Bob Zimmerman called the meeting to order. A quorum was present.

In attendance were: Stacy Bartoletti, Ferraccio Crocetti, George Crawford, Gail Dreckman, Mark Darienzo, Claudia Ellsworth, Bob Freitag, Rob Johnson, Lisa Knorr, Doug McLeod, Charlie Macculay, Vaughan Mason, Dave Nelson, Linda Nelson, Ines Pearce, Larry Raaf, Fred Savaglio, Joan Scofield, Mark Seaman, Bill Steele, Tim Walsh, Craig Weaver, Bill White, Bob Zimmerman. Andre LeDuc attended via phone.

1. Approval of Minutes
Bill Steele presented minutes of the January 22nd meeting. Mark Darienzo moved and Ines Pearce seconded that the minutes be approved as read - Motion approved.

2. Financial Report:

a. Walsh presented the financial report. CREW has submitted a request for reimbursement to FEMA that includes all expenditures for our fiscal year (April 1st - March 31st). Walsh reported that we have $29,097.20 remaining. Scofield moved and Steele seconded that the report be approved as presented - Motion approved.

b. Freitag reported that our application for FEMA funding has been sent to FEMA Headquarters and has been verbally approved by program staff, but that the contract documents had not been officially signed. This means that as of March 31st CREW has been without program funding.

3. Old Business:

a. Web Site (Presentation by Elman and Amiri): Amiri wasn't present.

Elman gave a power point presentation on the merits of the use of CREW's new web based forum. The process was discussed and it was decided that:

o All board members would have access to all Project Team Forums.
o A Video Project Team Forum will be created to address marketing. All Board members will be members of this forum.

b. Small Business/Homeowners (Pearce and Ludeman):

o Disaster Resistant Business: This effort will produce a tool kit that will replace the one prepared by the Institute for Business and Home Safety. A completion date for the DRB project has not be set, but Pearce is hopeful that a draft will be available in the fall of 2003.

o Eastside Forum (Weaver): Weaver is working on the forum with Joann Jordan of Bellevue Emergency Management. The Forum will be held this October in Bellevue.

o Newport Forum scheduled for May 23 (Darienzo): Darienzo reported that the forum would be held on the 24th of May. (The forum has since be rescheduled for the fall of 2003)

o Video Project (Freitag): The tool kit was completed and will be available within a few weeks. (The video was shown during lunch at the Partners In Emergency Preparedness Conference)

c. Emergency Management Organizations (Ellsworth):

o Web site: There was discussion concerning the CREW web site and what information was expected to be linked to and from the site. Ellsworth said that she would give this some attention and would report back during our summer quarterly meeting. Suggestions will be sought through our web site CREW Project Team discussion forum.

o WSSPC Conference (Freitag): WSSPC will be having their forum in Portland the week of September 22, 2003. Freitag will be sharing the agenda when one is received.

d. Business Coordination Center (Zimmerman):

The City of Seattle will test a version of this concept during the Topoff exercise. Zimmerman also said that the concept would be discussed with other Chambers. LeDuc said the concept has been shared with the Tillamook Chamber of Commerce and they are discussing implementation.

e. Scenario Development (Bartoletti):

EERI is developing a Seattle Fault scenario and CREW is a member of the working group. CREW has also budged $5,000 to the effort. Bartoletti has begun discussing the project with a possible contractor.

f. Scientific/Engineering Coordination (Savage, Bartoletti and Steele):

At this time the main focus of the team is to develop a strategy for the CREW web site that would support the scientific/engineering community. Bartoletti will have a report prepared for our Summer CREW meeting.

g. CREW Business Plan (Zimmerman and Support Team):

A strategy will be offered at the summer meeting, and Freitag reported that the strategy would include a membership drive.

h. Regional Coordination Project (Dreckman, Savage, William White):

A strategy will be offered at the summer quarterly meeting

i. Speakers Bureau (Crawford, McCloud, Dreckman)

This is a newly created team. It is our hope that with the aid of our newly created Video, we can create a more aggressive Speakers Bureau that is responsive to needs throughout the Cascadia Region.

j. Conference (Weaver):

Those present determined that this was a worthwhile project team but that with the WSSPC and National Earthquake conferences being planned, there was not an immediate need for a specific CREW conference in 2003-2004.

k. Quarterly Program Activities (Scofield):

This is a newly created team. The team will come into being with Summer CREW quarterly meetings.

4. New Business

a. Filling a CREW Board "Health Organization" position:

Zimmerman presented Fred Savaglio for nomination to the Board. Savaglio accepted the nomination. George Crawford moved and Claudia Ellsworth seconded that the nomination. The Board was unanimous in their approval.
b. Special meeting in Washington D.C.
Craig Weaver suggested that we send a delegation to Washington, do discuss program issues. Zimmerman, Scofield, Steel, Weave, Savaglio and Freitag volunteered. A date of June 16th was suggested.

5. Place, Date and Agenda for next quarterly meeting.

It was suggested that we hold our Summer Quarterly meeting in Victoria British Columbia on the 24th of July

6. The Meeting was adjoined.

Afternoon Program

1. Bob Norris, USGS Seismologist, presented an over view of how seismograph networks can provide rapid information on hazardous natural or human-induced events.

Summary:

Networks of modern broadband and short-period seismographs have recorded a wide variety of destructive events besides earthquakes, including some from human activity. In the past decade or so, such recordings have been the focus of increasing attention from seismologists for their investigative value, leading to the growth of the field known as forensic seismology.

Seismic data have proven useful in clarifying the origin time, location, and dynamics of various industrial accidents and terrorist attacks in the past few years. Within the U.S., notable examples include the bombing of the Alfred P. Murray building in Oklahoma City in 1995, the explosion of a natural gas pipeline in New Mexico in 1999, the attacks on the World Trade Center towers in 2001, and a earthen canal wall failure and subsequent flood in southwest Washington in 2002.

These applications of forensic seismology show that seismic networks can be useful in monitoring critical infrastructure, in addition to their traditional role in detecting earthquakes.

2. Brian Sherrod, USGS Palioseismologist and UW Affiliate Professor spoke on ground-breaking events in Puget Sound.

Summary

Ground-breaking events in Puget Sound and geophysical experiments in the Puget Sound area over the past decade have hinted at the existence of a number of large fault structures bounding deep sedimentary basins.

Specially processed LIDAR (Light and Distance Ranging) data has revealed surface ruptures on and near a number of these known and suspected faults. Trenching across these fault scarps created by earthquakes that occurred since the ice sheet retreated ~16,000 years ago, can revel important information about the frequency, dates and magnitudes of these "recent" events. Collectively these data contribute greatly to our understanding of regional crustal deformation and earthquake hazards. Dr Serrod showed examples of this work from
the East and Western sides of the Seattle Fault Zone, Whidbey Island, and the recently mapped Tacoma Fault.