NHERI Monthly Recap, March 2020

Tue Mar 31 15:13:04 CDT 2020

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Upcoming Events
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CANCELED

April 22 - April 24
2020 NZSEE Annual Technical Conference<https://conferences.co.nz/nzsee2020/>
Wellington, New Zealand
Sponsor: NZSEE<https://www.nzsee.org.nz/>

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CANCELED

May 18 - May 20
Disaster Ethics Conference 2020<https://events.ruc.dk/disasterethics/home.html>
Copenhagen, Denmark
Sponsor: Roskilde University<https://ruc.dk/en> and York Univesrity<https://yorku.ca>

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POSTPONED

May 26 - May 29 TBD
EMI Conference and Probabilistic Mechanics & Reliability Conference<https://www.emi-conference.org/>
New York, New York
Sponsor: ASCE<https://www.asce.org/>

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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 when regular schedules resume.

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

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

  *   NHERI-DesignSafe coronavirus response
  *   CONVERGE offers award for COVID-19 social science research
  *   Artificial intelligence workshop a popular success
  *   Connecting the SimCenter is even easier with the new User Forum
  *   New NHERI-CONVERGE training module available: cultural competence
  *   NHERI Science Plan now published with DOIs
  *   NHERI's Oregon State University EF hosts prestigious CERB group
  *   Waves meet wind at Florida International University

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

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NHERI-DesignSafe coronavirus response

The coronavirus affects us all. To discover the status of NHERI experimental facilities, visit the COVID-19 response page<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/covid19/>, which the NCO web team is updating regularly. If you have questions about NHERI activities through April 30, 2020, you may contact the Network Coordination Office (NCO) via email<mailto:nheri.communications at gmail.com>.

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CONVERGE offers award for COVID-19 social science research

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AI Workshop attendees (Photo: Salazar/TACC)

Based on the outpouring of interest from the social science research community and the facility’s mission to advance convergence science for the benefit of humanity, CONVERGE is offering $1,000 awards to those who wish to launch COVID-19 Working Groups for Public Health and Social Sciences Research<https://converge.colorado.edu/resources/covid-19/working-groups>.

CONVERGE<https://converge.colorado.edu> and the Social Science Extreme Events Research<https://converge.colorado.edu/research-networks/sseer/> (SSEER) Network will fund up to 30 COVID-19 Working Groups focused on issues and advancements in methods, ethics and empirical topics. CONVERGE is part of NSF’s Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/> (NHERI) network.

Applications for Working Groups will be accepted between April 4 and April 13, 2020.

Read the FULL STORY<https://bit.ly/2UreaxF>.

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Artificial intelligence workshop a popular success

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AI Workshop attendees (Photo: Salazar/TACC)

On February 18-19, NHERI DesignSafe<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/> in collaboration with the NHERI SimCenter<https://simcenter.designsafe-ci.org/> organized and hosted a 1-½ day workshop on artificial intelligence/machine learning/deep learning (AI/ML/DL)<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/learning-center/training/workshops/2020-tutorials/artificial-intelligence-natural-hazards-engineering/> and their application in natural hazards engineering. The purpose of the workshop was to build a research agenda determining where AI/ML/DL is and can be productively employed in natural hazards engineering research, what techniques hold key promise, and how these techniques may be adapted to the hazards engineering domain moving forward.

Read the FULL STORY<https://simcenter.designsafe-ci.org/news/2020/march/ai-workshop-natural-hazards-engineering/>.

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AI Workshop attendees (Photo: Salazar/TACC)

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Connecting with the SimCenter is even easier with the new User Forum

The NHERI SimCenter recently rolled out a new platform for improved user interaction. The User Forum<https://secure-web.cisco.com/1O-eQg8B0pNG1I8JflIAMcuDxkC4IhmZmyibg2gL0h_anXhLXt9-rYBDjqIAm8sqd0k0maRNJIf51_uv0a900jBrLTtX7GlcOF-H1hPttzNhW-LIxqn7DrdNK5BlH5ORcke5bwrPUvCwQddVbo7k17z9MIqonLsHguUYGiKLiGGUkYSvtSzaNv_sim6jfXPzGjJuGEAm4rJzxnsu3tSkVJQlF2dw3Hv7BE1uyKltEFftQKiCT4p-jx2i5UzBNFGczvFjb5lW0vjHhRmXG_JQxljyOQ11lU7ejW57KYlBU8tCE6fFfk3erXsiXE-7-B5bf8uN1TL59hp7xSbeNO0B44-Zga1CB3SkIfZyP1hNP1f9_XuMAluhyKUkhwdOnxpFyrS5PBb7t5suRZK1kcByn0KmpjQaibT0FwkOdhAQd56AQGUK4IlLxUi0ffW8evw4yFihkcJSD8YdXmv1UZzt2T1Nn0caOR2F2apb-aLx2d1xctaUHpucPPZCbG6NGkWqhcRoH0Yxo9Kowtw2bPHjozG1Pbehk-v3aMn5AaGjgfcVZtDa2hF1FSkM8dyYK0dtDHneG2QmRqmgjYT-kmcu-XUv1IjiAaOT6Y30wpvXW3ow/https%3A%2F%2Fsimcenter-messageboard.designsafe-ci.org%2Fsmf%2F> replaces separate Slack channels and surveys for tool-feature requests. The enhanced platform is a dedicated user forum providing access to questions, observations, and discussions about all SimCenter tools and their installation — as well as general questions and discussion about educational and research applications of the tools. All posts go directly to the SimCenter development team and are available to the user community.

Read the FULL STORY<https://simcenter.designsafe-ci.org/news/2020/february/new-user-forum/> and join the User Forum here<https://secure-web.cisco.com/1O-eQg8B0pNG1I8JflIAMcuDxkC4IhmZmyibg2gL0h_anXhLXt9-rYBDjqIAm8sqd0k0maRNJIf51_uv0a900jBrLTtX7GlcOF-H1hPttzNhW-LIxqn7DrdNK5BlH5ORcke5bwrPUvCwQddVbo7k17z9MIqonLsHguUYGiKLiGGUkYSvtSzaNv_sim6jfXPzGjJuGEAm4rJzxnsu3tSkVJQlF2dw3Hv7BE1uyKltEFftQKiCT4p-jx2i5UzBNFGczvFjb5lW0vjHhRmXG_JQxljyOQ11lU7ejW57KYlBU8tCE6fFfk3erXsiXE-7-B5bf8uN1TL59hp7xSbeNO0B44-Zga1CB3SkIfZyP1hNP1f9_XuMAluhyKUkhwdOnxpFyrS5PBb7t5suRZK1kcByn0KmpjQaibT0FwkOdhAQd56AQGUK4IlLxUi0ffW8evw4yFihkcJSD8YdXmv1UZzt2T1Nn0caOR2F2apb-aLx2d1xctaUHpucPPZCbG6NGkWqhcRoH0Yxo9Kowtw2bPHjozG1Pbehk-v3aMn5AaGjgfcVZtDa2hF1FSkM8dyYK0dtDHneG2QmRqmgjYT-kmcu-XUv1IjiAaOT6Y30wpvXW3ow/https%3A%2F%2Fsimcenter-messageboard.designsafe-ci.org%2Fsmf%2F>.

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New NHERI-CONVERGE training module available: cultural competence

The Natural Hazards Center is pleased to announce the release of the third CONVERGE Training Module, Cultural Competence in Hazards and Disaster Research<https://converge.colorado.edu/resources/training-modules> — made possible with funding from the NSF's NHERI award. This module introduces participants to academic literature that describes the importance of building cultural competence for extreme events researchers.

This online course is part of a series of online training modules<https://converge.colorado.edu/training-modules> developed by the CONVERGE research team. These interactive, 30- to 60-minute courses cover a variety of topics that researchers — with a special emphasis on students and emerging scholars — can use to quickly educate themselves on conducting hazards and disaster research.

Learn more at the CONVERGE Cultural Competence Training Module Demonstration Webinar on April 3 from 1:00 to 1:30 p.m. MDT. Register here<https://bit.ly/3dxyftB>.

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NHERI Science Plan now published with DOIs

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Both editions of the NHERI Science Plan (2017<https://doi.org/10.17603/ds2-hsrg-1880> and 2020<https://doi.org/10.17603/ds2-4s85-mc54>) are now officially published with digital object identifiers, or DOIs.

The NHERI NCO and lead writer-editor Billy Edge, professor of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering at North Carolina State University, wish to share their thanks to everyone who worked on organizing, writing, coordinating, correcting and publishing the Science Plan documents.

Read the FULL STORY<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/community/news/2020/march/nheri-science-plan-now-published-dois/>.

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NHERI's Oregon State University EF hosts prestigious CERB group

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On March 3 and 4, 2020, Oregon State University hosted the executive session meeting for the Coastal Engineering Research Board, known as CERB, including a reception at the NHERI experimental facility to highlight cutting edge coastal engineering and science research. CERB consists of Army Corps of Engineers senior officers and civilian engineers and scientists who are experts in the field of coastal engineering. As well as providing broad policy guidance, CERB reviews plans and funding requirements for research projects in consonance with the needs of the coastal engineering field and the objectives of the U.S. Army Chief of Engineers.

At the Corvallis campus meeting<https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/02/03/2020-01972/board-on-coastal-engineering-research>, OSU and CERB leadership identified collaboration opportunities and discussed strategic research needed to address Pacific Northwest coast processes and coastal resilience.

Read the FULL STORY<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/community/news/2020/march/oregon-state-university-ef-hosts-cerb/>.

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Waves meet wind at Florida International University

In March 2020, faculty and students from the NHERI at OSU experimental facility traveled to Miami for a first-hand look at the NHERI Wall of Wind (WoW). The purpose of the field trip was to understand operations and research capabilities for the WoW. Both teams look forward to facility enhancements for NHERI 2.0 (Years 6-10) that will support NSF-funded wind-surge and wave research.

"It is a great opportunity when students and staff from one specialized discipline get to directly interface with folks from a different field," says Dan Cox, PI of the NHERI at OSU facility. "Experiencing a research facility first-hand is definitely more meaningful than watching it via video."

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(Above) Faculty and students during the February field trip to South Florida and the WoW facility. Pictured from left to right:

  *   Amal Elawady, Assistant Professor, FIU
  *   Pedro Lomonaco, HWRL Director and NHERI EF co-PI, OSU
  *   Chris O’Day, Graduate Student, OSU
  *   Kiernan Kelty, Graduate Student, OSU
  *   Daniel Cox, Professor and NHERI PI, OSU
  *   Arindam Chowdhury, Professor and NHERI PI, FIU

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