Agenda

Agenda and Presentations

Monday September 20, 2021

(all times in AKDT)

0730 Breakfast and Check-in

0830 Welcome and Logistics (Majid Ghayoomi)

0845 Background, workshop scope and goals (Katharine Duderstadt)

0900 Opening Speaker (Bryan Fisher–Director of the State Office of Emergency Management )

0915 Participant introductions

0945 Plenary Presentation: State of Alaska’s Seismic Practice and Vision

0945 Peter Haeussler (Topic: An overview of the earthquake hazards in Alaska)

1000 Michael West (Topic: Perspectives on Seismic Resilience in Alaska)

1015 Morning Break

1035 Plenary Presentation: Lessons learned from past Earthquakes

1035 Sterling Strait (Topic: Lessons Learned from 2018 Anchorage Earthquake)

1050 Rich D. Koehler (Topic: Rapid Earthquake Reconnaissance: Helping to better understand the distribution of hazards and improving resiliency)

1105 Ramin Motamed (Topic: Liquefaction-Induced Large Ground Deformations in Port Facilities and Lessons Learned from the 1964 Alaska Earthquake)

1120 Thomas Fenoseff (Topic: Anchorage School District Earthquake Recovery and Lessons Learned)

1135 Group Activity – Session 1

1135 Introduction

1145 Write the room with your priorities – Preliminary Round

Identify your top three concerns as they relate to seismic resilience of Arctic and Sub-Arctic built infrastructure.

1200 Lunch

1300 Plenary Presentation: Community Resilience and Disaster Management- State of Practice

1300 James Benzschawel (Topic: State Emergency Management Resources for Seismic Resilience)

1315 Sólveig Thorvaldsdóttir (Topic: Disaster-related Management Systems. Example: Earthquake repair and reconstruction timeline modelling)

1330 Siamak Sattar (Topic: Functional recovery of the built environment)

1345 Plenary Presentation: Community Resilience and Disaster Management- Indigenous Communities

1345 Jeremy Spoon (Topic: Contextualizing Indigenous and rural disaster recoveries: lessons learned from Nepal)

1400 Group Activity – Session 2

1400 Day 1 – Survey

1410 Write the room with your priorities

Identify your top three concerns as they relate to seismic resilience of Arctic and Sub-Arctic social systems.

1425 Break

1445 Plenary Presentation 5: Earthquakes and Infrastructure Response

1445 Shahriar Quayyum (Topic: Influence of welding on the seismic performance of moment resisting connections)

1500 Zhaohui Joey Yang (Topic: Frozen soil impact on the bridge foundations during seismic events)

1515 Ryosuke Uzuoka (Topic: seepage and deformation of unsaturated slopes during post-shaking rainfall)

1530 Day 1 Wrap up

1600 Adjourn

Tuesday September 21, 2021

(all times in AKDT)

0730 Breakfast

0830 Regroup and Announcement (Majid Ghayoomi)

0845 Political Ecology (Jennifer Brewer)

0900 UNH Survey Data (Matthew Turner)

0915 Plenary Presentation: Arctic Seismicity

0915 Heather McFarlin (Topic: A Review of Northern Alaska Seismicity)

0930 Trine Dahl-Jensen (Topic: Seismicity and landslide hazards in Greenland)

0945 Plenary Presentation: Climate Change Adaptation (1)

0945 Michelle Ritchie (Topic: Social-Ecological Influences on Household Adaptation Response to Climate Change Risks)

1000 Qing Miao (Topic: Risks of natural hazards and climate change in Alaska and adaptation response)

1015 Morning Break

1035 Plenary Presentation: Effects of Permafrost Thawing and Climate impacts on Soils and Seismic Response

1035 Alex Kholodov (Topic: Permafrost in Alaska: current state and future fate)

1050 Kevin Bjella (Topic: Permafrost Engineering and Climate Change)

1105 John Thornley (Topic: Increases in Liquefaction Susceptibility Due to Thawing Permafrost: The Challenges with Characterization of the Hazard )

1120 Jessica Feenstra (Topic: Projected Climate Impacts on Permafrost Soils)

1135 Group Activity – Session 3

1135 Day 2 - Survey

1145 Write the room with your priorities

Identify your top three concerns as they relate to seismic resilience of Arctic and Sub-Arctic built infrastructure and social systems (among a list compiled from Monday) that will be mostly impacted by climate change.

1200 Lunch

1300 Plenary Presentation: Climate Change Adaptation (2)

1300 Wilson Justin - Victoria Hykes Steere - Michelle Davis (Topic: Adaptation, mitigation, and resiliency strategies)

1315 Matthew Jull (Topic: The Design of the Built Environment in the Extreme and Changing Arctic)

1330 Plenary Presentation: Infrastructure Resilience

1330 Guangqing Chi (Topic: POLARIS: Pursuing Opportunities for Long-term Arctic Resilience for Infrastructure and Society)

1345 Elise Miller-Hooks (Topic: Concepts of Resilience and their Application for the Arctic )

1400 Masamitsu Onishi (Topic: Infrastructure Resilience Framework and its Application to Seismic Resilience )

1415 Break

1435 Plenary Presentation: Sensing, Monitoring, and Climatic Impacts

1435 Alex Shiklomanov (Topic: Landslides and catastrophic lake drainage in cold regions under the climate change )

1450 Michael Baker (Topic: Distributed acoustic sensing of seasonally variable environmental processes in the Beaufort Sea, Alaska)

1505 Verónica Rodríguez Tribaldos (Topic: Using Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) for subsurface imaging and process monitoring)

1520 Group Activity – Session 4

1520 Topic Tables – Draft strategic questions

Task: Each table will write a 1-page description of a specific and compelling convergent research question.

1620 Day 2 Wrap up

1630 Adjourn

Wednesday September 22, 2021

(all times in AKDT)

0730 Breakfast

0830 Regroup and Announcement (Majid Ghayoomi)

0900 Group Activity – Session 5

0900 Workshop outcome draft reading and comments by the attendees

1015 Morning Break

1045 Group Activity – Session 6

1045 Workshop outcome draft review and finalize

1145 Final Remarks and Good bye (Majid Ghayoomi)

1200 Lunch