The Academic Impact of NEES

1. The Academic Impact of NEES Ian Buckle University of Nevada Reno

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 10 years later… • What has been the academic impact? • From two points of view • Research and researchers • Facilities and capabilities

6. 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)

7. Research projects completed - Julio Ramirez

8. Publications referencing NEES research - Julio Ramirez

9. Data within Project Warehouse - Julio Ramirez

10. Curation of Experiments on NEEShub - Julio Ramirez

11. Global Impact of NEEShubCyberinfrastructure • 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 2013. • Yellow dots represent users who are running simulations. • Dot size corresponds to the number of users at a location. - Julio Ramirez

12. Workforce development – NEESR students - Julio Ramirez

13. Signature Research Projects

14. 10-years later… facilities • Pushing the boundaries of experimentation

15. 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

16. In the beginning… Summary • 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

17. Thank You