[Announce] NHERI Monthly Recap, May 2017

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Upcoming Events

May 1 - 3
NSF Large Facilities Workshop 2017<https://www.nsf.gov/events/event_summ.jsp?cntn_id=190458>
Livingston and Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Sponsor: NSF Large Facilities Office<https://www.nsf.gov/bfa/lfo/>

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May 21 - 24
13th Americas Conference on Wind Engineering<https://faculty.eng.ufl.edu/acwe/>
Gainesville, Florida
Sponsor: Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering at UFL<https://www.eng.ufl.edu/>

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June 4 - 7
2017 Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference<http://jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/events/2017/emi2017/>
San Diego, California
Sponsor: ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute<http://www.asce.org/engineering-mechanics/engineering-mechanics-institute/>

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June 15-16
2017 NSF Wall of Wind Experimental Facility User Workshop<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/learning-center/workshop-170615/>
Miami, Florida
Sponsor: Florida International University<http://wow.fiu.edu/>

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Welcome to the NHERI monthly newsletter

Each month we help you catch up on news and events from the people and places within the NCO. If you have suggestions for stories to include, contact Marti LaChance at nheri.communications at gmail.com<mailto:nheri.communications at gmail.com>.

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Shaking It Off at UC Davis
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April 22 was the 103rd annual Picnic Day at UC Davis, and the Geotechnical Graduate Student Society and Center for Bio-inspired and Bio-mediated Geotechnics teamed up to provide an event for kids of all ages called "Shake it off: Earthquake Engineering."

Attendees had the opportunity to build and test earthquake-resilient K'Nex structures, make their own earthquake ground motions, build mountains in the virtual reality sandbox and learn about graduate student research through posters. It was a great success.

Find more photos of the event at the UC Davis's Center for Geotechnical Modeling's Facebook page<https://www.facebook.com/groups/1512274609062503/>.
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(Photos: Alex Sturm, UC Davis)

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13th Americas Conference on Wind Engineering
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Wind researchers, educators, students, students, architects and wind engineers: There is still time to register for the 2017 ACWE conference<http://reg.conferences.dce.ufl.edu/acwe/Register>. It is a chance to learn from experts in the field and to discuss wind science and engineering - as well as wind energy research.

The event takes place May 21-24, at the Hilton University of Florida Conference Center, in Gainesville, Florida, USA.

Keynote speakers<http://reg.conferences.dce.ufl.edu/acwe/1372> include:
*         Gary Kopp, from Western University, Ontario, Canada.
*         Bert Blocken, from Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands and Leuven University, Belgium.
*         Peter Vickery, from Applied Research Associates in Raleigh, NC.

The full agenda<http://reg.conferences.dce.ufl.edu/docs/ACWE/ACWEagenda.pdf> is available online.

Hosts and conference co-chairs are Forrest J. Masters, Kurtis R. Gurley and David O. Prevatt, all from the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering at the University of Florida.

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Tell a Friend: The NHERI Summer Institute
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The inaugural NHERI Summer Institute is an opportunity for early career faculty, professionals, and senior graduate students to learn about working in the Natural Hazards Engineering NSF-funded community.

The event takes place July 24-28 at University of Texas at San Antonio. The five-day institute features sessions on grant-writing, NHERI resources, experimental facilities, simulation and data management.

Cost to attend is free, and the NHERI award covers travel expenses for a limited number of early career faculty members (i.e., non-tenured professors) and early career professionals.  Apply for limited travel funding on the DesignSafe/NHERI site<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/learning-center/summer-institute/application/>.

Application deadline for early career faculty is May 15th.  Registration will remain open until July 12th. Local K-12 educators also may apply to receive a stipend for participating.

See the program and more at the DesignSafe/NHERI<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/learning-center/summer-institute/> website.

Be sure to share with engineering postdocs and new faculty members!

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Meet NHERI/DesignSafe Webmaster, Hedda Prochaska
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Visitors to the NHERI website see the handiwork of Hedda Prochaska, our web designer based at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)<https://www.tacc.utexas.edu/>. Here's a brief introduction, in her own words.

Q: What is your job title and primary role with NHERI?

I created, maintain, and oversee the public sections of NHERI's DesignSafe website - which basically means everything that is accessible without having to log in. This includes the primary website and the secondary websites for each of the experimental facilities.

My family is a curious and intelligent bunch, so when they ask about my job I have the luxury of being able to explain straightforwardly my day-to-day responsibilities of coding, designing, and working alongside a fantastic team at the Texas Advanced Computing Center.

However, they love to embellish upon my employer being a supercomputing center, so I'm pretty sure most people back home think I run the place.

Q: What is the most surprising thing you've discovered since you started working at the NHERI NCO?

Almost every new project I work on instantly becomes my favorite, because I've been given the opportunity to see brilliant scientists pour themselves into discoveries that can literally make the world a better, safer place. Interacting directly with NHERI's Experimental Facilities to set up their websites has been exactly that kind of a privilege. Each facility is unique, and passionate, and crucial to people surviving and recovering from natural disasters all over the world. This community isn't just about predicting hazards; they are working together to help people survive the aftermath.

Q: What is your job at University of Texas, Austin?

I'm a web designer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). In addition to my NHERI/DesignSafe responsibilities, I maintain TACC's public website and contribute to a variety of other web projects.

Q: What do you enjoy doing after work?

My favorite thing about living in Austin is that it's truly the live music capital of the world. I go see as many live shows as possible - the smaller, the better. I also volunteer and foster for Pug Rescue Austin<http://www.austinpugrescue.com/>, so I occasionally have a houseful of pups waiting to be adopted. If I'm home, I'm reading. I have an unreasonable number of books, and can happily lose hours (and most of my paycheck) in a good independent bookstore.

Q: What is your next big project at work?

I'm in the process of updating the navigation of the NHERI/DesignSafe website, and adding projects to all the experimental facility websites - so that should keep me busy for a awhile.

Q: Have you ever personally experienced a natural disaster? If so, briefly describe it.

Yes! I'm originally from Orlando, Florida, so hurricane season was always on our radar (pun intended). I remember sneaking out of the house to fly kites during a couple storms - sorry, mom - and hunkering down without power on other occasions. We didn't get as much devastation since we were in the middle of the state, but it was certainly something we all learned to take very seriously.
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Hedda Prochaska
NHERI/DesignSafe Webmaster
Cyber-Infrastructure Team


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