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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230920T125000
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URL:https://www.eng.ufl.edu/news-events/events/eeri-distinguished-lecture-
 2023-2/
SUMMARY:EERI Distinguished Lecture 2023
DESCRIPTION:Taking Measure: How Earthquake Reconnaissance Has Evolved Over 
 Fifty Years\nSpeaker: Dr. Judith Mitrani-Reiser\, Senior Research Scientis
 t in the Materials and Structural\nSystems Division at the National Instit
 ute of Standards and Technology (NIST)\nABSTRACT:\nExtreme events\, such a
 s tornados and fires\, test buildings and infrastructure in ways and on a 
 scale that cannot\nbe easily replicated in a laboratory. Therefore\, actua
 l disasters and failure events provide important opportunities\nfor scient
 ists and engineers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (
 NIST) and elsewhere to study\nthese events\, and improve the safety of bui
 ldings\, their occupants\, and emergency responders. The lecture will\npro
 vide an overview of the disaster research conducted at NIST and informed b
 y strategic plans developed by\nnational disaster statutory programs: Disa
 ster and Failure Studies (DFS) Program\, National Earthquake Hazard\nReduc
 tion Program (NEHRP)\, and National Windstorm Impact Reduction Program (NW
 IRP). The lecture will\nhighlight how the metrology of disasters has evolv
 ed since the Learning from Earthquakes (LFE) Program was\nestablished fift
 y years ago by the National Science Foundation\, a NEHRP agency. The lectu
 re will also provide\nan overview of how the advancement of tools (e.g.\, 
 interview/survey instruments\, GIS\, data management\, etc.)\nand technolo
 gy (e.g.\, lidar\, GPS\, drones\, etc.) in seismic reconnaissance missions
  has enabled scientists and\nengineers to better quantify the physical and
  social impacts of earthquakes on communities. The lecture will\ncommemora
 te the multidisciplinary approach to learning from disasters\, directly bo
 rne out of the LFE Program.\nBio: Dr. Judith Mitrani-Reiser is a Senior Re
 search Scientist in the Materials and\nStructural Systems Division at the 
 National Institute of Standards and Technology\n(NIST). Dr. Mitrani-Reiser
  co-leads the NCST technical investigation of the\ncollapse of the Champla
 in Towers South in Surfside\, Florida and is the leader of\nthe mortality 
 project of the NCST investigation of Hurricane Maria’s impact on\nPuerto
  Rico. Her responsibilities at NIST also extend to managing and providing\
 noversight to other disaster statutory programs—the National Windstorm I
 mpact\nReduction Program and the National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Prog
 ram—\nfocused on interagency coordination to reduce losses in the U.S. f
 rom disasters and\nfailures. Dr. Mitrani-Reiser served as Vice President o
 f the Earthquake\nEngineering Research Institute (EERI)\, serves on the Ex
 ecutive Committee of the\nU.S. Collaborative Reporting for Safer Structure
 s (CROSS-US)\, co-founded the\nAmerican Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASC
 E) Multi-Hazard Risk Mitigation\nCommittee\, and was elected to the Academ
 y of Distinguished Alumni of UC\nBerkeley’s Civil and Environmental Engi
 neering Department. She earned her B.S. from the University of Florida\,\n
 M.S. from the University of California at Berkeley\, and Ph.D. from the Ca
 ltech.
CATEGORIES:Seminars
LOCATION:Reitz Union Chamber\, 655 Reitz Union Drive\, Gainesville\, FL\, 3
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