<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Dear
colleagues,</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><br>
We would like to draw your attention to the Call for Submissions for <b>Geo-Extreme
2021, </b>a specialty conference organized by the American Society of
Civil Engineers (ASCE) to be held at the Hyatt Regency Savannah, in Savannah,
GA, USA, on August 15-18, 2021. (<a href="https://www.geoinstitute.org/sites/default/files/inline-files/Geo-Extreme%202021%20Call%20for%20Submissions%20Final_1.pdf" style="color:blue" target="_blank">Download
the Call for Submissions</a>.)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><a href="https://www.geoinstitute.org/index.php/news/geo-extreme-2021-call-abstracts" style="color:blue" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://www.geoinstitute.org/index.php/news/geo-extreme-2021-call-abstracts</span></a></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Geo-Extreme
2021 </span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">aims to create a multi-disciplinary
forum to discuss how the geo-engineering community can work with other
professionals, e.g., climate scientists, engineers, emergency managers,
resilience and sustainability investigators, insurance experts, and policy
makers, to cope with extreme events (such as hurricanes, floods, extreme
precipitations, droughts, wildfires, debris flows, earthquakes, tsunamis,
landslides) under a changing climate.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">The
Conference Organizing Committee is planning a technical program that includes
state-of-the-art contributions addressing all facets pertaining to the
challenges and opportunities that the engineering profession faces dealing with
extreme events in the face of climate change. Submissions in different forms (<i>paper
abstracts, technical session proposals, panel proposals, and short course
proposals</i>) are solicited on various topics related to the main theme of the
conference.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 47.25pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(31,73,125)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Abstracts are due <b><u>June 19</u> </b>and may be
only submitted via the online CATALYST Submission System at:</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><a href="https://catalyst.omnipress.com/asce_geo-extreme2021" style="color:blue" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://catalyst.omnipress.com/asce_geo-extreme2021</span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:0.5in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">We
invite you to consider participating in this event through submitting an <i>abstract
and/or proposal</i>. Further, it would be greatly appreciated if you distribute
this <a href="https://www.geoinstitute.org/sites/default/files/inline-files/Geo-Extreme%202021%20Call%20for%20Submissions%20Final_1.pdf" style="color:blue" target="_blank">Call
for Submissions</a> to anyone who might be interested in the conference. If you
have any questions or need any additional information, please contact us.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Best
regards,</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Conference
Co-Chairs</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Timothy
D. Stark, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">





































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Vahedifard, Mississippi State University</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">######</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><br></span></p></div><div><img src="https://drive.google.com/uc?id=12XbEVKyTmNxWz2zhiLdBZVYuFfNlVaKQ&export=download" width="95" height="96"><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><img src="https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1U6b8ybB1nOSy5YOpLZMx0Skjv2IyAi_R&export=download" width="200" height="66"><br></div></div></div></div></div>