So thanks, everybody. We’re really delighted to have
this exciting meeting. We hope it’s exciting and interesting
and stimulating and humorous and enjoyable. You’ll see this slide that
John is about to show several times during the meeting.
We have an organizing group of seven people, plus John –
John is our tech guru.
And if you have any questions during the meeting, feel free to
reach out to any of us. If it’s a tech question,
probably better to reach out to John.
You can do that via – can you go back one slide, John?
Probably better to, for tech questions, reach out to John or even use the chat.
And there we go. And we wanted to make sure we got this message up here,
and you’ll see this a few times through the meeting.
We really want to make sure that this meeting is enjoyable for everyone
involved, that we treat each other with respect and behave with integrity.
And, if you’re not experiencing that with this meeting,
please let one of the organizers know.
Okay, next, John.
Huh. So some of you may remember this from last year.
It was Groundhog Day during our meeting, and I suggested that everyone
wear pants just to make sure that we didn’t have any TikTok moments.
Next, John.
But this year, we’re two years into the pandemic, and you can
wear whatever you feel like wearing. I don’t care.
Maybe think about whether or not you turn your camera on.
And I thought I’d let you know that tomorrow is the 222nd anniversary of
the great 1700 Cascadia earthquake. And we’ll have a session about
Cascadia and northern California – I forget if it’s Wednesday afternoon
or Thursday morning, but during this meeting.
Next, John, thanks.
And I want to remind everybody about our external grants opportunities.
I am, right now, revising the prospectus that will go out
with that request for proposals. My job is to revise the part of
the prospectus dealing with northern California.
And I have to submit that tomorrow, or Friday, rather – one day after
the end of this meeting. So the point of this meeting,
or one of the things that I get out of this meeting is suggestions for topics
to include in that prospectus. And the announcement for submission
of grants will go out in mid-March. And, for those of you who aren’t aware,
everyone who gets a grant from the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program is
required to submit a final technical report, and those end up on our website,
and those are great sources of information.
I encourage you to go peruse. You can search by region or author.
I often go in there and search for northern California-related reports.
And then the next slide, John.
And, again, a reminder that we should be respectful of everyone
in this meeting. And, if you feel that that is
not happening, please let one of the organizers know.
And, with that, welcome to the meeting. I hope everyone enjoys it
as much as I’m hoping to enjoy it. And I’ll past this over to Sarah.
- Hello. I’m Sarah Minson. I am one of the organizers of
the workshop, along with everyone that Keith introduced.
And I just wanted to give you a quick overview of how
the workshop is going to work.
We have a number of really exciting sessions of all presentations
with great moderators. And what’s going to happen
is the talks have been pre-recorded. While the video of each talk is playing,
the speakers will be in the chat, and we encourage you to live chat
with the speakers during their talk for clarification or general questions
or just whatever you want. Just get in there and have a good time.
And then, after we show all the talks in the session, we will
open things up for a live Q-and-A. In addition to our regularly scheduled
full-length talks, we will have an afternoon of short talks.
And every single day, we will have a poster session.
And you might be wondering, how do we do posters virtually?
Don’t worry about it. We will have a tutorial
on how the poster session will work at the beginning of
the first poster session at 2:30 p.m. today.
And, to explain how Zoom works and how you can chat with everyone
during the talks and how everything is going to work,
I give you our wonderful master of technology, John Grindle.
- Hi, everybody. Thank you, Sarah.
So I was fortunate enough to be here last year, and I’m here again.
We’re going to start off with a real quick Zoom tutorial
just so that we’re all on the same page.
And then I will go over some ground rules, and then we’ll
get everything started, and we’ll go through the talks.
Here we go real quickly. Let’s see if we’ve got this going right.
[background music] And I like to have music on
everything that we do, so hopefully you will be happy with this.
And we’ll go through this real quickly.
If you are a Zoom expert, you’re going to know all this already,
so feel free to just sing and dance. If you’re not, here we go with
a real quick Zoom tutorial. If you’re on your computer,
down on the bottom left, that’s where you will see the mute and unmute
buttons, your chat, participants, and all the other buttons that we’ll use.
If you don’t see the control button,
you just need to hover down to the bottom of your screen.
And, on the left, you can see mute and unmute and share your videos.
For our speakers, if you ever see a button that looks like this,
that means we can’t hear you. You’re going to hit that big blue button,
and you’re going to pretend like nothing ever happened,
and then we’ll be able to hear you.
If you want to see the participants, you click the Participants button,
and that will show you a list of all of the people here.
You can also sort that – or, search that participants panel up in the top right
by just typing in somebody’s name. We use the chat feature for our questions.
So feel free to test out chat right now.
If you want to send a message to an individual, you can choose a
person’s name down in the bottom right. Or you can send it to everyone.
When you’re asking questions, we recommended you ask the question
to our speakers but share it with everybody publicly.
And then also you can raise your hand or share reactions to the speakers
by clicking the reactions button. This is how you’ll raise your hand and
lower your hand when we get to that at the QA sessions after the talks are given.
A couple other things. If you want to rename yourself,
you can hover over your own image. Three little dots will appear,
and then you can choose Rename to rename yourself.
If you come in as iPhone 7, you can rename yourself to your full name.
If you want to include your institution, you can do that as well.
You can also do this through the Participants window up in the top right.
Finally, if you are – when we’re sharing our screen, you can
have different view options. If you want to choose gallery view
to see other people’s faces, you can do that.
And there’s a vertical divider that comes down in the middle.
If you want to drag that to the left, you can minimize the presentation
so you can see more people.
If you are on a phone or a tablet, same general idea, slightly different process.
Down on the bottom left, that is where you mute and unmute
yourself and share your video. If you want to rename yourself,
you click Participants first, then choose your name and click Rename.
And then, to send a chat message, you need to click the three little dots
to the right. That is the More button, and then you choose chat,
and you can see that you can also do your reactions and
raise and lower your hand from there.
If you don’t see the control panel, you just need to touch the screen, and it’ll
appear. And, on some devices, it will be at the top instead of on the bottom.
And finally, Keith already mentioned this, but the USGS strives to provide
a diverse, inclusive, and respectful environment because it is essential
to the integrity of our organization and our science.
If anything fails to exemplify these ideals, please alert an organizer
for immediate assistance. And, that being said,
and with that in mind, there are a few ground rules today.
First, keep yourself on mute for most of it unless you are asked to unmute.
Chat – we’re going to use chat to ask questions directly to our speakers.
The speakers will be speaking through a recorded talk and then diligently
answering as many questions as they can.
[music stops] And obviously, we want to stay positive and be nice
in any other comments that we make.
[background music] At the Q-and-A session at the end,
if you would like to ask a question verbally, you can raise your hand.
We definitely encourage you to share your video while you’re speaking
if you can, and if you want to put your full name and institution on there,
that would be fantastic. One more quick thank-you
to our organizers, Sarah, Keith, Shane, Susan, Josie, Belle, and David.
And, if you need any help today, I’m your guy.
You can send me a chat message to NCEHW Help.
That’s what I named myself just so you could find it. My name is John.
If you have big problems, you can email Shane or me, and hopefully
we will get you set up there. And hopefully that wasn’t too bad.
Extra credit if anybody knows where this picture was taken,
when it was taken, who’s in the picture, or who took the photo.
Anybody know? I don’t know. We’ll see if you do.
And finally, we are now ready to get started,
so I’m going to turn it back over to Keith so you can introduce our
moderators, and we’ll go from there. [music stops]
- Thanks for that excellent introduction, John.
And I neglected to thank the organizers. Sarah Minson is the lead organizer.
She deserves a huge round of applause for herding cats and keeping us all
in line and getting us to this point. So thanks very much, Sarah.
We really appreciate it.
And everyone else on that list of organizers also worked really hard,
but Sarah was our glue. Thank you.
So our first session is going – the moderators for the first session
are Anne Wein and Daniel Homsey. Anne is from the USGS,
and Daniel is director of the Neighborhood Empowerment Network
for the city administrator’s office of the city and county of San Francisco.
We’re a little bit early, but I think we should just dive right into
the first session and let Anne and Daniel get us going.
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