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Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure

We all have experienced natural hazards in our lives: earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, tsunami, floods: they impact our society at the most fundamental levels. Through rigorous testing and outreach programs, the team at the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure is committed to making sure the next natural hazard doesn"t have to be a disaster for you and your family. From the National Science Foundation and the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure: This is DesignSafe

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Episode 49 Tsunami, Volcanos, and Landslides, Oh My!...

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2018/08/15

Hermann Fritz School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Georgia Tech In this episode, host Dan Zehner interviews Georgia Tech tsunami researcher Hermann Fritz. Professor Fritz discusses his unusual academic focus and his current project creating a tsunami generating machine at the University of Oregon. As a civil engineering graduate student at ETH Zurich, he was interested in studying flooding. Switzerland is highly exposed to flooding, landslides and other hazards related to climate. Fritz

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00:41:57

Episode 48 Story of a Stormchaser with Warren Causey (R)

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2018/07/20

This week Dan meets storm chaser Warren Causey, founder of The Sirens Project. Causey, an engineer with a lifelong passion for weather, studies tornadoes from a safe distance, using unmanned aerial vehicles, drones. In the interview, Causey describes growing up in Georgia and chasing storms in the mountainous Southeast, in Dixie Alley. Hoping to design weather research systems, he studied mechanical engineering, including 3D modeling and drone development. Chemistry gelled with college classmates

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01:05:06

Episode 47: Legendary Hurricane Hunter Frank Marks (R)

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2018/07/13

Legendary hurricane hunter Frank Marks Today’s guest is Frank Marks, legendary NOAA meteorologist and tropical cyclone expert. Since the 1980s, he’s flown 10,000 hours on NOAA’s P3 Orion aircraft, including through many, many hurricanes. Marks, who now leads NOAA’s Hurricane Research Division, clearly enjoys learning. He shares some of his favorite experiences with us. Curiosity and a career path. He got curious about weather in grade school. His neighbor, a science teacher, kept weather instruments

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00:56:40

Episode 46 David Prevatt (R)

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2018/07/06

Raised and schooled in the Caribbean island of Trinidad, from an early age David Prevatt was interested in science and structures. As an islander, he also grew up sailing and windsurfing. He recollects the exhilarating feeling of using wind power to skim the waves. He earned his bachelor’s in civil engineering from the University of the West Indies. After a stint as a civil engineer in Trinidad and Tobago, his curiosity and interest in research took him to Clemson University where he earned his

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00:38:34

Episode 45 True Calling as a Wind Engineer with...

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2018/06/22

Today DesignSafe Radio host Dan Zehner meets up with Jennifer Bridge, a research engineer from the University of Florida – and deputy director of UF’s NHERI facility. When recalling her initial interest in engineering, she says she enjoyed math and physics in high school, making engineering a natural career path. In college, she majored in civil engineering. A turning point, she says, was when a college job fair unexpectedly landed her a position working as a research assistant for an engineering

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00:47:12

Episode 44 Cold Formed Steel and Shake Tables with...

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2018/06/15

For earthquake engineer Kara Peterman, joining the high school robotics team was a defining experience. She discovered she loved the applied sciences. So, when she entered Swarthmore College, she majored in engineering. Because she loved buildings and architecture, and she liked the idea of designing resilient structures, she decided to a focus in structural engineering. She wanted to be a professional engineer, so she enrolled in the master’s program at Johns Hopkins University. She discovered

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00:46:17

Episode 43 - Dan and Dan: Wind Engineers

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2018/06/11

Dan Lander and Dan Moore are wind engineers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute doing research using NHERI’s Wall of Wind facility at Florida International University. On this week’s show, they talk about their project and offer advice to prospective wind engineers. Australian-born Dan Lander originally wanted to build things. When he discovered construction engineering held no joy for him, he switched to civil engineering, where he finds plenty of joy studying fluid dynamics. He recently

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00:32:43

Episode 42 Hurricane Season 2018- Let's Get Prepped...

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2018/06/01

Hurricane season 2018: Let’s get prepped This week, we get prepped for the 2018 hurricane season with emergency management specialist Tom Iovino from the Florida Department of Health in Manatee County. Host Dan Zehner talks with Iovino about some less than obvious dangers related to hurricanes, and Iovino proffers excellent great advice for anyone near hurricane-prone areas, from Texas to Maine. Iovino says that the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, and the Colorado State

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00:35:36

Episode 41 - Creating a tsunami — on a centrifuge...

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2018/05/25

On this week’s episode host Dan Zehner talks with Maggie Exton, a PhD candidate at Oregon State University focusing on tsunami inundation. She talks about her interest in engineering and her current research project: creating tsunamis on a centrifuge. She says her father, a sculptor, helped interest her in building things as a kid. As an undergraduate at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute she studied materials science and engineering. Also at RPI she earned her master’s degree in geotechnical

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00:48:06

Episode 40 - UAVs and Hazard Research with Kevin Franke

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2018/05/18

This week on the show, we talk about a fascinating subject area: using drones to quickly assess a hazard area after an event and create an extremely detailed and accurate 3D model for researchers to study the effects of earthquakes, hurricanes, or other hazards on a community while the data is still fresh and the site is relatively undisturbed. This work is extremely important because getting scientific data quickly while a community is in the first few days after an event is critical to the

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00:36:54

Episode 39 Tsunamis in a Centrifuge with Ben Mason

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2018/05/11

This week, host Dan Zehner talks with Ben Mason, a natural hazards researcher at Oregon State University. Mason talks about his special interests: geotechnical earthquake engineering and soil-fluid-structure interactions. Mason says that since childhood, he was interested in how things work. But it wasn’t until his undergraduate days at Georgia Tech that he discovered his deep interest in geotechnical engineering. Professor Larry Jacobs took Mason under his wing and encouraged him to go to

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00:33:04

Episode 38 Geotechnical Research Stories with Jason...

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2018/04/28

Jason Beunker: Profile of a rising research engineer On this week’s episode, Dan Zehner speaks with research engineer Jason Beunker. Currently in year two of his PhD, Jason Beunker studies soil structure interaction and seismicity at UCLA’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Why academia? Like many PhD candidates in the field, Beunker returned to academia after working as a professional engineer. He discusses enjoying work for Seattle-based firm Shannon and Wilson and how his

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00:56:59

Episode 37 Society and Wind Engineering with David...

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2018/04/20

David Prevatt, Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering, University of Florida Raised and schooled in the Caribbean island of Trinidad, from an early age David Prevatt was interested in science and structures. As an islander, he also grew up sailing and windsurfing. He recollects the exhilarating feeling of using wind power to skim the waves. He earned his bachelor’s in civil engineering from the University of the West Indies. After a stint as a civil engineer in Trinidad

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00:56:04

Episode 36 Inspecting Aging Infrastructure with Dr...

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2018/04/13

Nenad Gucunski, professor and chairman, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rutgers University Professor Nedad Gucunski from Rutgers U performs novel bridge testing experiments using the large mobile shaker equipment from NHERI’s University of Austin Experimental Facility. Like so many engineers, Gucunski’s interest in engineering took root in childhood. He liked to build with Legos and models. He was fascinated by buildings and enjoyed looking up famous structures in encyclopedias: the Roman

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00:51:45

Episode 35 - Tsunami expert relies on NHERI - with...

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2018/04/06

Jim Kaihatu Associate Professor, Assistant Department head for Research Texas A&M University DesignSafe episode 35 Son of immigrants from the Netherlands, (via Indonesia), Jim attended a technical vocational high school in Southern California. He was good at math and science and majored in design and drafting, thinking he’d be an architect. But his talents lay on the engineering side of buildings, so he majored in structural engineering at Cal Poly Pomona. Already intrigued by fluid mechanics, he

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00:37:17

Episode 34 - Soil Testing in the World's Biggest...

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2018/03/30

In the second half of this interview, Dr. Scott Brandenberg provides a fascinating and detailed overview of his first major research project, which was to study propagation of earthquake ground motions through soft soil layer — from painstakingly building the models, to testing them and then analyzing the results. Among other things, Brandenberg explains why it’s important to measure the sheer strength properly over a wide range of shaking intensities, not just for the really strong ground motions,

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00:34:24

Episode 33 Soil testing in the world's biggest...

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2018/03/23

Today, DesignSafe radio host Dan Zehner starts a conversation with geotechnical research engineer Scott Brandenberg, engineering professor at UCLA. In his investigations, Brandenberg employs the very large geotechnical centrifuge at the UC Davis Center for Geotechnical Modeling, a NHERI experimental facility. Brandenberg was raised on a cattle ranch, where he helped his father fix machinery. What hooked him on engineering as a kid, he says, was entering a toothpick bridge competition. He majored

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00:34:27

Episode 32 From Earthquakes to Other Hazards with...

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2018/03/16

In part two of our interview with hazards engineer John van de Lindt, we learn how his career expanded from earthquake engineering to other hazards. After the NEESsoft project, van de Lindt won a grant for investigating sustainable buildings, looking at tornado loading, trying to reduce damage and injury in expansive soils. The team’s structure provided safety by devising shelter in basement with sustainable backfill that prevents basement walls from being damaged. Ironically, during this time,

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00:25:11

Episode 31 Engineered Wood Structures with John van...

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2018/03/09

Today our host Dan Zehner talks with renowned earthquake engineer John van de Lindt, who has spent the past 20 years exploring wood-structure engineering and community resilience. Van de Lindt also is active in the NHERI hazards engineering community. As an undergraduate, he started as a physics major, then moved to criminal justice and considered becoming a lawyer. Fortunately for the engineering world, he was inspired by a Statics course professor and changed his major to structural engineering

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00:46:27

Episode 30 Economics Of Natural Hazards Research

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2018/03/02

The economics of natural hazards engineering Kevin Simmons, Professor of Economics Austin College After spending 17 years working for an electric utility, Kevin Simmons enrolled in PhD program at Texas Tech thinking about starting a new career in the energy sector. But then, a prominent wind engineering researcher, Kishor Mehta, recruited him to examine the societal impacts of engineering against wind hazards. After examining variables like MLS data in Galveston, Texas, and running models, Simmons

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