GEM1 Team

Science Team: this team is responsible for compiling required input data sets, producing hazard and risk models, and validating those models against external data. The team is divided into a Hazard Database and Model Team and a Risk Database and Model Team; the former comprises three dedicated FTEs based at ETH (Zurich) and the latter is made up of two FTEs at GFZ (Potsdam), one at EUCENTRE (Pavia), two at NORSAR (Oslo) and one at USGS (part of the PAGER team in Colorado).   

Infrastructure Team: This team is responsible for developing the GEM1 IT framework, including databases, hazard and risk computational engines, Web tools, and data exchange mechanisms. It comprises six FTEs: three providing the core IT framework and working with contractors on hazard tools (located at ETHZ), one for improvements in OpenSHA framework software (located at USGS) and two devoted to risk assessment tools (located at GFZ and EUCENTRE). There will also be a number of contracts to outside organizations to provide hazard and risk software tools for GEM1.


The GEM1 team, at the mid-term review meeting in Pavia, 8-9 September 2009.


Monika Bolliger is supporting the GEM1 project from an administrative point of view.

monika.bolliger[at]sed.ethz.ch


 
Miriam Colombi is currently working with Helen Crowley, Manuel López and Marco Milanesi on comparisons and test-bed applications of a number of seismic risk codes. Miriam is working mostly with SELENA.

Miriam.Colombi[at]eucentre.it


Jorge Crempien is testing, analysing, implementing and creating new methods of seismic risk analysis for urban areas, as well as large regions - within the scope of the GEM1 project.

Jorge.Crempien[at]norsar.no


 
Helen Crowley is the coordinator of the GEM1 Risk group. She is a civil engineer with a PhD in earthquake engineering and has many years experience in earthquake loss modelling, involving both seismic hazard and vulnerability assessment.

Helen.Crowley[at]globalquakemodel.org


Georgia Cua is the Real-Time Seismology coordinator at the Swiss Seismological Service. Her research interests encompass earthquake early warning, ShakeMaps, and optimal use of real-time information. In her GEM1-related work, she collaborates with David Wald and the PAGER group at USGS in evaluating various approaches to estimating macroseismic intensity for use in hazard and loss models.

Georgia.Cua[at]sed.ethz.ch


Laurentiu Danciu is working together with Marco Pagani and Damiano Monelli on:
- Input hazard model collection and implementation
- Seismic hazard codes evaluation (mostly Crisis, EQRM, NZ Seimic Hazard code)
- Seismic hazard analysis

Laurentiu.Danciu[at]sed.ethz.ch

Emrah Erduran is working at Norsar for GEM1 at improving the current seismic risk methodologies and on implementing them in risk assesment software.

Emrah.erduran[at]norsar.no

Fabian Euchner

Fabian.Euchner[at]sed.ethz.ch
Ned Field, a research geophysicist at the USGS office in Golden, Colorado, leads OpenSHA (http://www.opensha.org) and the development of the Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast (http://www.WGCEP.org). His work with GEM involves software development and serving on the Model Advisory Group (MAG).

field[at]usgs.gov

 
Kishor Jaiswal, a structural engineer with USGS/PAGER in Golden, Colorado, leads development of PAGER's building inventory and leads research and development of PAGER loss models. Kishor is involved with GEM1 building taxonomy and inventory and loss modeling vulnerability functions. He has also contributed the hazard Map for India to GEM1.

kjaiswal[at]usgs.gov


 
Philipp Kaestli is IT coordinator at the Swiss Seismological Service (SED). He keeps the SED IT contributions to GEM1, SHARE, EMME as well as internal IT projects and services in line.

kaestli[at]sed.ethz.ch

Ramakrishnan Krishnamurthy, lead software architect, is responsible for the design of the system infrastructure and the portal development.

krishnamurthy[at]sed.ethz.ch

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Conrad Lindholm is responsible for the team at NORSAR, Norway. The work under GEM1 concentrates on testing of earthquake risk codes.

conrad.lindholm[at]norsar.no


Huiyan Liu is currently working with Morgan Mayfield GFZ-Potsdam on comparisons and test-bed applications in the Lisbon and Marmara regions, mostly using CEDIM and LNEC loss codes.

huiyan[at]gfz-potsdam.de

Manuel López is currently working with Miriam Colombi, Helen Crowley and Marco Milanesi on comparisons and test-bed applications of a number of seismic risk codes. Manuel is working mostly with EQRM, ELER, RiskScape and Qlarm.

Manuel.Lopez[at]eucentre.it

Kristin Marano, a geophysicist with USGS/PAGER in Golden, Colorado, develops and maintains many of PAGER databases (PAGER-CAT, ShakeMap Atlas, EXPO-CAT and does research on earthquake secondary hazards and other PAGER-related topics. Kristin's work contributes to GEM1 macroseismic and loss databases.

kmarano[at]usgs.gov


Morgan Mayfield is currently working with Huiyan Liu at GFZ-Potsdam on comparisons and test-bed applications in the Lisbon and Marmara regions, mostly using CEDIM and LNEC loss codes.
 
mayfield[at]gfz-potsdam.de
Marco Milanesi is currently working with Miriam Colombi, Helen Crowley and Manuel López on comparisons and test-bed applications of a number of seismic risk codes. By following their input conventions and adapting the data to be run by different programs, performance comparisons are also being executed. Marco is mostly working on the IT part.

Marco.Milanesi[at]eucentre.it

Aurea Moemke, database architect, is responsible for the design and development of the data model and the implementation of the database system.

Aurea.Moemke[at]sed.ethz.ch


Damiano Monelli is working together with Marco Pagani and Laurentiu Danciu on:
- Input hazard model collection and implementation
- Seismic hazard codes evaluation (mostly OpenSHA)
- Seismic hazard analysis

monelli[at]erdw.ethz.ch

Marco Pagani coordinates the GEM1 Hazard Group and is working together with Damiano Monelli and Laurentiu Danciu on:
- Input hazard model collection and implementation
- Seismic hazard codes evaluation
- Seismic hazard analysis

Marco.Pagani[at]sed.ethz.ch


 
Peter Powers is a research geophysicist at the USGS in Pasadena, CA. As part of the GEM project he is developing visualization and hazard software. His research interests range from structural geology to statistical seismology.

pmpowers[at]caltech.edu

Roland Siegert, software engineer, is responsible for design and development of the system's application layer and setting up the middleware.

roland.siegert[at]sed.ethz.ch

David Wald David Wald, a seismologist with USGS/PAGER in Golden, Colorado, leads the USGS/PAGER project and does research and development on hazards, losses and real-time products. Wald contributes to GEM1 hazard and loss modeling thru Vs30 proxies, ShakeMap, and many PAGER-related data and models.

wald[at]usgs.gov

 
Stefan Wiemer serves as the overall GEM1 project coordinator. He is a seismologist by training, and Prof. of Geophysics at ETH Zurich. His main expertise is in the area of statistical seismology and probabilistic seismic hazard and risk analysis.

Stefan.Wiemer[at]sed.ethz.ch

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