field, USGS/SCEC
Nitin Gupta, USC/SCEC
Vipin Gupta, USC/SCEC

Note: you can temporarily reach this group by sending email to java_psha@relm.org (we will have more appropriate email groups and/or discussion boards in the future).


The following are involved in implementation designs and engineering seismology tools:

Jonathan Stewart , PEER/UCLA
Christine Goulet, PEER/UCLA


The following are involved in high-order design and implementation issues:

Edward (Ned) Field, USGS/SCEC
Thomas Jordan, USC/SCEC
Philip Maechling, USC/SCEC
Allin Cornell, Stanford University


The following are involved in design and implementation evaluations (managed through SCEC's Implementation-Interface group):

Paul Somerville, URS
Norman Abrahamson, PEER
Kenneth Campbell, EQE International


Members of SCEC's information-technology research collaboration are also contributing to this development.


The following can help with developing custom applications (if what you want is not on our agenda):