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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Good afternoon. I hope you are well and finishing your semester out strong. Safe travels to those
of you who are headed out to AGU!!</span></div>
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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On Friday, December 16, NHERI GSC will hold an election for our User Forum Representative.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"72", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(50, 54, 58);font-size:19px"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;" class="ContentPasted0"> Members
in good standing (registered and eligible) may vote through the emailed Qualtrics ballot on</span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif" class="ContentPasted0"><span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted0" style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;" class="ContentPasted0"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"72", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-weight:bolder" class="ContentPasted0">December
16, 2022, until 11:59 pm Central Time.</strong></span></span></span></div>
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a Ph.D. candidate in Civil Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. His research focus is on the tridimensional performance of seismic isolation systems for critical, sensitive, and/or essential non-structural components to improve society resilience, by
using innovative experimental techniques such as real-time hybrid simulation. Before beginning his Ph.D. program, he gathered 15 years of experience as a practitioner in structural engineering in Costa Rica working on challenging and multidisciplinary projects
with high social impact such as adaptation to climate change and development of cost-efficient bridge management policies in conjunction with governmental officials, among others. In terms of the NHERI network, he has been part of the NHERI GSC since its inaugural
meeting; he is an active user of the NHERI Lehigh facility which allowed him to work as a graduate mentor in the NHERI REU Summer Program for two years; additionally, he attended the 2022 NHERI Summer Institute where he met most of the current members of the
NHERI User Forum; finally, he has grown through all the resources that NHERI has available for the natural hazard engineering community.</span></span><br style="box-sizing:border-box" class="ContentPasted0">
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a Ph.D. candidate in Geotechnical Engineering at Southern Illinois University, where he works in the Civil Engineering Department under the supervision of Dr. Abdolreza Osouli. He also has two other academic backgrounds in Geophysics and Mining Engineering.
He has extensive experience as a geotechnical engineer and geophysicist in the mining and infrastructure industries. His Ph.D. research is funded by the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) and focuses on developing scour-depth estimation for Illinois
cohesive soils using in-situ and portable scour testing devices (ISTD/PSTD. He is the president of the Geo-Institute at Southern Illinois University student chapter. He also serves as an editor and reviewer for ASCE, Elsevier, and Hindawi journals.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br style="box-sizing:border-box" class="ContentPasted0">
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