Dear colleagues around the world,
It will be my honor to take part in this Panel about the recent disaster in Turkey and Syria, that will take part at the ASCE Geo-Congress conference in Los Angeles USA.
I like to start, on behalf of the GeoEngineers worldwide, by expressing my sincere condolences and sympathy to the victims and their families and loved ones. I was personally shaking for more than a minute with my daughter on the 16th floor in Beirut, and it was terrifying. It’s time for the entire world to shake up and see as scientists how to make our homes safer. This is not a local event, it’s a natural disaster and hazard that the entire world should worry about and come together as one geotechnical family!
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Panel: Turkey-Syria Earthquakes: A Disaster through Interdisciplinary Lenses
Date/Time: Plenary (12 pm EST) Wednesday, March 29 (45 min)
Description: Updates on the 2/6/23 M7.8/M7.5 Kahramanmaraş Earthquakes in Turkey-Syria will be presented. GI-members – some of whom were directly affected by the tragedy – will join structural and social science experts, all ready to discuss the facts and how we can prevent such major events from becoming a catastrophe in the future.
Live streaming on YouTube.
Panelists
- Tugce Baser, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Ozgun Numanoglu, Schnabel Engineering
- Ece Eseller-Bayat, Istanbul Technical University and Pelin Özener, Yildiz Technical University
- J. David Frost, Georgia Institute of Technology; Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance Association
- N. Emel Ganapati, Florida International University
- Ayşe Hortacsu, Applied Technology Council; Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
Organizers
- Seda Gokyer Erbis, Geocomp, Inc. Time Keeping/Audience Q&A
- Lucky Nagarajan, Bauer Foundations Corp., Moderator
- Sissy Nikolaou, National Institute of Standards and Technology, introduction