Teleconference Agenda, February 05, 2014, 10:30 – 11:30
1-877-413-4790 conference ID 3381344#
@RiskAUG
Monthly RAUG meeting
The Risk Assessment Users Group meets by telephone on the first Wednesday of every month, 10:30 11:30 am Pacific Time. It meets in person with the Canadian Hazus User Group at the annual Canadian
Risk and Hazards Network Symposium (late fall). The forum shares knowledge about using Risk
Assessment for disaster reduction decisions in Canada. It is supported by NRCan's Quantitative Risk
Assessment Project of the Public Safety Geoscience Program until March 2014.
Agenda
Greetings
News and views
Vignette: Global Earthquake Model: A Public-Private Partnerships Building a Risk Assessment for the
World by Ross Stein, United States Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California.
Updates
Last meeting
The RAUG summarized a few activities to share information about active risk projects and heard a
presentation by Greg Paoli, Risk Sciences International. Greg interpreted the spectrum or continuum of
risk-analysis methods, their characteristics and how those characteristics may influence which may be
chosen for a particular risk assessment project. He expressed it as answering the question of how a
group choose its risk assessment method level of complexity in relation to its needs and available
information. The presentation and its discussion is captured as a podcast and, with the slide deck and
meeting notes, is posted on the RAUG site.
An events section has been added to the RAUG site. http://raug.mhrisk.ca
News
One more meeting of the RAUG before it needs to have a new facilitator and operational structure to
continue.
Upcoming events
9th International Conference on Risk Analysis and Hazard Mitigation
June 4-6 2014, New Forest, UK
http://www.wessex.ac.uk/14-conferences/risk-analysis-2014.html
GeoHazards6
June 15-18 2014, Kingston, Canada
http://www.geohazards6.ca/
22nd Annual Conference of the Society for Risk Analysis - Europe
June 16-18 2014, Istanbul, Turkey.
http://www.sraeurope.org/home.aspx?pag=1252
5th International Disaster and Risk IDRC
August 24-28 2014, Davos, Switzerland
URL:http://idrc.info/pages_new.php/5th-IDRC-Davos-2014/1121/1/
11th Annual CRHNet Symposium
October 22-24, 2014, Toronto
http://www.crhnet.ca
Vignette: Global Earthquake Model: A Public-Private Partnerships
Building a Risk Assessment for the World by Ross Stein, United
States Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California.
Ross S. Stein
Geophysicist, Earthquake Science Center
U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California
Ross Stein studies how earthquakes interact by the transfer of stress. He is the 2012 Gilbert F. White
Natural Hazards Distinguished Lecture Award recipient of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).
He has delivered AGU’s Francis Birch Lecture and its Frontiers of Geophysics Lecture, gave a 2012
TEDx talk, ‘Defeating Earthquakes,’ and was keynote speaker at the Smithsonian for the Presidential
Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, and is Winter 2014 Stanford School of
Earth Sciences Distinguished Lecturer. He received a Sc.B. from Brown University magna cum laude
and with honors, and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. He is a Fellow of the AGU and the Geological
Society of America, was Editor of the Journal of Geophysical Research, and later chaired AGU’s Board
of Journal Editors. In 2003, the Science Citation Index reported that Stein was the second most-cited
author in earthquake science during the preceding decade; he was the 10th most cited during 1900-
2010. Stein received the Eugene M. Shoemaker Distinguished Achievement Award of the USGS, the
Excellence in Outreach Award of the Southern California Earthquake Center, and the Outstanding
Contributions and Cooperation in Geoscience Award from NOAA. In 2009 he cofounded the Global
Earthquake Model Foundation, a public-private partnership building a seismic risk model for the world,
and now chairs GEM’s Science Board. Ross has appeared in many documentary films, including the
Emmy-nominated documentary, ‘Killer Quake’ (NOVA, 1995), the four-part ‘Great Quakes’ series
(Discovery, 1997-2001), and the multiple award-winning 2004 National Geographic IMAX movie
‘Forces of Nature,’ which he helped to write and animate.
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