Workshop and Field Trip Logistics
Monday, 12 November
- Lunch will be provided, but please bring your own water.
- 8:30am Bus pick-up at Rydges Hotel Latimer Square
- 9:00am Bus pick-up at Ernest Rutherford Building, University of Canterbury
- There will be some walking (up to 500m) on open farmland.
- 3:30-4:30 Wine tasting at Waipara Hills Winery. You will need to bring $5 for the wine tasting.
- Return to University of Canterbury by 7pm
Tuesday, 13 November
Travel from Christchurch to Oamaru
- 10:00am Bus pick-up at Rydges Hotel Latimer Square
- 10:45am Bus pick-up at Ernest Rutherford Building, University of Canterbury
- Arrive in Oamaru by 4-5 pm and check-in to Brydone Hotel accomodation
Workshop Registration and Ice Breaker
- 5:30pm Registration begins at Brydone Venue – Moeraki Room
- Hang posters in Moeraki Room
- 6-7pm Ice Breaker Reception
- 9pm Van leaves Brydone Hotel for Ascot Hotel
Wednesday, 14 November
Day 1 – Moeraki Room, Brydone Venue
- 8:30am Van pick-up at Ascot Hotel
- 9:00am Opening Remarks
- 9:15am Session 1 – Seismic Hazard Modelling I
- 10:30am Morning Tea
- 10:45am Session 2 – Seismic Hazard Modelling II
- 11:45am Session 3 – Networks and Monitoring
- 12:30pm Lunch
- 1:45pm Session 4 – Seismotectonics I
- 2:45pm Discussion Session I
- 3:45pm Afternoon Tea
- 4:00pm-5:30pm Poster Session I
- 7:00pm Dinner
- 9pm Van leaves Brydone Hotel for Ascot Hotel
Thursday, 15 November
Day 2 – Moeraki Room, Brydone Venue
- 8:30am Van pick-up at Ascot Hotel
- 9:00am Welcome Back
- 9:05am Session 5 – Site Response and Ground Motions I
- 10:15am Session 6 – Site Response and Ground Motions II
- 11:00am Morning Tea
- 11:15am Session 7 – Seismicity, Forecasting, Design, and Fragility
- 12:30pm Lunch
- 1:45pm Session 8 – Seismotectonics II
- 2:45pm Discussion Session II
- 3:45pm Afternoon Tea
- 4:00pm-5:30pm Poster Session II
- 7:00pm Dinner
- 9pm Van leaves Brydone Hotel for Ascot Hotel
Friday, 16 November
Day 3 – Moeraki Room, Brydone Venue
- 8:30am Van pick-up at Ascot Hotel
- 9:00am Welcome Back and Final Workshop Goals
- 9:10am Poster Session III
- 10:00am Session 9 – Seismic Hazard Modelling III
- 11:00am Morning Tea
- 11:15am Discussion III and Closing Remarks
- 12:00pm Workshop Ends
Central Otago Field Trip – Day 1
- 2:00pm Bus leaves Brydone Hotel
- 6:00pm Estimated arrival at Cromwell accomodation
Saturday, 17 November
Central Otago Field Trip – Day 2
- 9:00am Departure from accomodation for breakfast in Cromwell
- Cromwell Gorge Landslides
- Clyde Dam Lookout
- 12:00pm Lunch in Clyde
- 1:30pm Precarious rocks hike or alternate activity
- 6:00pm Estimated arrival at Cromwell accomodation
Sunday, 18 November
Central Otago Field Trip – Day 3
- 8:30am Departure from accomodation for breakfast in Cromwell
- Cardrona Fault
- 11:30am – 1:00pm Wanaka for lunch, souvenir shopping, and sight seeing
- Gold Workings Kawarau Gorge
- 4:00pm -5:00pm Queenstown Airport and City Stops
- End of Fieldtrip
Oral and Poster Presentations
In the interest of balancing our time between presentations and discussions, we have organised the workshop into 9 oral sessions with 2-3 talks each and time for discussion, 3 poster sessions, and 3 general discussion sessions.
- Oral presentations should be limited to 15 minutes inclusive of questions. Each session will have time for more questions and focused discussion after the oral presentations.
- Posters will be available for the duration of the workshop. There are no specified dimensions, but they should not exceed 1189mm x 1189mm (47in x 47in) in size. Note that A0 is 841mm x 1189mm.
Workshop objectives
The University of Otago and GNS Science hereby invite you and your colleagues to attend the 2018 chapter of our highly successful joint seismic hazard meetings. We have collectively held successful meetings every year since 2014, and this year we will return to Aotearoa, New Zealand. We will again share ideas and developments from our three countries, and foster the continued growth of our various collaborations. The following are suggested themes to address at this years’ meeting:
- New developments in earthquake source modelling for national seismic hazard models
- Modelling earthquake rates (and uncertainty) in low seismicity regions
- PSHA validation
- PSHA and earthquake engineering
We encourage input regarding the above themes and others.
Workshop details and deadlines
The meeting will be held on 14-16 November in Oamaru. Transportation will be provided by bus from the University of Canterbury, Christchurch (details to follow) to Oamaru on 13 November. During the meeting we expect to alternate between oral presentations and breakout discussion sessions.
For the workshop programme we encourage abstracts addressing the above topics (and more) from you. Abstracts should be no longer than one page (max 300 words). Key deadlines are as follows:
- Registration is closed (31/8/18)
- Hotel reservation: By 5pm NZST, 31 August 2018
- Abstract submission is closed (1/10/18)
Registration, hotel reservations, and abstract submission can be made through this website – just follow the links above. There is no workshop registration fee as the University of Otago and EQC will cover the cost of the venue as well as lunch and dinner throughout the workshop. Participants will be expected to pay for accommodation (in Oamaru and on the field trips) as well as field trip transportation and meal costs. Information regarding details and arrangements for the Kaikōura pre-workshop field trip and the central Otago post-workshop field trip are available at the links below.
Participants should plan to arrive in Christchurch by 10 November if they wish to attend the pre-workshop Kaikōura field trip, and leave from Queenstown on 18 November (late in the day) or later if you wish to attend the post-workshop central Otago field trip.
Transportation will be provided by bus from the University of Canterbury, Christchurch to Oamaru on 13 November.
Workshop field trips
The workshop will be followed by a two-day field trip to the central Otago reverse fault province led by Professor Mark Stirling. Here we will focus on observations pertaining to strong non-poissonian behaviour of some of the active faults, and will visit the site of the first-ever use of ancient fragile geologic features to evaluate a seismic hazard model for a major engineered facility (the Clyde Dam). We will also offer a pre-conference field trip to the ruptures produced by the Mw 7.8 2016 Kaikōura earthquake on 12-14 November, which will be led by Professor Andy Nicol of University of Canterbury.
Field trip weather is likely to be pleasantly warm by that time (18-25ºC), but we always plan for the possibility of “four seasons in one day” when doing fieldwork in New Zealand!
Workshop Venue Attractions
We will hold the meeting in the historical township of Oamaru, in the Otago province of New Zealand. Much of the region’s early history surrounds the discovery of gold in 1861, and the associated gold rush. Today Oamaru caters for the “new gold rush” of tourism. The town is an active fishing port, has a colony of rare endemic Little Blue Penguins, has a Victorian precinct in which buildings are constructed from “Oamaru stone” limestone, and is the home of the infamous Steam Punk museum.
- Where is Oamaru?
- Little Blue Penguins – Note that the penguins are coming on shore ~8:45pm this time of year
- Victorian Precinct
- Steam Punk Museum
Looking forward to welcoming you all to Oamaru!!
Mark Stirling, Matt Gerstenberger, Bill Fry, Andy Nicol, and Erin Todd
