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Get ready for Hurricane Harvey! If you aren't prepared already, get that way and get safe. Here are some last minute preparations you can do, good sources of information, and how you can help those who are in the path. Hurricane kit: Medication Cash Battery powered radio First aid supplies Bottled water Flashlight Cell phone car charger Credible info sources: National Weather Service: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/#Harvey NOAA: http://www.noaa.gov/ Weather Channel: https://weather.com/storms/hurricane How you can help: Donate to the American Red Cross: http://www.redcross.org/ Reach out to friends and neighbors!

Today I talked with Dr. Arindham Chowdhury and Dr. Maryam Refan from the Wall of Wind at Florida International University. Dr. Refan shared some great stories from her research career including how her storm chasing truck got hit with a piece of a wind turbine, creating a tornado in a laboratory setting, and how wind engineering research can focus on using wind to generate energy or prevent damage to structures. I talked to Dr. Chowdhury about how the Wall of Wind got started, the current research taking place, and some of the great innovations that have come out of there including AMPS (http://bit.ly/2vM9LY6). For more information on the Wall of Wind, here's an overview video from their YouTube channel: http://bit.ly/2wds4bN

Here's the full version of my interview with Dr. Pedro Lomonaco from Oregon State University's O.H. Hinsdale Wave Research Lab! We went into a few more topics than we could fit into one episode on the full length version of this.

On today's episode, I talked with Dr. Pedro Lomonaco from Oregon State University about coastal engineering and his work at the Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory. He has a wealth of experience in this area and loves to talk about it! In fact, we had more to talk about than could fit in an episode, so the full interview will be published separately.

Dr. Julio Ramirez talks about how he got interested in Civil Engineering as a boy following his dad to job sites in Mexico, and has turned that into a career dedicated to designing resilient structures. We talk about the amazing facilities that make up the NHERI network and how the team is bringing together the earthquake, geotechnical, wind, and coastal engineering communities to do multi-hazard research. At the end of the interview he shares a great personal experience with a reconnaissance mission in Columbia.