Earthquake Information Dissemination Workshop May 26, 2006 ITR – RESCUE Natural Hazards Center, U.C. Boulder

Goals of the RESCUE Project Transforming the ability to collect, analyze, share and disseminate information within the responding organizations and the public On-site 1st Responders Mobile Command & Control EOC Response Network

Key Observation Right Information to the Right Person at the Right Time can result in dramatically better response Response Effectiveness lives & property saved damage prevented cascades avoided Quality of Decisions first responders consequence planners public Quality & Timeliness of Information Situational Awareness incidences resources victims needs

RESCUE Project Structure INFORMATION ANALYSIS INFORMATION COLLECTION INFORMATION SHARING RESCUE Thrust Areas INFORMATION DISSEMINATION Integrative Artifacts Smart Reconnaissance System Enterprise Service Bus Policy Engine Real-time Alert Integrated Information Dashboard Internet-based Loss Estimation Robust Networking Solution Risk Communication TRANSPORTATION CAMAS GLQ CHAMPAIGN FUTURE TESTBEDS Testbeds Situation Awareness Robust Networking Customized Dissemination Policy-driven Information Sharing Privacy RESCUE Research Projects

RESCUE Testbeds CAMAS/Responsphere, UCI Transportation Simulator (regional response) CAMAS/Responsphere, UCI (incident-level response) CAMAS: A instrumented multisensor smartspace at UCI implementing & monitoring response activities Transportation: Simulation of a large geographically dispersed disaster and its impact on transportation Different testbeds model information flow conditions under diverse types of crisis situations Gas Lamp Quarter, SD (robust infrastructure) Champaign Testbed (data sharing) NBC Building Currently, there are four different testbeds. The transportation testbed which emphasizes regional response, that is, examining the role of IT research in large scale disasters such as earthquakes. I will talk more about this testbed in a moment. CAMAS – which stands for Citizen Awareness System for Mitigation Crises – has been designed to examine incident-level response. And one of the specific This is one of the major demos that you will see later this afternoon. The Champaign testbed – is relatively new. It was not one of the original testbeds proposed in our original proposal, but because of the excellent relationship that Marianne Winslett developed with the city of Champaign, it has become our fourth testbed. The focus of this testbed is removing the barriers of sharing data and information. And finally, the GLQ testbed which is being conducted in the Gas Lamp Quarter of San Diego. The focus here is on robust mobile network solutions for crisis response. Champaign: City Emergency Operations Center to serve as a testbed for Data Sharing Applications GLQ : Infrastructure to test robustness of network deployments via live experiments in real setting

RESCUE Research Team Privacy Security Trust Natural Hazards Center Social Science Data Management Security and Trust Disaster Analysis Earthquake Engineering GIS Civil Engineering Data Analysis & Mining Middleware & Distributed Systems Transportation Engineering Computer Vision Networking Multimodal Speech Transporation Modeling Urban Planning Privacy Social Science Transportation Science Illinois – architecture Take out colors in agenda Wireless

Rescue/Responsphere Partners Canon Visualization equipment, SDK The School Broadcasting Company School based dissemination Ether2 Next-generation ethernet Boeing Testbed research partners (potential) Cox Cable Broadcast video delivery Apani Networks Data security at layer 2 5G Wireless Broad-range IEEE 802.11 networking IBM Smart Surveillance Software (S3) and 22 e330 xSeries servers Asvaco 1st responders (LAPD), and threat analysis software AMD Compute servers Microsoft ImageCat, Inc. GIS loss estimation in emergency response Printronix RFID technology Walker Wireless People-counting technology

Interactions Steering Situational Awareness Management Structure Community Advisory Board Chair: Ellis Stanley RESCUE Project PIs UCI - S. Mehrotra, Director UCSD – R. Rao Technical Advisory Committee Chair: TBD RESCUE Project Management RESCUE Executive Committee S. Mehrotra, UCI R. Rao, UCSD K. Tierney, CU R. Eguchi, ImageCat RESCUE External Interactions Steering Committee Chair: Peter Chang - UM RESCUE Technology & Artifacts Steering Committee Chair: Nalini Venkatasubramanian - UCI RESCUE Projects Situational Awareness Project Lead: N. Ashish, UCI Extreme Networking Project Lead: B.S. Manoj, UCSD MetaSIM Project Lead: Charles Hyuck, ImageCat, Inc. Privacy Project Lead: S. Mehrotra, UCI Sharing Project Lead: M. Winslett, UIUC Dissemination Project Lead: N. Venkatasubramanian, UCI

Goals for Today’s Workshop To update researchers and stakeholders on state of the art developments in earthquake alert and warning since the conclusion of the TriNet study (2002). To introduce and explain the goals and plans for public information dissemination within RESCUE. To discuss issues pertaining to public information dissemination from the fields of earthquake engineering science, social science, information technology, state and local policy-makers, emergency managers, schools/school districts, parents and community members, etc.

Agenda 9:00 Welcome/introductions/format of the workshop – Sharad Mehrotra, UCI 9:30 Presentation from Jim Goltz, CalTech - history of the initiative, intended goals, progress 9:45 Earthquake Scientists / Engineers Masumi Yamada - CalTech Thomas Heaton - CalTech Richard Allen – UC Berkeley 10:15 Break 10:30 Social Scientists/Policy Experts Deb Riopelle – VA Med Center 10:50 Emergency Managers and Stakeholders Wendy Milligan – SoCal school district emergency management consultant Mark Bassett – Regional OES Ellis Stanley – City of L.A. Parents School district 12:00 Lunch 12:45 Presentation from RESCUE – What is RESCUE working on for earthquake information dissemination? Earthquake scenario and introduction to afternoon workshop session 1:30 Presentation from School Broadcasting Network – Evan Arguelles and Jeff Briggs 1:45 Afternoon workshop - What are the barriers and solutions to earthquake information dissemination – social issues 3:00 3:15 Workshop continued - What are the barriers and solutions to earthquake information dissemination – technological issues 4:15 Wrap up and next steps – Kathleen Tierney, Natural Hazards Center 5:00 Adjourn