Time
1500-1800 CET (Paris time), 25 March, 2022
Location
Virtual meeting
Meeting Chair:
Chengshan Wang
Meeting participants:
EC Members: Junxuan Fan, Ishwaran Natarajan, Susan Nash, Mikhail Fedonkin
GC Chair: Jennifer McKinley
SC Chair: Roland Oberhansli
Secretariat: Whitney Landress, Juxin Shen, Chao Li
Guests: Mike Stephenson, Qiuming Cheng
Others by invitation only
Agenda
1. Opening of the Meeting – Chair (5 minutes)
2. Adoption of the Agenda – Chair (5 minutes)
3. Report of the 5th session of the EC Meeting (7 December 2021) and follow-up on action items – Ish (10 mins)
4. Report of the 4th meeting of the GC (14 March 2022) – Jennifer (10 mins)
5. Progress on the organization of the DDE Forum sponsored by UNESCO, IUGS & DDE on 8 June 2022 in UNESCO, Paris:
· Introduction by the Secretariat – Ish (5 mins)
· Preparation of the Forum, including the organization of joint Secretariat, Forum agenda, etc – Chao Li (30 mins)
· Call for parallel in-person EC meeting in Paris in June - Chengshan (5 mins)
6. Plan for Priority international, regional and national events where DDE needs to be represented : - Ish (10 mins ) (i) Europe & Middle East – Mike (8 Mins); (ii) North & South Americas – Susan (8 mins);
7. Approval of the Seed Grant Fund and call for project submissions – Chao Li (10 mins)
8. Evaluation of 2021 WTGs work and 2022 funds allocation, including:(i) Forming the evaluation group. (ii) Introduction to the evaluation mechanism and criterion. (iii) Solution to the 2021 unused funds - Mikhail (20 mins )
9. Introduction to the two proposed new SC members - Roland (5 mins)
10. DDE Web – the new, updated site – Chao (10 mins)
11. Call for establishing the National Working Group - Ish (15 mins)
12. Establishment of two new working groups - engineering geology and Earthquake geology - all (10 mins)
13. AOB – Chair (5 mins)
Closure of the meeting – Chair (5 mins)