NHERI Monthly Recap, October 2019
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October 14 - October 15
Tornado Hazard Wind Assessment and ReducTion Symposium, THWARTS<https://thwarts.cee.illinois.edu/>
Champaign, Illinois
Sponsor: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<https://illinois.edu/>
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November 18 - November 20
RISE Conference<https://www.albany.edu/riseconference/>
Albany, New York
Sponsor: University at Albany, SUNY<https://albany.edu/>
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December 16 - December 17
Joint NHERI Workshop Series #2: Lehigh – UC San Diego – UC Berkeley
San Diego, California
Sponsor: Lehigh<https://lehigh.edu>, UC San Diego<https://ucsd.edu/>, and UC Berkeley<https://berkeley.edu>
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Visit the events calendar on the DesignSafe-CI website: NHERI Community Calendar<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/community/calendar/>
OCTOBER 2019
Catch up with community happenings in NHERI's Monthly Recap.
Here's what's been happening around the network:
* StEER activates for Dorian
* SimCenter calls for beta testers
* NHERI tsunami researcher featured in Wired
* DesignSafe data publishing
* UF team tracks Hurricane Dorian
* NSF funds small grants initiative
* Slab STRESS project at ELSA
* NSF workshop on strengthening large facility cyberinfrastructure
* Support your local network: NHERI
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StEER activates for Dorian
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If you follow Slack channels during hurricane season, you witness natural hazards science happening in real time.
On September 10, as the remnants of Hurricane Dorian were dissipating off the coast of southern Greenland, the NSF-funded Structural Extreme Events Reconnaissance network, known as StEER, released its Preliminary Virtual Reconnaissance Report (PVRR) summarizing its findings on the impacts of Hurricane Dorian to the Bahamas and the U.S.
That report was prepared by StEER’s Virtual Assessment Structural Team (VAST) and relies upon publicly available news reports, social media and other resources. The PVRR is accessible at the NHERI DesignSafe website: doi.org/10.17603/ds2-saf8-4d32<https://doi.org/10.17603/ds2-saf8-4d32>.
The StEER PVRR serves as the precursor to the on-site investigations in the Bahamas, conducted by the StEER Field Assessment Structural Teams (FAST) — which included members of the NHERI RAPID team.
Read the FULL STORY<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/community/news/2019/september/steer-activates-dorian-recon-missions/>.
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SimCenter calls for beta testers
Contribute to the field of computational modeling and simulation in natural hazards engineering by helping SimCenter develop robust software packages.
Volunteer to beta-test SimCenter software and provide the developer team with valuable input on SimCenter's research and educational applications.
Be the change you want to see. Email nheri-simcenter at berkeley.edu<mailto:nheri-simcenter at berkeley.edu> with a statement of interest.
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NHERI tsunami researcher featured in Wired
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"Hermann Fritz<https://ocean.gatech.edu/people/dr-hermann-fritz> heard the news on the radio. It was the day after Christmas in 2004, and Fritz, a civil engineer who lived in Georgia, was visiting his parents' home in Zurich, Switzerland, for the holidays. The reporter's voice crackled through the speaker: There had been an earthquake in the Indian Ocean. A tsunami had followed. Thousands of people were presumed dead."
In the October issue of Wired, writer Gloria Dickie tells the story of NHERI researcher Hermann Fritz, on faculty at Georgia Tech, and his work with fellow tsunami researcher Costas Synolakis<https://viterbi.usc.edu/directory/faculty/Synolakis/Costas>, of the University of Southern California. The article, “How amateur video is helping us understand deadly tsunamis, relates how NSF-funded researchers used video to piece together tsunami wave behavior.
As the article tells it, at the O.H. Hinsdale lab, Fritz "had used the pool to study how landslides create tsunamis. That work made him well known around campus as the guy who dumped 3,000 pounds of gravel into the pool. Undergrad laborers armed with shovels and brooms were tasked with wading into the water to clean up the debris, over and over again."
Be sure to check out the FULL STORY<https://www.wired.com/story/amateur-video-helping-understand-deadly-tsunamis/>.
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DesignSafe data publishing
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Since data publishing in DesignSafe began in October 2017, 172 datasets have been published in the DesignSafe Data Depot from 110 different lead authors (Table 1).
You can search and explore these datasets, as well as the NEES legacy datasets, through the Data Depot<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/data/browser/public/>. Additionally, 44 publications are available that are related to field reconnaissance, including datasets from the Ridgecrest, Calif., earthquake and Hurricanes Dorian and Barry. These publications can be accessed through the Data Depot or through the Reconnaissance Portal<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/recon-portal/>.
Publication Type Number of Publications
Field Reconnaissance 44
Experimental 40
REU Project 38
Numerical Simulation 26
Database / Dataset 17
Presentation 6
Hybrid Simulation 1
Table 1. Number of Data Depot Publications per Publication type.
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UF team tracks Hurricane Dorian
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On Sept. 5, the UF hurricane research team sets up their first tower at Fort Fisher, North Carolina. The portable weather towers tracked maximum wind speeds at 75MPH.
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NSF funds small grants initiative
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The Natural Hazards Center is excited to announce a partnership with the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the National Science Foundation to create the Mitigation Matters Research Program — a new small grant initiative that will enable innovative natural hazards mitigation research.
The program prioritizes new research proposals that address the social, behavioral, and economic aspects of mitigation or entail interdisciplinary approaches on the intersection between humans, hazards risk, and the built environment. Research on how to translate existing evidence on persuasive communication, decision-making, and risk aversion into a hazards mitigation framework is also encouraged.
Proposals for the Mitigation Matters Research Program will be solicited twice each year. The first call for fall submissions is now closed, but the next round of proposals will be solicited early in 2020. Time to prepare your proposal!
More about the initiative’s philosophy, definitions, and submission process is available on the Natural Hazards Center Mitigation Matters Research program webpages<https://hazards.colorado.edu/research/mitigation-matters>.
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Slab STRESS project at ELSA
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ELSA operates a 16 m-tall, 21 m-long reaction wall.
At the European Laboratory for Structural Assessment, ELSA, a blind contest for the prediction of the response of flat-slab structures under seismic and quasi-static cyclic loads is underway. The blind contest is based on the results of the experimental testing of the real-scale SlabSTRESS flat-slab specimen within the SERA<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.sera-2Deu.org_&d=DwMCaQ&c=8NwulVB6ucrjuSGiwL_ckQ&r=UQm7uqH-lc912kzv4owlKklQJtt2LhdUQdOjNSDGFPw&m=D-0KoVf9QwcoS_qUqQDYmCTrNcpM0vCAQozCWaDtJO0&s=90Y7Vxwq21zMPx2HmVUWWLytwVZB80PMu4nbx9OHfFU&e=> Transnational Access activities at the JRC ELSA Reaction Wall<https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/research-facility/elsa>. Please find more information here<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.slabstress.org_&d=DwMCaQ&c=8NwulVB6ucrjuSGiwL_ckQ&r=UQm7uqH-lc912kzv4owlKklQJtt2LhdUQdOjNSDGFPw&m=D-0KoVf9QwcoS_qUqQDYmCTrNcpM0vCAQozCWaDtJO0&s=E_xQXgkq9SyLmklP8dGf36gRkJ06MTAF3pcpY41gFIw&e=> and follow<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.researchgate.net_project_SlabSTRESS&d=DwMCaQ&c=8NwulVB6ucrjuSGiwL_ckQ&r=UQm7uqH-lc912kzv4owlKklQJtt2LhdUQdOjNSDGFPw&m=D-0KoVf9QwcoS_qUqQDYmCTrNcpM0vCAQozCWaDtJO0&s=jAYpme46VaTUYIOXyD3_nofktOWRvWcO4iHFZ3vdxHI&e=> the project for updates.
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NSF workshop on strengthening large facility cyberinfrastructure
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Workshop attendees listened to talks and panel discussions on improving NSF-funded cyberinfrastructure.
The National Science Foundation would like to upscale their investment in cyberinfrastructure (CI), but to do that the existing CI at Large Facilities (LFs) need to find ways to work together more closely. To that end, NSF held a workshop on Connecting Large Facilities and Cyberinfrastructure<https://facilitiesci.github.io/> September 16 and 17, 2019, in Alexandria, Virginia.
A majority of the NHERI facilities were represented. Attendees listened to talks on "Building LF CI Communities," a pilot "Cyberinfrastructure Center of Excellence," panels on "The State and Future of CI," "Shared CI Services Opportunities and Challenges" and "Workforce Development and Retention." Attendees also participated in several breakout sessions to pull ideas and concerns from all LF and CI participants.
The formation of a CI Center of Excellence<https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1842042> (COE) and the services it may be able to offer Large Facilities in the future was welcome news to NHERI participants. Certainly, NHERI's DesignSafe-CI offers a tremendous service to NHERI experimental facilities and users. But there is still a need for dedicated CI staff at each site. The COE could offer guidelines and best practices, regulatory/security guidance, and consulting/staffing resources that could enable a more efficient, state-of-the-art CI at each of the EFs for lower cost to the EF by leveraging COE resources.
As we know, having well-trained CI staff is critical to the mission of each LF. Joseph Wartman<https://www.ce.washington.edu/facultyfinder/joseph-wartman>, PI of the NHERI RAPID<https://rapid.designsafe-ci.org/>, was interested to learn that many LFs share similar IT-related issues, such as retaining personnel in hot job markets. "It was good to hear how other LFs address these concerns," he said.
Jennifer Bridge<https://simlab.essie.ufl.edu/DrBridge.html>, NHERI researcher from the University of Florida, was interested to learn about the potential help a COE can provide. She also appreciated discussions about where facility CI and user CI begin and end, and about ownership and responsibility for EF-generated data. "Overall, it was a good and useful experience," she said.
NHERI attendees also benefited from the opportunity to meet and interact face-to-face. Conversations outside of the workshop sessions are another useful way to learn how other EFs tackle similar problems. We look forward to further collaborations in the CI field.
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