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PTWS 50th
PTWS 50th - Logistics
ABSTRACTS AND POSTERS
Abstract, poster submission deadline 15 April 2015. We invite you to print and hand carry a poster, or to submit an Extended Abstract (less than 10 pages), to showcase the work of your country, organization, and/or research. Poster displays will be set up in the Atrium of the IRC. Update: Poster size should be no larger than 3 feet by 4 feet. We will have tables available to hold Abstracts or any materials you would like to share. All posters and abstracts will be compiled and posted to the Symposium web site, along with Symposium speaker presentations. We encourage you to send your files by 15 April, to ensure that they are posted in time for the April 20 start of the Symposium to Laura.Kong@noaa.gov and Tammy.Fukuji@noaa.gov. Posters can be dropped off at the check in table at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel on April 19th, or the IRC check in table on April 20th, and will be hung on foam core backing and placed on easels on Monday morning.
IDENTIFICATION FOR NOAA IRC
Please carry your passports everyday. US citizens with military base access credentials (CAC card, retired military ID, etc.) may use these identification documents. Credentials are to be shown at the JBPHH Ford Island bridge access gate, and at the NOAA IRC entrance.
INTERNET
Wireless internet will be available in the IRC.
REGISTRATION
Registration opens 24 December 2014.
General registration is now CLOSED. If you are still interested in attending, please contact Laura Kong (email: laura.kong@noaa.gov)
Registration deadline is 15 March 2015 to ensure enough processing time to be granted access onto Ford Island on the Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam where the NOAA IRC building is located.
If you have Registration questions, please contact Ms. Jackie Kubo (1-808-725-6000, email: jacqueline.kubo@noaa.gov).
Registration is a 2-step process. After 24 December 2014, to fully register, please
STEP 1. Please CLICK HERE (1) to submit provide Participant Information the information.
STEP 2. Please CLICK HERE (2) to download the IRC Facility Access (IFA) Form to provide passport data necessary for security clearance and access to Ford Island. Complete the form, preferably using a computer or typewriter. After completion, fax the IFA Form to ITIC at +1-808-725-6055.
Exception: All participants must complete both STEP 1 and STEP 2 to register, except for US Citizens who already have military base access credentials (CAC card, retired military ID, etc.)
You will receive a Registration Confirmation by email when your registration is complete.
AIRPORT TO HOTEL TRANSPORTATION
Airport to Waikiki hotel transportation options are by private taxi (about $45 to Waikīkī), or the Airport-to- Waikīkī Hotels shuttle bus to/from Honolulu Airport to your hotel. The Speedi Shuttle is available outside of baggage claim at a cost of about $15 and can be booked at http://www.speedishuttle.com/pickup.
If you are an Official Delegate to the ICG/PTWS-XXVI, your airport to the Official Meeting Hotels transportation will be provided by NOAA.
ROYAL HAWAIIAN HOTEL TO NOAA IRC TRANSPORTATION
NOAA will provide transportation to and from the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Waikīkī) to the NOAA IRC located on Ford Island, JBPHH. Early registration is highly recommended to ensure pre-clearance onto JBPHH using the shuttle buses.
If you are staying at another hotel, please be on time to the Royal Hawaiian Hotel.
Departure times and locations will be made available prior to the meeting.
All participants should use NOAA’s free courtesy transportation. The IRC is located on the JBPHH Military Base about 45-minute drive from Waikīkī, and requires special base permission. Taking the courtesy bus is your most convenient and simplest transport method.
SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Mike Angove (US Tsunami National Contact), RAdm Patricio Carrasco (Chile, PTWS Vice-Chair), David Coetzee (NZ, PTWS Disaster Management and Preparedness Working Group Chair), Dr Ken Gledhill (NZ, PTWS Chair), Dr Laura Kong (ITIC Director), Dr Vasily Titov (USA, IUGG Tsunami Commission President, PTWS Tsunami Hazard Assessment Working Group Chair)
Symposium Contact: Dr Laura Kong, ITIC (laura.kong@noaa.gov)
PTWS 50th - Abstracts & Posters
International Tsunami Symposium 2015
Making the Pacific Ready for the Tsunami Threat
20-21 April 2015, NOAA Daniel K. Inouye Regional Center, Ford Island, O’ahu, Hawai’i
| Document | Author |
| Tsunami Preparedness Activities in Tonga (Poster) | Leveni Aho, 'Ofa Fa'anunu, Tonga |
| NOAA Tsunami Program (Poster) | Mike Angove, USA |
| Advancements in the U.S. Tsunami Warning System (Poster) | Mike Angove, USA |
| 10 Years after the Indian Ocean Tsunami 2004 (Poster) | Rick Bailey, Jan Sopaheluwakan, Srinivasa Kumar, Tony Elliott, Sam Hettiarachchi, Irina Rafliana, Harkunti Rahayu, Satheesh Shenoi, Daniel Jaksa, Ray Canterford, Riyadi Mochammad, Chip McCreery, Laura Kong, Takeshi Koizumi, Masturyono, Mark Leonard, Wahyu Pandoe, Peter Coburn, Karyono, Suhardjono, Prih Harjadi, Shailesh Nayak, Chris Ryan, Yuelong Miao, Ridwan Djamaluddin, Geoff Crane, Chari Pattiaratchi, John Schneider, Harald Spahn, Joern Lauterjung, David McKinnie, Peter Koltermann, Ardito Kodijat |
| Australian Tsunami Warning System (ATWS) Supporting national and regional readiness (Poster) | Ray Canterford, Rick Bailey, Andrew Tupper, Peter Coburn, Yuelong Miao, Geoff Crane Stewart Allen, Chris Ryan, Tony Leggett, Diana Greenslade, Jane Warne, Carl Muller, Daniel Jaksa, Barry Drummond, Mark Leonard, Jane Sexton, Spiro Spiliopoulos, Alexei Gorbatov, Australia |
| Improving Colombian Seismic Network for Tsunami Risk Reduction (Poster) | Viviana Dionicio, Colombia |
| Integrated Tsunami Products from the NOAA/NCEI/WDS Support Research, Forecasts, Planning, Response and Mitigation (Poster) | Paula Dunbar, Aaron Sweeney, George Mungov, Kelly Stroker, Heather McCullough, Jesse Varner, USA |
| Hawaii Historical Tsunami Effects (Poster) | Paula Dunbar, Laura Kong, Heather McCullough, Nicolas Arcos, USA |
| SAIC Tsunami Buoys (Poster) | Rob Lawson, USA |
| Tsunami Community Education and Awareness: The Philippine Experience (Abstract, Poster) | Mylene Martinez-Villegas, Renato U. Solidum, Jr, Philippines |
| Local tsunami warning system in South Korea and its ongoing improvement (Abstract, Poster) | Sun-Cheon Park, Jun-Whan Lee, Eun Hee Park, Republic of Korea |
| The Tsunami warning system in French Polynesia in 2015 (Abstract) | Dominique Reymond, French Polynesia |
| How does the National Tsunami Alert System in México work? (Abstract, Poster) | Juan Ramon Sans Aguilar, Mexico |
| National Assessments of the Tsunami Warning and Mitigation Systems of 14 Pacific Island Countries (Poster) | Cherie Stitz, Don Anderson, Stewart Allen & Diana Greenslade, Australia |
| Volcanic tsunami warnings – insights from the International Airways Volcano Watch (Poster) | Andrew Tupper, Christina Neal, Australia, USA |
| Practical application of disaster education for children, The 2011 Great East Japan Tsunami (Poster) | Mari Yasuda, Fumihiko Imamura, Anawat Suppasri, Japan |
| Progress on Tsunami Warning in China (Handout) | Ye Yuan, China |
| Samoa National Tsunami Early Warning System (Poster) | Meteorology Division, Ministry of Natural Resources & Environment |
| Current Status of the Global Seismographic Network (Poster) | Katrin Hafner, Bob Woodward, Andy Frassetto, and Kent Anderson |
PTWS 50th - International Tsunami Symposium 2015
Making the Pacific Ready for the Tsunami Threat
20-21 April 2015, NOAA Daniel K. Inouye Regional Center
Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam JBPHH), Ford Island, O’ahu, Hawai’i
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the International Tsunami Warning System in the Pacific, the IOC of UNESCO, International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) and its Tsunami Commission, and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) organized the Symposium "Making the Pacific Ready for the Tsunami Threat" to recognize the achievements of the last 50 years, review the current state of the System, and identify practical and tangible next steps, desirable partnerships, and necessary commitments needed to sustain and evolve the PTWS for the future.
Altogether, 150 participants from 30 countries attended. Over 40 speakers representing 19 countries recounted the achievements of the last 50 years, stated and reviewed the current state of the System, and identified and recommended practical and tangible next steps, desirable partnerships, and necessary commitments needed to sustain and evolve the PTWS for the future. The goal of the Symposium was to “look back so we can look forward.” Sessions featured keynotes from long-standing countries, the history of the PTWS, and the PTWS Medium-Term Strategy (MTS) themes of Risk Assessment and Reduction, Event Detection, Warning, and Dissemination, and Awareness and Response. Thematic sessions consisted of speakers and panels representing decision-makers, planning and policy, science, warning, and/or emergency operations practitioners.
In addition to the Plenary session, there were 33 posters and / or extended Abstracts submitted. A peer-reviewed Special Volume on the Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System: Past, Present, and Future is planned. During evening poster sessions, tours of the PTWC and ITIC spaces, a demonstration of tsunamis visuals projected in three-dimensions on the NOAA Science of the Sphere, and numerous tsunami event, awareness, and education videos were shown.
Two products were specially produced for the PTWS 50th anniversary and briefed to the Symposium. A PTWS video “Tsunami Warning!” was produced by the ITIC, in collaboration with the USA and Chile. The video follows the tsunami warning chain after a M9.5 earthquake and tsunami off the northern coast of Chile. The video is available on the ITIC web site, and the PTWC and UNESCO YouTube sites, as well as in hard disk. The ITIC and NGDC, along with many experts, published the PTWS Commemorative Historical Book, “Pacific Tsunami Warning System, A Half-Century of Protecting the Pacific, 1965-2015” recounting the establishment and evolution of the PTWS over the last 50 years. The book is available in hard copy to all Member States.
Symposium Meeting Documents
| IOC Circular Letter 2552 |
Participants List
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| Agenda |
Logistics
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| Abstracts & Posters |
| Tsunami Symposium Photos |
| Agenda # |
Title | Author |
| 1 | Opening Ceremony |
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| 1 | UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) (PDF, 54.51 KB), Video |
Dr. Vladimir Ryabinin, Executive Secretary |
| 1 | UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) (PDF, 54 KB) |
Dr. Yutaka Michida, Japan, IOC Vice President |
| 1 | International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) Tsunami Commission (verbal only) |
Dr. Vasily Titov, USA Chair |
| 1 | Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (UNESCO IOC ICG/PTWS) (PDF, 44 KB) |
Dr. Ken Gledhill, New Zealand, Chair |
| 1 | United States Pacific Command (USPACOM) (PDF, 39 KB) |
Lt General Anthony G. Crutchfield, U.S. Army, Deputy Commander |
| 1 | State of Hawaii (verbal only) |
Brig General Arthur J. Logan, Adjutant General, Dept of Defense; and Director, Hawaii Emergency Management Agency (HI-EMA) |
| 2 | PTWS Historical Keynotes |
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| 2 | Tsunami Warning and Mitigation: USA Experience (PDF, 13.58 MB) |
Laura Furgione, NOAA Deputy Assistant Administrator for Weather Services and Deputy Director, National Weather Service, USA |
| 2 | PTWS video “Tsunami Warning!” English: https://vimeo.com/124650777 Spanish: https://vimeo.com/125109150 French: https://vimeo.com/125109148 |
ITIC |
| 2 | Tsunami Warning and Mitigation: Chile Experience (PDF, 8.86 MB) |
Rear Adm. Patricio Carrasco, Director, Servicio Hidrográfico y Oceanográfico de la Armada de Chile (SHOA), Chile |
| 2 | Tsunami Warning and Mitigation: Japan Experience (PDF, 3.47 MB) |
Yasuo Sekita, Director General, Seismology and Volcanology Department, Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), Japan |
| 2 | Tsunami Warning and Mitigation: Pacific Island Experience (PDF, 6.04 MB) |
Filomena Nelson, Asst Chief Executive, Ministry of Natural Res and Environment, and Director, Disaster Mgmt Office, Samoa |
| 3 | History and milestones in the development of the Tsunami Warning System in the Pacific, ITSU to PTWS, 1960 - 2015 (PDF, 44 KB) |
Historical Session Chair: Fred Stephenson, Canada, ITSU Chair 2006-2007 |
| 3 | Historical Keynote: Evolving the PTWS (PDF, 80.84 KB), Video |
Dr. Iouri Oliounine, ITSU Technical Secretary, 1982-2002, UNESCO IOC |
| 3 | 1960-1985 (PDF, 4.93 MB) |
Fred Stephenson, Canada, ITSU Chair 2006-2007 |
| 3 | 1985-2005 (PDF, 16.63 MB) |
François Schindele, France, ITSU Chair, 1999-2005 |
| 3 | 2005-2015 (PDF, 11.83 MB) |
Masahiro Yamamoto, Japan, Senior Tsunami Advisor, UNESCO IOC Tsunami Unit (2005- 2012), Director, EQ and Tsunami Obs Div, Seismology and Volcanology Dept, JMA (2004-2005) |
| 3 | PTWS Commemorative Historical Book, “Pacific Tsunami Warning System, A Half-Century of Protecting the Pacific, 1965-2015” (PDF, 5.78 MB) |
ITIC and NOAA Natl Ctr for Environmental Information (formerly Natl Geophysical Data Ctr) /ICSU World Data Svc for Geophysics |
| 4.1 | Thematic Session 1 Theme 1: Hazard and Risk – Identification and Risk Reduction |
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| 4.1 | Gigantic Earthquakes and Tsunamis – When and Where (PDF, 8.16 MB) |
Dr. Kenji Satake, Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Japan |
| 4.1 | Tsunami Hazard Assessment and Risk (PDF, 7.78 MB) |
Dr. Viacheslav Gusiakov, Novosibirsk Tsunami Lab, Russian Academy of Sciences |
| 4.1 | Practical Risk Reduction: Tsunami Provisions in the International Building Code (PDF, 17.43 MB) |
Gary Y.K. Chock, S.E., F.SEI, F.ASCE, D.CE., Chair, U.S. ASCE -7 Tsunami Loads and Effects Subcomm; Pres, Martin and Chock, Inc., USA |
| 4.1 | Making Hawaii Ready for the Tsunami Threat (PDF, 9.80 MB) |
Doug Mayne, Vice Director, Hawaii Emergency Mmgt Agency, USA |
| 4.1 | Publication of Symposium Special Volume: Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System: Past, Present, and Future |
Dr. Vasily Titov, IUGG Tsunami Commission Chair, USA |
| 4.2 | Thematic Session 2 Theme 2: Warning and Forecast: Detection, Warning and Dissemination |
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| 4.21 | Sub-Theme 1: Tsunami Warning Operations | |
| 4.21 | Tsunami Warning (PDF, 2.33 MB) | Dr. Charles McCreery, Director, NOAA Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, USA |
| 4.21 | Real-time Earthquake Source Characterization (PDF, 2.23 MB) |
Dr. Dominique Reymond, Director, Laboratoire de Géophysique, Centre Polynésien de Prévention des Tsunamis (CPPT), French Polynesia |
| 4.21 | Tsunami Forecasting (PDF, 34.15 MB) | Dr. Vasily Titov, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, USA |
| 4.21 | Japan Local Tsunami Warning (PDF, 2.81 MB) | Tomoaki Ozaki, Senior Coordinator for Intl Earthquake and Tsunami Information, JMA, Japan |
| 4.21 | Panel Discussion - Tsunami Warning Operations (PDF, 966 KB) |
Prof. Yuichi Ono, Intl and Regional Cooperation Office, Intl Research Inst of Disaster Science (IRIDeS), Tohoku Univ |
| 4.22 | Sub-Theme 2: Warnings - The Last Mile | |
| 4.22 | Warning Communications and Technologies (PDF, 11.16 MB) |
Edward Young, Deputy Director, NOAA NWS Pacific Region, USA |
| 4.22 | Warning the Last Mile (PDF, 149 KB) | Loti Yates, Director, Solomon Islands National Disaster Management Office |
| 4.22 | Panel Discussion - The Last Mile (PDF, 2.13 MB) | Dr. Rene Solidum, Director, Philippines Inst of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) |
| 4.3 | Thematic Session 3 Theme 3: Awareness and Response Preparedness, Emergency Planning and Response, and Post-Disaster Response |
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| 4.3 | Community Education and Awareness (PDF, 35 MB) | Mylene Villegas, Chief, Geological Disaster, Awareness, and Preparedness Division, PHIVOLCS |
| 4.3 | Tsunami Emergency Response and Evacuation (PDF, 24 MB) |
Vinnie Atofau, Jr., Manager, Territorial Emergency Mgmt Coordinating Office, American Samoa, USA |
| 4.3 | Boat Harbors and Shipping Ports during Tsunamis (PDF, 8.18 MB) |
Kevin Miller, EQ and Tsunami Program, California Office of Emergency Management, USA |
| 4.3 | Post-Event Response, Relief, and Recovery and Humanitarian Assistance – Mandate and Roles of US Pacific Command (PACOM) and USAID/OFDA (PDF, 9.88 MB) |
Julie Leonard, Regional Advisor, USAID Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance, Latin America and the Caribbean Office, USA |
| 4.3 | Panel Discussion - The most important mile: "The Last Mile" (PDF, 5.09 MB) | Rick Bailey, Head, Tsunami Warning & Ocean Svcs, Bureau of Meteorology, Australia |
| 4.3 | Panel Discussion (PDF, 1.86 MB) | Dr. Sun-Cheon Park, Senior Researcher, Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) |
| 5 | Assessing Risk and Building Preparedness in Communities (verbal only) |
Timothy W. Manning, Deputy Administrator for Protection and Natl Preparedness, US Federal Emergency Management Agency |
| 5 | Assessing Risk and Building Preparedness in Communities (verbal only) |
Dr. Karl Kim, Exec Director, USDHS/FEMA Natl Disaster Preparedness Center (NDPTC) of the Univ of Hawaii, USA |
| 6 | Summary Session: Looking to the Future |
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| 6 | History, Hazard and Risk, Warning Operations, Warnings – Last Mile, Awareness and Response (PDF) |
Fred Stephenson |
| 6 | History, Hazard and Risk, Warning Operations, Warnings – Last Mile, Awareness and Response (PDF, 1.73 MB) |
Dr. Eddie Bernard |
| 6 | History, Hazard and Risk, Warning Operations, Warnings – Last Mile, Awareness and Response (PDF, 86.37 KB) |
Dr. Laura Kong |
| 6 | History, Hazard and Risk, Warning Operations, Warnings – Last Mile, Awareness and Response (verbal only) |
Bernardo Aliaga |
| 6 | History, Hazard and Risk, Warning Operations, Warnings – Last Mile, Awareness and Response (PDF) |
David Coetzee |
| 6 | PTWS Priorities – The Next 5-10 Years (PDF, 48 KB) |
Dr. Ken Gledhill, NZ, ICG/PTWS Chair |
| 7 | Closing |
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| 7 | Symposium Organizing Committee |
Michael Angove, NOAA Tsunami Program Manager US NOAA |
| 7 | Host - US NOAA |
Laura Furgione, NOAA Deputy Asst Admin for Weather Services and Deputy Director, Natl Weather Service |
Symposium Registration - Step 1
Quick Links
Resources
Tsunami Awareness Poster
Available in English, Spanish, Chinese, French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Singalese.
Global & Regional Hazard Maps
Tsunami Sources, Significant Earthquakes, Significant Volcanic Eruptions, Tsunami Icosohedron Globe.
TsunamiTeacher USA
Tsunami Basics
Also on YouTube
(w/closed captioning)
Learn the basics of tsunamis. Available in English, Samoan.