The Academic Impact of NEES Ian Buckle University of Nevada Reno

In the beginning… NEES was born out of a critical need to have advanced, large-scale, experimental capabilities in the U.S. to: – accelerate earthquake risk reduction – validate numerical simulation tools that were far more sophisticated than experimental tools at that time – catch up with the rest of the world, principally Japan, Taiwan, and Europe

In the beginning… NEES was a culture shift from Day One: – Distributed facilities at a scale not seen before… anywhere (shake tables, centrifuges, hybrid labs, field testing, wave basin…) with annual operating grants – Facilities operated under ‘shared-use’ agreement with NSF through NEESinc and later NEEScomm – Facilities had telepresence capabilities to enable remote usage /shared use

In the beginning … NEES was a culture shift from Day One: – Data and metadata required to be uploaded to a repository for public release… – Multi-disciplinary/multi-institutional research teams funded – Numerical simulation /high performance computing tools supported – Educational/outreach mandate, both national and international The NEES Collaboratory was born

10 years later… What has been the academic impact? From two points of view – Research and researchers – Facilities and capabilities

10 years later… researchers Priceless opportunity to work in state-of-the- art facilities to: – push the boundaries of knowledge – work in multidisciplinary teams / expand research horizons through synergistic efforts – attract the best and brightest students to advance earthquake engineering and accelerate earthquake risk reduction (more than 200 PhD students supported)

Research projects completed Site NEESR, Pre-NEESR and Payload Non- NEESR Shared UseIndustryTotal Buffalo Cornell4105 Illinois Lehigh Minnesota1400 UNR Oregon State RPI94922 UC Berkeley UC Davis UCLA UCSD UCSB3104 Texas Total ( ) Julio Ramirez

Publications referencing NEES research - Julio Ramirez

Data within Project Warehouse - Julio Ramirez

Curation of Experiments on NEEShub - Julio Ramirez

Red dots represent researchers and students browsing NEEShub, watching videos, and taking courses while performing 840,656 web and 38,854 tool sessions between August 2010 and April Yellow dots represent users who are running simulations. Dot size corresponds to the number of users at a location. Global Impact of NEEShub Cyberinfrastructure - Julio Ramirez

Workforce development – NEESR students - Julio Ramirez

Signature Research Projects

10-years later… facilities Pushing the boundaries of experimentation

10-years later… facilities Advanced data acquisition/visualization tools Calibrated instrumentation and equipment Accreditation (in some cases) Maintained equipment Enhanced safety culture Stable funding for laboratory personnel Site Administrators (scheduling, facilitating access by off-site researchers…) Four new laboratories – bricks and mortar

In the beginning… NEES was born out of a critical need to have advanced, large-scale, experimental capabilities in the U.S. to: – accelerate earthquake risk reduction – validate numerical simulation tools that were far more sophisticated than experimental tools at that time – catch up with the rest of the world, principally Japan, Taiwan, and Europe Summary

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