[Nheri-council] Fwd: Fwd: NSF-funded Science Plan for natural hazards mitigation released by NHERI

Tue Jan 14 19:45:48 CST 2020

Good evening,

We received this kind note from Linda Rowan, External Affairs Director 
for UNAVCO, and have her permission
to share it with the NHERI Council. Two items for your attention, one is 
the news story (see link in her message).
The second is her generous call for a closer collaboration with NHERI. I 
believe that several of you may work
closer with UNAVCO already, but perhaps others might find this helpful.

https://www.unavco.org/about/about.html

Elaina and Nina: this information might be of interest to the User Forum 
as well.

Best regards,
Julio

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Subject: 	Fwd: NSF-funded Science Plan for natural hazards mitigation 
released by NHERI
Date: 	Mon, 13 Jan 2020 10:30:32 -0700
From: 	Linda Rowan <rowan at unavco.org>
To: 	ramirez at purdue.edu, b-edge at tamu.edu

Dear Julio and Billy,
Thank you for organizing this important science plan for NHERI. It is a 
useful document and important to read for the geoscience community. The 
geosciences funded by NSF are focused on research and collaborations 
with other directorates to support multi-disciplinary research. The 
community also understands that basic research advances our 
possibilities to prepare for and reduce the risks from natural hazards. 
This enhances the need for collaboration between engineering, 
geosciences and social sciences in particular.

I am writing to note the importance of geodetic-based research and 
geodetic tools for natural hazards preparedness and risk reduction. 
Geodesy is an expanding and evolving area of research that touches 
directly on hazards. GPS/GNSS monuments and networks, imaging/earth 
observing satellites, borehole geophysics (strainmeters and seismometers 
at depth) and other geodetic tools are increasingly important for 
informing research and applied science for hazards. Here is one recent 
news story 
<https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/physical-world/2019/gps-going-places> 
about some of the uses of geodesy/GNSS with reference to some recent 
reviews. Geodesy for hazards can help to inform engineering research for 
hazards. The geodesy community is interested in greater collaboration 
with NHERI and engineering research at NSF as well as engineering for 
hazards more broadly.

Cheers, Linda

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From: *Marti LaChance, NHERI* <nheri.communications at gmail.com 
<mailto:nheri.communications at gmail.com>>
Date: Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 5:59 AM
Subject: NSF-funded Science Plan for natural hazards mitigation released 
by NHERI
To: <rowan at unavco.org <mailto:rowan at unavco.org>>

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

    *NSF-funded Science Plan for natural hazards mitigation released by
    NHERI*

WEST LAFAYETTE, Jan. 13, 2020 — According to the World Health 
Organization, natural disasters kill approximately 90,000 people each 
year. Nearly 160 million people worldwide are affected by the 
destruction caused by events such as hurricanes and storm surge, 
tsunamis, earthquakes and landslides.

A newly updated science plan, funded by the National Science Foundation 
<https://designsafe-ci.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dc90d9824e5a18416dfe678e8&id=31530ca0d1&e=f1985806b6>, 
empowers research efforts to mitigate such devastating losses. The 2020 
edition of the Five-Year Science Plan, spearheaded by NSF’s Natural 
Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure 
<https://designsafe-ci.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dc90d9824e5a18416dfe678e8&id=131c82daa3&e=f1985806b6> 
(NHERI), calls researchers across disciplines to solve the pressing 
problems that natural hazards present to communities in the U.S. and 
around the world.

Download the NHERI Five-Year Science Plan 
<https://designsafe-ci.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dc90d9824e5a18416dfe678e8&id=75d916945e&e=f1985806b6>, 
Jan. 2020 edition.

*High impact, high rewards*

The NHERI Science Plan presents a roadmap for high-impact, high-reward, 
hazards engineering and interdisciplinary research at the NHERI research 
facilities 
<https://designsafe-ci.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dc90d9824e5a18416dfe678e8&id=7840a7cabc&e=f1985806b6>. 
The plan aims to guide future research in the earthquake, wind, and 
coastal hazards research community, including NSF and other funding 
agencies.

“While the NHERI Science Plan is meant to provide guidance, it is also 
written in an open manner to ensure that the ingenuity and creativity of 
the broader community is fully encouraged,” said Julio Ramirez, 
principal investigator for NHERI’s Network Coordination Office 
<https://designsafe-ci.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dc90d9824e5a18416dfe678e8&id=5a88d6e8e8&e=f1985806b6>. 
“We call on engineers and scientists to use the plan as a key resource 
in developing their grant proposals that seek to make our communities 
safer and more resilient against natural hazards.”

*Science plan structure, contributors*

The plan is organized around three Grand Challenges, each with five Key 
Research Questions to guide NHERI research activities. This second 
edition of the plan, released today, incorporates community input 
received at meetings and workshops, from the NHERI-DesignSafe 
cyberinfrastructure 
<https://designsafe-ci.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dc90d9824e5a18416dfe678e8&id=fdafa4fa8e&e=f1985806b6> 
and from participants in three summer institutes 
<https://designsafe-ci.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dc90d9824e5a18416dfe678e8&id=2ca38f3828&e=f1985806b6>.

<https://designsafe-ci.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dc90d9824e5a18416dfe678e8&id=5e1acd6a69&e=f1985806b6>It 
also incorporates outcomes from the International Workshop to Develop 
Research Campaigns, Interdisciplinary Teams and Disruptive Technologies 
for the NHERI 5-Year Science Plan, which was held March 18-19, 2019, in 
Alexandria, Virginia. More than 70 researchers participated — including 
early-career and senior academics from the U.S. and international 
universities. Contributors included federal partners, private sector 
professionals and NSF representatives. The workshop’s objectives were 
twofold: (1) identify contributions from disruptive and transformational 
technologies to advance the NHERI Science Plan and the vision of NHERI 
and (2) develop potential research campaigns encompassing one or all of 
the natural hazards under the scope of NHERI. The research campaigns 
fall under the following themes:

  * Earthquakes and Related Landslides: Resilience of Lifeline Systems
  * Windstorms: Immediate Occupancy of Low-Rise Buildings Following
    Windstorms
  * Preparation for Mega-disasters
  * Storm Surge and Tsunami in Coastal Areas: Community-Level Management
    of Storm Surge and Tsunami Hazards
  * Comprehensive Numerical Simulation Platform for Hurricanes and
    Tsunamis: from Source to Impact

In addition to the engineering community, the workshop highlighted 
contributions from social and behavioral scientists essential to advance 
the goals of the NHERI Science Plan to achieve resilient communities 
against natural hazards under the scope of NHERI.

“We are excited to welcome researchers and practitioners who are seeking 
to improve human lives and infrastructure to join our community and our 
efforts. The 2020 Science Plan provides valuable insights on the future 
of natural hazards research,” said Ramirez.

*Join the NSF-supported NHERI community*

Researchers in natural hazards are encouraged to join the NHERI 
community to learn more. The DesignSafe cyberinfrastructure supports 
research and educational efforts funded by NSF-NHERI grant awards and 
others. Join: designsafe-ci.org 
<https://designsafe-ci.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dc90d9824e5a18416dfe678e8&id=26b7641892&e=f1985806b6>

*Media Contacts:*

Julio Ramirez, PhD
Director, NHERI Network Coordination Office
Karl H. Kettelhut Professor of Civil Engineering
Purdue University
  765-494-2716
ramirez at purdue.edu <mailto:ramirez at purdue.edu>

Billy Edge, PhD
Science Plan Lead
Professor Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering
North Carolina State University
979-229-3010
b-edge at tamu.edu <mailto:B-edge at tamu.edu>

-----------------

*About the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure.* Funded 
by the National Science Foundation (NSF), NHERI enables researchers to 
explore and test ground-breaking concepts to protect people and the 
places where they live from earthquakes, landslides, windstorms, 
tsunamis, storm surges, and waves — enabling innovations to help prevent 
natural hazards from becoming societal disasters. NHERI is a 
distributed, multi-user, national network that provides the natural 
hazards engineering and social science community with state-of-the-art 
research infrastructure ensuring that it has the well-coordinated 
testing and computational facilities required to meet the research 
challenges of the 21st century and achieve global leadership in natural 
hazard risk mitigation.

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