Description
A one day roundtable bringing together seismologists, building regulators and state emergency managers to review earthquake risk settings for southeast Australia after the 2021 Woods Point earthquake. Sessions cover unreinforced masonry retrofit, the national earthquake hazard map update, and post event building assessment capability in Victoria and New South Wales. Outputs are a summary note and a revised research priority list. Open to agency staff and researchers by registration.
Contributor
Chief Executive Officer of Natural Hazards Research Australia. Leads the national research program and supports collaboration between researchers, government agencies and industry to improve Australia's resilience to natural hazards.
Principal Investigator
Engineering geologist working on earthquake ground motion, tsunami inundation modelling and slope stability in the Sydney basin. Runs the Blue Mountains landslide inventory and advises on masonry retrofit priorities. Based at Macquarie University.