Newsletter 8 - February 2022
The URBASIS-EU project is entering its final year. This last year will see great things being accomplished, in particular the completion of the work of the thesis students. Passing on and accompanying the students in their scientific development is essential as they are the ones who will lead the scientific advances and developments for safer and more resilient urban environments. Numerous publications produced by the students are already online on the project website and the final production will certainly be very important.
This last year will also see the organization of several training and dissemination events. Of course, the cancellation of past events should not make us forget that everything is possible but let's be optimistic and move from winter school to spring school! It will be an event that will be scientifically excellent and placed under the sign of good humor, conviviality and benevolence. Other events will be organized until the end of the project and it will be the occasion to make the assessment of URBASIS-EU project.
Finally, several scientific sessions in international conferences are scheduled, with the participation of senior researchers of the project, associated with other colleagues. By our participation in these events, we promote the need to consider the seismic risk in urban areas in a specific way and disseminate information on the progress of the URBASIS-EU project.
This last year will be again rich and full of success for the project.
Edito by Philippe Guéguen, coordinator of the ITN URBASIS project.
URBASIS-EU publications
Northward migration of the Javanese volcanic arc along thrust faults
URBASIS-EU project - Work Package 2
Riccardo Minetto (ESR - UGA), Matteo Lupi, Pasquale De Gori, Luisa Valoroso, Paola Baccheschi, Adriano Mazzini
Earth and Planetary Science Letters - 2022
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Generating broadband ground motions from physics-based numerical simulations using artificial neural networks
URBASIS-EU project - Work Package 3
Srihari Sangaraju (ESR - POLIMI), Roberto Paolucci (POLIMI), Chiara Smerzini (POLIMI)
ESG6 Conference Paper - 2021
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Investigation and hazard implication of 1604 Quanzhou earthquake using modern simulation with literature intensity
URBASIS-EU project - Work Package 1
Ming-Hsuan Yen (ESR - GFZ), Yi-Wun Mika Liao, Kuo-Fong Ma, Yuan-Chieh Wu
Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Journal - 2021
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Ranking and Selection of Earthquake Ground‐Motion Models Using the Stochastic Area Metric
URBASIS-EU project - Work Package 1
Jaleena Sunny (ESR - ULIV), Marco De Angelis (ULIV), Benjamin Edwards (ULIV)
Seismological Research Letters - 2021
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Evaluation of Seismic Site Response in Urban Areas: Insight from the case of Lucerne, Switzerland
URBASIS-EU project - Work Package 3
Paulina Janusz (ESR - ETHZ) - Vincent Perron (ETHZ) - Walter Imperatori (ETHZ) - Luis Fabian Bonilla (UGE) - Donat Fäh (ETHZ)
ESG6 Conference Paper - 2021
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Spatial correlation of broadband ground motions from physics-based numerical simulations
URBASIS-EU project - Work Package 1
Jiayue Lin (ESR - POLIMI), Chiara Smerzini (POLIMI), Maria Infantino
Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics - 2021
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Testing Nonlinear Amplification Factors of Ground‐Motion Models
URBASIS-EU project - Work Package 4
Karina Loviknes (ESR - GFZ), Sreeram Reddy Kotha (UGA), Fabrice Cotton (GFZ), Danijel Schorlemmer (GFZ)
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America - 2021
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Structural Change Detection applying long‑term seismic Interferometry by Deconvolution method to a modern civil Engineering Structure (New Zealand)
URBASIS-EU project - Work Package 3
Anna Maria Skłodowska (ESR - OGS), Philippe Guéguen (UGA), Caroline Holden, John Finnegan, Geof Sidwell
Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering - 2021
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Concurrent Seismic events Identification using Deep Learning
URBASIS-EU project - Work Packages 1 & 4
Yu Chen (ESR - UoL), Ming-Hsuan Yen (ESR - GFZ), Dino Bindi (GFZ), Ben Edwards (UoL), Edoardo Patelli (UoL), Riccardo Zaccarelli
17WCEE Conference Paper - 2021
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Earthquake Damage Prediction of Buildings in Nepal using Machine Learning tools
URBASIS-EU project - Work Package 4
Subash Ghimire (ESR - UGA) - Philippe Guéguen (UGA) - Danijel Schorlemmer (GFZ)
2021
How about our ESRs?
“ Within the URBASIS project, we did our best to keep the interaction between each other alive, but I am impatiently waiting for the possibility to finally work with others in person. ”
"The third year of my PhD-journey came surprisingly fast. Starting the PhD, none of us expected that we will work during such unexpected and turbulent times. One of the biggest struggles in the very beginning was working from home - without physical interaction with other people and with a lack of possibilities to make any solid plans for the future. A lot of events I was really waiting for were canceled, or in the best case, postponed. For me, the past two years were like a rollercoaster with plenty of ups and downs, but I learned a lot of interesting and important things, and despite the pandemic-shadow, I managed to make some good friends in the completely new place where I moved for my PhD. Within the URBASIS project, we did our best to keep the interaction between each other alive, but I am impatiently waiting for the possibility to finally work with others in person. It's sad that with such potential for international collaboration, we couldn't fully use it, but I really hope that the coming year will bring us some great opportunities that we definitely won't waste."
“ We really have learned how to be flexible and adjust on short notice during this pandemic. ”
"It has now been 2.5 years since I joined the URBASIS project and started my PhD. So far it has been a roller-coaster, from the highs of moving to a new country and starting my PhD, to downs of the Pandemic lock-downs and isolated home office. Throughout this time I have felt incredibly lucky to still live relatively close to my family and loved ones and also been able to work from wherever I was. Although I have missed out on many travels and networking opportunities, I had the chance to follow an almost unlimited amount of talks and workshops and collaborated with people far away. We really have learned how to be flexible and adjust on short notice during this pandemic.
Still, after the last six months where on-site meetings and some travels again have become possible, I have also realized the importance that face-to-face meeting and informal coffee-break talks, have on the motivation and creative inspiration. Now I am finally on my secondment and am looking forward to many more possibilities to meet in the coming year."
“ The way of doing research and networking would be different now than before the outbreak. ”
"The past 2 years of PhD’s life were totally different life experience for me. It is not only because of the pandemic outbreak but also doing PhD during the pandemic. We luckily had a normal in-person conference within URBASIS to meet all students, researchers in the first year. However, no one would know this was our last in-person conference in the project for these 2 years.
Working from home gave us more time to deal with ourselves. We developed new hobbies, skills to stay motivated for life and discovered the new contactless way, online chat, to communicate with others. Despite the online activities are more efficient for networking and easier to jump from topic to topic without time consuming travel, the in-person meeting could make people feel more supported and connected, especially for ESRs who would get lost in their PhD life sometimes.
Fortunately, there are more and more scientific events coming back to normal way. The way of doing research and networking would be different now than before the outbreak. It is important for us to adjust ourself to be part of the new world. I believe we all are ready to face the new situation and looking forward to the upcoming activities and our career paths."
URBASIS-EU Spring School
It will now be held from May 16 to May 21, 2022, in Autrans, in the French Alpine Space.
The programme of this Spring School is likely to change according to the speakers availability.
Participation of URBASIS-EU members in upcoming activities
- Special Session Earthquakes in the Urban Environment, Annual Meeting 2022, Seismological Society of America, 19–23 April | Bellevue, Washington (Urbasis team co-conveners: Fabian Bonilla, Philippe Guéguen, Stefano Parolai and Chiara Smerzini; and Thomas Pratt USGS)
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