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Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
2017 EERI Annual Meeting
- Meeting Theme: The Really Big One: Road to Resilience
- Meeting Location: Downtown Waterfront Marriott Hotel in Portland, Oregon
- Meeting Dates: March 7 - 10, 2017
- Meeting Summary:
The 2017 Annual Meeting took place March 7-10, 2017 in Portland, Oregon. Attended by more than 325 meeting attendees and 275 undergraduates participating in the Seismic Design Competition, it proved to be a lively and informative event.
The technical program was built around the meeting theme, "The Really Big One: Road to Resilience”. 6 plenary sessions, 15 special sessions, and 2 poster sessions took place during the meeting. The program also included a FEMA E-74 Training, Post Earthquake Reconnaissance Workshop (PERW), and a walking tour of Portland State University and the infrastructure Seismic Testing and Applied Research (iSTAR) Lab.
- Meeting Printed Program PDF: https://eeri.org/images/meetings/2017AM/2017AM-Printed-Program.pdf
- Meeting Organizers:
- Carmen Merlo, Portland Bureau of Emergency Management (Co-Chair)
- Jeff Rubin, Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue (Co-Chair)
- Joseph Gehlen, Kramer Gehlen Associates
- Michael Hagerty
- Sandra Hyde, International Code Council
- Leon Kempner Jr., BPA
- Arash Khosravifar, PSU
- Franz Rad, PSU
- Nicholas Rillstone, KPFF
- Scott Schlechter, GRI
- Yumei Wang, DOGAMI
- Barry Welliver
- Jay Wilson, OSSPAC
- Kenji Yamasaki, Cornforth Consultants
- Meeting Sponsors:
Sponsors:
- Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
- Computers and Structures, Inc.
- Degenkolb Engineers
- Kinemetrics, Inc.
- Turning Technologies
- MTS Systems Corporation
- Portland Bureau of Emergency Management
- Cascadia Region Earthquake Workgroup (CREW)
- California Earthquake Authority (CEA)
- Oregon State University (OSU)
Seismic Design Competition Sponsors
- Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
- Computers and Structures, Inc.
- California Earthquake Authority (CEA)
- Degenkolb Engineers
- Kinemetrics, Inc.
- Oregon State University (OSU)
- MTS Systems Corporation
- Applied Technology Council (ATC)
- Cascadia Region Earthquake Workgroup (CREW)
- Meeting Exhibitors:
- Applied Technology Council
- COSMOS
- EERI
- FEMA
- Fugro
- GeoHazards International
- Geosig
- Haselton Baker Risk Group
- Hayward Baker Inc
- Kinemetrics
- Kleinfelder
- Leewens Corporation
- Lettis Consultants International
- MTS Systems Corp
- PEER
- REF TEK/Trimble
- Ringfeder Power Transmission
- Sage Engineers
- Taylor Devices Inc
- Turning Technologies
- Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates Inc