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CMMI Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation |
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| Initial Amendment Date: | January 15, 2020 |
| Latest Amendment Date: | January 15, 2020 |
| Award Number: | 2002617 |
| Award Instrument: | Standard Grant |
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Joy Pauschke
jpauschk@nsf.gov (703)292-7024 CMMI Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation ENG Directorate for Engineering |
| Start Date: | January 15, 2020 |
| End Date: | December 31, 2020 (Estimated) |
| Total Intended Award Amount: | $49,634.00 |
| Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $49,634.00 |
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836 ROSEMOUNT RD OAKLAND CA US 94610-2409 (510)451-0905 |
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499 14th Street, Suite 220 Oakland CA US 94612-1934 |
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| NSF Program(s): | ECI-Engineering for Civil Infr |
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| Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.041 |
ABSTRACT
This award provides support to the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) to organize programming at the 2020 National Earthquake Conference (NEC) in San Diego, California, held on March 2-6, 2020, to capture the lessons learned and future research directions resulting from the 2019 Ridgecrest, California Earthquake Sequence. This programming will bring together researchers, practitioners, emergency managers, policy makers, and federal, state and local experts to develop a cross-disciplinary research agenda by showcasing a very broad set of observations from this earthquake sequence in a single venue. The 2020 NEC, which will be held in San Diego, California, is in close proximity to the many post-earthquake investigators based in Los Angeles and is accessible for Ridgecrest officials engaged in response and recovery efforts. By engaging a wide range of participants, the programming will help facilitate that the lessons learned not only influence future research, but can also inform future mitigation actions that have the potential to save lives, reduce damage, and maintain critical post-event services, thus fostering national, state, and local health, welfare, and prosperity. Recommendations from the programming will be shared widely with the broader research and earthquake risk reduction community through a summary report to be posted on EERI's website (https://www.eeri.org) and the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) website (https://www.DesignSafe-ci.org). This award supports the National Science Foundation's role in the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP).
The 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence presents a major learning opportunity for the U.S. research and practitioner community across many disciplines. The programming will include a plenary session, break-out sessions, and a poster session. The programming will cover a wide range of topics, including geotechnical and structural engineering, seismology, geology, ground motion, lifelines, public health, emergency management and response, and public policy. Through the participation of attendees from a wide range of disciplines and the integration of experts from academia and practice, the programming will also start important dialogues that promote future and continued knowledge transfer from research to practice and vice versa, thereby opening new areas for discovery and innovation. EERI will work with the NEHRP agencies to convene a multi-disciplinary organizing committee to plan the programming.
This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.
PROJECT OUTCOMES REPORT
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The Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, in coordination with the USGS, hosted Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence One-Year Anniversary programming as part of the National Earthquake Conference in San Diego from March 4-6, 2020. The National Earthquake Conference was attended by diverse stakeholders who participated in response, recovery, and post-earthquake investigations. During the two days of programming, colleagues discussed major lessons learned from the earthquakes and looked forward to next steps for mitigation in California and beyond. The program opened with two consecutive technical sessions focused on major science and engineering findings from the earthquake sequence. In addition to these sessions on technical topics, the program included a poster session and featured a plenary session with a panel discussion including Jed McLaughlin, Ridgecrest Chief of Police, Sean Frieberg, US Navy, and Robyn Moses, Red Cross, who were all actively engaged in managing the response to the earthquake sequence.
The National Earthquake Conference attracted nearly 600 attendees who attended the plenary and poster session and over 100 people attended each of the technical sessions.
Through this programming, the earth science and earthquake engineering observations and findings from these post-earthquake investigations were shared to a broad, multi-disciplinary audience which included both local and national participants. The major lessons and findings identified in presentations will inform future research that advances the understanding of how earthquakes impact the natural and built environment and improves engineering practice.
By increasing the disciplinary diversity of participants, the programming provided the opportunity for a broader understanding of how earthquakes impact communities. Participants will better understand how scientific and engineering information can be used to inform the general public, provide situational awareness for emergency response, and inform reconstruction and recovery efforts. The cross-disciplinary information sharing means that participants are better positioned to use engineering and scientific information to develop future earthquake mitigation actions that can improve community resilience.
Participants also came from many different backgrounds including academia, research, practice, and policy. This allows for information sharing between research, practice, and policy. For state and local government participants, there is an opportunity to take what they learned and improve earthquake hazard mitigation planning. For practicing engineers attendees, information presented can be used to introduce new methods into practice that will improve local earthquake resilience. With the wide dissemination of results to stakeholders across the country there is further opportunity for these practices to be adopted outside of the state of California as well.
Last Modified: 02/01/2021
Modified by: Heidi Tremayne
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