Project Definition Workshop on M9 Disaster Science

March 13-14, 2019

The goal of this two-day workshop is to initiate new international collaborations on particular aspects of M9 Disaster Science, topics related to a Magnitude 9 subduction zone earthquake and the resulting tsunami and landslides. Topics of particular interest include i) Probabilistic tsunami hazard assessment (PTHA), ii) Early warning systems, iii) Observations and remote sensing, iv) Hazard modeling, and v) Community planning.

The workshop will bring together researchers who study potential M9 events on the Cascadia Subduction Zone with potential collaborators having similar interests from Japan and Chile. Several Japanese researchers from Tohoku University and the International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS) will participate, along with a number of researchers involved with the Chilean Research Center for Integrated Disaster Risk Management (CIGIDEN).

Many workshop participants will also be joining the M9 Project Final Stakeholders Workshop on March 12, 2019.

Post-workshop updates:

Participants:

The list of break-out groups for the first afternoon now has participants listed, in many cases with a link to their one-page lightning talk self-introduction slide.

All participant slides

Support

The workshop is supported in part by the the UW / Tohoku University Open Academic Space (UW-TU:AOS) project and the UW Global Innovation Fund, with travel support also provided by both Tohoku University and CIGIDEN. Additional funding has been provided by the UW M9 Project (from an NSF Hazard SEES grant), the Department of Applied Mathematics, and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Meeting space is provided in part by the eScience Insitute.

Schedule:

Wednesday March 13:

The morning session is in the eScience Data Science Studio, 6th floor, Physics/Astronomy Tower

8:30 - 9:00 Coffee and bagels available
9:00 - 9:15 Welcome remarks: Fumio Ohuchi and Randy LeVeque [AOS_TU_UW.pdf]
9:15 - 9:40 Overview of IRIDeS and Tohoku University: Kenjiro Terada and Shunichi Koshimura [IRIDeS.pdf] [TohokuUniversity.pdf]
9:45 - 10:05 Overview of CIGIDEN: Gabriel Gonzalez [CIGIDEN.pdf]
10:10 - 10:30 Overview of UW M9 Project: Alison Duvall [UW_M9.pdf]
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00 Lightning talks by participants (2 minutes each)
12:00 - 1:00 Buffet lunch in the Data Science Studio

1:00 - 1:30 Participants move to HUB 214 for the remainder of the workshop
1:30 - 2:30 Lightning talks by participants (2 minutes each)
2:30 - 3:15 Group discussion and explanation of break-out groups
3:15 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 5:30 Break-out group discussion of possible joint projects
5:30 - 6:00 Reports from break-out groups, and group discussion
6:30 - 8:00 Buffet dinner in HUB 214

Thursday March 14:

9:00 - 9:30 Group discussion and project organization
9:30 - 12:00 Focused small group discussions on specific projects
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 3:30 Focused small group discussions on specific projects
4:00 - 5:00 Reports from project groups, and group discussion of next steps

Friday March 15:

9:15am - 7:00pm Optional field trip to Port Townsend and Discovery Bay. This trip will be led by Brian Atwater and Carrie Garrision-Laney. [Itinerary and information]

In Port Townsend we will have lunch and take a look at the latest tsunami inundation maps recently published by the State of Washington. In Discovery Bay we will walk out into the marsh to view the evidence of past earthquakes and tsunamis. Sandy tsunami deposits at Discovery Bay record as many as nine tsunamis between 2,500 and 300 years ago.

Additional Information on the trip and tsunami deposits in Discovery Bay:

Extended Abstracts:

Participants have submitted these proposals for research topics that may be of interest for international collaboration. On the first day of the workshop, groups will be identified to initiate collaborations on some specific projects.