Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center's rss feeds http://peer.berkeley.edu/pages/news/rss_feed.xml http://peer.berkeley.edu/news/2009/samoan_tsunami.html Community-based education and awareness programs minimized the death toll from the recent Samoan tsunami, though there are still ways to improve the warning and evacuation process, according to a team of researchers that traveled to Samoa last month. The team, funded by a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant,... http://peer.berkeley.edu/news/2009/air_worldwide_sf_position.html http://peer.berkeley.edu/publications/peer_reports_complete.html http://peer.berkeley.edu/news/2009/nsf_asia_pacific_summer.html The National Science Foundation (NSF) East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes for U.S. Graduate Students (EAPSI) is a flagship international fellowship program for developing the next generation of globally-engaged U.S. scientists and engineers knowledgeable about the Asian and Pacific regions. The Summer Institutes are hosted... http://peer.berkeley.edu/news/2009/cosmos_tech_session.html The Consortium of Organization for Strong Motion Observation Systems (COSMOS) will be holding its Annual Meeting and Technical Session at the Clarion Hotel at the San Francisco Airport, Millbrae, California on Friday, November 6th... http://peer.berkeley.edu/publications/peer_reports_complete.html http://peer.berkeley.edu/news/2009/deierlein_edefense.html PEER Researcher Professor Greg Deierlein from Stanford University and his research team have completed a shaking table test of their self centering steel frame structure on Japan's E-Defense shaking table. This new system is allowed to rock ... http://peer.berkeley.edu/products/rep_nga_models.html http://peer.berkeley.edu/publications/peer_reports_complete.html http://peer.berkeley.edu/news/2009/earthquakeretrofit_org.html Earthquakeretrofit.org is a web based community mapping project that helps answer the question, "How have we reduced our earthquake risk in the 20 years since the Loma Prieta earthquake?" Anyone can add points to the map: homeowners, property managers, contractors, architects, engineers, or anyone willing to post their project. All are encouraged to participate at the website, http://www.earthquakeretrofit.org/ and to share the website... http://peer.berkeley.edu/publications/peer_reports_complete.html PEER 2009/101 - Report of the First Joint Planning Meeting for the Second Phase of NEES/E-Defense Collaborative Research on Earthquake Engineering PEER website will be temporarily unavailable for scheduled maintenance on SATURDAY August 8th from 3PM to 11PM. Sorry for the inconvenience. http://peer.berkeley.edu/publications/peer_reports_complete.html PEER 2009/01 - Evaluation of Ground Motion Selection and Modification Methods: Predicting Median Interstory Drift Response of Buildings http://peer.berkeley.edu/events/2009/seminar_reliablility_7-2009.html Protection of life safety is no longer the sole requirement for the successful seismic design of bridges and other highway structures. Design to maintain acceptable highway-system performance and resilience that reduces post-earthquake traffic disruptions and ensures rapid restoration of system-wide traffic flows is also vital for facilitating emergency response, reducing economic losses, and reducing societal impacts of earthquake damage ... http://peer.berkeley.edu/news/2009/young_researcher_exchange_2009.html The Institute of Engineering Mechanics (IEM), China Earthquake Administration (CEA) is a national non-profit commonwealth research organization, and its main research fields are earthquake engineering and safety engineering. IEM will launch the "Young Researcher Exchange Program", and 3-5 outside researchers will be accepted in 2009 ... http://peer.berkeley.edu/news/2009/opensees_days_2009.html The annual one-day workshop on how to use OpenSees will be more hands-on this year. This workshop is intended... http://peer.berkeley.edu/news/2009/caltrans_peer_seminar_attend.html On June 8, 2009 PEER hosted a Seismic Research Seminar highlighting recent transportation research projects sponsored and conducted by the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) and PEER. One hundred sixty attendees... http://peer.berkeley.edu/events/caltrans-peer/video/video_intro.html Caltrans and PEER Seismic Research Seminar http://peer.berkeley.edu/news/2009/seventh_International_bridge_engineering_conference.html The objectives of this conference are to increase the body of knowledge and literature aimed at solving engineering and management issues unique to highway infrastructure (i.e., bridges, culverts and tunnels); and to foster direct communication on research results and innovative practices among engineers, researchers and administrators... http://peer.berkeley.edu/news/2009/peer_reports_award.html At the May 5th Structural Engineers Association of Northern California Meeting in San Francisco, an Award of Excellence was given to the Advanced Seismic Assessment Guidelines drafted by PEER Rresearchers. This project was a good example of how PEER... http://peer.berkeley.edu/news/2009/gem_call_for_proposals.html GEM (Global Earthquake Model) will be the first global, open source model for seismic risk assessment at a national and regional scale, and aims to achieve its goals by developing state-of-the-art open source software and global databases necessary for reliably mapping earthquake risk. GEM has recently issued... http://peer.berkeley.edu/news/2009/sp_prize_2009.html SHAMSHER PRAKASH FOUNDATION invites nominations , worldwide, for the above Prize,for young Engineers/scientists, 45 years or younger. The award consists of cash prize of US $ 1100, and a plaque. The last date... http://peer.berkeley.edu/news/2009/kramer_mayfield_award.html teven Kramer, professor of geotechnical engineering at the University of Washington and PEER researcher, and his coauthor Roy Mayfield, a consulting engineer and former graduate researcher assistant at the University of Washington, received the ASCE Norman Medal for 2009. Their paper entitled... http://peer.berkeley.edu/news/2009/italy_recon_team.html PEER and EERI have jointly sponsored a Reconnaissance Team to visit the region damaged by the April 6, 2009 Magnitude 6.3 Earthquake in L’Aquila, Italy. PEER researchers Mary Comerio (UC Berkeley, Architecture), Filip Filippou (UC Berkeley, Structural Engineering) and Khalid Mosalam (UC Berkeley, Structural Engineering) join the other members of the EERI team. http://peer.berkeley.edu/news/2009/peer_students_japan.html Eight PEER graduate students and several PEER faculty members had the opportunity to visit Japan from March 1 – 7, 2009 for a unique educational experience. http://peer.berkeley.edu/news/2009/usgs_grants_2009.html Applications Due May 13, 2009 http://peer.berkeley.edu/news/2009/eq_morgan_hill.html http://peer.berkeley.edu/events/2009/opensees_parallel_workshop_09.html The OpenSees team will be hosting a parallel computing workshop May 22, 2009. The intent of the workshop is ... http://peer.berkeley.edu/news/2009/caltech_postdoc_position.html The Earthquake Engineering Research Laboratory (EERL) at Caltech invites applications for a post-doctoral scholar position in earthquake engineering. Applicants must hold a PhD in Civil Engineering or ... http://peer.berkeley.edu/news/2009/summer_internship_2009.html PEER is pleased to announce its 2009 Summer Internship Program. This year’s program is targeted for undergraduate students who are seeking experiences in earthquake engineering research. The program for 2009 is funded by NEES. For more information ... http://peer.berkeley.edu/publications/peer_reports/reports_2008/reports_2008.html Linda Al Atik and Nicholas Sitar http://peer.berkeley.edu/news/2009/peer_students_eeri.html PEER and EERI jointly sponsored three PEER students to attend this spring's EERI Liquefaction Seminar. The seminar highlighted two of PEER's researchers ... http://peer.berkeley.edu/news/2009/nist_employment.html The Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Building and Fire Research Laboratory (BFRL) seeks an Earthquake Engineering Research Team Leader in support of its role ... http://peer.berkeley.edu/events/2009/geoengineering_lecture/index.html Registration will begin March 16, 2009 and will close either when full or by Friday April 24th, 2009, 4PM. http://peer.berkeley.edu/news/2009/ancer_newsletter.html The Asian-Pacific Network of Centers of Earthquake Engineering Research (ANCER) was established in 2001 by 7 centers from... http://peer.berkeley.edu/events/2009/annual-meeting_eq_anniversary.html October 15 – 17, 2009 http://peer.berkeley.edu/events/2009/uw_honors_ray_clough.html The University of Washington's College of Engineering has just announced the 2009 Diamond Award honorees. http://peer.berkeley.edu/news/2009/2009_seaoc_convention.html Abstracts are requested for papers to be presented at the technical sessions of the 2009 SEAOC Convention. http://peer.berkeley.edu/news/2009/2010eqconf.html The Organizing Committee for the Ninth U.S. National and Tenth Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering: Reaching Beyond Borders, would like to invite you to submit an abstract by visiting the conference web page, if you have not already done so. The abstract submission deadline is March 31, 2009. http://peer.berkeley.edu/news/2009/2009_ancer_workshop.html The 2009 ANCER workshop has just announced their call for papers! See the links below for more information about the conference and paper submission. http://peer.berkeley.edu/news/2009/neesr_solicitation.html NSF has released the George E. Brown Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Research (NEESR) Solicitation. For more information, visit the website. The proposal due date is Friday March 27, 2009. http://peer.berkeley.edu/news/2008/peer_transition_announcement.html With concurrence of the PEER Institutional Board and the University of California, Berkeley, the identity and management of the nine-campus Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER) and the UC Berkeley Earthquake Engineering Research Center (EERC) are being officially integrated. The new research center will retain the name "PEER" and will continue to represent the nine campuses of the original PEER, while incorporating the facilities and ... http://peer.berkeley.edu/news/2008/nga_development_contract.html PEER is coordinating a new major multi-disciplinary multi-year research program to develop the Next Generation Attenuation Models for the Central & Eastern US (NGA-East) with support from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), United States Geological Survey (USGS), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). http://peer.berkeley.edu/news/news_archive.html