Project Webinar

1. Time: Jan 24, 2024 1:50-2:40 U.S. Central Time 

Title: Utilizing Cyberinfrastructure to Advance Natural Hazards Research

Registration: https://forms.gle/XKrbHjWa21qUy3aG9

Zoom Link: https://tamu.zoom.us/j/7322949427
Speaker: 

Tim Cockerill: Program director at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin. 
Description: This webinar provides an overview of the capabilities provided by DesignSafe (www.designsafe-ci.org), the cyberinfrastructure provider for the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) program supported by NSF award 2022469. NHERI is a distributed national facility that enables research discoveries that will protect human life, reduce damage, and minimize economic losses during natural hazard events. DesignSafe is a web-based platform for the big data generated by natural hazards engineering research, supporting high-performance computing, research workflows, data curation and publication, and data analysis and visualization. 

 

2. Time:Feb 2, 2024, 9:10 to 10 am U.S. Central Time 

Topic: The Future Disaster Research Workforce: CONVERGE Training Modules for Ethical, Scientifically Rigorous Research 

Zoom Link: https://tamu.zoom.us/j/7322949427

Speaker:

Dr. Lori Peek: Director of the Natural Hazards Center and professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Colorado Boulder. 

Description:

The National Science Foundation-funded CONVERGE facility is dedicated to advancing social science, engineering, and interdisciplinary hazards and disaster research. As core to that mission, the CONVERGE team develops trainings and other initiatives to support ethical, rigorous, convergence research that seeks to solve pressing social and environmental challenges. This presentation will provide an overview of the CONVERGE Training Modules—why they were developed, who accesses them, and how they  have been evaluated. Participants are encouraged to visit the CONVERGE Training Modules in advance of the presentation: https://converge.colorado.edu/resources/training-modules/