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upcoming (virtual) hazards and disaster </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://hazards.colorado.edu/workshop/2020/researchers-meeting/overview" target="_blank"><b>Researchers Meeting</b></a></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">, scheduled for <b>July 15-16, 2020</b>! </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-family:Arial,sans-serif;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-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">If you have not yet
signed up, you can find the registration rates and registration link, here: </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://hazards.colorado.edu/workshop/2020/registration" target="_blank">https://hazards.colorado.edu/workshop/2020/registration</a></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">. </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>

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Meeting is organized around the theme of </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://hazards.colorado.edu/workshop/2020/researchers-meeting/overview" target="_blank"><i>The Data Revolution: Ethical
Imperatives and Methodological Considerations for Hazards and Disaster Research</i></a></span><i><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">. </span></i><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Sessions will focus on
new data technologies and capabilities, while also tackling enduring and
emergent ethical and methodological considerations concerning <i>why</i> we
collect data, <i>what</i> we measure, <i>who</i> we collect
data from, and <i>how</i> we gather and share data in disaster
contexts. Join us for 20+ concurrent sessions featuring over 100 original
research papers, a distinguished keynote and plenary session, special training
sessions on data collection and data publication, and a lunch and learn session
with National Science Foundation (NSF) program officers. </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>

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Meeting is scheduled to immediately follow the </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://hazards.colorado.edu/workshop/2020" target="_blank">45th Annual Natural Hazards
Workshop</a></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">. All are welcome and
encouraged to attend both (first-ever virtual) events. </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>

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</span><i><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102)">The 2020 Researchers Meeting is supported by
the NSF and <span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">organized by the International
Sociological Association Research Committee on Disasters (ISA-RC39) with the
support of the Natural Hazards Center and the NHERI CONVERGE facility at the
University of Colorado Boulder.</span></span></i><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>

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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:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Principal Investigator, NHERI <a href="https://converge.colorado.edu/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">CONVERGE</span></a>, <a href="https://converge.colorado.edu/research-networks/sseer" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">SSEER</span></a>, and<a href="https://converge.colorado.edu/research-networks" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"> ISEEER</span></a></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>

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