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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Rathje, Ellen M<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, June 7, 2024 3:12 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Nathan Franklin <nfranklin@tacc.utexas.edu>; Craig Jansen <cjansen@tacc.utexas.edu>; Freeze, Joshua <jfreeze@tacc.utexas.edu>; Garrett Edmonds <gedmonds@tacc.utexas.edu>; Stephanie Baker <snbaker@tacc.utexas.edu>; Lisa Garbrecht <lgarbrecht@tacc.utexas.edu>;
Salvador Tijerina <stijerina@tacc.utexas.edu>; Hedda Prochaska <hedda@tacc.utexas.edu>; Charlie Dey <charlie@tacc.utexas.edu>; Rosalia Gomez <ragomez@tacc.utexas.edu>; Edgar Garza <egarza@tacc.utexas.edu>; Jorge Salazar <jorge@tacc.utexas.edu>; Sarah Gray
<sgray@tacc.utexas.edu>; Vanessa Gonzalez <vgonzalez@tacc.utexas.edu>; Jake Rosenberg <jrosenberg@tacc.utexas.edu>; Netscher, Francis D <fnetscher@tacc.utexas.edu>; Fields, Alexander C <afields@tacc.utexas.edu>; Wesley Bomar <wbomar@tacc.utexas.edu>; Sophia
Massie-Perez <smassie@tacc.utexas.edu>; Chandra Yemparala <cyemparala@tacc.utexas.edu>; John Gentle <jgentle@tacc.utexas.edu>; Stubbs, Joe F <jstubbs@tacc.utexas.edu>; usecase@designsafe-ci.org; Tim Cockerill <cockerill@tacc.utexas.edu><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Matthew DeJong <dejong@berkeley.edu>; Greg Deierlein <ggd@stanford.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Usecase] DesignSafe Year 4 NSF Site Visit<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">This afternoon we had our debrief with the NSF Site Visit Team for DesignSafe, and they have again given us a
<b>Highly Recommended </b>rating. Congratulations! The issues to address going forward are relatively minor, and they also provided some useful insights about increasing the user base. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">As always, this is a TEAM effort. Although only a few of us get to stand up and present to the site visit team, your work is the reason we have great things to
present. For the entire natural hazards research community, I want to thank you for your great work and for making DesignSafe a success.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">ELLEN RATHJE</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">, Janet S. Cockrell Centennial Chair in Engineering</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Director, DesignSafe Cyberinfrastructure (<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/www.designsafe-ci.org__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!iIeK1KIGRqXhBgv1tPZdM-oTvw_LgWu6NjNBwAOCzk8HBBniSQmnkmFY7kDHCKrtzbbGIxKHtAXa3cOvv40R2ZY$" title="www.designsafe-ci.org" id="OWA1bb4fde1-45e7-565c-bc9c-974053246f8b">www.designsafe-ci.org</a>)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt">International Secretary, ASCE Geo-Institute</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#BF5700;background:white">The University of Texas at Austin</span>
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