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Board Transitions The COSMOS Board has undergone major changes in 2018. John Parrish has resigned from the board. He will be replaced by a representative from CGS. Due to health concerns, Jim Agnew has resigned from COSMOS Secretary and that position is up for election. Jim will continue to serve on the board as an ex officio member. Ruben Boroschek is up for reelection this year. Members, please look for the COSMOS board member election and bylaws changes coming soon.

Staff Changes Annie Kammerer is the new Executive Director as of July 2017. Also joining

COSMOS staff is Jacie Coleman our new Administrative Director.

Annie and Jacie have laid out an ambitious program to modernize and expand our operations, as well as to update our

outward face and communications. Plans include updating our web and social media presence, revisiting our mission statement and focus, and expanding our outreach to international organizations. Read more details in the Executive Director’s report on page 6.

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Contents

Board update (1) Staff news (1) Annual meeting agenda (2) Recognition of 2018 sponsors and members (3-4) President’s report (5) Executive Director’s report (6-8) Bruce Bolt Medal (9) COSMOS Converter Tool & CESMD New Developments (10) Interface for the US Community Vs Profile Database (11) Noninvasive Site Characterization Guidelines (12-14) 2017 Financial statement (15)

Board of Directors

W.D. Iwan (President) Jon Heintz (Vice-President) Jim Agnew (Secretary) Donald Wells (Treasurer) Jamie Steidl Ruben Boroschek C.B. Crouse Marcia McLaren Robert Nigbor John Parrish Woody Savage Alan Yong

COSMOS 2018 A summary of the latest news and happenings

Contact us Annie Kammerer

Executive Director

Jacie Coleman Administrative Director

(415) 766-0665 (877) 495-3455

cosmos@strongmotion.org

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Annual Meeting Agenda 12:30 pm – Call Meeting to Order Annie Kammerer

Adoption of 2017 Minutes Jim Agnew

President’s Report Bob Nigbor

• 2018-2019 Board Officers • Other Recent Developments

Treasurer’s Report on COSMOS Finances Donald Wells

Bruce Bolt Medal Nomination Process

Other Business

Adjournment

COSMOS Individual Memberships Did you know you can support COSMOS as an individual member? Regular memberships are $50 a year and student memberships are just $10. Our individual members are an important and foundational part of our organization. If you are already a member, thank you! If not, we’d love to have you join us.

To join COSMOS as an individual member, just login to (or setup) your account on our member portal at www.strongmotion.org. Once logged in, go to the dropdown menu and choose “My Membership”.

Visit www.strongmotion.org to renew your membership for 2019.

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Committees

Technical Session Organization Committee Norman Abrahamson (Chair) Christine Goulet (Co-chair) Silvia Mazzoni CB Crouse Nick Gregor Annie Kammerer Nico Luco Debra Murphy

Tools Committee CB Crouse (Chair) Hamid Haddadi Silvia Mazzoni Jamie Steidl Chris Stephens

International Committee Jamie Steidl (Chair) Alan Yong Annie Kammerer

Nominations Committee Jon Heintz (Chair) Annie Kammerer Robert Nigbor Marcia McLaren Ruben Boroschek Woody Savage Alan Yong

Students!

FEMA is funding new student COSMOS memberships for

2019.

To register use the coupon code FEMA2019.

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2018 COSMOS Organizational Sponsors

2018 COSMOS Project Sponsors

2018 COSMOS Technical Session Sponsors

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2018 COSMOS Individual Members

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C.B. Crouse

W.D. Iwan

Norm Abrahamson

J Carl Stepp

Annie Kammerer

John Thornley

Faiz Makdisi

Neal Kwong

Christine Goulet

Robert Mitchell

S Ali Bastani

Stephen Nelson

Marcia McLaren

Josh Gebelein

Glenda Besana-Ostman

Robert Bachman

Jamison Steidl

John Parrish

Jon Heintz

Doug Lindquist

John Egan

Ruben Boroschek

Martin Walker

Jongwon Lee

Ali Shahbazian

Negar Nazario

Donald Wells

Brian Skyers

Victor Langhaar

Izzat Idriss

Reza Mortezale

Arash Zandieh

Lucie Fougner

James Bela

William Perkins

Ali Roufeharinejad

Robert Nigbor

Jacie S. Coleman

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2018 President’s Report - By W. D. Iwan

We continue to experience damaging earthquakes throughout much of the world, and each new quake raises renewed concerns about the ability of the built environment to withstand the effects of strong ground shaking. Strong earthquakes have had significant impacts on both people and institutions around the globe. Efforts are being made to minimize these impacts through better disaster planning and management, improved construction practice, and early warning systems. However, these efforts cannot fully succeed without a more thorough understanding of the ground motions that are generated by earthquakes.

COSMOS is dedicated to enhancing this understanding by advocating the establishment of strong-motion measurement systems, promoting development and adoption of verifiable, internationally-ranked standards for the acquisition and processing of earthquake strong-motion measurements, and promoting the global application of strong-motion measurements by design professionals.

Key participants in COSMOS include the major earthquake monitoring and archiving organizations in the United States, and in some foreign countries. COSMOS has developed standards and guidelines for the selection of strong-motion instruments, and procedures for the deployment of instruments and the analysis of strong-motion data. COSMOS also provides leadership in the archiving of strong-motion data and making this data accessible globally.

COSMOS continues to promote the expansion of its international base and to organize strong-motion forums at international conferences. We desire to work with any organization to provide an open and easily accessible archive of worldwide strong-motion data and to refine the procedures used in the selection and deployment of strong-motion instruments. Our staff will assist in these efforts..

I would like to thank our Executive Director, Annie Kammerer, and Administrative Director, Jacie Coleman who have provided outstanding leadership this past year.

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2018 Executive Director’s Report - By Annie Kammerer

I’d also like to say how excited I am to have this opportunity to work with the Board, our sponsors and members, and our many other constituents and stakeholders to modernize and grow COSMOS moving forward.

Over the years, COSMOS has matured into an effective organization that has met the needs of its membership and stakeholders. This has been a result of the many dedicated people involved with the organization, particularly its Staff, Board and Committee members. It is important that the organization remain healthy and continues to stay true to its core objectives of using earth science data to improve seismic safety. However, this time of transition of the organization offers an opportunity to reconsider and redefine COSMOS’s mission, to review its managerial processes, and refresh the outward appearance of the organization.

After review and consideration, and with the support of the Board, there are three areas that Jacie and I are focusing on in the short term to transition the organization. Each area is discussed in the sections below. These focus areas are:

• Moving the organizational (day to day) management to cloud-based tools and approaches • Updating the outward face of COSMOS and modernizing the modes of communication • Growing membership domestically and internationally

Cloud-Based Organizational Management

In the last decade, and particularly in the last 5 years, organizations (including my own consulting firm) have increasingly moved to cloud-based management systems and the available tools available have increased in number, quality, and variety. Cloud-based management approaches and tools have a number of advantages over traditional physical spaces based approaches, particularly for an organization like COSMOS. These benefits include:

• Effective workflows can easily be developed for geographically distributed staff, board, and committee members

• Organizations no longer require a physical space to function • Organizations no longer own hardware and software that needs to be maintained and replaced • Software costs are limited to that which the organization needs at any point in time and software is

automatically updated and maintained by vendors rather than the organization • Information is more readily available to staff, board and committee members, and it is more up-to-date

at any point in time • Automation can be employed to support organizational efficiency • There is far more flexibility in terms of finding, hiring, and integrating support staff • Staff can be hired on an hourly basis, which allows more flexibility for both staff and the organization • The entire organization can be securely backed up on a daily basis

Over the last year, Jacie and I have implemented two big (and many small) changes to take COSMOS to the cloud.

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First, we have transitioned to the G-Suite platform. G-suite is Google’s scalable business ecosystem, which is very well suited to small businesses and non-profits like COSMOS. You may have noticed our new emails at strongmotion.org.

We have also implemented NeonCRM a constituent relationship management (CRM) software provides a number of capabilities to automate many of the functions that up until July were performed by Claire by hand. Neon is developed for nonprofits and is able to handle all of our various member/sponsor interfaces and also to manage events like the Technical Session. Ultimately, Neon will really help COSMOS to improve communications with constituents and will provide a much better member experience.

Brand and Communication Modernization As COSMOS transitions, this is a great time to update the outward face that COSMOS presents to the world. We are undertaking a fairly complete rebranding including, a new logo, colors and website. We will also be adding a social media presence and a website-based blog.

Membership Growth Although the membership and sponsors of COSMOS have changed some over the years, the organization generally has a committed set of core stakeholders. We would like to expand on the existing base and focus on expanding the member and sponsor base both in the US and internationally. In several ways, the need for a new CRM system and updated branding is motivated by the growth-focused activities we have in mind. The development of a website-based blog to keep stakeholders engaged is important for long-term outreach as well.

Once the updates are made to the website and CRM, we’ll start by reaching out to people who have let their membership lapse, to people who have attended technical sessions in the past, and to international organizations with strong motion systems or with similar objectives to COSMOS.

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Vision and Modernization - By Annie Kammerer and Jacie Coleman

External Changes

Our new website launched in 2018. Visit www.strongmotion.org.

Our new member portal, which was initiated in 2017, has been integrated into

the new website for a seamless stakeholder experience.

The mission statement and organizational focus will be

updated to reflect expanded role of COSMOS in the standardization

and use of a broader range of earth science data important to

seismic hazard evaluation.

COSMOS will be taking on a much more global focus, both in terms of considering projects that are more global in reach and and in reaching out to potential partners,

sponsors and participants around the globe.

COSMOS will expand by taking on a broader range of projects related to earth science data. COSMOS will

continue to play a critical role in the hosting, standardization and meaningful use of strong motion records as a core competency.

Internal Changes

Organizational systems have been moved to the cloud for greater efficiency and

organizational resilience.

Updates to mission statement, bylaws, policies, and organizational

procedures.

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2018 Bruce Bolt Medal

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Jonathan P. Stewart, professor and chair of the civil and environmental engineering department at University of California, Los Angeles, was chosen as the 2018 recipient of the Bruce A. Bolt Medal, which is awarded jointly by the Seismological Society of America (SSA), the Consortium of Organizations for Strong-Motion Observation Systems (COSMOS) and the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI).

The Bolt Medal is awarded to recognize individuals worldwide whose accomplishments involve the promotion and use of

strong-motion earthquake data and whose leadership in the transfer of scientific and engineering knowledge into practice or policy has led to improved seismic safety.

Stewart has made a number of significant contributions to earthquake engineering. His work on soil-structure interaction has resulted in empirically validated models for kinematic and inertial interaction effects on foundations and walls. His work on soil amplification has clarified the roles of linear and nonlinear response, the factors that affect them and uncertainty in site response estimates. His nonlinear amplification models have been incorporated into contemporary ground motion prediction equations and form the basis for how site effects are handled in current practice. He recognized seismic compression of fills and unsaturated soils as an important problem and developed procedures for estimating earthquake-induced settlement of such materials.

He has been an active participant in numerous post-earthquake field reconnaissance investigations, and has followed up on those investigations with research aimed at understanding observed performance of soil profiles, embankments and levees and soil-structure systems in the U.S., Italy, Greece, Turkey, Taiwan and Japan. He conceived of and is currently leading the development of the Next Generation Liquefaction (NGL) project, a major effort that will finally harmonize the data and model development process by which soil liquefaction hazard evaluation procedures are developed.

Stewart has put a great deal of effort into transferring the results of his research and the research of others into engineering practice. In addition to publishing clear and practical papers in the technical literature, he has been active in study groups and code committees. He has taken the lead in writing major reports on ground motion evaluation for performance-based design, analysis and mitigation of landslide hazards, performance of nonlinear site response analysis, performance- based design of tall buildings, soil-structure interaction for buildings and performance of hazard-consistent, one-dimensional ground response analysis. These reports are noteworthy for their combination of academic rigor and practical utility. He has served on and led code committees developing new site coefficients, nonlinear analysis procedures and seismic hazard maps for the United States.

Stewart is the current editor of Earthquake Spectra and former Chief Editor for the ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering. Previously, he was selected by SSA and EERI to deliver the 2016 William B. Joyner Lecture in recognition of his work on the characterization of earthquake ground motions for engineering applications, with special emphasis on site response effects. Past recognition of Dr. Stewart’s work has included the Huber Prize and Casagrande Awards from the American Society of Civil Engineers, a Fulbright Scholarship from the U.S. State Department, a National Science Foundation

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Updates on COSMOS Converter Tool and CESMD New Developments By Hamid Haddadi and Chris Stephens

The Consortium of Organizations for Strong Motion Observation Systems (COSMOS) promotes collaboration among programs and institutions to improve strong-motion measurements, to solve mutual problems with instrumentation and data, and to assist in strong-motion data dissemination.

The Center for Engineering Strong Motion Data (CESMD) works closely with the Consortium of Organizations for Strong Motion Observation Systems (COSMOS) to engage with the strong-motion networks to receive, process and post records. CESMD has recently added strong-motion records from important earthquakes in the U.S. and other regions. More detailed information about the earthquakes and seismic stations, such as faulting type, Vs30 and site class, have been added to the CESMD database, and strong-motion data are searchable by these newly added parameters. Low amplitude and small magnitude earthquake records of recent earthquakes in California are now uploaded to the CESMD database and are searchable through the CESMD web portal. Such records used to be posted at the CESMD ftp before and were not searchable.

Recent activities at the CESMD include: extending the automatic posting of strong-motion records from only California to all the Advanced National Seismic System (ANSS) regional networks with the goal of posting strong-motion records of all ANSS seismic regions at the CESMD within a few minutes after an earthquake occurs, and developing web services to facilitate downloading earthquakes, seismic stations, and records data.

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Web Interface Development for the US Community Vs Profile Database

The United States Community Shear-Wave Velocity (VS) Profile Database (PDB) project is a multi-institutional effort with the goal of creating an open-access repository of VS profiles, a critical site attribute used in modeling of  seismic site response, ground failure prediction, and other applications. No such resource currently exists in the public domain in the U.S., so this project fills a substantial practical need that will benefit practicing engineers and researchers. Over 5000 VS profiles are anticipated to be incorporated into the database,  with over 1800 already digitized and accessible. A majority of the data is from California, however data from the Pacific Northwest and central and eastern U.S. are already in hand. Data sources include federal government reports from the U.S. Geological Survey and Nuclear Regulatory Commission, various state agencies such as geological surveys, departments of transportation and water resources, reports from universities and research institutions, private industry, and utility companies. Data collection is ongoing, and the database has an ability to expand as new data is acquired or contributed.

The PDB project is currently funded to a limited extent by the USGS External Grants Program. This funding covers collecting and digitizing VS profile data for California and compiling the data in JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) files, a file format convenient for transferring and organizing hierarchical data.  A web interface tool has been created to facilitate public access and use of the database, leveraging lessons learned from database development for the Next-Generation Liquefaction (NGL) project. The tool’s interface includes GIS map-based markers for each site of interest containing VS profiles at individual locations; these markers can be expanded to show site data and metadata. Geophysical and geotechnical data are included at each site as available, which can be plotted using online data visualization functions within the web tool. The project utilizes a structured query language (SQL) relational database, which allows for object-oriented computing. The SQL database is easily accessible for efficient cloud-based computing, data visualization, and transfer. The web infrastructure is being developed to also provide security to objects stored in the PBD.

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS: Jonathan P. Stewart, UCLA

SPONSORS: USGS Earthquake Hazards Program under Grant No. G17AP00018; a consortium of COSMOS, Southern California Edison, and Pacific Gas & Electric provided a supplementary grant to develop the web interface. Funding for in-person community VS PDB project planning workshops in May 2015 and June 2017 were provided by the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research (PEER) Center, The B. John Garrick Risk Institute at UCLA, and BC Hydro.

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Noninvasive Site Characterization Guidelines

The following are updates and announcements about the activities of the development of the COSMOS International Guidelines on Applying Noninvasive Geophysical Methods for Characterizing Seismic Site Conditions.

2016-2017 Activities 2016 Seismological Society of America Annual Meeting, Reno, Nevada, U.S.A.

2016 35th European Seismological Commission General Assembly, Trieste, Italy

2016 American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.

2017 16th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Santiago, Chile

2017 Seismological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.

By 2017, COSMOS has participated in the 2017 16th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (16thWCEE) in Santiago, Chile, by hosting a COSMOS Guidelines Workshop and convening a WCEE special session on “Advances on Noninvasive Approaches to Characterizing Seismic Site Conditions”. Due to time and space constraints, our WCEE COSMOS Guidelines Workshop shared a two-hour time limit with participants of the COSMOS/IAEE Joint International Strong Motion Committee, chaired by Jamison Steidl. With the exception of a few unoccupied seats, the nearly 50 in-person attendees participated in the one hour guidelines related workshop held in the Farallones II Room of Casa Piedra (same venue as WCEE), Santiago, Chile. Internet-based participation was not available.

COSMOS Guidelines Chair Alan Yong provided opening remarks, reviewed previous developments (special sessions and workshops), and gave closing remarks.

The COSMOS/WCEE Guidelines Workshop closely resembled the previous COSMOS 2016 35th European Seismological Commission General Assembly (35thESC-GA) Workshop. The range of topics discussed during the COSMOS/16thWCEE Workshop open session was similar to the short list of concerns from previous debates focused primarily on the intended user(s) and cookbook nature of the Guidelines. As at the COSMOS/35thESC-GA Workshop (Trieste, Italy), nearly half of the in person attendees were first time participants of a COSMOS Guidelines Workshop. The COSMOS/WCEE Guidelines Workshop is the fourth and last in this series of open Workshops. Subsequent participant-invited workshops will focus on the development of drafts of the Guidelines and related matters (see 2018 COSMOS/36thESC-GA Workshop).

As the 2017 COSMOS/16thWCEE Guidelines Workshop effectively yielded the same results as the earlier 2016 COSMOS/35thESC-GA Workshop—but with input from different participants—the outlook for next steps remained unchanged at this time. In 2017, Alan Yong and the method-based subcommittees have agreed to continue to make progress with drafts of the index of abbreviations and of the sections for the Multichannel Analysis of Surface Wave (1-D Rayleigh-wave based MASW) method, which are intended as templates for other authors to follow for the respective methods as described in the Table of Contents document. The Facilitation Committee also was tasked to continue to establish subcommittees representing the sections described in the Table of Contents.

Additionally, a number of papers were presented at the 16thWCEE special session “Advances in Noninvasive Approaches to Characterizing Seismic Site Conditions”. The special session was the third and final gathering developed to present the state-of-the-art and -knowledge on noninvasive approaches.

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Previous sessions were held at the 2016 Seismological Society of America (SSA) Annual Meeting in Reno, Nevada, and at the 35thESC-GA, where the COSMOS-sponsored gathering was a joint SSA-ESC special session. Nine of the aforementioned papers describe geophysical site characterization methods and are considered materials (proto-chapters) for the methods that will be included in the Guidelines document.

In 2017, Alan Yong also presented an invited talk at the “Geophysical Applications in Integrated Site Characterization” special session of the 2017 SSA Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado, titled: “Measurement- and prox-based Vs30 estimates.” The SSA special session was convened by COSMOS Guidelines Participants Jamey Turner and Daniel O’Connell (and others) and Facilitation Committee Member Jeff Bachhuber. Earlier, in 2016, Alan Yong represented the COSMOS Guidelines Committee Committee by presenting an invited talk at the 2016 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting on “A progress report on the development of the COSMOS International Guidelines for Applying Noninvasive Geophysical Techniques to Characterize Seismic Site Conditions”.

Announcements In October, we welcomed three new Facilitation Committee Members:

Sebastiano D’ Amico (Malta)

Jeff Bachhuber (Chief Geologist, PG&E: Pacific Gas & Electric)

Matthew Muto (Dam Safety Engineer, SCE: Southern California Edison)

Sebastiano D’ Amico was the Vice President of the European Seismological Commission (2016-2018) and the Chair of the 2018 36thESC-GA Local Organization Committee. Sebastiano fortifies our Committee with international leadership and experience. In the new utility affiliation based model, PG&E Chief Geologist Jeff Bachuber and SCE Dam Safety Engineer brings to our Committee additional resources that we previously lacked. The creation of this new utility-based membership is intended to facilitate user feedback and continuity in financial support from the electrical power industry. Jeff and Matt are responsible for mitigating seismic hazards within their respective organizations, thus bring critical perspectives to our Committee.

2018 Activities 2018 36th European Seismological Commission General Assembly, Valleta, Malta COSMOS Guidelines Facilitation Committee John Cassidy led a group of international research scientists (including Committee Members Alan Yong, Sebastiano D’ Amico, and Stefano Parolai) and convened a special session in memory of our colleague Marco Mucchiarelli (19__-2016). Marco was an energetic Committee Member and Alan Yong presented the legacy of Marcos within the context of his efforts in the development of the COSMOS Guidelines. For continuity of Marco’s efforts, the Committee has approved the addition of Maria Rosario Gallipoli, an active geoscientist and Marco’s widow, as a new member of the Committee.

The COSMOS Guidelines Facilitation Committee also convened an invited-only Guidelines Workshop titled “Accounting for Uncertainty in Surface-wave Methods” to facilitate progress in the development of the guidelines and other related matters. While it can be stated that this recent Workshop garnered the usual strong interests—thus, full attendance (40+ attendees)—as at previous workshops, the COSMOS/26th ESC-

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GA Workshop was standing-room only for the 8+ hours that it was in session. As a result, a revised Guidelines plan was developed as follows: (1) complete methods based instructions by 2019; (2) test methods based on blind trials by 2020 using materials from (1); (3) evaluate results from (2) as basis for COSMOS recommended Guidelines.

COSMOS/PG&E/SCE Support of the Community Vs Profile Database COSMOS, PG&E, and SCE are jointly supporting the development of the Community Vs Profile DataBase (CVsPDB). CVsPDB is a international collaborative project between various academic and research institutions, including PEER and the USGS, to develop a profile database consisting of shear wave velocity profiles, their locations, and appropriate metadata. The database is to be presented as a relational database suitable for use through a map-based web interface. This is a multi-year project, and the COSMOS, PG&E and SCE support is applied to the following tasks over the timeframe of September 2017 to September 2018 – development of relational database from uniformly structured data files and its use in an online web tool. An interim deliverable associated with this funding timeframe will be a data schema for construction of the relational database from individual data files. Future funding will be considered based on the results of the project through September, 2018. As of November 2018, a preliminary non-publically accessible webpage is being tested.

Please contact Alan Yong directly (yong@usgs.gov) for additional details.

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2017 Financial Summary

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