Participation is limited to 30 people due to the hands-on nature of the event. There will be a small registration fee of $40 to cover transportation costs- as we will be visiting the Kilauea volcanic site, Hawai’i county emergency response facilities, and University of Hawai’i Hilo plus providing shuttle service to/from the Hilo airport (which has hourly flights from Honolulu). There will be a no-host lunch at a local venue with poke, musubi, and other local fare as well as sandwiches, vegetarian options, etc. Jan 26 is Ellison Onizuka Day and there will be many family-oriented activities going on in parallel in Hilo and the Mauna Loa observatory.
This event is made possible in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation and through a partnership with the Association for the Advancement for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), the Intelligent Systems for Geosciences Research Coordination Network, and the Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue (CRASAR).
Participants:
- Robin Murphy, Texas A&M University, Humanitarian Robotics and AI Laboratory
- Yolanda Gil, USC Information Sciences Institute
- Gwen Jacobs, University of Hawaii
- Travis Mandel, University of Hawaii at Hilo
- David Merrick, Florida State University, Center for Disaster Risk Policy
- Atlas Wang, Texas A&M University
- Odair Fernandes, Texas A&M University
- Suzanne Pierce, Texas Advanced Computing Center
- Abubakar Abid, Stanford University
- Matt Baldwin, University of Hawaii at Hilo
- Patricia Marie Chaffey, University of Southern California
- Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Ohio State University
- Daniel Garijo, Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California
- Andrea Loreggia, University of Padova, Italy
- Harry McElroy, Performigence Corporation
- Takashi Miyamoto, University of Yamanashi, Japan
- David Takeyama, Oceanit
- Lou Zhang, College of William and Mary
- Bill Hanson, Hawaii County Civil Defense
- Robert Becker, Hawaii Fire Department and Fire Commission
Agencies that participated:
- Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue (CRASAR)
- Robin Murphy
- David Merrick
- Odair Fernandes
- Hawaii Science and Technology Museum
- Christian Wong
- John Requelman
- Mokupapapa Discovery Center (NOAA)
- Clayton Watkins