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<strong><a href="https://www.designsafe-ci.org/learning-center/training/workshops/december-2019-wow-facility/" target="_blank">2019 Wall of Wind Workshop</a></strong><br>
<em>Miami, Florida</em><br>
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<strong><a href="https://www.agu.org/Fall-Meeting" target="_blank">AGU Fall Meeting 2019</a></strong><br>
<em>San Francisco, California</em><br>
Sponsor:<span> </span><a href="https://www.agu.org/" target="_blank">AGU</a></p>
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<p style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 10px">December 18 - December 17<br>
<strong>Joint NHERI Workshop Series #2: Lehigh – UC San Diego – UC Berkeley</strong><br>
<em>San Diego, California</em><br>
Sponsor:<span> </span><a href="https://lehigh.edu" target="_blank">Lehigh</a>,<span> </span><a href="https://ucsd.edu/" target="_blank">UC San Diego</a>, and<span> </span><a href="https://berkeley.edu" target="_blank">UC Berkeley</a></p>
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<strong><a href="https://peer.berkeley.edu/news-and-events/2020-peer-annual-meeting" target="_blank">PEER Annual Conference</a></strong><br>
<em>Berkeley, California</em><br>
Sponsor:<span> </span><a href="https://berkeley.edu" target="_blank">UC Berkeley</a></p>
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<strong><a href="http://earthquakeconference.org/" target="_blank">2020 National Earthquake Conference and 72nd EERI Annual Meeting</a></strong><br>
<em>San Diego, California</em><br>
Sponsor:<span> </span><a href="https://www.eeri.org/" target="_blank">EERI</a><span> </span>and<span> </span><a href="https://flash.org" target="_blank">FLASH)</a></p>
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NOVEMBER 2019</h1>
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<em>Catch up with community happenings in NHERI's Monthly Recap.</em></h4>
<p style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 10px">Here's what's been happening around the network:</p>
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<li style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px">NHERI at the AGU fall meeting</li><li style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px">NHERI goes to THWARTS</li><li style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px">UF wind engineers: on a mission</li><li style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px">Blind prediction contest for E-Defense</li><li style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px">DesignSafe CI updates tools for natural hazards research</li><li style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px">CONVERGE releases its Social Vulnerability training module</li></ul>
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<p style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 10px">Why haven't we heard from your team? Send us a story:<br>
Email<span> </span><a href="mailto:nheri.communications@gmail.com" target="_blank">nheri.communications@mail.com</a><span> </span>or Slack #Communications.</p>
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NHERI at the AGU fall meeting</h3>
<p style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 10px">Representatives from NHERI and its experimental facilities will be in attendance at the AGU fall meeting, Dec. 9-13 in San Francisco. Please stop by<span> </span><a href="https://events.jspargo.com/AGU19/Public/eBooth.aspx?IndexInList=12&FromPage=Exhibitors.aspx&ParentBoothID=&ListByBooth=true&BoothID=643161" target="_blank">booth
110</a><span> </span>and say hello!</p>
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NHERI goes to THWARTS</h3>
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<p style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 10px">Dan Zehner, NHERI NCO facility scheduling and operations coordinator, and Seungwook Seok, research assistant at Purdue University, attended the Tornado Hazard Wind Assessment and Reduction
Symposium (THWARTS), October 14 and 15.</p>
<p style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 10px">Using the newly minted NHERI conference booth, the pair promoted the network resources for world-class physical and cyberphysical testing capabilities.</p>
<p style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 10px">The booth provides a large visual representation of the network and a focal point for discussions with conference attendees. NHERI researcher Elaina Sutley, also chair of the User
Forum, was one of many who brought over colleagues to discuss opportunities for groundbreaking research in the area of tornadic wind storm hazard reduction.</p>
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UF wind engineers: on a mission</h3>
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<p style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 10px">As Hurricane Dorian began bearing down on the Bahamas on August 30 and 31, the University of Florida's Forrest Masters and his team of wind engineers were scanning forecasts and models
for the perfect time and place to park their mobile weather stations to measure the storm's surface wind structure during landfall along the U.S. east coast. (Above: the UF 15-meter tower 2 weather station.)</p>
<p style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 10px">Read the<span> </span><a href="https://www.designsafe-ci.org/community/news/2019/october/university-florida-wind-engineers-mission/" target="_blank">FULL STORY</a>.</p>
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Blind prediction contest for E-Defense</h3>
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<p style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 10px">The University of Tokyo's Earthquake Research Instititute (ERI) is pleased to announce <a href="http://www.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp/KUSUNOKI-LAB/index17.html" target="_blank">a blind prediction
competition</a> for an E-Defense test to be performed in <a href="http://www.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp/KUSUNOKI-LAB/index17_4.html" target="_blank">December 2019</a> as part of the Tokyo Metropolitan Resilience Project. (The blind predictions are estimates about specific
outcomes of the shake test. See the contest rules.)</p>
<p style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 10px">The test specimen is a 3-story reinforced concrete building with spandrel walls casted monolithically with the frame elements. Participants will be tasked with predicting various building
response parameters, such as peak interstory drifts and base shear. For details on contest rules, specimen details, test plan and prizes, <a href="http://www.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp/KUSUNOKI-LAB/index17.html" target="_blank">click here to visit the project web site</a>.</p>
<p style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 10px">Read the<span> </span><a href="https://www.designsafe-ci.org/community/news/2019/october/tokyo-metro-resilience-edefense-test-dec-2019/" target="_blank">FULL STORY</a>.</p>
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DesignSafe CI updates tools for natural hazards research</h3>
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<p style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 10px">Securing the built environment against natural hazards requires serious technical sophistication.<span> </span><a href="https://www.designsafe-ci.org/" target="_blank">DesignSafe</a>,
the cyberinfrastructure component of NSF’s Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI), provides a robust platform for researchers building on new ideas. With over 4,000 users and 10 TB of data, the platform embraces a cloud strategy for managing
big data, the mountains of information generated by natural hazards engineering and social science researchers.</p>
<p style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 10px">Read the<span> </span><a href="https://www.designsafe-ci.org/community/news/2019/november/nsf-supported-natural-hazards-cyberinfrastructure-tools-data-ed/" target="_blank">FULL NEWS
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CONVERGE releases its Social Vulnerability training module</h3>
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<p style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 10px">The Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado Boulder has released the CONVERGE <em>Social Vulnerability and Disasters Training Module</em>. The module is the first in a
series of online trainings that can assist natural hazards researchers from a range of disciplines. The module, which draws on numerous studies of disaster, will also be useful to early responders, such as engineers and disaster relief personnel, in applying
social science best practices to rapid reconnaissance research.</p>
<p style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 10px">Read the<span> </span><a href="https://www.designsafe-ci.org/community/news/2019/november/converge-releases-social-vulnerability-training/" target="_blank">FULL NEWS RELEASE</a>.</p>
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