NHERI Monthly Recap, August 2018
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September 26 - September 28
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Catch up with community happenings in NHERI's Monthly Recap.
Here's what's been happening around the network:
* Hurricane Lane and the Hawaiian Islands
* New NHERI facility: CONVERGE
* EAGER award to study complex topology and wind
* NSF award supports StEER Network
* Alipour to enhance resilience of electrical power networks
* DesignSafe Radio: natural hazards don't have to be disasters
* Natural hazards engineering news and research
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Hurricane Lane and the Hawaiian Islands
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Ian Robertson, professor of civil and environmental engineering and Arthur N.L. Chiu Distinguished Professor at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, prepared a summary of Hurricane Lane's effects on the Hawaiian Islands.
Hurricane Lane, a major Pacific Ocean hurricane, narrowly missed making landfall on the main Hawaiian Islands, but still caused considerable damage due to high winds and heavy rainfall. Hurricane Lane formed in the East Pacific as a tropical depression and strengthened as it moved westward over warm waters. It briefly reached Category 5 status just southeast of the Hawaiian Islands on August 22nd as it began to turn northwards. It then encountered high level winds from the southwest. In conjunction with the low level trade winds from the northeast, this resulted in a strong wind shear which led to rapid weakening of the system from Category 4 to Category 1 as it passed to the west of Hawaii Island. Once the storm had weakened to a tropical storm, the trade winds were able to redirect it to the west, thereby avoiding a direct landfall on any of the main Hawaiian Islands. Read the FULL REPORT<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/media/filer_public/9b/5e/9b5e05ec-b83d-49d1-a178-1ef7f9f91bd0/hurricane_lane_brief.pdf>.
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New NHERI Facility: CONVERGE
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To extend the NHERI portfolio and more fully connect it with the social science hazards and disaster research community, NSF has created a CONVERGE Facility through the CMMI 1841338 award<https://nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1841338&HistoricalAwards=false>. This new NHERI Facility headquartered at the University of Colorado Boulder Natural Hazards Center will identify, train, and coordinate social science hazards and disaster researchers and interdisciplinary teams and link them to the existing NHERI 5-Year Science Plan<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/facilities/nco/science-plan/>.
This facility is run by PI Lori Peek, professor of sociology and director of the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
The CONVERGE facility, which falls under the scope of the NHERI Network Coordination Office (NCO), establishes and supports a new Extreme Events Reconnaissance Research Leadership Corps that connects researchers from different disciplines, develops best practice guidelines for reconnaissance research, and supports public communications in the event of a major disaster. Additionally, it advances platforms, networks, mobile research applications, cyberinfrastructure and research opportunities for Social Science Extreme Events Research (SSEER) and Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Extreme Events Research (ISEEER). Through CONVERGE, ISEEER will serve as the connecting body for the GEER (Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance), StEER (Structural Engineering Extreme Events Reconnaissance), and SSEER networks - and the NHERI RAPID Facility and NHERI DesignSafe-Cyberinfrastructure.
In addition, the CONVERGE team has established partnerships with the Bill Anderson Fund<http://bit.ly/2PiCyfy> and the NSF-INCLUDES Minority SURGE Program<http://bit.ly/2yvmVNK> to ensure that emerging scholars from historically underrepresented groups are engaged in future reconnaissance efforts. Stay tuned for details!
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Disaster researchers survey damage in the U.S. Virgin Islands as part of NSF-funded Minority SURGE Capacity in Disasters launch pilot. (c) DeeDee Bennett, 2018
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EAGER award to study complex topology and wind
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Motivated by the extensive damage to Puerto Rico caused by Hurricane Maria's landfall in September 2017, researchers on a newly awarded EArly-concept Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER) will study how complex topography can accelerate wind and, ultimately, exacerbate damage to buildings and other constructed civil infrastructure.
The PI is Forrest Masters of the University of Florida; the co-PI is Luis Aponte of the University of Puerto Rico. The research will utilize recent advancements in machine learning and weather forecasting to predict wind speed-up in mountainous terrain and other complex terrestrial environments. The project will leverage the NSF-supported Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) Terraformer Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel (BLWT) at the University of Florida to characterize the surface wind field over geometrically scaled models of Puerto Rico and the municipal Islands of Vieques and Culebra. Read the FULL STORY<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/community/news/2018/august/eager-award-study-complex-topology-and-wind/>.
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NSF award supports StEER Network
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The National Science Foundation has awarded a 2-year EAGER grant (CMMI 1841667) to the Structural Extreme Events Reconnaissance (StEER) Network. StEER's mission is to deepen the structural natural hazards engineering (NHE) community's capacity for reliable post-event reconnaissance by (1) promoting community-driven standards, best practices, and training for RAPID field work, (2) coordinating official event responses in collaboration with other stakeholders and reconnaissance groups; and (3) representing structural engineering within the wider extreme events (EE) consortium in geotechnical engineering (GEER) and social sciences (SSEER) to foster greater potentials for truly interdisciplinary reconnaissance.
StEER will also work closely with the NSF-supported Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) RAPID facility and cyberinfrastructure Reconnaissance Portal to more effectively leverage these resources to benefit StEER missions. Read the FULL STORY<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/community/news/2018/august/nsf-award-supports-steer-network/>.
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Alipour to enhance resilience of electrical power networks using NHERI FIU Wall of Wind
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Alice Alipour<http://www.engineering.iastate.edu/directory/?user_page=alipour>, assistant professor of civil, construction, and environmental engineering at Iowa State University, recently received the 2018 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award<https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503214>. The award recognizes junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholar through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research.
Alipour currently leads a team of nine PhD and masters' students working on the performance of complex infrastructure systems under extreme events. Their research projects mainly span an interconnection of structural engineering, applied statists and network theory, seeking to investigate the key attributes contributing to the resiliency of infrastructure. This involves uncertainty quantification, extreme event characterization, and development of high-fidelity predictive tools to quantify the impact of hazards on infrastructure components. Read the FULL STORY<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/community/news/2018/august/alipour-career-award-electric-power-wall-wind/>.
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DesignSafe Radio: natural hazards don't have to be disasters
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Texas A&M political economist and writer Morten Wendelbo uses demographic data in hopes of mitigating natural hazards. Wendelbo envisions using publicly accessible data and geospatial information systems to predict and prevent natural hazards anywhere in the world. He likes to say that disasters are not a consequence of hazards; it's the hazard and how it affects people. Tune in to episode #50<https://soundcloud.com/user-426561648/50-natural-hazards-dont-have>.
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Natural hazards engineering news and research
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As a leading NSF-funded research organization, NHERI provides a weekly email service with the latest in natural hazards news and research.
Each Monday get articles about hazards mitigation and research across engineering disciplines and in hazards-aware fields such as biology, policy- and standards-making, data collection and mining, climatology and others.
Example stories include the Global Disaster Database<https://www.devex.com/news/can-more-accessible-data-equal-less-disaster-in-asia-pacific-93115> in Asia, trends in resilience-aware construction<https://www.engineering.com/BIM/ArticleID/17348/Confronting-Climate-Resilience-in-AEC-with-Arup-Group.aspx>, a study on coastal nuisance flooding<https://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-07/uocf-rlc070518.php>, hurricanes and the transformation a lizard species<https://interestingengineering.com/2017s-hurricane-season-transformed-an-entire-species-of-lizards> and the passing of great minds in the field, like Mete Sozen<https://www.eeri.org/wp-content/uploads/EERI-Sozen-Oral-History-ONLINE.pdf>. Subscribe to NHERI's Natural Hazards Engineering News here<https://designsafe-ci.us16.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=dc90d9824e5a18416dfe678e8&id=d2f37f2d68>.
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