Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure: Cyberinfrastructure (DesignSafe) 2020-2025

自然灾害工程研究基础设施（NHERI）由美国国家科学基金会（NSF）支持，作为一个分布式，多用户的国家设施，为自然灾害工程研究社区提供研究基础设施，包括地震和风力工程实验设施，网络基础设施（CI），计算建模和仿真工具，高性能计算资源和研究数据。以及教育和社区外展活动。NHERI最初由NSF 14-605和NSF 15-598资助，自2015年以来，NHERI一直通过单独但协调的五年研究基础设施奖为网络协调办公室，CI，计算建模和仿真中心（SimCenter）和实验设施，包括灾后快速响应研究设施。该奖项将从2020年10月1日至2025年9月30日更新NHERI的CI部分。通过这个奖项，德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校及其合作伙伴（卡尔文学院;佛罗里达理工学院;加州大学洛杉矶分校;加州大学圣地亚哥分校;圣母大学;华盛顿大学;和威廉·马什·赖斯大学）将继续维护，运营和增强NHERI CI DesignSafe门户网站（https：www.DesignSafe-ci.org），这是一个提供数据，工具，和计算资源，使研究能够减轻自然灾害，如地震，风暴，海啸和风暴潮对国家民用基础设施和社区的影响。在DesignSafe中，实验、模拟、社会科学和灾后勘测数据将在数据仓库数据存储库中进行管理、发布和公开，而数据分析和计算建模与模拟工具将在工作空间中提供。侦察门户网站将为美国和国外的自然灾害事件提供数据产品和经验教训的交流中心。在线和面对面的培训将通过学习中心提供，使下一代研究人员能够使用DesignSafe提供的先进功能。一年一度的DesignSafe CI Institute将使研究生和博士后研究人员能够与项目工作人员密切合作，实施他们的工作流程。DesignSafe功能组合将使新的研究发现能够帮助保护人类生命，减少损害，并最大限度地减少自然灾害事件期间的经济损失。该奖项将有助于NSF在国家地震灾害减少计划（NEHRP）和国家风暴影响减少计划（NWIRP）中的作用。 正如NHERI科学计划（https：//doi.org/10.17603/ds2-4s85-mc54）中所概述的那样，自然灾害工程的重大研究挑战需要访问大数据，基于云的计算和模拟工具以及高性能计算资源，DesignSafe将提供资源来提供这些功能。解决这些挑战和改变自然灾害工程研究的关键是通过访问所需的数据，工具和资源来改变研究工作流程。 DesignSafe将提供用户可以联合收割机生成变革性工作流程的基础构建块，并将在人工智能和机器学习等有前途的领域提供增强的功能。这些增强的功能包括：（1）具有与版本控制、指标、搜索、结构化数据和工具启动相关的新功能的数据仓库;（2）具有支持地理空间数据集分析的新功能的侦察门户;以及（3）具有新功能的工作区，包括人工智能和机器学习工具、SimCenter工具和自动化功能，以支持不同计算环境中的工作流。DesignSafe提供的能力也将为提高自然灾害工程研究界的计算技能和发展网络化的劳动力提供基础。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

The Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as a distributed, multi-user national facility to provide the natural hazards engineering research community with access to research infrastructure that includes earthquake and wind engineering experimental facilities, cyberinfrastructure (CI), computational modeling and simulation tools, high performance computing resources, and research data, as well as education and community outreach activities. Originally funded under NSF 14-605 and NSF 15-598, NHERI has operated since 2015 through separate, but coordinated, five-year research infrastructure awards for a Network Coordination Office, CI, Computational Modeling and Simulation Center (SimCenter), and Experimental Facilities, including a post-disaster, rapid response research facility. This award will renew the CI component of NHERI from October 1, 2020, to September 30, 2025. Through this award, the University of Texas at Austin and its partners (Calvin College; Florida Institute of Technology; University of California, Los Angeles; University of California, San Diego; University of Notre Dame; University of Washington; and William Marsh Rice University) will continue to maintain, operate, and enhance the NHERI CI DesignSafe web portal (https://www.DesignSafe-ci.org), a CI that provides data, tools, and computational resources to enable research to mitigate the impact of natural hazards, such as earthquakes, windstorms, tsunamis, and storm surge, on the nation’s civil infrastructure and communities. In DesignSafe, experimental, simulation, social sciences, and post-disaster reconnaissance data will be curated, published, and made publicly available in the Data Depot data repository, while tools for data analysis and computational modeling and simulation will be provided in the Workspace. The Reconnaissance Portal will provide a clearinghouse for data products and lessons learned from natural hazard events in the United States and abroad. Online and in-person training will be delivered through the Learning Center to enable the next generation of researchers to use the advanced capabilities provided by DesignSafe. The annual DesignSafe CI Institute will enable graduate students and postdoctoral researchers to work closely with project staff to implement their workflows. The portfolio of DesignSafe capabilities will enable new research discoveries that can help protect human life, reduce damage, and minimize economic losses during natural hazard events. This award will contribute to NSF's role in the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) and the National Windstorm Impact Reduction Program (NWIRP). The grand research challenges in natural hazards engineering, as outlined in the NHERI Science Plan (https://doi.org/10.17603/ds2-4s85-mc54), require access to big data, cloud-based computational and simulation tools, and high performance computing resources, and DesignSafe will provide the resources to deliver these capabilities. The key to addressing these challenges and transforming research in natural hazards engineering is transforming research workflows through access to the required data, tools, and resources. DesignSafe will provide the foundational building blocks that users can combine to generate transformative workflows, and will deliver enhanced capabilities in promising areas such as artificial intelligence and machine learning. These enhanced capabilities include: (1) the Data Depot with new features related to versioning, metrics, search, structured data, and tool launching; (2) the Reconnaissance Portal with new features to support analysis of geospatial datasets; and (3) the Workspace with new features, including artificial intelligence and machine learning tools, SimCenter tools, and Jupyter capabilities, to support workflows within different computing environments. The capabilities available at DesignSafe will also provide the foundation for enhancing the computational skills of the research community in natural hazards engineering and to develop a cyber-enabled workforce.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.