[CEUS-earthquake-hazards] 2014 Earthquake Insight Field Trip - Mar 28-30 - Students, Faculty & Friends

[Phyllis Steckel]

Greetings, all.

Dr. Melissa Lenczewski, of Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, Ill.) and Phyllis Steckel, Earthquake Insight LLC (Washington, Mo.) are planning an Earthquake Insight Field Trip for students and faculty and friends.  This will be held on Friday through Sunday, March 28-30, 2014.  

The field-trip route includes natural and manmade features, historic sites, and engineered structures that show a basic overview of the earthquake hazards and earthquake risks in the central US.

It is planned that one college credit will be available through Northern Illinois University, although this will come at some additional cost and will require an additional research or reporting assignment.  PDHs or CEUs may also be available.  Please contact Melissa Lenczewski (geol468 at gmail.com [her NIU email address has been acting up lately, so use this one] or 815-753-7937)for more information for college credit or PDHs or CEUs.

It is planned that transportation will be via a large motor coach (not a school bus), equipped with a microphone and restroom.  Hotels, meals, and snacks are included. However, because lodging options are limited along the field-trip route, students and some others may be required to share hotel rooms.  Details are in progress.

The final cost for each participant is not yet nailed down, but it is planned that this field trip will cost about $350 per person (or $300 for students).  Details are in progress.

WHAT WILL WE SEE?

The field trip will begin about 4:00 pm on Friday, March 28, in Cahokia, Ill., at a structure built in 1779 and which survived the 1811-12 New Madrid earthquakes (it has been in continuous use since then).  After supper, we will have a presentation that will set the stage for what we’ll see the next two days.  We will spend Friday night in Chester, Ill.

On Saturday, March 29, we will present the earthquake history of Ste. Genevieve, Mo., and Kaskaskia, Ill.; visit a possible lateral-spread head-scarp feature near Advance, Mo., in the Advance Lowlands; see and discuss the Little River Drainage District engineering project, the Commerce fault, aeolian features, and 1811-12 liquefaction features in the Mississippi Embayment; and a visit New Madrid, Mo., to see retrofit structures, critical infrastructure, industrial facilities, and to soak up the ‘earthquake ambiance’ of that place.  After a BBQ supper, we will spend Saturday night in Dyersburg, Tenn. 

On Sunday, March 30, we will visit Reelfoot Lake, a feature created during the 1811-12 New Madrid earthquakes; visit an ongoing landslide remediation and repair in Hickman, Ky.; see landslide topography from the 1811-12 New Madrid earthquakes that was ‘re-purposed’ as Civil War trenches; and an extensive engineered levee system that surrounds Cairo, Ill.  The group will dismiss in late afternoon.

WHO IS GOING?

Students from geoscience, emergency management, engineering, public policy, education, and other disciplines are welcome.  Non-students are absolutely welcome, too.  Let’s fill this bus!

If you are interested, please contact Melissa Lenczewski (geol468 at gmail.com [her NIU email address has been acting up lately, so use this one] or 815-753-7937) or me, Phyllis Steckel (psteckel at charter.net or 636-239-4013) as soon as possible.  This event is less than three months away, and, in order to pull this off, a lot of details need to come together in a very short time.

If you want to participate, please make yourself known as soon as possible.  If there are not enough folks who sign up, this field trip will be cancelled.

Please feel free to pass this email on to others you know who may be interested.  Word-of-mouth advertising is often most effective.  Thank you!

Hope you can join us!

Cheers,

Earthquake Insight LLC
Phyllis J. Steckel, RG
PO Box 2002
Washington, MO 63090
636-239-4013
psteckel at charter.net

"Minimizing earthquake risk is a funny business. The payoff may not come for a long time -- and then it will be in terms of what did not happen."
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