<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black">Save the Dates!</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black">J</span></b><b style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black">oint NHERI workshop series: <br>Lehigh — UC San Diego — UC Berkeley SimCenter</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black">Workshop 1: September 23-24, 2019 at Lehigh</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black">Workshop 2: December 16-17, 2019 at UC San Diego</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black">Do your
goals include networking with colleagues in the earthquake hazard mitigation
field? Do you seek guidance on collaborative research proposals? Then SAVE THE DATES and find out how three
NHERI Equipment Facilities (EF) can enhance your research. </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://lehigh.designsafe-ci.org/facility/overview/" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:11pt">Lehigh</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black">, </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://ucsd.designsafe-ci.org/" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:11pt">UC San Diego</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black">, and </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://simcenter.designsafe-ci.org/" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:11pt">UC Berkeley’s
SimCenter</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black"> are planning two sequential workshops, each 1.5
days, hosted first onsite at NHERI@Lehigh (September 2019) and three months
later hosted onsite at NHERI@UC San Diego (December 2019). Future users of
these facilities may attend either or both on-site workshops to learn more
about the EFs capabilities, network with colleagues in the earthquake hazard
mitigation field and ultimately seek guidance on planned research proposals.<br><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">The goals of this
workshop series are to:</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0.5in;margin-right:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Present
the capabilities of the NHERI@Lehigh, NHERI@UC San Diego and UC Berkeley (NHERI-SimCenter)
facilities</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0.5in;margin-right:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Provide
researchers with physical tours and demonstrations of the NHERI@Lehigh and
NHERI@UC San Diego facilities and capabilities, and hands-on examples of the
use of the NHERI-SimCenter latest capabilities</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0.5in;margin-right:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Present
example research projects conducted using these facilities & provide
suggestions on proposal preparation and planning to future users</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0.5in;margin-right:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Support
research teams planning proposals using all three or two of the three
facilities</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0.5in;margin-right:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Discuss
grand challenge earthquake engineering research topics and stimulate
collaboration amongst attendees to develop larger collaborative multi-university
proposals</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black">Registration
information will be released in July 2019. Meanwhile, SAVE the DATES and consider attending one or both of the following:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black">Workshop 1: September 23-24, 2019 at
Lehigh</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black">Workshop 2: December 16-17, 2019 at
UC San Diego </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black">Financial
support for travel will be available, with priority given to early career
faculty and new users who plan to submit NSF proposals that intend to use the NHERI
EFs or to use data accessible through DesignSafe. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black"><i>PLEASE SHARE these opportunities with friends and colleagues!</i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt">Workshop Organizing Team:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">Joel Conte, PI NHERI@UC San Diego</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">James Ricles, PI NHERI@Lehigh</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">Matt Schoettler, Operations
Director, NHERI-SimCenter</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt"><br></span></p><div style="text-align:center"><img src="cid:ii_jxzba7gu0" alt="ucsd-web.png__514x172_q85_subsampling-2.png" width="131" height="43" style="margin-right: 0px;"> <img src="cid:ii_jxzbb01z1" alt="lehigh-web.png__650x163_q85_subsampling-2.jpg" width="137" height="34" style="margin-right: 0px;"><img src="cid:ii_jxzbc04s2" alt="simcenter-web.png__852x180_q85_subsampling-2.png" width="167" height="33" style="margin-right: 0px;"></div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div><div style="text-align:center"><img src="cid:ii_jxzbdick3" alt="nsf-globe-logo-300.png__300x302_q85_subsampling-2.png" width="84" height="85" style="margin-right: 0px;"><br></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p></div></div></div></div></div>
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