Services

List and description of services

Probabilistic hazard analysis: Development of probabilistic models for use in natural hazard analyses including:

• Seismic: vibratory ground motion
• Surface fault displacement
• Volcanic
• Riverine Flooding
• Tsunami inundation

Expert assessments of scientific and technical issues

• Expert elicitation processes
• Identification of significant issues
• Uncertainty quantification
• Facilitation of workshops and structured expert interactions

Structuring risk analyses and performance assessments

• Identifying logical dependences
• Incorporation of pertinent data
• Facilitated model-building to account for aleatory and epistemic components of uncertainty

Geologic studies for hazard analyses

• Field geologic mapping
• GIS data compilation and analyses
• Geomorphic analyses
• Evaluation of seismic sources in stable continental regions
• Fault behavioral studies

Hazard model development

• Incorporation of physical processes
• Discrete (logic tree) and continuous (parameter distribution) uncertainty characterization

Quality Assurance

• Development of technical procedures
• Validation and verification
• Experience with NQA-1, NRC, and other QA requirements
• Participation in QA audits and surveillances

Technical areas of expertise

• Seismic hazard analysis
• Riverine flood and tsunami hazard analysis
• Structural and seismic geology
• Seismology
• Technical uncertainty quantification
• Technical decision analysis
• Probabilistic analysis
• Interface and inputs to risk analyses and performance assessments