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

Wed Jan 15 13:25:05 CST 2020

Thanks, Julio. That is great Linda has reached out! I will share this with the UF for their information.
Best regards,
Elaina

From: julio ramirez <ramirez at purdue.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 7:46 PM
To: NHERI-Council <NHERI-Council at designsafe-ci.org>; Sutley, Elaina J <enjsutley at ku.edu>; Nina Stark <ninas at vt.edu>
Cc: Edge, Billy L <bedge at civil.tamu.edu>; Daniel Zehner <zehner2 at purdue.edu>; John van de Lindt <jwv at engr.colostate.edu>
Subject: Fwd: Fwd: NSF-funded Science Plan for natural hazards mitigation released by NHERI

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<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.unavco.org%2Fabout%2Fabout.html&data=02%7C01%7Cenjsutley%40ku.edu%7C6d050c7245f647126df008d7995cbd7e%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C637146495917636409&sdata=RVugFl60tA5e0k7rWmo5wt0ch8b6Tjow93MVW6CZpfc%3D&reserved=0>

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

Best regards,
Julio

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

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Mon, 13 Jan 2020 10:30:32 -0700

From:

Linda Rowan <rowan at unavco.org><mailto:rowan at unavco.org>

To:

ramirez at purdue.edu<mailto:ramirez at purdue.edu>, b-edge at tamu.edu<mailto: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://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.knowablemagazine.org%2Farticle%2Fphysical-world%2F2019%2Fgps-going-places&data=02%7C01%7Cenjsutley%40ku.edu%7C6d050c7245f647126df008d7995cbd7e%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C637146495917636409&sdata=cr9KuB9dsQDK88D3K0yxqUczuilIVGFYfu1GB10Y9Oc%3D&reserved=0> 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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Date: Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 5:59 AM
Subject: NSF-funded Science Plan for natural hazards mitigation released by NHERI
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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>.

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  *   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>

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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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