<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0in;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><img width="575" height="236" id="gmail-m_4927935954269133268gmail-m_-8666148591891012415_x0000_i1026" src="http://www.cpe.vt.edu/email/rapid-nheri/header1.jpg" alt="Natural Hazards Reconnaissance Facility Workshop" class="gmail-m_4927935954269133268gmail-CToWUd gmail-m_4927935954269133268gmail-a6T gmail-CToWUd gmail-a6T" tabindex="0" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px; width: 5.993in; height: 2.4583in;"><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0px 0in;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif;color:rgb(188,24,33)"><span class="gmail-m_4927935954269133268gmail-aBn" style="border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(204,204,204)"><span class="gmail-m_4927935954269133268gmail-aQJ"><span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0" style="border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(204,204,204)"><span class="gmail-aQJ" style="top: 2px; z-index: -1;">MARCH 26, 2018, 8:30AM-5:00PM</span></span></span></span></span></b><span style="color:rgb(212,23,23)"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0px 0in;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:center"><b><br></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0px 0in;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:center"><b>Virginia Tech Executive Briefing Center<br><a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=900+N.+Glebe+Rd.,+Arlington,+VA+22203&entry=gmail&source=g" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">900 N. Glebe Rd., Arlington, VA 22203</a></b><u></u><u></u></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The RAPID facility supports the collection of perishable field data from natural hazard events. The facility promotes reconnaissance-based science, shared resources, open data, interdisciplinary research, community engagement, and innovation to reduce the adverse impacts of natural hazards. This one-day workshop is intended for potential natural hazard reconnaissance team members and data users who want to enhance their knowledge of the modern reconnaissance instrumentation and tools available at the RAPID facility as well as best-practices for reconnaissance data collection, processing, and archiving. The workshop will provide an overview of the RAPID facility and how individuals and teams may use the facility. In addition, the rapid-fire workshop will briefly address NSF RAPID proposal preparation leveraging the RAPID facility, reconnaissance basics, field equipment and techniques, data workflows, planning missions, and legal ethics (including IRB guidance). The target audience is prospective users of the RAPID facility, including academic and government researchers (including Ph.D. students) and working professionals.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0px 0in;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif;color:rgb(188,24,33)">$75 REGISTRATION FEE (Lunch Provided)<span> </span><br> $90 AFTER<span> </span><span class="gmail-m_4927935954269133268gmail-aBn" style="border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(204,204,204)"><span class="gmail-m_4927935954269133268gmail-aQJ"><span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0" style="border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(204,204,204)"><span class="gmail-aQJ" style="top: 2px; z-index: -1;">FEBRUARY 28, 2018</span></span><br><br></span></span></span></b><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0px 0in 12pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:center"><span style="color:rgb(39,114,188)">REGISTER HERE:<span> </span></span><a href="https://tinyurl.com/NHERIRapidFacilityWorkshop" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://tinyurl.com/NHER<wbr>IRapidFacilityWorkshop</a><span style="color:rgb(39,114,188)"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0px 0in 12pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:center"><b>Other One-day Workshops for 2018:<br><span class="gmail-m_4927935954269133268gmail-aBn" style="border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(204,204,204)"><span class="gmail-m_4927935954269133268gmail-aQJ"><span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0" style="border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(204,204,204)"><span class="gmail-aQJ" style="top: 2px; z-index: -1;">May 17-18, 2018</span></span></span></span><span> </span>in Miami, FL<br>(Joint workshop with the Wall of Wind) tentative<br><span class="gmail-m_4927935954269133268gmail-aBn" style="border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(204,204,204)"><span class="gmail-m_4927935954269133268gmail-aQJ"><span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0" style="border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(204,204,204)"><span class="gmail-aQJ" style="top: 2px; z-index: -1;">June 25, 2018</span></span></span></span><span> </span>in Los Angeles, CA<br></b><b style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="https://rapid.designsafe-ci.org/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://rapid.designsafe-ci.or<wbr>g</a><br></b><b><br>Contact: Jake Dafni<span> </span></b><a href="mailto:uwrapid@uw.edu" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><b>uwrapid@uw.edu</b></a><b><br><br></b><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0in;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><img border="0" width="576" height="86" id="gmail-m_4927935954269133268gmail-m_-8666148591891012415_x0000_i1025" src="http://www.cpe.vt.edu/email/rapid-nheri/footer.jpg" alt="Logos RAPID-NHERI - Natural Hazards Reconnaissance - National Science Foundation (NSF)" class="gmail-m_4927935954269133268gmail-CToWUd gmail-CToWUd" style="width: 6in; height: 0.8958in;"></p><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">
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