GEO-ENGINEERING EXTREME EVENTS RECONNAISSANCE
Turning Disaster into Knowledge
Contributing Authors:
Giuseppe Di Capua, INGV Rome, Italy
Robert E. Kayen, USGS Menlo Park, USA
D. Scott Kieffer, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Edward Button, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Giovanna Biscontin, Texas A&M University, USA
Giuseppe Scasserra and Giuseppe Lanzo, University of Rome, Italy
Paolo Tommasi and Alessandro Pagliaroli, CNR-IGAG, Rome, Italy
Francesco Silvestri and Anna d'Onofrio, University of Naples, Italy
Crescenzo Violante, Institute for Coastal and Marine Environment, Naples, Italy
Armando Lucio Simonelli, University of Sannio, Benevento, Italy
Rodolfo Puglia, INGV, Milan, Italy
George Mylonakis, George Athanasopoulos, and Vasileios Vlachakis, University of Patras, Greece
Editor and Contributing Author:
Jonathan P. Stewart, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
September 2009
SPONSOR ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation through the GeoEnvironmental Engineering and GeoHazards Mitigation Program under Grant No. CMMI-0323914. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF. The GEER Association is made possible by the vision and support of the NSF Geoenvironmental Engineering and GeoHazards Mitigation Program Directors: Dr. Richard Fragaszy and the late Dr. Cliff Astill. GEER members also donate their time, talent, and resources to collect time-sensitive field observations of the effects of earthquakes. The GEER Association web site, which contains additional information, may be found at:
http://www.geerassociation.org