The 12 January 2010 Haiti Earthquake: Emerging Research Needs and Opportunities

The Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) organized, at the direction of the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Haiti RAPIDs and Research Needs Workshop. The workshop was held September 30 and October 1, 2010 at the NSF headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. The workshop included oral and poster presentations from all RAPID award recipients, followed by breakout discussions to develop recommendations for major research themes and opportunities as they emerged from the investigations of the Haiti earthquake and its impacts.

Workshop Report

The complete report from the Research Needs Workshop can be downloaded here: The 12 January 2010 Haiti Earthquake: Emerging Research Needs and Opportunities

Workshop Participants

Attendees of the workshop included over 40 representatives from RAPID projects from institutions across the United States along with NSF program officers. Also, some invited guests and speakers from Haiti and representatives from agencies such as USAID, The National Academies, NIST, and IADB.

Click here to view the full workshop participant list.

RAPID Posters

The RAPID posters from the workshop were formerly available on NEEShub, now Design-safe.  

Workshop Presentations

• Day 1 Presentations
  • RAPID Presentations by Group Leaders
    • Earth Sciences, Sean Gulick
    • Geotechnical, Scott Olson
    • Civil and/or Environmental, Ozlem Egun
    • Structures, Robert Fleischman
    • Social Sciences Group 1, Mimi Sheller & Kevin Meehan
    • Social Sciences Group 2, Louise Comfort & Jose Holguin-Veras
    • Information Technology, John Yen
  • Presentations of Invited Speakers from Haiti
    • Frantz Verella, former Minister of Public Works, Transport & Communication, Professor of Network Economics and Computational Mathematics, State Univ. of Haiti
    • Louis Herns Marcelin, Interuniversity Institute for Research and Development (INURED) & Univ. of Miami
    • Amenold Pierre, Univ. of Nouvelle Grand’Anse
      • Watch the youtube video of Amenold Pierre’s presentation
  • Breakout #1 Discipline-Group Focused Report-backs (View report-back slides)
    • Earth Sciences & Geotechnical
    • Civil & Environmental
    • Structural Engineering
    • Social Science 2
    • Information Technology
• Day 2 Presentations
  • Agency Panel Presentations
    • Eric Calais, United Nations Developement Program (UNDP)
    • Adam Reinhart, United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
    • Jean Robert Altidor, Bureau of Mines and Energy, Haiti
    • Lauren A. Alexander, National Academies of Science
    • Matteo Grazzi, InterAmerican Developement Bank (IADB)
    • Michael Blanpied, US Geological Survey (USGS)
  • Breakout #2 Preparedness, Response, and Transition & Recovery (View report-back slides)
    • Preparedness
    • Response 1
    • Response 2
    • Transition & Recovery 1
    • Transition & Recovery 2
  • Breakout #3 Cross Cutting Themes (View report-back slides)
    • Community Participation & Education
    • Community Resilience, Social Structures, & Social Capital
    • Logistics & Networks.Organizational Coordination
    • Risk Management and Complexity
    • Sustainability, Capacity, and Capacity Building

Workshop Photos

	Fig.1. Marc Eberhard (University of Washington) opens the workshop with welcome and introductions.		Fig.2. Robert Fleischman (University of Arizona) presents the RAPID project for the Structures group.
	Fig.3. The Earth Sciences and Geotechnical (ESG) group discuss emerging research needs and themes during the discipline-focused breakout session.		Fig. 4. Scott Olson (UIUC) and Sean Gulick (UTA) lead the Earth Sciences and Geotechnical group discussion.
	Fig. 5. Social Sciences group discusses major research needs and themes.		Fig.6. Social Sciences group discussion during Breakout session.
	Fig. 7. Michael Blanpied (USGS) and John Yen (Penn State) at the Haiti RAPIDs and Research needs workshop.		Fig. 8. Workshop participants transition from plenary room to breakout sessions.
	Fig 9. Workshop participants gather to view and discuss RAPID posters.		Fig. 10. Breakout session discussion.
	Fig. 11. Louise Comfort (University of Pittsburgh) presents a RAPID project for the Social Sciences group.		Fig. 12. Catherine Peters (Princeton) discusses her RAPID project with other workshop attendees.
	Fig. 13. Barry Goodno (Georgia Tech) and Jun Zhuang (SUNY Buffalo) lead the Logistics & Networks/Organizational coordination breakout session.		Fig. 14. Harvey Rhody (RIT) discusses his RAPID project with Kevin Meehan (UCF).
	Fig. 15. Reggie DesRoches (Georgia Tech) introduces invited guests from Haiti: Louis H. Marcelin, Frantz Verella, and Amenold Pierre (from left to right).		Fig. 16. Structures group discusses themes and research needs during Breakout Session 1.