Travel Support to Attend the 14th International Conference on Wind Engineering, Port Alegre, Brazil, June 21-26, 2015

第14届国际风工程会议将于2015年6月21日至26日在巴西阿雷格里港举行，这是一个重要的国际会议，将吸引世界各地在风工程领域进行研究和工作的关键科学家、工程师、气象学家、建筑师、城市规划师和学生。这个国际会议每四年举行一次，分享风力工程研究和实践的最新发展，促进国际合作，以应对风暴灾害恢复能力的复杂挑战。会议计划将包括特邀讲座和技术会议，主题从风暴危害的特征到理解、建模和减轻这些危害对建筑物和桥梁等结构的影响。每年，美国的许多地区都会经历严重的风暴，如飓风和龙卷风。严重的风暴事件，如2005年的卡特里娜飓风、2011年密苏里州的乔普林和2013年俄克拉荷马州的摩尔、龙卷风和2012年的超级风暴桑迪，造成了生命损失、广泛的破坏和重大的经济损失。这次会议对美国很重要，因为它将使美国风力工程研究人员能够与国际同行会面，分享他们的研究成果，并讨论减轻风暴风险的战略。该奖项将支持多达12名从事风力工程研究的美国早期工程教师和研究生参加本次会议并展示他们的研究成果的旅费和会议费用。将建立一个选拔委员会和程序来招募和选拔美国参与者，重点是从工程领域代表性不足的群体中招募个人。对学生的支持将增加学生对会议和风工程领域的参与。来自许多国家的学生将参加会议，美国学生与会者将受益于国际交流，有机会了解风力工程的最新研究和实践，并与各自专业领域的高级研究人员进行互动。对早期职业教师和研究生的支持，例如通过这项旅行补助金，将有助于在美国培养下一代风力工程师。

The 14th International Conference on Wind Engineering, which will be held June 21 through 26, 2015, in Porto Alegre, Brazil, is an important international conference that will attract key scientists, engineers, meteorologists, architects, urban planners, and students around the world conducting research and working in the wind engineering field. This international conference is held every four years to share the latest developments in wind engineering research and practice and foster international collaboration for addressing the complex challenges of windstorm disaster resilience. The conference program will include invited lectures and technical sessions on topics ranging from characterization of windstorm hazards to understanding, modeling, and mitigating the impact of these hazards on structures such as buildings and bridges. Annually, various regions of the United States experience severe windstorms such as hurricanes and tornadoes. Severe windstorm occurrences, such as the 2005 Hurricane Katrina, the 2011 Joplin, Missouri, and 2013 Moore, Oklahoma, tornadoes, and the 2012 Superstorm Sandy, have caused loss of life, widespread damage, and significant economic losses. This conference is important to the United Sates as it will enable U.S. wind engineering researchers to meet with international colleagues, share their research findings, and discuss strategies for mitigating windstorm risks. This award will support travel and meeting expenses for up to twelve early career engineering faculty and graduate students from the United States conducting wind engineering research to attend this conference and present their research findings. A selection committee and process will be established to recruit and select the U.S. participants, with an emphasis on recruiting individuals from underrepresented groups in engineering. Support for students will increase student participation in the conference and in the wind engineering field. Students from many countries will attend the meeting, and the U.S. student participants will benefit from the international exchange, the opportunity to learn about state-of-the-art research and practice in wind engineering, and interactions with senior researchers in their area of expertise. Support, such as through this travel grant, to early career faculty and graduate students will help build the next generation of wind engineers in the United States.