Welcome, everyone, to the Earthquake Science Center
Seminar Series for April 28th.
[audio cuts out] seminar is a little bit different than it normally is.
We have a selection of speakers that will be talking to us about experiences
that they had during the 2020 Puerto Rico earthquake sequence
and communicating seismic hazard with the public and building connections
that way. And so we’re looking forward to a lot of discussion with them and
amongst all of us about how we can improve our communication with
the public about seismic hazard. And this was inspired by an idea
from Andy Michael based on a session at GSA.
And so we think this will be a really good opportunity to just learn from
one another and improve our ability to communicate and learn how
we can do that better. So I’ll hand it over now to
Sara McBride, who will be introducing our speakers as they come up.
Sara is a Mendenhall fellow at the Earthquake Science Center and works
as a research social scientist and ShakeAlert social science research
coordinator at the Earthquake Science Center.
And so I think it’s great to have her here to participate in this panel
and moderate it to share her experiences in communicating
with the public as well. All right, so thank you, Sara.