TY - JOUR
T1 - The Network Coordination Office of NHERI (Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure)
AU - Blain, Cheryl Ann
AU - Bobet, Antonio
AU - Browning, Jo Ann
AU - Edge, Billy L.
AU - Holmes, William
AU - Johnson, David R.
AU - LaChance, Marti
AU - Ramirez, Julio
AU - Robertson, Ian
AU - Smith, Tom
AU - Thompson, Chris
AU - Vielma, Karina
AU - Zehner, Dan
AU - Zuo, Delong
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Copyright © 2020 Blain, Bobet, Browning, Edge, Holmes, Johnson, LaChance, Ramirez, Robertson, Smith, Thompson, Vielma, Zehner and Zuo.
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2020/7/28
Y1 - 2020/7/28
N2 - Since 2015, NHERI, or the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure, began research operations supported by the United States National Science Foundation (NSF) as a distributed, multi-user national facility that provides the natural hazards research community with access to a powerful research infrastructure. NHERI is comprised of separate research infrastructure awards for a Network Coordination Office (NCO), Cyberinfrastructure, a Computational Modeling and Simulation Center, eight Experimental Facilities, and CONVERGE (an initiative to advance social sciences and interdisciplinary research). Awards made for NHERI contribute to NSF's role in the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program and the National Windstorm Impact Reduction Program of the United States. The mission of NHERI is to provide the earthquake, wind, coastal engineering, and social sciences communities with access to research infrastructure, education, and community outreach activities focused on improving the resilience and sustainability of the civil infrastructure against earthquakes, windstorms, and associated natural events such as tsunami and coastal storm surge. In this paper, the role and key NHERI activities are described for the NCO, which is led by Purdue University, along with partner institutions—the University of Texas at San Antonio, North Carolina State University, Texas Tech University, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and the University of Hawaii at Manoa. The NHERI NCO serves as a focal point and leader of a multi-hazards research community, and maintains a community-based NHERI science plan. It manages scheduling for partner NHERI Experimental Facilities and coordinates all components to ensure effective and fair governance, efficient testing, and user support within a safe environment. Another important role of the NCO is to lead NHERI-wide educational and outreach activities: the network facilitates educational experiences ranging from summer programs for undergraduates to workshops for post-docs and early-career faculty that also both involve development of K-12 lesson plans. The NCO works to develop strategic national and international partnerships and to coordinate NHERI activities with other awardee components to form a cohesive and fully-integrated global natural hazards engineering research infrastructure that fosters collaboration in new ways.
AB - Since 2015, NHERI, or the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure, began research operations supported by the United States National Science Foundation (NSF) as a distributed, multi-user national facility that provides the natural hazards research community with access to a powerful research infrastructure. NHERI is comprised of separate research infrastructure awards for a Network Coordination Office (NCO), Cyberinfrastructure, a Computational Modeling and Simulation Center, eight Experimental Facilities, and CONVERGE (an initiative to advance social sciences and interdisciplinary research). Awards made for NHERI contribute to NSF's role in the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program and the National Windstorm Impact Reduction Program of the United States. The mission of NHERI is to provide the earthquake, wind, coastal engineering, and social sciences communities with access to research infrastructure, education, and community outreach activities focused on improving the resilience and sustainability of the civil infrastructure against earthquakes, windstorms, and associated natural events such as tsunami and coastal storm surge. In this paper, the role and key NHERI activities are described for the NCO, which is led by Purdue University, along with partner institutions—the University of Texas at San Antonio, North Carolina State University, Texas Tech University, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and the University of Hawaii at Manoa. The NHERI NCO serves as a focal point and leader of a multi-hazards research community, and maintains a community-based NHERI science plan. It manages scheduling for partner NHERI Experimental Facilities and coordinates all components to ensure effective and fair governance, efficient testing, and user support within a safe environment. Another important role of the NCO is to lead NHERI-wide educational and outreach activities: the network facilitates educational experiences ranging from summer programs for undergraduates to workshops for post-docs and early-career faculty that also both involve development of K-12 lesson plans. The NCO works to develop strategic national and international partnerships and to coordinate NHERI activities with other awardee components to form a cohesive and fully-integrated global natural hazards engineering research infrastructure that fosters collaboration in new ways.
KW - NHERI
KW - earthquake
KW - natural hazards
KW - network coordination
KW - storm surge
KW - tsunami
KW - wind
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85088425570&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3389/fbuil.2020.00108
DO - 10.3389/fbuil.2020.00108
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85088425570
VL - 6
JO - Frontiers in Built Environment
JF - Frontiers in Built Environment
SN - 2297-3362
M1 - 108
ER -