NHERI Monthly Recap, December 2020

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NHERI is monitoring the status of upcoming hazards engineering events in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and will continue to provide a community calendar of both in-person and virtual events.

DECEMBER 2020
Catch up with community happenings in NHERI's Monthly Recap.

Here's what's been happening around the network:

  *   NHERI impact in Frontiers in Built Environment
  *   Virtual tours of LHPOST6
  *   DesignSafe announces data publishing awards
  *   NHERI REU application deadline: Feb. 3, 2021
  *   Pauschke presents during 2020 AGU Fall Meeting
  *   Zekkos leads GEER mission for Medicane Ianos
  *   NEW: EF proposal planning meetings
  *   NHERI community calendar
  *   Natural Hazards Engineering News: Top stories

Why haven't we heard from your team? Send us a story:
Email nheri.communications at gmail.com<mailto:nheri.communications at gmail.com> or Slack #Communications.

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NHERI impact in Frontiers in Built Environment

To raise awareness — and to encourage shared-use of NHERI experimental facilities — the Network Coordination Office led an effort for all NHERI components to publish informational articles in the journal Frontiers in Built Environment and to create an E-book with the collection of all 15 articles.

In the spring of 2020, NHERI established its own research topic in FBE: Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) 2016-2020: Mitigating the Impact of Natural Hazards on Civil Infrastructure and Communities<https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/11791/natural-hazards-engineering-research-infrastructure-nheri-2016-2020-mitigating-the-impact-of-natural>.

The NHERI topic consists of 15 articles written by more than 100 authors; 14 of the 15 articles are available online, and one is under final review.

The impact of these papers is significant. As of December 2020, the NHERI topic has been viewed more than 15,000 times and has resulted in more than 1,100 article downloads.

To access the articles and explore the impact statistics, visit the NHERI research topic online<https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/11791/natural-hazards-engineering-research-infrastructure-nheri-2016-2020-mitigating-the-impact-of-natural>.

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Virtual tours of LHPOST6

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The upgrade to the Large High Large High Performance Outdoor Shake Table, LHPOST, continues apace. Once the work is completed, in the fall of 2021, the NHERI at UC San Diego shake table will be able to reproduce earthquake ground motions in six-degrees-of-freedom. The facility, now called LHPOST6, will significantly advance earthquake engineering.

Although COVID-19 restrictions disallow on-site tours, the UC San Diego facility had generously created a virtual tour. Site PI Joel Conte provides an informative 20-minute walk-through of the work in progress. Find it on YouTube:

NHERI at UC San Diego LHPOST6 virtual tour<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIHEQ_NSnRA>

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DesignSafe announces data publishing awards
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The DesignSafe team recently announced the inaugural DesignSafe Dataset Awards.

These awards will recognize outstanding datasets published in the DesignSafe Data Depot<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/data/browser/public/>. The selected dataset authors will be recognized with a feature story on the DesignSafe website, will receive a certificate and Amazon Gift card, and will be invited to give a presentation at a future DesignSafe workshop or webinar.

Nominations will be accepted until January 31, 2021.

Find award details and the nomination form on the DesignSafe website<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/awards/dataset/>.

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NHERI REU application deadline: Feb. 3, 2021

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As the holiday break approaches at American universities, now is a good time to remind students and friends to apply for the NHERI Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program, a world-class summer research program.

NHERI faculty are our most successful REU recruiters, so we urge professors and post-docs to alert their high-achieving students to this career-enhancing opportunity. Many REU alums go on to graduate studies in natural hazards.

The 10-week program gives students hands-on experience at a NHERI facility. Students work on a research project, network with fellow students around the country, and prepare a poster to present at a capstone conference. REU participants also receive a stipend.

Find details and application info in the DesignSafe Learning Center<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/learning-center/reu/>. The NHERI ECO is holding an informational seminar on Jan. 21st. Register here: https://bit.ly/REU_NHERI.

The deadline for NHERI REU applications is Feb. 3, 2021.

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Pauschke presents during 2020 AGU Fall Meeting

Joy Pauschke, Program Director, Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI), Directorate for Engineering (ENG), National Science Foundation, presented a talk on NSF funding opportunities on December 14, 2020, at the NHERI booth during the AGU Meeting.

In the hour-long talk, Pauschke provided an overview of funding opportunities within NSF, including those within CMMI and Mid-scale Research Infrastructure. She also offered suggestions for NSF proposal preparation and described NSF’s merit review process.

More than 70 individuals participated in the Zoom session, which was hosted by Robin Nelson, education specialist with NHERI’s Education and Community Outreach team.

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Zekkos leads GEER mission for Medicane Ianos

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Dimitrios Zekkos, associate professor at UC Berkeley, led a Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance<http://www.geerassociation.org/> (GEER) mission to document damage from Medicane Ianos. Medicane Ianos, a Mediterranean Hurricane, impacted Greece on September 17-20, 2020.

During Medicane Ianos, the amount of precipitation during a duration of about 48 hours was among the highest recorded and exceeded, in certain areas, the mean annual precipitation. The extent of the affected area was very large and encompassed western, central and southern Greece, all the way south to the island of Crete. The Ionian islands and the areas around Karditsa and Lamia in Central Greece were particularly affected.

READ MORE<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/community/news/2020/december/zekkos-leads-geer-mission-medicane-ianos/>

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NEW: EF proposal planning meetings

During the NHERI Summer Institute, prospective users have a chance to meet directly with EF faculty. It is a valuable way for researchers to get specifics about NHERI facilities and personal guidance for writing NSF grant proposals.

With virtual meetings now being commonplace, the NHERI’s Education and Community Outreach team has decided to leverage NHERI’s Zoom meeting capabilities — and offer these one-on-one meetings on a regular basis. The sessions are scheduled via the Eventbrite event management service, and the meetings themselves run in Zoom.

Currently, Florida International University, Lehigh University and UC San Diego offer one-on-one meetings to prospective faculty users.

“These sessions give our faculty an easy, personal way to answer questions about their facilities,” says Robin Nelson, ECO coordinator.

To learn more about scheduling one-on-one sessions for your facility, contact Robin Nelson at robin.nelson at utsa.edu<mailto:robin.nelson at utsa.edu>.

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NHERI community calendar

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Every month, NHERI facilities and other natural hazards institutions host tutorials, webinars and conferences. To plan for upcoming educational, informational and networking events, consult the NHERI events calendar on the DesignSafe website:

NHERI Community Calendar<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/community/calendar/>

To add an event, submit a request on the Community Calendar page, linked above.

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Natural Hazards Engineering News: Top stories

Each week, NHERI’s Natural Hazards Engineering News, NHEN, provides news and research items of interest to the natural hazards research community. Top stories in the past month include the following:

“A framework to compare wind loads on low-rise buildings in tornadoes and atmospheric boundary layers<https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167610520301793?via%3Dihub>,” by Gregory Kopp and Chien-Hsun Wu of the U of Western Ontario. The article appears in the September issue of the Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics.

“A framework for the probabilistic quantification of the resilience of communities to hurricane winds<https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167610520302865>,” by Ahmed Abdelhady, Seymour Spence and Jason McCormick of the University of Michigan. The article appears in the November issue of the Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics.

To submit an article for inclusion of NHEN, send it to Marti LaChance, editor, at nheri.communications at gmail.com<mailto:nheri.communications at gmail.com>. To subscribe, click here<https://designsafe-ci.us16.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=dc90d9824e5a18416dfe678e8&id=d2f37f2d68>.

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