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SPECIAL EPISODE! Introducing the NHERI Science Plan, Third Edition

Ways to leverage NSF-funded facilities in natural hazards research

Just released: the NHERI Science Plan, 3rd Edition! This comprehensive, 130-page research guide outlines ways researchers can use NSF-funded facilities to study natural hazards damage and prevention. With lead author Ian Robertson, research engineer with the University of Hawaii.

NEW in the third edition:

· NHERI SimCenter simulation software for estimating damage and simulating mitigation measures.

· NHERI CONVERGE social science resources, for incorporating social science methodologies.

· PLUS extreme events teams who conduct post-event reconnaissance missions.

Download the NHERI Science Plan: https://www.designsafe-ci.org/data/browser/public/designsafe.storage.published/PRJ-4240

Learn more about the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure, NHERI: https://www.designsafe-ci.org/

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Episode 3 Understanding major storms: key to coastal resilience

Understanding the behavior of coastal systems requires specialized researchers, including engineers, to instrument shorelines before a major storm — and to collect and analyze the resulting data. Woods Hole scientist Britt Raubenheimer reiterates the vital importance of federal funding, including NSF funding, which allows for multidisciplinary teams like NEER to perform nested, coordinated reconnaissance missions with NHERI engineers and agencies like USGS and NOAA.

NEER website: https://neerassociation.org/ NHERI extreme events organizations: https://www.designsafe-ci.org/facilities/converge/

Follow Britt Raubenheimer on Twitter: @BrittRaubenhei1

Twitter: @NHERI_EER

Questions about NHERI or NHERI extreme events research? Contact us: [email protected].

Entender las grandes tormentas: clave de la resistencia costera

Comprender el comportamiento de los sistemas costeros exige que investigadores especializados, entre ellos ingenieros, instrumenten las costas antes de una gran tormenta y recojan y analicen los datos resultantes. Britt Raubenheimer, científico de Woods Hole, reitera la importancia vital de la financiación federal, incluida la de la NSF, que permite a equipos multidisciplinares como el NEER llevar a cabo misiones de reconocimiento anidadas y coordinadas con ingenieros del NHERI y organismos como el USGS y la NOAA.

Britt Raubenheimer, PhD

Senior Scientist, Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Principal Investigator, Nearshore Extreme Event Reconnaissance team, NEER

Episode 2 NEER: Nearshore breakwaters and unintended consequences

Coastal scientist Britt Raubenheimer describes NEER’s data reconnaissance missions before, during, and after Hurricane Laura, which struck southwestern Louisiana in 2020. NEER data revealed that breakwater structures could slow storm-surge inundation – but then they would also retain floodwaters passing through it, significantly slowing recovery of the shoreland marsh.

NEER website: https://neerassociation.org/ NHERI extreme events organizations: https://www.designsafe-ci.org/facilities/converge/

Follow Britt Raubenheimer on Twitter: @BrittRaubenhei1

Twitter: @NHERI_EER

Questions about NHERI or NHERI extreme events research? Contact us: [email protected].

NEER: Rompeolas cercanos a la costa y consecuencias imprevistas

El científico costero Britt Raubenheimer describe las misiones de reconocimiento de datos del NEER antes, durante y después del huracán Laura, que azotó el suroeste de Luisiana en 2020.

Los datos del NEER revelaron que las estructuras de rompeolas podían ralentizar las inundaciones provocadas por las tormentas, pero también retendrían las aguas de crecida que las atravesaran, lo que ralentizaría considerablemente la recuperación de las marismas costeras.

Britt Raubenheimer, PhD

Senior Scientist, Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Principal Investigator, Nearshore Extreme Event Reconnaissance team, NEER

NEER: Improving resilience of the nearshore during extreme events

Woods Hole scientist Britt Raubenheimer talks with host Dan Zehner about coastal resiliency. Raubenheimer is principal investigator for NSF-funded Nearshore Extreme Event Reconnaissance team, NEER. NEER deploys multi-disciplinary researchers to collect data on nearshore systems before, during and after extreme events. She discusses the 2020 NEER mission during Hurricane Laura – which made useful discoveries about the efficacy of breakwater structures in the Delta marshlands.

NEER website: https://neerassociation.org/ NHERI extreme events organizations: https://www.designsafe-ci.org/facilities/converge/

Twitter: @NHERI_EER

NEER: Mejora de la resistencia de las zonas costeras en caso de fenómenos extremos

El científico de Woods Hole Britt Raubenheimer habla con el presentador Dan Zehner sobre la resistencia costera. Raubenheimer es el investigador principal del equipo NEER (Nearshore Extreme Event Reconnaissance), financiado por la NSF. NEER despliega investigadores multidisciplinares para recoger datos sobre los sistemas costeros antes, durante y después de los fenómenos extremos. Habla de la misión NEER 2020 durante el huracán Laura, que permitió hacer útiles descubrimientos sobre la eficacia de las estructuras de rompeolas en las marismas del Delta

Episode 3: A new experimental facility for simulating windstorms

The National Science Foundation is funding a new, multihazard experimental facility called “NICHE,” still in the planning stages. As a co-principal investigator, Frank Lombardo is to helping to design methods for re-creating non-synoptic winds and wind profiles — storms of short duration and limited in space, like thunderstorms, derechos, and tornadoes.

Learn more about NSF-funded NICHE, the National Full-Scale Testing Infrastructure for Community Hardening in Extreme Wind Surge and Wave Events

https://www.designsafe-ci.org/facilities/experimental/niche/

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Una nueva instalación experimental para simular tormentas de viento

La National Science Foundation financia una nueva instalación experimental para riesgos múltiples llamada "NICHE", aún en fase de planificación. Como co-investigador principal de NICHE, Frank Lombardo está ayudando a diseñar métodos para recrear vientos y perfiles de viento no sinópticos -tormentas de corta duración y limitadas en el espacio, como tormentas eléctricas, derechos y tornados.

Episode 2: Triangulating clues to tornadoes

Although dust devils can provide clues to tornado winds, U of Illinois wind engineer Frank Lombardo says tornadic behavior is still largely a mystery – and a bigger risk than researchers previously thought. He details ways wind engineers are piecing together answers, including simulations and damage surveys.

Wind Engineering Research Lab, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign https://publish.illinois.edu/ftlombardo/about/

Keep up with Lombardo and the UIUC Wind Engineering Lab on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/WindLaboratory/

@WindLaboratory

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Episodio 2: Triangulación de pistas sobre tornados

Aunque los remolinos de polvo pueden dar pistas sobre los vientos de los tornados, Frank Lombardo, ingeniero de vientos de la Universidad de Illinois, afirma que el comportamiento de los tornados sigue siendo un misterio y un riesgo mayor de lo que pensaban los investigadores. Lombardo detalla cómo los ingenieros eólicos están reconstruyendo las respuestas, incluyendo simulaciones y estudios de daños.

Episode 1: Wind engineers hunt dust devils

Dust devils! Understanding how these short-lived whirlwinds behave may help wind engineers understand tornadoes. In field studies, U of Illinois wind engineer Frank Lombardo collects data on dust devils, which occur more frequently – and are easier (and safer) to capture – than their high-powered relatives. Lombardo’s team has recorded more than 50 of these brief, 45 MPH windstorms. Find out how, where, and what the data show.

Wind Engineering Research Lab, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign https://publish.illinois.edu/ftlombardo/about/

Keep up with Lombardo and the UIUC Wind Engineering Lab on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/WindLaboratory/

@WindLaboratory

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Wind engineer Pedro Fernández-Cabán conducts experiments at the NHERI University of Florida wind tunnel, trying to discover how to prevent roof failure in low-rise buildings during hurricanes. In this episode he describes how he uses a special component of the UF wind tunnel that creates large and long-lasting wind gusts: the Flow Field Modulator.

See it in action: a cell from the Flow Field Modulator. Hold your ears! https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ErHtAUU8Wns

Pedro Fernández-Cabán also describes specific ways roofs can be altered to redirect wind flow and reduce suction pressure – and roof damage. Parapets, for instance. Another goal for his project: use the UF Flow Field Modulator to develop a roadmap for wind conditions, revealing how different locations are subject to specific sorts of damaging wind fields – and to provide mitigation advice to builders and homeowners based on that roadmap.

Fernández-Cabán on Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nzBOhdoAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

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Episode 2: Wind tunnel research to protect low-rise buildings from hurricane winds

In this episode, Pedro Fernández-Cabán describes specific ways roofs can be altered to redirect windflow and reduce suction pressure – and roof damage. Parapets, for instance. Another goal for his project: use the UF Flow Field Modulator to develop a roadmap for wind conditions, revealing how different locations are subject to specific sorts of damaging wind fields – and to provide mitigation advice to builders and homeowners based on that roadmap.

Fernández-Cabán on Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nzBOhdoAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Fernández-Cabán on LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/plferndz/

See it in action: a cell from the Flow Field Modulator. Hold your ears! https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ErHtAUU8Wns

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