Watch the recording from the November 14, 2017, EERI Mexico Earthquake Reconnaissance Briefing Webinar. Links to download presentation slides as PDFs are below the video.
The webinar was moderated by EERI Reconaissance Co-Lead and included the following presentations:
About the Speakers
Gilberto Mosqueda, EERI Reconnaissance Co-Lead/UC San Diego
Gilberto Mosqueda is a professor at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering. Professor Mosqueda’s primary research interests are in the experimental evaluation of large-scale structural and nonstructural components under seismic and other extreme loads. Mosqueda served as one of EERI’s Reconnaissance Co-leads for the Mexico earthquake and traveled to Mexico in October 2017.
Lucy Arendt, EERI Reconnaissance Co-Lead/St. Norbert College
Lucy Arendt is Professor of Business Administration-Management at St. Norbert College. Dr. Arendt teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in organizational behavior, leadership, strategic management, and sustainability. Arendt conducts an annual travel abroad course in Cuernavaca, Mexico. She served as one of EERI’s Reconnaissance Co-leads for the Mexico earthquake and traveled to Mexico in October 2017 and serves on the EERI Board of Directors.
Tara Hutchinson, UC San Diego/GEER
Tara Hutchinson is a professor at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering. Professor Hutchinson is an earthquake engineering theoretician and experimentalist who has published significant papers in leading structural, civil, and earthquake engineering journals. She has creatively applied information technology to the evaluation of earthquake damage to structures. Hutchinson was one of the GEER Co-Team Leaders for the UNAM-GEER reconnaissance team.
Richard Allen, UC Berkeley
Richard Allen is the Director of the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, and Professor and Chair of the Department of Earth and Planetary Science at UC Berkeley. He is an expert in earthquake alerting systems, developing methodologies to detect earthquakes and issue warnings prior to shaking. His group uses seismic and GPS sensing networks, and is experimenting with the use of smartphones. Allen was the seismology lead for the EERI Earthquake Early Warning Reconnaissance Team.
Luciano Roberto Fernández Sola, UAM
Luciano Fernandez is a Professor of Structural Engineering at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana unidad Azcapotzalco. He currently serves as Secretary for the Mexican Society of Structural Engineers. Fernandez coordinated the structural engineering brigades conducting building evaluations in Mexico City following the September 19 earthquake.
Erica Fischer, Oregon State University
Erica Fischer is an Assistant Professor in Civil & Construction Engineering at Oregon State University. Dr. Fischer’s research interests revolve around innovative approaches to improve the resilience and robustness of structural systems affected by natural and man-made hazards. She has participated in post-earthquake reconnaissance team missions including Haiti, Napa, and Italy and was a member of the Reid Middleton reconnaissance team that studied lifelines impacts in Mexico.
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Questions? Please email Maggie Ortiz-Millan at maggie@eeri.org
This Learning from Earthquakes Webinar was supported with funding under a cooperative agreement (EMW-2016- CA-00091) with FEMA/U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
