[CEUS-earthquake-hazards] Joint National Earthquake Conference / EERI Annual Meeting: Registration now Open - Celebrate the New Year with an Early Bird Discount!

[Oliver Boyd]

National Earthquake Conference / EERI Annual Meeting: Registration now Open
-- Celebrate the New Year with an Early Bird Discount!
Online Registration is now OPEN at:
https://www.eeri.org/registration/am.php

Date: April 10-13, 2012
Location: Peabody Hotel, Memphis, Tennessee

If you register by January 15, the full registration fee is only $395.
Between January 15 and March 15, it increases to $495. After March 15, it
will be $550. Visit http://2012am.eeri.org/ for information about the
program, the hotel, and how to submit abstracts (deadline January 23) for
one of the poster sessions. With the theme of ³Learning from the Past to
Protect the Future,² the conference, a joint program with the National
Earthquake Conference, commemorates the 200th anniversary of the historic
series of strong earthquakes that struck the New Madrid seismic zone in late
1811 and early 1812. It will feature many lessons from recent and historic
earthquakes that are applicable to the practice of U.S. professionals. The
meeting is jointly hosted by EERI and the FEMA regional earthquake
consortia*, and will consist of both plenary and concurrent sessions to
ensure an abundance of offerings for engineers, scientists, emergency
managers, and policy makers. The following pre-conference programs will be
held April 10;
* ASCE Symposium on Seismic Hazard Design Issues in the Central U.S.
(full-day, $65 additional fee),
* New Madrid Earthquake Scenario Workshop (half-day, free), and
* URM Memphis South Main Street Demonstration Workshop (evening, free).
Additionally, Friday evening will feature a free tour of major facilities in
downtown Memphis that have been designed or retrofitted for earthquakes,
including the $25 million retrofit of the Memphis Pyramid. The tour will be
led by some of the area¹s top structural engineers and architects, followed
by a reception at the downtown University of Memphis Law Department
Building, two presentations, and a Q and A session. Maximum space: 45
participants. For hotel reservations at the group discount or government
rates, visit http://2012am.eeri.org/hotel

The meeting venue is the historic Italian Renaissance-style Peabody Hotel,
built in 1925 and designated as one of the top 10 grand hotels in the U.S.
by Christopher Reynolds of the Los Angeles Times. It's a short walk to the
live music of Beale Street and a short drive to Graceland and the National
Civil Rights Museum.

*The FEMA consortia consists of the Western States Seismic Policy Council
(WSSPC), the Central U.S. Earthquake Consortium (CUSEC), the Northeast
States Emergency Consortium (NESEC), and the Cascadia Region Earthquake
Workgroup (CREW).  
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