Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure: Network Coordination Office 2021-2025

自然灾害工程研究基础设施(NHERI)由国家科学基金会(NSF)支持，作为一个分布式、多用户的国家设施，向自然灾害工程研究社区提供访问研究基础设施的机会，这些基础设施包括地震和风力工程实验设施、网络基础设施(CI)、计算建模和模拟工具、高性能计算资源和研究数据，以及教育和社区推广活动。NHERI最初由计划征集NSF 14-605和NSF 15-598提供资金，自2015年以来一直通过网络协调办公室(NCO)、CI、计算建模和仿真中心以及实验设施(包括自然灾害和灾后勘察研究设施)的单独但协调的五年研究基础设施奖运行。有关NHERI资源的信息可在NHERI Web门户网站(https://www.DesignSafe-ci.org).)上找到授予NHERI的奖项有助于NSF在国家减少地震灾害计划(NEHRP)和国家减少风暴影响计划(NWIRP)中发挥的作用。该奖项将于2021年10月1日至2025年9月30日在普渡大学及其合作机构(德克萨斯大学圣安东尼奥分校、德克萨斯理工大学和夏威夷大学马诺阿分校)续签NHERI NCO。NCO将继续作为NHERI的领导者和协调中心，建立一个全球性的、多危害的、协作的研究社区和研究基础设施，专注于减轻地震、风暴以及海啸和风暴潮对民用基础设施的相关影响，并致力于培养下一代自然灾害研究人员和教育工作者。NCO将为NHERI提供以下活动：(1)召集和支持NHERI网络领导治理(理事会、网络独立咨询委员会和用户论坛)；(2)更新NHERI科学计划；(3)通过NHERI门户网站上的集中调度平台，为用户部署透明的程序，以访问NHERI实验设施和现场资源；(4)开展教育和外联活动，包括本科生研究经验计划、早期职业研究人员和实习工程师暑期研究所，以及每月的研究生会议；(5)传播知识并加速将NHERI用户在地震、沿海、风能工程和社会科学方面进行的研究转化为实践；(6)向自然灾害社区传播关于NHERI资源、事件以及研究和教育成就的信息；以及(7)建立国家和国际战略伙伴关系，以利用和扩大NHERI资源，以实现一个全球性的、多种灾害的社区。通过NCO对NHERI的人力、实验、现场、网络基础设施以及计算建模和模拟资源的社区协调，研究人员将被授权为国家韧性和民用基础设施的可持续性建立新的知识和创新，以更少的死亡、更少的社会功能中断和更少的经济损失。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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 program solicitations 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 (NCO), CI, Computational Modeling and Simulation Center, and Experimental Facilities, including a natural hazard and post-disaster reconnaissance research facility. Information about NHERI resources is available at the NHERI web portal (https://www.DesignSafe-ci.org). Awards made for NHERI contribute to NSF's role in the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) and the National Windstorm Impact Reduction Program (NWIRP). This award will renew the NHERI NCO from October 1, 2021, to September 30, 2025, at Purdue University, with its partner institutions (University of Texas at San Antonio, Texas Tech University, and University of Hawaii at Manoa). The NCO will continue to serve as the leader and focal point for NHERI, building a global, multi-hazard, collaborative research community and research infrastructure focused on mitigating the impacts of earthquakes, windstorms, and the related hazards of tsunamis and storm surge on civil infrastructure and on cultivating the next generation of natural hazards researchers and educators. The NCO will provide the following activities for NHERI: (1) convene and support NHERI governance for network leadership (Council, Network Independent Advisory Committee, and User Forum); (2) update the NHERI Science Plan; (3) deploy transparent procedures for users to access the NHERI experimental facilities and field resources through a centralized scheduling platform on the NHERI web portal; (4) conduct educational and outreach activities, including a Research Experiences for Undergraduates program, Summer Institute for early career researchers and practicing engineers, and monthly graduate student meetings; (5) disseminate knowledge and accelerate the transfer into practice of research conducted in earthquake, coastal, and wind engineering and social sciences conducted by NHERI users; (6) communicate information about NHERI resources, events, and research and education accomplishments to the natural hazards community; and (7) form national and international strategic partnerships that can leverage and broaden NHERI resources to achieve a global, multi-hazard community. Through the NCO's community coordination of NHERI's human, experimental, field, cyberinfrastructure, and computational modeling and simulation resources, researchers will be empowered to build new knowledge and innovation for national resilience and sustainability of civil infrastructure with fewer fatalities, less interruption to societal functions, and reduced economic loss.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.