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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear NHERI Council Members, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Will you please share this with your networks, and consider joining us for the upcoming 2020 Researchers Meeting? This meeting will feature training sessions from DesignSafe and RAPID, is co-organized by CONVERGE, and even includes an NSF
lunch and learn that will feature Joy! NHERI everywhere! Also, there are several papers that I think and hope will be of interest and I know some of your colleagues submitted. Thank you for that! Announcement follows and thank you in advance for your support!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Please join us for the upcoming (virtual) hazards and disaster
</span><a href="https://hazards.colorado.edu/workshop/2020/researchers-meeting/overview"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">Researchers Meeting</span></b></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">, scheduled for
<b>July 15-16, 2020</b>! 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">https://hazards.colorado.edu/workshop/2020/registration</a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The 2020 Researchers Meeting is organized around the theme of
</span><a href="https://hazards.colorado.edu/workshop/2020/researchers-meeting/overview"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">The Data Revolution: Ethical Imperatives and Methodological Considerations for Hazards and Disaster Research</span></i></a><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><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The 2020 Researchers Meeting is scheduled to immediately follow the
</span><a href="https://hazards.colorado.edu/workshop/2020"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">45th Annual Natural Hazards Workshop</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">. All are welcome and encouraged to
attend both (first-ever virtual) events. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#666666">The 2020 Researchers Meeting is supported by the NSF and
<span style="background:white">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.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Lori Peek, Ph.D. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Professor, <a href="https://www.colorado.edu/sociology/">
<span style="color:#0563C1">Department of Sociology</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Director, <a href="https://hazards.colorado.edu/">
<span style="color:#0563C1">Natural Hazards Center</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Principal Investigator, NHERI
<a href="https://converge.colorado.edu/"><span style="color:#0563C1">CONVERGE</span></a>,
<a href="https://converge.colorado.edu/research-networks/sseer"><span style="color:#0563C1">SSEER</span></a>, and<a href="https://converge.colorado.edu/research-networks"><span style="color:#0563C1"> ISEEER</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">University of Colorado Boulder
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