Workshop on Research with NEES Tsunami Facility

海啸实验室设施--乔治E.小布朗地震工程模拟网络（NEES）--最近在俄勒冈州州立大学得到了资助。 这一行动是为了支持一个研讨会，以审查该设施的现有计划，了解其物理限制和局限性，讨论在该设施进行的潜在研究，并对进行这项研究所需的仪器提出建议。该海啸设施将用于减轻海啸灾害的各种研究课题，以及其他研究领域，如海岸工程，近岸海洋学和岩土工程。 这一设施-一个大型的、三维的长波水池-将具有基本上独特的能力。 该讲习班将是提供潜在用户投入的重要一步。 此外，NEES计划公告包含以下声明：“NEES合作实验室将形成一个综合网络，促进美国国内外科学家和工程师之间的跨学科合作。“在这方面，先进的网络技术将有助于通过这一海啸设施加强国际合作。 因此，研讨会的与会者将包括国家和国际的主要科学家和工程师，不仅包括海啸研究人员，还包括其他相关研究团体的研究人员，在研讨会之前，PI将建立一个电子邮件列表，以开始讨论并提供相关的研讨会信息。 讲习班结束后，组织委员会将分发讲习班报告，包括将其张贴在讲习班网站、海啸公告栏和沿海名单上。 (TBB和CL分别是海啸和海岸工程研究团体的电子邮件公告板。）

A tsunami laboratory facility -- a component of the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) -- was funded recently at Oregon State University. This action is to support a workshop to review the present plan for this facility, to learn its physical constraints and limitations, to discuss potential research to be conducted at this facility, and to make recommendations for instrumentation needed to undertake this research.This tsunami facility will be utilized for a wide variety of research topics in tsunami hazard mitigation, as well as other research fields such as coastal engineering, nearshore oceanography, and geotechnical engineering. This facility -- a large-scale, three-dimensional, long-wave tank - will have essentially unique capabilities. This workshop will be an important step in providing input from the potential users. Also, the NEES program announcement contained the following statement, "The NEES collaboratory will form an integrated network that facilitates interdisciplinary collaboration among scientists and engineers, both within the U.S. and abroad." In this regard, the advanced network technologies will permit enhanced international collaborations through this tsunami facility. Therefore the workshop participants will include both national and international key scientists and engineers, not only tsunami researchers, but also researchers from other relevant research communities.Prior to the workshop, the PI will set up an electronic mailing list to start the discussion and to provide relevant workshop information. Following the workshop, the organizing committee will distribute the workshop report, including posting it on the workshop web site, the Tsunami Bulletin Board (TBB) and the Coastal_List (CL). (TBB and CL are e-mail bulletin boards for the tsunami and coastal-engineering research communities, respectively.)