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<p style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:12px;margin-top:10px">In April and May, NHERI’s DesignSafe Radio podcast features a series of interviews with UT Austin’s Clint Dawson, the Computation Hydraulics Group lead and a key member of the ADCIRC model
development team.</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/2021/april/designsafe-radio-modeling-storm-surge-clint-dawson/" target="_blank">FULL STORY</a><span> </span>and<span> </span><a href="https://www.designsafe-ci.org/podcast/" target="_blank">LISTEN
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<p style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:12px;margin-top:10px">Several NHERI facilities now hold regular office hours for researchers and prospective users to schedule virtual meetings to discuss collaboration opportunities and project planning. Sites
providing office hours include: FIU<span> </span><a href="https://bit.ly/NHERI_FIU" target="_blank">Wall of Wind</a>, Lehigh<span> </span><a href="https://bit.ly/NHERI_LEHIGH" target="_blank">RTMD Lab</a>, UC San Diego<span> </span><a href="https://bit.ly/NHERI_UCSD" target="_blank">LHPOST6
shake table</a>, and the UC Berkeley-based<span> </span><a href="https://designsafe-ci.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEqc-qupzwqGdM9_xnJAsEa6t3ZLk-Xy_Q-%C2%A0" target="_blank">SimCenter</a>. The DesignSafe Data Depot also holds office hours Tuesdays and Thursdays
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<p style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:12px;margin-top:10px">Get details and sign up on the<span> </span><a href="https://www.designsafe-ci.org/community/news/2021/april/nheri-facilities-offer-virtual-office-hours/" target="_blank">OFFICE HOURS PAGE</a>.</p>
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<p style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:12px;margin-top:10px">NHERI research engineer Elaina Sutley, assistant professor at the University of Kansas, recently appeared on the PBS Terra channel to discuss the EF4 tornado that hit Linwood, Kansas in
May of 2019.</p>
<p style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:12px;margin-top:10px">Get the<span> </span><a href="https://www.designsafe-ci.org/community/news/2021/april/pbs-terra-channel-features-sutley-lessons-linwood-tornado/" target="_blank">FULL STORY</a><span> </span>and<span> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji-cl29HLMo" target="_blank">WATCH
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Virtual Wall of Wind Competition for High School Students</h3>
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<p style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:12px;margin-top:10px">Teams of local high school students competing in the 2021 NHERI Wall of Wind Mitigation Challenge were tasked with designing a way to reduce the impact of wind scour – the process of wind
scraping against surfaces – on a building’s flat roof. The competition was virtual this year, but still rigorous – and exciting.</p>
<p style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:12px;margin-top:10px">Read the<span> </span><a href="https://news.fiu.edu/2021/virtual-wall-of-wind-challenge-inspires-high-school-students-to-tackle-real-world-problems" target="_blank">FULL STORY</a></p>
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<p style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:12px;margin-top:10px">The NHERI CONVERGE facility announces the release of its latest online training module,<span> </span><a href="https://converge-training.colorado.edu/courses/broader-ethical-considerations-for-hazards-and-disaster-researchers/" target="_blank">Broader
Ethical Considerations for Hazards and Disaster Researchers</a>. The module covers ethical considerations for conducting research in a disaster setting. It also describes how ethical concerns infuse the entire research lifecycle and underscores challenges
that can occur in the context of disaster research.</p>
<p style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:12px;margin-top:10px">Get the<span> </span><a href="https://www.designsafe-ci.org/community/news/2021/april/converge-releases-7th-training-module-broader-ethical-considerations/" target="_blank">FULL STORY</a>.</p>
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<p style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:12px;margin-top:10px">The NIST Center for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning has released its second report on the significant 2016 flooding of Lumberton, North Carolina. This report documents recovery
efforts and highlights community resilience in the aftermath of disaster. The survey instruments for this high-profile, longitudinal study are published in the DesignSafe Data Depot.</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/2021/april/long-term-nist-community-resilience-study-releases-second-report/" target="_blank">FULL STORY</a>.</p>
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Top Articles from the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Newsletter</h3>
<p style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:12px;margin-top:10px">Gruber, P., Stachew, E., & Houette, T. (2021). Root systems research for bioinspired resilient design – a concept framework for foundation and coastal engineering.<span> </span><i>Frontiers
in Robotics and AI, 8, 109</i>.<span> </span><a href="https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2021.548444" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2021.548444</a></p>
<p style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:12px;margin-top:10px">Fereshtehnejad, E., Gidaris, I., Rosenheim, N., Tomiczek, T., Padgett, J. E., Cox, D. T., ... & Gillis Peacock, W. (2021). Probabilistic Risk Assessment of Coupled Natural-Physical-Social
Systems: Cascading Impact of Hurricane-Induced Damages to Civil Infrastructure in Galveston, Texas.<span> </span><i>Natural Hazards Review, 22(3), 04021013</i>.<span> </span><a href="https://ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1061/%28ASCE%29NH.1527-6996.0000459?af=R&" target="_blank">https://ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1061/%28ASCE%29NH.1527-6996.0000459?af=R&</a></p>
<p style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:12px;margin-top:10px">Abdelaziz, K. M., Alipour, A., & Hobeck, J. D. (2021). A smart façade system controller for optimized wind-induced vibration mitigation in tall buildings.<span> </span><i>Journal of Wind
Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, 212, 104601</i>.<span> </span><a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jweia.2021.104601" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jweia.2021.104601</a></p>
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