Tara Troy, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada, Xiao Zhu, Lehigh University, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Bethlehem, PA, United States, Naresh Devineni, CUNY City College, Department of Civil Engineering, New York, NY, United States, Laureline Josset, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, Emma Williamson, Lehigh Universtiy, Bethlehem, PA, United States, Upmanu Lall, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States, James A Rising, University of Chicago, Berkeley, IL, United States and Benjamin L Ruddell, Northern Arizona University, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Flagstaff, United States