S5B: Post-Earthquake Reconnaissance Experiences of Graduate Students and Young Professionals

2021 EERI Annual Meeting:
Our students and young professionals are the future of our discipline. The opportunity to participate in post-earthquake reconnaissance is an exciting way for emerging earthquake professionals to connect their research project or design work to real world design issues and societal impacts. Furthermore, their participation serves as inspirational training for future missions and a life-long passion for earthquake engineering. In this session, graduate students and young professionals will provide an overview of their post-earthquake reconnaissance experience and findings, while also sharing their motivation in seeking out these opportunities.

The presentations will cover a wide variety of earthquakes around the world, with diverse topics in structural and geotechnical engineering, building instrumentation, healthcare infrastructure, and community resilience.