[UCI-Calit2] Distinguished Lecture-Earthquakes, Hurricanes and other Disasters: A View from Space

[Anna Lynn Spitzer]

You're invited to a Center for Emergency Response (CERT), Computer
Science and Calit2 Distinguished Seminar

 

 

Title:                            Earthquakes, Hurricanes and other
Disasters: A View from Space

 

 

Speaker:                      Ron Eguchi, president and CEO of ImageCat,
Inc.

 

 

Time:                           11 a.m. - noon

                                    

 

Date:                           May 15, 2009

 

 

Location:                     Bren Hall, Room 6011

 

 

Abstract:
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~projects/cert/seminar/ImageCat/abstract.doc

 

 

Bio:                              Eguchi has more than 30 years of
experience in risk analysis and risk management studies. In 2000, with
Charles K. Huyck, he formed ImageCat, Inc., a risk management company
specializing in the development and use of advanced technologies for
risk assessment and reduction. The company has contributed substantially
to research on and implementation of remote sensing technologies for
earthquakes and other natural hazards, lifeline earthquake engineering,
and earthquake risk assessment. Eguchi has authored more than 200
publications, many of them on applications of advanced technologies to
remote sensing and the seismic risk of utility lifeline systems; he has
directed research and application studies in these areas for government
agencies and private industry. Over the last decade, he has focused on
remote sensing for reconnaissance after earthquakes, tsunamis,
hurricanes, and other natural disasters and human threats. He is a
member of the National Academies Disaster Roundtable and a past member
of the Scientific Earthquake Studies Advisory Committee of the U.S.
Geological Survey, and Editorial Boards of Earthquake Spectra and
Natural Hazards Review. 

 

In 1997, Eguchi was awarded the ASCE C. Martin Duke Award for his
contributions to the area of lifeline earthquake engineering. In 1992,
he chaired a joint panel, established by the Federal Emergency
Management Agency and the National Institute of Standards and
Technology, to develop a plan for assembling and adopting seismic design
standards for public and private lifelines in the U.S. This effort led
to the formation of the American Lifelines Alliance, currently managed
by the National Institute of Building Sciences.  In 2006, he won an
Applied Technology Council Award of Excellence as project director of
the ATC-61 project team that authored "An Independent Study to Assess
Future Savings from Mitigation Activities." 

 

Additional Information: Chris Davison, chris.davison at uci.edu

 

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