SEFW Fall Forum 2015

DRAFT Learning from Oso: Turning Disaster into KnowledgeExpert Panel (potential):

* Cale Ash, Degenkolb Engineers, CREW Board of Directors

* Steven L. Kramer, UW Civil & Environmental Engineering, GEER Advisory Panel

* Rachel Minnery, AIA Director of Built Environment Policy, led AIA Nisqually response 2001, Katrina Mississippi Missions 2005 & more

* David Montgomery, UW Earth & Space Sciences

* Joseph Wartman, UW Civil & Environmental Engineering

Following the Oso quake of March 22, 2014, AEG and GEER sent an assessment team to Oso to prepare a report for GEER's "Turning Disaster into Knowledge" program.

A panel of experts will summarize findings & lessons learned.

Partner organizations (potential):

AEG: Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists

ASCE Seattle: American Society of Civil Engineers Seattle Section

CREW: Cascadia Region Earthquake Workgroup

EERI: Earthquake Engineering Research Institute

GEER: Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance/National Science Foundation

USGS: US Geological Survey

PBS Oso coverage "Killer Landslides" includes comments by Richard Iverson (USGS)

AEG members and other geoscientists and engineers who responded directly to this tragedy and documented the effects of the landslide on the built and natural environments also include Jeffrey Keaton and John deLaChapelle of the GEER Response Team.