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Western Basin and Range Community Velocity Model Followup Workshop
Monday only, November 3, 2008 at the University of Nevada, Reno
Joe Crowley Student Union, Room 402
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White paper describing the January workshop:
Word or PDF.
Presentations about the WBRCVM:
Objectives
The Nevada Seismological Lab is convening a 1-day followup workshop
on creating a Western Basin and Range Community Velocity Model (WBRCVM), with
generous support from the FY'08 USGS NEHRP-NIW panel. The workshop will
be held in Reno on November 3, 2008 (Monday).
The objectives of this followup workshop are two-fold:
- To confirm the organization of a Western Basin and Range community
seismic-velocity modeling effort, contributing toward the goal of predicting
earthquake ground
motions in urban areas and other sensitive sites. The community model will
address seismic velocities at the crustal, basin, and geotechnical
scales; and should contribute directly toward an overall Great Basin Community
Velocity Model (to eventually include Utah, Arizona, and other area north and east).
- To hear additional advice from national experts who have constructed CVMs for
other areas including Utah, to assess what CVM features most affect
predicted ground motions, and thus prioritize our needs for geological and
seismic-velocity data. We hope to have heard whether WBRCVM construction efforts
have been funded by the NEHRP-NIW program for FY09, and to give appropriate guidance
to funded and unfunded projects.
If you are interested in contributing to the WBRCVM, in using it to
predict ground motions; or you have experience creating CVMs for
such purposes in other regions, we hope you will be able to attend.
Make your plans now! (See How to Register below.)
Products
- We will develop at the followup workshop a detailed statement of research and data
priorities that can guide researchers contributing to the WBRCVM or helping to
construct it.
- Louie will write with help from participants a statement summarizing
our priorities for inclusion in NIW or Nevada research priorities statements
for FY10 NEHRP proposals.
Participant Support
The USGS NEHRP-NIW panel has kindly provided support for these workshops,
including refreshments and box lunches during the sessions.
In addition, out-of-town participants will receive an honorarium for attending the
followup workshop and participating in discussion.
The honorarium is expected to be
approximately $400. This should provide support for participants'
travel costs ($300 roundtrip airfare + $50 for 1 night in a cheap hotel).
Please register early, before mid-October, if
you are applying for an honorarium.
Important Dates
- Oct. 17, Friday, noon PDT - Deadline for registration if you are requesting
the honorarium.
- Oct. 27, Monday, noon PST - Final deadline for workshop registration.
- Nov. 2, Sunday evening - Attendees should plan to arrive in Reno.
- Nov. 3, 8:00 AM - Workshop begins, UNR campus,
Room 402 on the top floor of the
Crowley Student Union.
- Nov. 3, 5:00 PM - Workshop ends. Participants should be able
to make flights out of the RNO airport as early as 7:00 PM.
How to Register
Please email the following information
to the Convenor, John Louie:
| Name: | Affiliation: |
| Email: | Postal Address: |
| Requesting honorarium? (Y/N): |
Willing to distribute presentation? (Y/N): |
| Title of 15-minute presentation (if you have a new one): |
| Paragraph describing how you will
contribute to the
objectives of this workshop: |
Travel and Accommodations
Southwest serves the Reno/Tahoe Airport
(RNO) with the most flights.
The Reno/Tahoe Airport is only 15 minutes and a $15 cab ride from UNR.
We have a list of nearby hotels here.
Take a look at renotravel.com for hotel
deals. On their map, the south end of the UNR campus is the purple area at the
upper edge. Travelocity is offering good
air+room packages.
Most of the major hotels are within a 15-minute walk of campus, or downtown
along the free "Sierra Spirit" city bus route (campus is the route's northern
terminus). The following hotels are a
few miles and 10-15 minutes drive from the workshop on campus: Grand Sierra;
Nugget; Best Western- Airport Plaza; Comfort Inn and Suites Airport;
Atlantis; and Peppermill.
Parking is available for $5 all day on the top level of the
Brian J. Whalen Parking Complex,
building 083 on N. Virginia St. at the middle of campus. The new Crowley
Student Union is just to the northeast; it is the building with a Starbucks
at ground level.
Resources
This page and some of the materials linked from it were prepared as work sponsored
by an agency of the United States Government. Neither the United States Government
nor any agency thereof, nor any of their employees, makes any warranty, express or
implied, or assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy,
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Reference herein to any specific commercial product, process or service by trade
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necessarily state or reflect those of the United States Government or any agency
thereof.
The information included in these documents is intended to improve earthquake
preparedness; however, it does not guarantee the safety of an individual structure
or facility. The State of Nevada does not assume liability for any injury, death,
or property damage that occurs in connection with an earthquake.
J. Louie, Dec. 5, 2007
