Specific Goals for the Workshop

· Area to be included in the PNW region: All parts of the US must end up within a region, but the USGS is pretty much leaving the local participants to decide the boundaries of each region. At this point the PNW region will not include California (they are setting up their own region), but there are no other constraints on its coverage. The workshop should result in a procedure for finalizing the regions extent and boundaries.

· Earthquake information products development: Earthquake information includes both information derived directly from network operation and more general or research results. Information services beyond those provided by network processing include assistance for education and awareness, policy development, planning and design, disaster preparedness and mitigation, and risk management. This all requires resources and structure appropriate to the needs of the newly defined, geographically varied, region and the diversity of client groups. The workshop should result in a plan to develop expanded earthquake information services capabilities in the region.

· Development of a regional (steering) subcommittee: In addition to a national level of management for the ANSS as a whole, each region should have a steering or oversight committee to help define the regional goals and priorities and to provide oversight for the operators of the seismic system. The workshop should result in a procedure for setting up such a steering committee which must have strong representation from the user community.

· Seismograph operators to become part of the region: Strongly coupled to the area to be included in the PNW region is the question of which of the existing network operators will participate. Given that some current network operations are supported by sources other than the USGS and may have responsibilities different from those of the ANSS, how do we produce a compatible, efficient, coordinated effort which appears to be effectively "one network" from most user's point of view. The workshop should result in a stated commitment of existing network operators wishing to be part of the PNW region to cooperatively participate in its management and implementation. Those operators not yet decided in which region to reside should propose a strategy for making that decision.

· Management structure for developing and implementing the ANSS plan: The ANSS plan calls for a "Regional Coordinator" or small "Working Group" to be responsible for developing and implementing the ANSS in the region, with direction from the national level and help from the "Regional Subcommittee". In addition, national level "functional" subcommittees to address common issues of standards for instruments, siting, communications, products, etc must be populated. The workshop should result in a procedure for identifying individuals for these roles and how their selection might be made.

Pacific Northwest Region - Schedule

June 15, Morning - PNW region

8:30am Welcome - Gennie Thompson, Bank of America
Workshop goals and schedule - Steve Malone, Univ. of Washington
8:45am History and Status of the ANSS - Harley Benz, U.S. Geological Survey
9:45am Coffee break
10:00am Regional organization in Inter-mountain region - Walter Arabasz, Univ. of Utah
10:15am Position of Nevada, between California and Inter-mountain - John Anderson, UNR
10:30am Regional organizations in Alaska - Roger Hanson, Univ. of Alaska
10:45am Canadian networks and relationship to ANSS - Gary Rogers, PGC
11:00am Discussion of PNW region and organizational considerations - Steve Malone
11:30am Lunch break (before noon to beat the crowds) Have lunch with members of your
discussion group and choose someone for afternoon presentation.

June 15, Afternoon - End-user needs

1:00pm Introduction of information products motivation for ANSS - Craig Weaver, USGS
1:15pm Review of current PNSN basic products and services - Bill Steele, PNSN
1:30pm Other public sources of relevant earthquake information (group P)
1:45pm Needs of the emergency management community (group R)
2:00pm Needs of the earthquake engineering community (group E)
2:15pm Needs of utilities and transportation (group L)
2:30pm Needs of commercial and manufacturing (group C)
2:45pm Coffee Break
3:00pm Summary and discussion of information services - Craig Weaver
3:30pm Structure of regional steering committee and end-user participation -
4:30pm adjourn

June 16, Morning - Current Network Operators Summary

8:30am Overview and US National Seismograph Network - Harley Benz, USGS
8:50am National Strong Motion Program - Bill Joyner, USGS
9:00am IRIS and USArray networks - Tim Ahern, IRIS
9:10am Western Canadian Seismic Network - Gary Rogers, Pacific Geoscience Centre
9:20am Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network - Steve Malone, PNSN
9:30am Eastern Washington Seismic Network - Al Rohay, Battelle Northwest
9:40am University of Oregon operations - Doug Toomey, Univ of Oregon
9:50am Oregon State Operations - John Nabelek, Oregon State University
10:00am Cascade Volcano Observatory operations - Elliot Endo, CVO
10:10am Peripheral networks - Idaho, Montana - Jim Zollweg, Mike Stickney
10:30am Coffee Break
10:45am Discussions of "Urban Networks" - Carl Stepp
11:00am Revisit regional coverage and current networks to be included
11:30am Lunch

June 16, Afternoon - Regional Management Structure

12:30pm Review of National Management Structure and Implementation - Harley Benz
1:00pm Discussion of participants in, and management of, the PNW region
2:00pm Establish procedure for implementation of ANSS in PNW
3:00pm Wrap-up and summary
3:30pm Adjourn

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