NHERI Monthly Recap, October 2018

Wed Nov 21 13:37:39 CST 2018

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January 7 - January 10
AEG Coastal Hazards Symposium: Engulfing the Coast<https://www.aegweb.org/m/event_details.asp?id=919339>
Dauphin Island, Alabama
Sponsor: AEG<https://www.aegweb.org/>

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March 5 - March 8
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Vancouver, British Columbia
Sponsor: EERI<https://eeri.org/>

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April 22 - April 25
2019 National Hurricane Conference<http://hurricanemeeting.com>
New Orleans, Louisiana
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June 6 - June 7
21st International Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology (ICEES 2019)<https://waset.org/conference/2019/06/san-francisco/ICEES>
San Francisco, California
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June 17 - June 20
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Quebec City, Quebec
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July 29 - July 31
9th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications (SIMULTECH 2019)<http://simultech.org/>
Prague, Czech Republic
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Visit the events calendar on the DesignSafe-CI website: NHERI Community Events<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/community/events/>

Catch up with community happenings in NHERI's Monthly Recap.

Here's what's been happening around the network:
*         NSF creates $3 million CONVERGE center
*         NHERI Tweets
*         In the News: FIU experts discuss outdated building codes
*         New DesignSafe tools for first responders
*         Robert W. Graves selected as Joyner Lecturer
*         NHERI RAPID: state-of-the-art natural hazards research equipment
*         Natural hazards engineering news, curated weekly

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NSF creates $3 million CONVERGE center to augment natural hazards research
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To enhance the diversity of research underway in natural hazards, the National Science Foundation recently created CONVERGE, a $3 million research center at the University of Colorado Boulder. The center is a resource for the 11-member, NSF-funded Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/>, known as NHERI.

One of the NSF 10 Big Ideas<https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/big_ideas/>, "convergence" describes the merging of scientific disciplines in a coordinated, reciprocal way that fosters the robust collaborations needed for successful inquiry. For NSF, convergence research is driven by a compelling problem that can be solved by deep integration between disciplines.

The CONVERGE facility will build and support the research partnerships and creative thinking needed to address complex problems that are posed by natural hazards, unsustainable development, and rising economic inequality.

"As a resource, CONVERGE catalyzes the efforts of the NHERI users through coordination of the various reconnaissance groups organized by the community with the support of NSF," said Julio Ramirez, director of the NHERI Network Coordination Office and the Karl H. Kettelhut Professor in Civil Engineering at Purdue University.

Lori Peek, professor of sociology and director of the Natural Hazards Center<https://hazards.colorado.edu/> at UCB, is the principal investigator for CONVERGE. She said the facility is aligned with NSF's goals for research convergence, as well as with NHERI's mission to improve the resiliency of the nation's civil infrastructure to withstand natural hazards.

Read the FULL STORY<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/community/news/2018/november/nsf-creates-3m-converge-center-augment-natural-hazards-research/>.

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NHERI Tweets
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For research faculty and students, Twitter is a lively medium for keeping current and sharing details about work in progress. Twitter users in the hazards engineering community are eager to read and share details from their colleagues and research partners.

If you or your experimental facility is on Twitter, be sure to follow @NHERIDesignSafe<https://twitter.com/NHERIDesignSafe/>. We'll follow you back and make sure to spread the word about your work.

To find out what your NHERI colleagues are saying on Twitter, check out our public list<https://twitter.com/NHERIDesignSafe/lists/nheri-community/>.

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In the News: Post Michael Hurricane, FIU experts discuss outdated building codes
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After Hurricane Michael, NBC Channel 6 reported on building code research underway at Florida International University's Wall of Wind. Reporter Ari Odzer spoke with Lab Manager Walter Conklin, who explained that many of the homes damaged in Hurricane Michael were built before stronger building codes became state law in 2002. Compared to older homes, Conklin said, structures built according to the newer building codes fared much better during Irma and Hurricane Michael, both Category 4 storms.

Watch the FULL STORY<https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Calls-for-Stronger-Building-Codes-After-Hurricane-Michaels-Devastation-497283341.html>.

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New DesignSafe tools for first responders
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Working with first responders on the front-lines of Hurricane Harvey inspired DesignSafe developers to create the Reconnaissance Portal, a new tool key to enabling post-storm reconnaissance. And working with first responders on the front-lines of Hurricane Harvey inspired DesignSafe's developers to create new tools to assist first responders in the future.

Dan Stanzione, TACC's executive director and a principal investigator for DesignSafe, assisted decision-makers at the Texas State Operations Center during Hurricane Harvey.

"While there, a first responder said to me: 'I want to know a list of addresses in Houston that have been flooded above their electrical outlet height. You have a supercomputer, you can do that right?'" Stanzione recalled. "We weren't able to provide that assistance in the moment, but it inspired us to create such a tool."

Read the FULL STORY<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/community/news/2018/november/new-designsafe-tools-first-responders/>.

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Robert W. Graves selected as 2019 Joyner Lecturer

The Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) and the Seismological Society of America (SSA) are pleased to announce that U.S. Geological Survey research geophysicist Robert W. Graves is the 2019 recipient of the William B. Joyner Lecture Award.

Graves will deliver the Joyner Lecture at the EERI 2019 Annual Meeting<http://2019am.eeri-events.org/> to be held 5-8 March 2019 in Vancouver, Canada, and the 2019 SSA Annual Meeting to be held 23-26 April 2019.

Read the FULL STORY<https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-11/ssoa-rwg111518.php>.

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NHERI RAPID: state-of-the-art natural hazards research equipment
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It may look like a toy boat, but the bright yellow Z-Boat 1800 has an important mission: capturing underwater topography for damage assessment following natural disasters. The small boat is one of more than 300 pieces of data-gathering equipment now available to researchers throughout the world.

To develop more resilient communities, the Natural Hazards Reconnaissance Experimental Facility<https://rapid.designsafe-ci.org/> officially launched in September to enable the collection, assessment and archiving of high-quality perishable data in the aftermath of disasters. Funded by a five-year $4.1 million Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) grant from the National Science Foundation, the center is the first of its kind in the world.

"This is going to transform natural hazards reconnaissance research by making a collection of state-of-the-art equipment available to a wide community of researchers from across the country," said CEE professor Jeff Berman<https://www.ce.washington.edu/people/faculty/bermanj>.

Headquartered in Civil & Environmental Engineering, the center is led by principal investigator and professor Joe Wartman<https://www.ce.washington.edu/people/faculty/wartmanj>, working in collaboration with Berman and chair and professor Laura Lowes<https://www.ce.washington.edu/people/faculty/lowesl>. The interdisciplinary team includes research scientist Scott Miles<https://www.hcde.washington.edu/miles> from Human Centered Design and Engineering, professor Ann Bostrom<https://evans.uw.edu/profile/bostrom> from the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance, software development from Applied Physics Laboratory<http://www.apl.washington.edu/> and researchers from the University of Florida, Oregon State University and Virginia Tech.

Read the FULL STORY<https://www.ce.washington.edu/news/article/2018-11-14/data-base> at the University of Washington newsroom.

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Natural hazards engineering news, curated weekly

Every Monday, subscribers to NHERI's Natural Hazards Engineering News email list get updated on the latest news in the field, from reports on engineering failures, to stories about carbon nanotubes that measure strain on structures, to articles on the cost-benefit ratio of implementing hazard-resistant building codes. Subscribe here<https://designsafe-ci.us16.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=dc90d9824e5a18416dfe678e8&id=d2f37f2d68>.

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