The SEED group is actively involved in the Society for Risk Analysis, and we take this opportunity to list a few brief highlights from this year’s meeting:
- A paper by Dr. Francis and collaborators was presented in the preference elicitation and benefits assessment symposium. The abstract is provided below.
- Dr. Francis began serving as the Chair of the Engineering and Infrastructure Specialty Group of the SRA. EISG will be emphasizing linkages with other specialty groups, while also increasing our presence in the Risk Analysis journal.
- Expert elicitation and evidence synthesis were big topics this year, and Drs. Francis and Gray will be hoping to build on this interest within the SRA by applying innovative evidence synthesis techniques to chemical risk assessment problems.
- The plenary sessions this year were excellent, including a discussion of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill by Admiral Thad Allen, and a tribute to Carnegie Mellon’s Lester Lave. Look out for class material from both of these knowledge bases to appear in Dr. Francis’s future courses