NHERI Monthly Recap, February 2021

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Upcoming Events
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March 19, 2021
Identifying Data Guideline Needs for Community and Regional Resilience Modeling Workshop<http://resilience.colostate.edu/conference_data_workshop.shtml>
Virtual
Sponsors: NIST<https://nist.gov> & Colorado State University<http://www.colostate.edu>

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March 23 - March 25, 2021
EERI Annual Meeting<https://www.eeri.org/2021/01/save-the-date-2021-eeri-annual-meeting/>
Virtual
Sponsor: EERI<https://eeri.org>

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May 12 - May 14, 2021
6th AAWE Workshop<https://aawe.org/news/6th-aawe-workshop-call-for-abstracts/>
Virtual
Sponsor: AAWE<https://aawe.org> & Clemson University<https://clemson.edu>

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June 22 - June 24, 2021
3rd International Conference on Natural Hazards & Infrastructure<https://iconhic.com/2021/>
Athens, Greece
Sponsor: ICONHIC<https://iconhic.com>

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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.

FEBRUARY 2021
Catch up with community happenings in NHERI's Monthly Recap.

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

  *   REU program update
  *   Summer Institute for Early Career Faculty
  *   NSF renews grants for multiple NHERI facilities
  *   Joint report on M7 Samos Island earthquake
  *   Malley elected to NAE
  *   SimCenter Bootcamp fills growing need
  *   International honors for SimCenter's Kareem
  *   StEER releases details on recent earthquakes in Croatia and Indonesia
  *   Paper: Built Environment Exacerbating COVID-19 Pandemic
  *   Popular articles from Natural Hazards Engineering News

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 REU update

The deadline for applying to the NHERI Research Experiences for Undergraduates program was February 17, and the NHERI Education and Community Outreach<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/facilities/nco/eco/> team is now evaluating submissions. The ECO sends a hearty “Thank you!” to all faculty members, REU alumni, and NHERI community who inspired students to apply to be part of the 2021 cohort.

While aiming for face-to-face programs, the ECO understands that some facilities may require virtual programs this year due to local COVID-19 quarantine guidelines. The team is working individually with NHERI network facilities to create world-class curricula, no matter the format.

The ECO will announce NHERI's 2021 REU cohort in early March.

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2018 REU alumni Angela Del Rosario<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y-ZOYcLBK4>, a Civil Engineering major at UC Davis, participated at NHERI's Oregon State University experimental facility.

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Summer Institute for Early Career Faculty

The NHERI Summer Institute allows early-career faculty and researchers to gain in-depth knowledge of NHERI facilities and community resources, NSF programs, and the proposal-writing process.  Early-career faculty and researchers can apply for travel awards through the link below.

Application deadline: March 3
Apply Online<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/learning-center/summer-institute/>

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NSF renews grants for multiple NHERI facilities

Over the past several months, the National Science Foundation has renewed funding for six of the NHERI network’s 11 experimental facilities through late 2025. As of February 2021, the following EFs have had their cooperative agreements renewed.

  *   Oregon State University, with the large wave flume and directional wave basin<https://ktvz.com/news/oregon-northwest/2021/01/19/osu-wave-lab-receives-4-9-for-natural-hazards-engineering-research/> (Award #2037914),
  *   Lehigh University, with the large-scale, multi-directional, hybrid simulation testing<https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-01/lu-nal012521.php> (Award # 2037771)
  *   University of Texas, with its large mobile dynamic shakers for field testing (Award # 2037900)
  *   University of Texas, with the DesignSafe Cyberinfrastructure<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/community/news/2020/november/disaster-database-cements-itself-go-hub-natural-hazards-informat/> (Award # 2022469)
  *   University of California, Davis, with the large geotechnical centrifuges (Award # 2037883)
  *   University of Florida, with the Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel (Award # 2037725)
  *   Florida International University, with the 12-Fan Wall of Wind<https://news.fiu.edu/2021/fiu-wall-of-wind-receives-a-5.62-million-nsf-grant-for-hurricane-research> (Award # 2037899)

Congratulations all! Researchers at NHERI sites continue to discover innovative ways to mitigate structural and social damage due to natural hazards.

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Joint report on M7 Samos Island earthquake

An international collaboration has released a joint report on the M7 Samos Island (Aegean Sea) earthquake that struck Greece and Turkey on 30 October 2020. Jonathan Stewart, professor of earthquake and geotechnical engineering at UCLA, helped organize consultations between the groups, which included U.S.-based organizations EERI<https://www.eeri.org> and NHERI-affiliated GEER<http://geerassociation.org/>. “It became evident that this significant event could only be understood in depth by mobilizing scientists on both sides of the fault, while integrating data and interpreting field evidence collectively,” Stewart said.

Read the FULL STORY<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/community/news/2021/january/recon-report-m7-samos-island-earthquake-oct-2020/>.

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Malley elected to the National Academy of Engineering

The prestigious National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has elected James O. Malley as a member. Malley, group director and senior principal with Degenkolb Engineers, San Francisco, was recognized for his leadership in improving seismic design.

Malley is an active force in the earthquake engineering community, including within the NHERI network. He has played influential roles in both the NHERI User Forum<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/community/user-forum/> and Technology Transfer Committee<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/community/ttc/> since the inception of the NSF-funded NHERI award. He recently announced that he is stepping down from the User Forum, but that he plans to remain active in the TTC.

“We send Jim hearty congratulations,” says Stephanie Smallegan, assistant professor of Coastal Engineering at the University of South Alabama and chair of the User Forum. “Jim has been an active and engaged member of both committees, bringing practical knowledge that helps bridge the gap between research discoveries and application for practitioners.”

Read the FULL STORY<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/community/news/2021/february/malley-elected-national-academy-engineering/>

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SimCenter's Winter Bootcamp fills growing need for natural hazards engineering programming skills

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Since the summer of 2018, the NHERI SimCenter has organized programming bootcamps<https://simcenter.designsafe-ci.org/knowledge-hub/workshops/>, intensive, week-long sessions aimed at teaching programming techniques that are especially useful in natural hazards research. The goal of the bootcamps is to train NHERI researchers in programming paradigms not covered in traditional civil engineering courses, but which are needed to advance simulation for natural hazards engineering. The bootcamps are becoming increasingly popular, and requests to participate in the summer 2020 session, held online in August, exceeded the group’s teaching capacity by a factor of 2.

“This surge in demand indicated a clear interest and need in the modeling community for these fundamentals,” says Matt Schoettler, associate director at the SimCenter. “So we decided to conduct another set of sessions this winter, giving priority registration to those waitlisted from the August 2020 event.”

In post-session evaluations, summer participants praised the content offerings and reported significant improvement in their programming skills. “This feedback encouraged us to offer the event again with an expanded capacity and help from Bootcamp Mentors,” says Schoettler. The SimCenter held two winter bootcamp sessions, on December 14-18, 2020, and January 4-8, 2021.

Read the FULL STORY<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/community/news/2021/february/winter-bootcamp-growing-need-hazards-programming-skills/>

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International honors for SimCenter's Kareem

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In 2020, SimCenter co-PI Ahsan Kareem was honored by two international engineering societies. The International Association of Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), in Zurich, Switzerland, awarded Kareem the International Award of Merit in Structural Engineering 2020<https://iabse.org/Bulletin/Press-Releases/Merit2020>. In addition, Kareem was elected to the Engineering Academy of Japan<https://www.eaj.or.jp/en/?p=94> (EAJ) as a foreign associate.

Read the FULL STORY<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/community/news/2021/january/international-honors-simcenters-kareem/>.

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StEER releases details on recent earthquakes in Croatia and Indonesia

The Structural Extreme Events Reconnaissance community, StEER<https://www.steer.network>, has released two new products overviewing the impacts of recent earthquakes on the built environment.

The first is a product resulting from a collaboration between EERI’s Learning From Earthquakes<http://learningfromearthquakes.org/> program and StEER to document the 29 December 2020 Petrinja, Croatia (Mw 6.4) Earthquake. This detailed Joint Reconnaissance Report, which includes field observations from colleagues near the epicenter, is available on DesignSafe: https://doi.org/10.17603/ds2-1w0y-5080

The second release is an Event Briefing on the 15 January 2021 earthquake in Sulawesi, Indonesia, which includes contributions from colleagues who previously documented the Palu earthquake-tsunami in 2018. It is also now available on DesignSafe: https://doi.org/10.17603/ds2-16w0-8f16.

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Image: Collapsed unreinforced masonry building on Stossmayer St. in Petrinja. Photo by Damir Lazarevic.

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Paper: Built Environment Exacerbating COVID-19 Pandemic

As communities across the United States struggle to manage a wave of COVID-19 infections, a multidisciplinary team of researchers argue that the pandemic has revealed the ways in which engineered structures and services have contributed to society’s challenges. They subsequently posit that the built environment — including both engineered structures and services (ESS) — cannot be ignored when developing long-term pandemic mitigation.

In an article recently published in The Journal of Critical Infrastructure Policy<https://designsafe-ci.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dc90d9824e5a18416dfe678e8&id=578969571b&e=ae51413b0a>, a team led by David Mendonca, a professor of industrial and systems engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, earnestly asks engineers and social scientists to re-examine the models, data collection methods, and assumptions that their research is currently built upon.

“In this project, we intend to examine the current state of preparedness in the U.S. in regard to the interaction of multiple hazards during a pandemic — specifically within the scope of the NSF-funded Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure<https://designsafe-ci.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dc90d9824e5a18416dfe678e8&id=6ff1dcbc49&e=ae51413b0a> (NHERI) grant,” said Julio Ramirez, project co-PI and director of the NHERI Network Coordination Office.

Read the FULL STORY<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/community/news/2021/january/built-environment-exacerbating-covid-19-pandemic-researchers-say/>

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Popular articles from Natural Hazards Engineering News

Multihazard Scenarios for Regional Seismic Risk Assessment of Spatially Distributed Infrastructure<https://ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1061/%28ASCE%29IS.1943-555X.0000598>, in the Journal of Infrastructure Systems. Authors: Rachel Davidson and Nafiseh Soleimini, U of Delaware; Craig Davis, CA Davis Engineering; Thomas O’Rourke and Linda Nozick, Cornell University.

Exposure to natural hazard events unassociated with policy change for improved disaster risk reduction<https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-20435-2>, in Nature Communications. Authors: Daniel Nohrstedt, Maurizio Mazzoleni, Charles F. Parker and Giuliano Di Baldassarre, Centre of Natural Hazards and Disaster Science, Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University.

Performance-Based Assessment and Structural Response of 20-Story SAC Building under Wind Hazards through Collapse<https://ascelibrary.org/doi/10.1061/%28ASCE%29ST.1943-541X.0002911> in the Journal of Structural Engineering. Authors: Mohamad Moustafa and Azin Ghaffery, University of Nevada, Reno.

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