GEM Progress Review Meeting Dec 2010

Each 6 months, GEM is reviewed from an integral perspective and simultaneously meetings of the Scientific Board and Governing Board take place.

After the GEM1 Review Meeting of April 2010 in Pavia, the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore kindly offered to host the first GEM Progress Review Meeting, which took place 1-3 December 2010.

SINGAPORE, 1-3 DECEMBER 2010

PDFs of the presentations of the plenary sessions of the meeting can be downloaded below, by clicking on the link. The discussions that followed after each presentation have been documented and will be used by the component(s), wherever needed and possible, in the coming 6 months.

Photos of the meeting can be also be viewed.

Plenary Sessions - 1 December 2010

Welcome and Introduction

• Welcome [T.C. Pan]
• Introduction to meeting [Rui Pinho]

Model Facility

• GEM1 to Model Facility Transition [Domenico Giardini]
• Model Facility Terms of Reference [Florian Haslinger]
• Scientific Background of OpenQuake [Marco Pagani, Helen Crowley]
• OpenQuake Installation, GEM's IT developments, Results of Demo Calculations, Release Schedules [Joshua McKenty]
• Implementation Plan for Hazard and Risk [Marco Pagani, Helen Crowley]

Hazard Global Components

• Introduction to GEM Hazard Activities [Marco Pagani]
• Global Instrumental Earthquake Catalogue [Dmitry Storchak]
• Global Earthquake History [Paola Albini]
• Global Active Faults and Seismic Source Database [Kelvin Berryman]
• Global Geodetic Strain Rate Model [Corné Kreemer]
• Global Ground Motion Prediction Equations [Carola Di Alessandro]

Plenary Sessions - 2 December

Risk Global Components

• Introduction to GEM Risk Activities [Helen Crowley]
• Global Earthquake Consequences Database [Emily So, Antonios Pomonis]
• Global Exposure Database [Paolo Gamba]
• Inventory Data Capture Tools [Beverley Adams]
• Global Vulnerability Estimation Methods [Keith Porter]
• GEM Ontology and Taxonomy [Charles Scawthorn]

Socio-Economic Impact

• "GEM1" for Socio-Economic Impact [Leonardo Garrido]
• SEI Public Commentary Feedback [Leonardo Garrido]
• 2011 Implementation Plan for SEI [Leonardo Garrido]

Parallel Meetings - 2 December

Hazard Global Components Plenary Meeting

• Activities plan for the next 6 months [each GC representative]
• Collaborations between GCs [Marco Pagani, All]
• Collaborations between GCs and (currently active) RPs [Marco Pagani, All]

Risk Global Components Plenary Meeting

• Taxonomy activities for risk global components [Charles Scawthorn, Svetlana Brzev, Andrew Charleson] 
• Discussion of proposed taxonomy activities [All]
• Case study application [Trevor Dhu]

Risk and Hazard Global Component Joint Meeting

• Ontology & Taxonomy purpose and needs [Charles Scawthorn]
• Socio-Economic Impact module needs [Leonardo Garrido]
• GEM collaboration platform [Nicole Keller]