Partnerships & Applications Workshop

June 25-26, 2026
Portland, OR

Apply to Attend: 25-26 JUNE, 2026

2026 Partnerships & Applications Workshop: University of Oregon, NE Portland Campus

Workshop Goals

A forum for inter-organizational connection and collaboration around Cascadia seismic research and resilience

“What’s the Scenario?” Aligning Earthquake Science and Resilience Planning Across Cascadia

This is the third Partnerships & Application workshop, designed to explore the challenges and needs of the multi-disciplinary community involved in earthquake hazard study and mitigation in the Pacific Northwest. Workshop discussions in 2024 and 2025 highlighted universal interest in developing scenarios and inter-organizational exercises for preparedness and response as a priority next step. Consequently, a deeper consideration of scenarios has been selected as the central theme for the 2026 P&A workshop, with specific goals to:

Facilitate community interaction to understand scenario uses and needs
Determine how science can support use cases and needs with existing or future research/scenario development
Plan and design specific outputs to:
- Support response and interagency clearinghouses
- Develop strategic partnerships for future coordination and/or scientific research towards resilience

Learn about THE 2025 WORKSHOP HERE

We encourage participation of representatives from across the spectrums of research, practice, policy and community organizations.

Registration

This workshop application is closed.

Attendance will be capped due to space constraints. We will reach out to accepted applicants in early May. Limited travel funds are available – please request support on the application form if needed.

If you have questions about this workshop please email: acliff@uoregon.edu

APPLY HERE

Meeting Resources

Notetaking Documents

DAY 1 – Session 2 “How are scenario used?” Session

DAY 1 – Session 3 “What are the community’s scenario needs?” Session

DAY 2 – session 6 “Establishing working groups and plans” SESSION

2024 Workshop Report

Summary of content, emergent themes, and next steps

U of O NEWS ARTICLE

LAUREL HAMMERS CONSIDERS P&A Workshop RESILIENCE IMPACTS

LIST OF WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS

QUESTIONS and Answers FROM PRESENTATION SESSIONS

TIMES STANDARD ARTICLE

LORI DENGLER FEATURES P&A Workshop IN N. CALI NEWS COLUMN

Presentation Recordings

To see chapter headings and skip to presentations of interest please open the embedded videos in YouTube:

Day 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsD5Wa9TXZ0

Day 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNwyanJHReM

Day 1 – presentations and discussion share-outs

Day 2 – presentations and discussion share-outs

Links to Featured Resources

Awareness/preparedness products

ReSolve NW: “Aware and Prepared” video package, including “Stop the Spill” – focus on fuel hazards at the CEI Hub in Portland, OR
Cascadia 9.0 Game – disaster preparedness game developed by research team at Lewis & Clark College
Oregon Sea Grant: Tsunami Quests – clue-directed hunts teaching earthquake and tsunami safety at the coast
OSU Extension Cascadia Earthquake Preparedness – online training course

Data dashboard

Cascadia Lifelines Program Products and Tools – GIS tools and databases to assist resilience practitioners
CRESCENT data viewers: Community Fault Model, Community Velocity Model, Cascadia Paleoseismology
Washington Geologic Information Portal – interactive data portal curated by Washington DNR
United States Geological Survey: Cascadia Subduction Zone Database – USGS dataset compilation for CSZ

Meeting Information Packet

Poster Presentations

#	Authors	Title
1	The CRESCENT Team	An Overview of the Cascadia Region Earthquake Science Center (CRESCENT)
2	Emily Hooft, et al.	Building a Community Velocity Model for the Cascadia Region and Beyond
3	Tina Dura, et al.	Introducing the Science Goals for the Cascadia Region Earthquake Science Center (CRESCENT) Cascadia Paleoseismology Working Group (CPAL)
4	Tina Dura, et al.	Catastrophic impacts of sudden coseismic subsidence and associated rapid sea-level rise during the next Cascadia subduction zone earthquake
5	Eric Dunham, et al.	The CRESCENT Dynamic Rupture, Earthquake Cycle, and Tsunamis Working Group (DET)
6	The CRESCENT Team	CRESCENT Community Fault Model (CFM)
7	The CRESCENT Team	Coupling, Seismicity and Slow-slip (C3S) Working Group
8	The CRESCENT Team	Special Interest Groups: Offshore Observations, Ground Motion Modeling, Ground Failure, and Cascadia Fluids Model Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
9	Alessandra Burgos	The Cascadia Coastlines and Peoples Hazards Research Hub (COPES Hub)
10	Carrie Garrison-Laney	Washington Sea Grant’s Coastal Hazards Resilience Team
11	Lori Dengler, et al.	The Redwood Coast Tsunami Work Group: Planning and Outreach on California’s North Coast
12	Jonathan Allan, Lalo Guerrero	Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries: A Partner for Investigating and Communicating Oregon’s Geologic Hazards
13	Todd Becker, et al.	Assessment of Tsunami Risk and Exposure to California’s Coastal Communities using FEMA’s Hazus Tsunami Model and ESRI Demographic Data
14	Sean R. Santellanes, Diego Melgar	Remapping Tsunami Inundation Hazard Using Heterogeneous Sources
15	Yajie Lee, et al.	Towards Probabilistic Tsunami Risk Estimates Using Stochastic Earthquake Sources
16	Yong Wei, Carrie Garrison-Laney, Chris Moore, Clint Pells	Testing Crustal Fault Tsunami Sources in the Salish Sea: Comparing Modeled Inundation With the Geologic Record at Discovery Bay, WA
17	David W. Edgington	Planning for Earthquakes and Tsunamis: Lessons from Japan for British Columbia
18	Tianhaozhe Sun, et al.	Northern Cascadia Drilling: Establishing plate-scale borehole observatories to study how plate boundaries communicate
19	Gabriel Lotto, William Steele	Using ShakeAlert Earthquake Early Warning to Reduce Earthquake Losses
20	Carla Herrán, Marcie Benne, Robert de Groot, Jenny Crayne	Engage with your regional museums, parks, and libraries for community resilience.
21	Michael R. Brudzinski, et al.	Examination of Usage Rates for the Multi-Hazards San Diego County Emergency App to Improve Earthquake Early Warning
22	Michael R. Brudzinski, et al.	Approaches to Multilingual Surveying on Hazard Awareness and Alerting to Improve Equity in Disaster Risk Reduction
23	Liz Safran, Erik Nilsen, Peter Drake, Bryan Sebok	Rehearsing Disaster: Earthquake Preparedness Behavior in an Interactive Environment
24	Amina Meselhe, Dan Cox, Dylan Sanderson, Jenna Tilt	Human-centered connectivity and transportation network recovery following a Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquake and Tsunami
25	Ana Tijerina Esquino	Critical Energy Infrastructure Hub – Ongoing Research on Risks
26	Oregon Disaster Airlift Response Team (ODART)	ODART – An Aviation Resource to Assist Your Community (*tri-fold brochures)

Table of posters with links to digital copies where available

Agenda

Notes: All times Pacific Time. Agenda is subject to change.

Thursday, June 25, 2026

8:00-8:30 Check-in

8:30-9:35 Welcome and opening activity

9:35-10:00 Keynote: “The ShakeOut Scenario 2 Decades Later: What has worked and what hasn’t” presented by Dr. Lucy Jones, Dr. Lucy Jones Center for Science and Society

10:00-10:20 Break

10:20-Noon Session 1: Setting the scenario scene: existing efforts and current developments

Highlighting agencies responsible for scenario development, how to access existing products, and what is being worked on.

“USGS Earthquake Scenarios in the Pacific Northwest” presented by Audrey Dunham, United States Geological Survey
“Creating a Shared Understanding of Earthquake Risk in Canada” presented by Tiegan Hobbs, Natural Resources Canada
“Community Collaboration Efforts by EERI for Scenario Development and Post-Earthquake Clearinghouse Response” presented by Heidi Tremayne, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
“Washington Earthquake Hazards: What to Expect When You’re Expecting an Earthquake” presented by Megan Anderson, Washington Geological Survey and Maximilian Dixon, Washington Emergency Management Division
“Cooking Up Catastrophe: A Recipe for Realistic Hazard Assessment and Exercises in Oregon” presented by Reed Burgette, Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries and Robert Quinn, Oregon Department of Emergency Management
“Preparing for Earthquake and Tsunami Reconnaissance with the use of Scenarios” presented by Kate Thomas, California Geological Survey and Todd Becker, California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services
“HayWired Scenario Exercise Toolkit Development and Trainings: A Model for End-User Engagement with Scenario Results and Data” presented by Mark Benthien, Statewide California Earthquake Center

CRESCENT Working Groups and Special Interest Groups

Ground Failure (GF) presented by Ben Leshchinsky, Professor, Oregon State, University

Community Fault Model (CFM) presented by Ashley Streig, Earthquake Hazard and Geophysics Program Manager, Washington Geological Survey

Dynamic rupture, Earthquake cycles, Tsunami models (DET) presented by Maricela Best McKay, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Oregon

Coupling, Seismicity, Slow Slip (C3S) presented by Brendan Crowell, Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University

Community Velocity Model (CVM) and Ground Motion Modeling (GMM) presented by Valerie Sahakian, Associate Professor, University of Oregon

Cascadia Paleoseismology (CPAL) and Tsunami Sources for Hazard Assessment (TSHA) presented by Carrie Garrison Laney, Coastal Hazards Specialist, Washington Sea Grant

Offshore Observations (OO) presented by Harold Tobin, Professor / Director, University of Washington / Pacific Northwest Seismic Network

12:00-1:00 Lunch (provided)

1:00-2:30 Session 2: How are scenarios used?

This session will showcase case studies for the variety of ways in which scenarios are used.

Risk and response planning
Exercises and training
Policy, education and outreach

“The power of scenarios as stories to change public perception and policies” presented by Sara McBride, California Seismic Safety Commission
“From Hazard to Decision: How Earthquake and Tsunami Scenarios Drive Insurance Risk Management and Response” presented by Shubharoop Ghosh, ImageCat, Inc.
“From Scenarios to Safety: How PG&E Prepares for Natural Hazards” presented by Megan Stanton, Pacific Gas & Electric
“Scenario-based planning for plate boundary earthquakes on the Alpine Fault, New Zealand” presented by Caroline Orchiston and Alice Lake-Hammond, New Zealand QuakeCoRE/AF8

Followed by Q+A and roundtable discussions

2:30-3:00 break

3:00-4:30 Session 3: What are the community’s scenario needs?

This session will explore the needs identified for scenarios development and who we need to work with.

3:00-3:15 Introductory presentation: “Increasing the Effectiveness of Geologic Hazard Scenarios for Mitigation” presented by Janise Rodgers, Geohazards International

Followed by Q+A and roundtable discussions

4:30-6:00 Reception and Poster/Digital Media Session (appetizers provided, cash bar)

Friday, June 26, 2026

8:30 Check in

9:00-10:00 Day 1 reflection and opening activity – mini tabletop exercise

10:00 Break

10:30-Noon Session 4: From scenario to response: aligning post-earthquake science and data coordination in Cascadia

Goal is to address the need for more dialog across borders and between sectors about the roles, responsibilities, and actions for post-earthquake response, with a focus on science, data, and situational awareness.

12:00 Lunch

1:00-2:30 Session 5: Exploring collaborative frameworks

For defined “priority themes”, establish:

who currently works together
who else should be at the table
how do we span borders (state/country)
what are the collective “science” or data” needs to support this effort

2:30 Break

3:00-4:00 Session 6: Establishing working groups and plans

For the listed “priority themes”, define:

core working group
coordination/meeting strategy
possible funding mechanisms, e.g. FEMA MSNEA
short and long-term action items
how could CRESCENT support this

4:00-4:30 Closing Remarks

Poster and Digital Media Session Details

Submit PRESENTATION info here by June 12

Space for posters/presentations is limited. If you are attending this workshop with a colleague from the same organization, we ask that you coordinate and consider a combined poster/digital media presentation. Some key details and timing:

Posters

Poster dimensions should be a maximum of 48″ wide.
Please bring your poster to the workshop on Thursday, June 25 in the morning.
On Thursday, you will have the opportunity to hang your poster in the poster session space. Tape, push pins, or command tape strips will be provided for you to hang your poster.
The formal poster/digital media session will take place during the Thursday, June 25 reception from 4:30 – 6 pm, however attendees will be able to view them during lunch and breaks as well.
You may leave your poster up overnight and remove it on Friday, June 26 any time after 12:30 pm.

Digital media

Please bring your own laptop/viewing device and charger.
We will allocate a space for you at a small bistro/coffee table in the reception area during the formal poster/digital media reception on Thursday, June 25, 4:30-6 pm. (Note: plan to run cordless as most table locations will not be by a power outlet.)
Free Wi-Fi is available via the UO Guest network, though you may consider having a downloaded version of your product available for offline viewing.

To confirm that you are bringing a poster and/or digital media to the workshop, please submit your title/author via this form by June 12.

Travel & Lodging

25-26 June 2026

University of Oregon Portland Northeast Campus, Portland, OR

Venue

The 2026 Partnerships & Applications Workshop will be held at the University of Oregon Portland in the UO Portland Campus Center (located at 2823 NE Holman Street) on June 25-26, 2026.

Flights, ground transportation and parking

UO Portland NE Campus is a 15-minute drive from PDX international airport and 9 minute drive from our host hotel. Shuttles from the hotel to/from the workshop will be available – sign up at the hotel front desk at check-in if you wish to take the shuttle. If driving to the venue, please park in the parking lot on the corner of 27th and Holman – a permit is not required for this lot.

The campus is near stops on bus lines 17, 70, and 75. Routes 17 and 70 operate on 30-minute intervals from downtown Portland, and route 75 operates on 15-minute intervals from SE Portland, connecting with the MAX Blue, Red and Green Lines. Visit the TriMet website for updated schedules and to plan your rides.

For maps, directions, parking and other ground transportation information, see here.

Lodging

Radisson Hotel Portland Airpor t (6233 N.E. 78th Ct., Portland, OR, 97218, US) is CRESCENT’s host hotel for overnight guests. Radisson offers a complimentary breakfast, complimentary overnight parking, free airport shuttle, on-site restaurant and full business center.

For those booking travel independently, a preferred block rate is available. Follow this link to book a room in the CRESCENT block before it expires on June 17, 2026.

Hotel courtesy airport shuttle Info: Upon arrival at PDX, retrieve your luggage and go to Island 2, the courtesy shuttle area located outside of baggage claim. Once there, call 503-251-2000 EXT 0 and let the staff know you are ready for a pick-up. Schedule your departure shuttle back to the airport with the front desk staff when you arrive.

Hotel to workshop shuttle Info: For those staying at the hotel, if you would like a ride to the workshop, we have arranged for shuttles to/from the venue with limited seating at the times specified below. Reserve your spot by signing up on the clipboards next to the front desk and be at the departure location 5 minutes prior to departure:

Thursday, June 25:
- Depart from Radisson Hotel Portland Airport outside lobby entrance – 7:30a, 7:45a, and 8:00a
- Return from parking lot on the corner of 27^th and Holman – 6:00p, 6:15p, and 6:30p
Friday, June 26:
- Depart from Radisson Hotel Portland Airport outside lobby entrance – 8:00a, 8:15a, and 8:30a
- Return from parking lot on the corner of 27^th and Holman – 4:30p and 4:45p

Luggage note: if you are flying out on Friday, you may bring your luggage to the workshop and a designated space at the Campus Center will be available for storage until you depart for the airport.

Workshop Planning Committee

This year’s planning committee includes representatives of partner organizations from California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. Each member brings valuable experience, perspective, and connections relevant to community scenario needs and interests.