Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure: Network Coordination Office

自然灾害工程研究基础设施（NHERI）将得到美国国家科学基金会（NSF）的支持，作为一个分布式、多用户的国家设施，它将为自然灾害工程研究界提供访问研究基础设施的途径。NHERI将由网络协调办公室（NCO）的独立研究基础设施奖、网络基础设施、计算建模和仿真中心、地震和风灾害工程研究实验设施（包括灾后快速反应研究设施）组成。NHERI奖将有助于NSF在国家减少地震灾害计划（NEHRP）和国家减少风暴影响计划中的作用。NHERI延续了NSF对地震工程研究基础设施的重视，该基础设施以前是由乔治·e·布朗地震工程模拟网络作为NEHRP的一部分支持的，但现在扩大了对风力和海岸灾害工程研究基础设施的支持。NHERI的广泛目标是支持提高民用基础设施（如建筑物和其他结构、地下结构、堤坝和关键生命线）抵御地震和风暴自然灾害的弹性和可持续性的研究，以最大限度地减少生命损失、损害和经济损失。有关NHERI资源的信息将在DesignSafe-ci.org门户网站上提供。该合同将为NHERI提供非政府组织组成部分。NCO将作为NHERI的领导者和协调中心，建立一个全球性、多灾害、协作研究社区和研究基础设施，重点是减轻地震、风暴以及海啸和风暴潮对民用基础设施的相关危害的影响。NCO将为NHERI提供以下活动：(a)召集和支持治理小组，(b)安排nsf支持的NHERI实验设施用户，包括RAPID设施，(c)协调NHERI年度工作计划，(d)制定和维护NHERI科学计划，(e)形成国家和国际战略伙伴关系，可以利用和扩大NHERI资源，以及(f)实施教育和社区外展（ECO）计划。ECO项目将包括每年一次的NHERI本科生研究经验（REU）现场项目、每年一次的NHERI夏季研究所、扩大在自然灾害工程研究中代表性不足的群体的参与，以及传播有关NHERI成就和影响的信息。NHERI科学计划将纳入NHERI各个组成部分的科学计划，以及来自更广泛利益相关者社区的贡献，以确定地震和风力灾害工程研究的重大挑战、关键问题和目标。通过NCO对NHERI人力、实验和网络资源的社区协调，研究人员将被授权为民用基础设施的国家复原力和可持续性建立新的知识和创新，减少死亡人数，减少对社会功能的中断，减少经济损失。

The Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) will be supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as a distributed, multi-user national facility that will provide the natural hazards engineering research community with access to research infrastructure. NHERI will be comprised of separate research infrastructure awards for a Network Coordination Office (NCO)-this award, Cyberinfrastructure, Computational Modeling and Simulation Center, and Experimental Facilities for earthquake and wind hazards engineering research, including a post-disaster, rapid response research (RAPID) facility. NHERI awards will contribute to NSF's role in the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) and the National Windstorm Impact Reduction Program. NHERI continues NSF's emphasis on earthquake engineering research infrastructure previously supported under the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation as part of NEHRP, but now broadens that support to include wind and coastal hazards engineering research infrastructure. NHERI has the broad goal of supporting research that will improve the resilience and sustainability of civil infrastructure, such as buildings and other structures, underground structures, levees, and critical lifelines, against the natural hazards of earthquakes and windstorms, in order to minimize loss of life, damage, and economic loss. Information about NHERI resources will be available on the DesignSafe-ci.org web portal.This award will provide the NCO component for NHERI. The NCO will 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 related hazards of tsunamis and storm surge on civil infrastructure. The NCO will provide the following activities for NHERI: (a) convene and support the governance groups, (b) schedule NSF-supported users at the NHERI Experimental Facilities, including the RAPID facility, (c) coordinate an annual NHERI-wide work plan, (d) develop and maintain the NHERI Science Plan, (e) form national and international strategic partnerships that can leverage and broaden NHERI resources, and (f) implement an education and community outreach (ECO) program. The ECO program will include an annual NHERI-wide research experiences for undergraduates (REU) site program, an annual NHERI Summer Institute, broadening participation of groups underrepresented in natural hazards engineering research, and dissemination of information about NHERI accomplishments and impact. The NHERI Science Plan will incorporate the Science Plans of the individual NHERI components, as well as contributions from the broader stakeholder community, to identify the grand challenges, key questions, and objectives for earthquake and wind hazards engineering research. Through the NCO's community coordination of NHERI's human, experimental, and cyber 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.