<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div><div><div><span style="color: rgb(23, 23, 23); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; background-color: white;">Please join us for</span></div></div></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><br></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">From the Mantle to the Surface:<br><i>A Joint Meeting of the </i></span><b><i><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(0, 80, 90); border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Eastern Section of SSA</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(23, 23, 23); border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"> and </span></i><b><i><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(0, 80, 90); border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">NGA-East</span></u></i></b><b><span style="font-size: 24pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(23, 23, 23);"> </span><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(23, 23, 23);">23–26 October 2016<br>Reston, Virginia, USA<br>Sheraton Hotel</span><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">The meeting will take place in Reston, Virginia, which is minutes from Dulles Airport and has easy access to Washington DC. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; background-color: white;">Activities include:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; background-color: white;">-A field trip on October 23 that will provide an overview of Washington, DC, geology and its effect on ground motions in the city, as well as visits to the Washington Monument and National Cathedral to discuss the damage from the 2011 earthquake and the repairs to those structures.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; background-color: white;">-A special session on the regional geologic setting of the 2011 earthquake, as well as sessions featuring presentations on topics ranging from insights derived from USArray to the latest on NGA-East, the central and eastern United States ground motion characterization project. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; background-color: white;">-A Monday night banquet dinner with featured speaker Terrence Paret, Senior Principal at Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc., who helped oversee repairs to several major building in the Washington DC area following the 2011 earthquake, as well as other projects worldwide.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; background-color: white;">-A special NGA-East session at which the project team will summarize the model building process and discuss the products. This will be followed by discussions of research needs for the CEUS.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(23, 23, 23);"> </span><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i><u><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: red;">Important Upcoming Dates</span></u></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt; color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(23, 23, 23);">Student Travel Grant Application Deadline: 26 August 2016</span></i></b><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(23, 23, 23);">Hotel Room Block Reservation Cutoff: 2 September 2016</span></i></b><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(23, 23, 23);">Abstract Submission Deadline: 2 September 2016</span></i></b><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(23, 23, 23);">Online Discount Registration Deadline: 23 September 2016</span></i><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(23, 23, 23);">Final Online Registration Deadline: 21 October 2016</span></i><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(23, 23, 23);"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(23, 23, 23);">For more information and to register and submit abstracts, please visit</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="http://www.seismosoc.org/meetings/ssa2016/es/">http://www.seismosoc.org/meetings/ssa2016/es/</a></span></u><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(23, 23, 23);"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(23, 23, 23);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri; background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><font color="#171717">or contact the program chair</font>s </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Thomas Pratt, Oliver Boyd, and Christine Goulet (<a href="mailto:easternsectionmeeting@seismosoc.org">easternsectionmeeting@seismosoc.org</a>)</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.</span></p></div><div><div></div></div></div></span></body></html>