Podcast appearances and mentions of dan zehner

Welcome back to the Disaster Podcast, your go-to resource for medical professionals, first responders, and disaster rescue experts. This week's episode features a returning guest, Dan Zehner, from the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI), alongside our cohosts Sam Bradley (retired firefighter and paramedic) and Jamie Davis (nurse and retired paramedic).

The National Science Foundation NHERI (Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure) organization had teams out in advance of the recent hurricanes to strike Florida. They set up for the Sentinel Program from the University of Florida to use sensor platforms to detect all the various forces from incoming storms. This was the first full deployment of the Sentinel system.

Civil engineering grad students from NHERI UC Davis join Dan Zehner to discuss research at the renowned Center for Geotechnical Modeling, a geotech lab equipped with a nine-meter centrifuge. Master's student Jose Louis Caisapanta describes soil experiments with the centrifuge – which can deploy a shake table during its 50G spins. PhD student Laura Luna explains building physical models in the centrifuge. She uses resulting data to create a computer model that will predict soil behavior beneath a structure during an earthquake. About the equipment and people at the NHERI UC Davis laboratory:https://ucdavis.designsafe-ci.org/ Discover research, events, lab photos and more on the CGM Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063111107077 Follow NHERI UC Davis on Linked In:https://www.linkedin.com/company/ucd-cgm/ CGM Director Jason DeJong on DesignSafe Radio:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlLTdPaOUFk

Dan Zehner from NHERI rejoins us for today's episode. The Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure, NHERI, is a shared-use network funded by multiple grants from the National Science Foundation. They conduct studies of natural hazards and their effects on manmade infrastructure elements to determine safer and more resilient construction methods and materials.

Meet Nurullah Bektaş, engineering PhD candidate and research chair with the NHERI Graduate Student Council. He talks with Dan Zehner about the virtual GSC Mini Conference, slated for May 31, 2024. Bektaş, who is earning his PhD from Széchenyi István University in Hungary, encourages grad students in natural hazards get involved in sharing research and conducting post-event reconnaissance. He relates his own field experience helping householders in Turkey after the devastating 2023 earthquake series in Turkey and Syria.Find out about the GSC Mini Conference: https://bit.ly/2024NHERIGSCMiniConference Get details about the NHERI Graduate Student Council: https://www.designsafe-ci.org/learning-center/nheri-graduate-student-council/Bektaş is involved with StEER, the NSF-funded Structural Extreme Event Reconnaissance team:https://www.steer.network/ Bektaş worked with the UK-based group EEFIT, Earthquake Engineering Field Investigation Team, when conducting field work in Turkey:https://www.istructe.org/get-involved/supported-organisations/eefit/ For post-event debris management, Bektaş mentioned another NSF-funded extreme event group, SUstainable Material Management Extreme Events Reconnaissance, SUMMEER:http://summeer.org/

This week features a rare follow-up episode where we looked back at last week's episode on Geohazard Mitigation with Colby Barrett from GeoStabilization International. This week we brought back Dan Zehner from The Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI).

In the aftermath of the Maui wildfire disaster that struck the state of Hawaii, Dan Zehner from NHERI (Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure) comes on the show. Dan shares with us the post-disaster lessons learned by looking at the effect of the fires on community and residential infrastructure.

Britt Raubenheimer, PhDSenior Scientist, Applied Ocean Physics and EngineeringWoods Hole Oceanographic InstitutionPrincipal Investigator, Nearshore Extreme Event Reconnaissance team, NEER NEER: Improving resilience of the nearshore during extreme eventsWoods Hole scientist Britt Raubenheimer talks with host Dan Zehner about coastal resiliency. Raubenheimer is principal investigator for NSF-funded Nearshore Extreme Event Reconnaissance team, NEER. NEER deploys multi-disciplinary researchers to collect data on nearshore systems before, during and after extreme events. She discusses the 2020 NEER mission during Hurricane Laura – which made useful discoveries about the efficacy of breakwater structures in the Delta marshlands. NEER website: https://neerassociation.org/ NHERI extreme events organizations: https://www.designsafe-ci.org/facilities/converge/Twitter: @NHERI_EER  NEER: Mejora de la resistencia de las zonas costeras en caso de fenómenos extremos El científico de Woods Hole Britt Raubenheimer habla con el presentador Dan Zehner sobre la resistencia costera. Raubenheimer es el investigador principal del equipo NEER (Nearshore Extreme Event Reconnaissance), financiado por la NSF. NEER despliega investigadores multidisciplinares para recoger datos sobre los sistemas costeros antes, durante y después de los fenómenos extremos. Habla de la misión NEER 2020 durante el huracán Laura, que permitió hacer útiles descubrimientos sobre la eficacia de las estructuras de rompeolas en las marismas del Delta

In this episode, we invited Dan Zehner from NHERI back on the show to talk about the recent Dam breach in Ukraine. The resulting flooding has necessitated widespread rescue attempts, many of which took place in an active war zone. We talk about the integrity of Dams, the long term impacts of such an infrastructure failure, and environmental hazards that might be encountered.

NHERI Tallwood Megaproject: a research and industry partnership. DesignSafe Radio host Dan Zehner catches up with Jeff Berman, NHERI Tallwood co-PI and earthquake engineer from the University of Washington. Berman explains how “mega-projects” like Tallwood simply can't be done without significant collaboration between academia and industry experts at companies such as Simpson Strong-Tie, Swinerton and others with expertise in building construction, engineering, and mass timber design. The NHERI Tallwood project is funded by the National Science Foundation, with support from many industry partners. The shake table experiment is slated for early April, 2023. Follow the NHERI Tallwood project via the live video stream at UC San Diego: http://nheri.ucsd.edu/video/. More #NHERITallwood partners on Twitter: @NHERI_UCSD @UCSanDiego @UCSDJacobs @NSF @slpei @commresilience @MinesCEE @coschoolofmines @CEMCO_steel @csinconline @strongtie @TechGlassProd @uwengineering #NHERITallwood #CLT #Crosslaminatedtimber #massTimber #rockingwalls #naturalhazards #resilience #NSFfunded #earthquakeEngineering #NSFStoriesGet the backstory on NHERI Tallwood: http://nheritallwood.mines.edu/ Looking for earthquake shaking data? Visit the NHERI DesignSafe Data Depot, a public repository of natural hazards research data. https://www.designsafe-ci.org/data/browser/public/ On Twitter: Follow Shiling Pei (@slpei), Principal Investigator for #NHERITallwood. While you're at it, follow NHERI DesignSafe (@NHERIDesignSafe) for all things related to natural hazards engineering. DYK? UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering is home the world's largest outdoor shake table. It's called LHPOST, the Large High-Performance Outdoor Shake Table.

As lover's of travel, we are very aware that we were designed to explore God's creation. But did you know that travel - and other adult hobbies - can help us keep our child like spirit and wonder? That they can help inspire us and help us appreciate what God has created? In this episode we will look at eight different play personalities and explore how you can incorporate you personality into your next travel adventure! If you liked this episode, I highly encourage you to check out episode 97: Embracing the Daily Adventure with Dan Zehner or episode 79: Idolizing Talents with Heather Friesner. To connect with our online community, and access our worship around the world directory, please visit: www.ChristianTravelers.net. Thank you for your ongoing prayers, hitting the subscribe button, and sharing this with a friend. Until next time - safe travels and God Bless.

This week we welcome special guest Dan Zehner to the podcast! Listen in as we discuss growing up in the Midwest, marching band, building nuclear submarines, engineering safe buildings on Earth and beyond, seeking adventure in life, choosing the harder path, and more. Keep up with Dan on Instagram and Twitter. Click here to see NHERI and UC San Diego violently shake a 10-story wood building. Host: Cale Matthews Audio Engineer: Art Pipok Visit us at solid7podcast.com to snag some merch, rate the show, buy us a Jocko Go, see upcoming events, follow us on social media, support worthy causes, and become a Patreon supporter. © Copyright 2023 Solid Seven Podcast. All Rights Reserved.

Dan Zehner from NHERI (Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure) joins us to talk about the initial structural engineering look at the recent earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. As soon as the earthquake struck and the extent of the structural failures became evident, members of NHERI and their international colleagues started examining all available data to understand why the buildings failed.

NHERI Tallwood Megaproject: a research and industry partnership. DesignSafe Radio host Dan Zehner catches up with Jeff Berman, NHERI Tallwood co-PI and earthquake engineer from the University of Washington. Berman explains how “mega-projects” like Tallwood simply can't be done without significant collaboration between academia and industry experts at companies such as Simpson Strong-Tie, Swinerton and others with expertise in building construction, engineering, and mass timber design. The NHERI Tallwood project is funded by the National Science Foundation, with support from many industry partners. The shake table experiment is slated for early March, 2023. Follow the NHERI Tallwood project via the live video stream at UC San Diego: http://nheri.ucsd.edu/video/. More #NHERITallwood partners on Twitter: @NHERI_UCSD @UCSanDiego @UCSDJacobs @NSF @slpei @commresilience @MinesCEE @coschoolofmines @CEMCO_steel @csinconline @strongtie @TechGlassProd @uwengineering #NHERITallwood #CLT #Crosslaminatedtimber #massTimber #rockingwalls #naturalhazards #resilience #NSFfunded #earthquakeEngineering #NSFStoriesGet the backstory on NHERI Tallwood: http://nheritallwood.mines.edu/ Looking for earthquake shaking data? Visit the NHERI DesignSafe Data Depot, a public repository of natural hazards research data. https://www.designsafe-ci.org/data/browser/public/ On Twitter: Follow Shiling Pei (@slpei), Principal Investigator for #NHERITallwood. While you're at it, follow NHERI DesignSafe (@NHERIDesignSafe) for all things related to natural hazards engineering. DYK? UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering is home the world's largest outdoor shake table. It's called LHPOST, the Large High-Performance Outdoor Shake Table. Jeffrey BermanProfessor of Civil and Environmental EngineeringUniversity of Washington https://www.ce.washington.edu/facultyfinder/jeffrey-w-berman

Machine-learning expert Krishna Kumar joins host Dan Zehner to discuss the annual NHERI Hackathon. Kumar details this exciting event, which takes place every year at the Texas Advanced Computing Center. Leveraging DesignSafe data and computational resources, participants have three days to code solutions to natural hazards problems using machine learning. Kumar is an assistant professor in civil and environmental engineering at University of Texas professor.#naturalhazards #hackathon #machinelearning #AI #engineeringeducation #simulation #modeling #NHERIHackathonRead more about the annual NHERI Hackathon and DesignSafe Academy: https://www.designsafe-ci.org/learning-center/designsafe-academy/Want to learn more about natural hazards simulation and modeling? Visit the NHERI SimCenter, headquartered at UC Berkeley: https://simcenter.designsafe-ci.org/Follow NHERI DesignSafe!LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nheri-designsafe/Twitter: https://twitter.com/nheriDesignSafeFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/NaturalHazardsEngineeringResearchInfrastructureInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/nheridesignsafe/Twitter: @TACC @NheriGsc @NSF @NheriEco @ERathje @NHE_SimCenter#NSFStories, #naturalhazards, #NHERIhackathon

Onsite at the NHERI OSU wave laboratory, Dan Zehner and Barb Simpson talk about “real time hybrid simulation.” This technique joins numeric models with physical experimentation enables engineers to deal with those pesky problems of scale. In a current project, Simpson is studying wind, wave, and soil behavior at play in offshore wind turbines — which in 2016 had average hub-heights of over 330 feet.#RTHS #hybridsimulation #windturbine #SSI #SFI #womeninengineering #windengineeringLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbara-simpson-9255445b/Twitter: @StanfordEng @HinsdaleOSU, #NSFStories, @NSF, @NheriEco 

Dan Zehner from NHERI (Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure) comes back on the show to bring us the preliminary StEER data collected during and after Hurricane Ian. StEER (Structural Extreme Events Reconnaissance) is a crowd-sourced network of public and private individuals who go into areas following disasters and track damage caused by the event to structures and infrastructure.

Dan Zehner from NHERI (Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure) joins us to talk about new programs and research around wind damage to structures. We talk about the recent shift in deadly tornadoes to the U.S. South from the midwest.

Explore. Marvel. Share. We are all wired to do those three things - whether we know we are marveling over the Creator or not. In this weeks episode, Samuel Chestnutt from Edengate Travel, joins us to talk about this exploratory nature we all have inside of us! God, the Creator of the Universe, calls us all to "go" & explore His creation. Whether that means traveling around the world or celebrating lifes joys in our backyard - there are many things that we can marvel over.  You can connect with Samuel on his website: http://edengatetravel.com If you liked todays episode, we would recommend checking out episode 97, Embracing the Daily Adventure with Dan Zehner.  We appreciate your ongoing support - so please leave a review or share this episode with a travel friend!  In addition - if you are looking for a travel community that embraces a Christian perspective on travel - then we are excited to announce that we will be launching a travel platform in the coming weeks. This platform will let you network with other Christian Travelers, plan events, and more! To be one of the first people with special access, please sign up for our email list: www.ChristianTravelers.net  Until next time - safe travels & God Bless!

Hear amazing testimonies of God guiding, leading & answering prayer from former Kindling Fire podcast guest “Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God” - Rom 10:17 In this episode: 1. Joseph White @josephwhite2256 of Everyday Miracle episode 98 & 99 shares how God used dreams to guide him in a financial decision 2. Dan Zehner @anthemoftheadventurer of Men need adventure episode 148 share how forgiveness of a father unlocked the Gods truth in a friends life 3. David Riffel of @mentoringwarriors episode 108 shares how his faith has increased through unexpected difficulties 4. James Koenig of Favor episode 87 @freelancefridge shares how God is increasing his faith through his art/ profession 5. Brett Murrey @brettmurray73 of Kill the Pose episode 116 share how God is moving in Australia with men Please go check out more from these guests Joseph White:@josephwhite2256 https://www.instagram.com/josephwhite2256/ Dan Zehner: @anthemoftheadventurer https://anthemoftheadventurer.com/ David Riffel: @mentoringwarriors https://mentoring-warriors.com/ James Koenig: @freelancefridge https://freelancefridge.com/ Brett Murray: @brettmurray73 https://www.instagram.com/brettmurray73/ Photography by @trents_film

Dan Zehner from NHERI (Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure) comes on the show with a fascinating update of what these eleven institutions are up to with disaster infrastructure studies. We also had Dan DePodwin and Becky DePodwin join us to chat about weather impacts in the coming week here in the U.S. including winter storms and severe weather warnings.

In this episode of DesignSafe Radio, host Dan Zehner interviews Lori Peek, principal investigator for the NHERI CONVERGE facility, based at the University of Colorado Boulder. Peek is also professor of sociology at UC Boulder and director of the Natural Hazards Center at UC Boulder.Peek explains how, within NHERI, CONVERGE represents the intersection of social science with engineering. For CONVERGE, the focus is on hazards in general, and how they affect populations, and less on specific types of disasters and natural hazards.CONVERGE represents cross disciplinary work, between engineers and social scientists, and it's particularly notable with the “Extreme Events Reconnaissance” groups that CONVERGE administers. Peek describes the seven “EERs” supported by NSF that collaborate and communicate under the CONVERGE umbrella:GEER, Geotechnical Extreme Events ReconnaissanceSSEER, Social Science Extreme Events ResearchStEER, Structural Extreme Event ReconnaissanceNEER, Nearshore Extreme Event ReconnaissanceOSEER, Operations and Systems Engineering Extreme Events ResearchSUMEER, Sustainable Material Management Extreme Events ReconnaissanceISSEER, Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Extreme Events Research Related Links:NHERI CONVERGE FacilityUniversity of Colorado Boulder Converge Facility Lori Peek, NHERI CONVERGE Principal Investigator  

In our second episode featuring REU students studying this summer at the NHERI SimCenter, DesignSafe Radio host Dan Zehner asks rising seniors Adithya, Claire, and Will about ther career plans. All three discuss ways that their experience working at the SimCenter has reinforced their plans to earn a master's or PhD degree and conduct more research. They agreed that their 10-week experience combined a powerful blend of mentoring in research protocols along with the freedom to investigate genuine engineering problems on their own. The NHERI SimCenter is the network's computational modeling and simulaiton hub based at UC Berkeley.  With encouraging words for the future undergrads applying to the REU program, the students said that prior research experience was not necessary. They were surprised that, despite their inexperience, the SimCenter team treated them like bonafide researchers and expected them to draw their own conclusions. Adithya, who is considering a PhD in engineering, said that the REU program has given him valuable proficiency as a researcher.  Related Links:NHERI REU Summer Program InformationMeet the REU StudentsNHERI Simcenter

Dan Zehner is the founder of Anthem of the Adventurer men's ministry. He is living proof, even though you work in a beige cubicle you don't have to live a beige life! On this podcast episode we discuss: -The 3 types of adventures men need -What are the essential components a man needs to master during the warrior stage of masculine growth? -What steps can men take to start to live a more adventurous life? For more information go to: https://anthemoftheadventurer.com/

Men are called to adventure, especially in today's world of screens and non-stop technology. But what exactly is adventure? How do we find adventure in normal everyday life? How do we involve God in our adventures? Dan Zehner is the founder of the Anthem of the Adventurer and answers these questions and much more in this conversation. From his powerful trip to the beaches of Normandy to adventure in his home state, Dan shares his stories and the importance of adventure in the lives of men.When Dan isn't diving in the dark with Navy SEALs, rucking through the cold with a team carrying logs, or building something in his shop, he's serving his wife and three kids in the ways that only he can in Lafayette, Indiana. Every day he's showing others how to have an epic, adventurous life and love the journey with some powerful tools! Dan started the Anthem of the Adventurer out of a deep-seated need for adventure in his life, and to share that journey with other men. Before joining SEAL Team Leaders, where he serves as the head coach in the leadership and teams class, Dan has worked with research centers at Purdue University for both the National Science Foundation and NASA, helping make our society more resilient to all the natural hazards nature throws at us on Earth as well as on the moon and Mars.  Questions Answered:What did it mean to partner with God on the Anthem of the Adventurer?How does it impact you to know there is an enemy out there who is actively trying to take you out?What does adventure actually mean? And, what are the different types of adventure?How should we distinguish between adventure and recklessness?How does a man who is risk-adverse embrace adventure in his life?Why do I need God's involvement in my adventures?How does God help me when I'm on an adventure?In what ways does a man seeking adventure impact his marriage? And his parenting?What did Wild at Heart mean to you in your growth as a man?Why does D-Day hold such a special place in your heart?What's one of your favorite stories of your own adventures?Why is it important to involve other men in our adventures? Important Links: To learn about Anthem of the Adventurer: https://anthemoftheadventurer.com/ To listen to the Anthem of the Adventurer podcast: https://anthemoftheadventurer.com/podcasts-page/ To follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anthemoftheadventurer/  THE FELLOWSHIP BROTHERHOODAn exclusive community of like-minded Christian men, who meet each week to learn, laugh, hold each other accountable, and walk through life together.Join this exclusive brotherhood: https://significantman.com/the-fellowship/ THE BASECAMP EXPERIENCEFour days and three nights of life-changing and intense training for Christian men in the glorious mountains of Colorado.Apply for this Adventure: https://significantman.com/basecamp-is-for-me/ Join the free Significant Man RECHARGE men's FB Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/significantmanrechargeSubscribe to the Significant Man YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/SignificantManPurchase Warren's books https://www.amazon.com/Warren-Peterson/e/B0097BEK8G 

Today on Exploring the Prophetic, Shawn Bolz interviews Dan Zehner & Jeff McClintic. Dan & Jeff have the Anthem and Adventure Podcast which is an extension of their deep-seated love for adventure in life and to share that journey with other men. Jeff is an Author, has helped found 420 Ministries and has been involved in the marketplace, specifically adventure and travel for the past year. Dan is a Navy SEAL and has worked with research centers at Purdue University for both the National Science Foundation and NASA. Tune in as Shawn, Dan & Jeff discuss the awakening they both had to adventure while balancing being amazing men, husbands, and fathers, their spiritual journey where God showed up for them to become a voice for men and how they both learned to hear from God for themselves in their everyday lives.

Dan Zehner from NHERI (Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure) comes on the show to talk about some of the great things accomplished over NHERI’s first five years. We discuss the various NHERI institutions around the country which specialize in specific disaster mitigation and research efforts. There’s also a great retrospective look [...] The post NHERI at Five Years and Counting for Disaster Resilience appeared first on Disaster Podcast.

Dan Zehner is a husband and father of three adventurous kids who love to embrace adversity and the unknown. Dan believes that every day is the opportunity to embrace one of three different levels of adventure:  Casual – low risk, can do every day but endure some suffering for fulfillment Crucial – element of self-reflection takes place Epic – Anything where you have a risk of emotions, finances, or physical risk He shares how he sees these adventures play out in his faith life as he trains for what opportunities God may provide him - both big and small. Join us as Dan shares stories of trying tai-kwon-do with his kids, going on Land Rover adventures, facing the challenges of being stuck in traffic, going to counseling, and so much more.  You can connect with Dan Zehner on his podcast, Anthem of the Adventurer and on Instagram! What kind of adventure will you go on today? If you liked todays episode, you may also like episode 73: Facing Pain with Courage with Joe Patterson. And if you are looking for other faith & travel resources, or to book your next adventure, please head to www.christiantravelers.net!  Until next time – safe travels & God Bless!

Dan Zehner is the host of the Anthem of the Adventurer podcast and is also an advocate for helping men discover more adventure in their lives.  On today’s episode, we chat about what led him to create his own podcast, how men were specifically created for adventure and why both men and women need adventure in their lives.  He touches on what whole-hearted masculinity and femininity are and also shares his best advice for husbands and fathers yearning to summon their own inner warrior.   Links from the Episode: Anthem of the Adventurer Podcast Anthem of the Adventurer Website Anthem of the Adventurer Instagram SEAL Team Leaders GORUCK.com GORUCK GR1 Trans-Wisconsin Adventure Trail Wild at Heart Book Wild at Heart Boot Camp   Links from the Host: Adventures in National Parks, Forests & Wild Places Facebook Group Adventure Bound on Instagram Rob’s YouTube Channel Support the Podcast on Patreon  

My guest Today is Dan Zehner. He is an entrepreneur with a passion for the outdoors and an adventurous life and has turned that passion into a business that is just getting off the startup launchpad. Dan’s goal is to teach others how to have an epic, adventurous life and love the journey.LINK COLLECTIONGUEST LINK: https://anthemoftheadventurer.com/ROBB ORIGINALS: https://RobbOriginals.comMOUNTAIN MADE CBD: https://MountainMade.lifeTHE CALIFORNIA WINE CLUB: https://shrsl.com/27lqbBLUE COOLERS: https://shrsl.com/28ljfMONKEY BAR: http://shrsl.com/2etquOONI PIZZA OVENS: https://shrsl.com/2ev0vFIND THAT POD: https://bit.ly/2EciFqrSquadcast, the absolute best recording platform for podcasting.SQUADCAST: https://bit.ly/3hPwSaVIf you make a purchase through the links posted above, I may receive compensation.CONNECT WITH ME:WEB: http://robbjarrett.comPODCAST: http://robbcast.comYOUTUBE: https://bit.ly/3k75arkFACEBOOK: http://fb.me/robbjarrettpodcastTWITTER: http://twitter.com/robbjarrettINSTAGRAM: http://instagram.com/robbjarrettpodcastMINDS: http://minds.com/robbjarrett

Are you infected with the disease of busyness? Many of us run on all cylinders, trying to cross the next item off our to do list. Our days are full. We commit ourselves to the point of exhaustion. It feels like we’re accomplishing a lot. But weeks, months, years go by and we find ourselves stuck in the same place. Our health, business, and relationships are neglected. We want to move forward, but how can we possibly fit more in? Busyness is a sneaky disease. In this episode we talk with Dad Edge Alliance member Dan Zehner, host of the Anthem of the Adventurer Podcast. Dan used busyness as a distraction to avoid doing what he needed to do in life. He was overweight, stress out, and disconnected from his family. Then he got real with himself. Dan tells us about how he confronted his pain, discovered his purpose, and took ownership of his time. He is now living at the peak of his potential and you can too! For the show notes and exclusive links mentioned in this episode go to gooddadproject.com/thursday215. ———— Join the Free Dad Edge Facebook Group at gooddadproject.com/group. Apply for The Dad Edge Alliance at gooddadproject.com/alliance. Follow us on Instagram at @thedadedge!

Dan Zehner is the archetype for a rugged man. He loves adventure and exploration, but also puts his priorities in order as a family man and a disciple of Jesus Christ. You can find Dan's Anthem of the Adventurer at the following sites: https://www.facebook.com/anthemoftheadventurer/ https://anthemoftheadventurer.com/

Our first podcast takeover, Episode 50 with guest host Ian Hawkins, received incredibly positive feedback and remains among our most popular episodes. This time Episode 6 guest Adventure Dan Zehner is the one asking the questions. I had zero knowledge of what Dan was going to ask and it was a fun ride. We discuss my definition of success, building real relationships even amid restrictions, my biggest recent failure, why saying ‘no’ will net you stronger relationships, and upcoming big adventures. About the Guest: Dan McPherson, International Speaker, Business and Personal Development Coach, and CEO of Leaders Must Lead, is on a mission to help Creatives and Entrepreneurs create and grow profit and understand that Dreams ARE Real. With more than 25 years’ experience in corporate roles leading teams of up to 2000 and responsible for more than $150M in revenue, Dan is a recognized expert in leadership, sales, and business strategy. Through his Leaders Must Learn Mastermind, Dreams ARE Real Podcast, Foundations of Success Training, and powerful 1-1 coaching, Dan helps hundreds of entrepreneurs around the world from musicians and artists to chiropractors, coaches, retailers, and beyond experience success and accomplish their goals. To learn more about Dan or to follow him on Social Media, you can find him on: Website: www.leadersmustlead.com Leaders Must Lead Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/leadersmustlead Free Coaching Assessment: https://leadersmustlead.com/free-coaching-assessment Dreams are Real Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/365493184118010/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leadersmustlead/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/leadersmustlead YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZXypDeFKyZnpeQXcX-AsBQ     About the Takeover Host:   When Dan Zehner isn't diving in the dark with Navy SEALs, rucking through the cold with a team carrying logs, or building something in his shop, he's serving his wife and three kids in the ways that only he can. He's ready and willing to show you how to have an epic, adventurous life and love the journey with some powerful tools that only 0.01% of the world has access to! Are you ready? Visit his website, www.anthemoftheadventurer.com for his podcast, blog, and to connect with a local adventure group near you!   Personal Links: Website: https://anthemoftheadventurer.com/ Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-anthem-of-the-adventurer/id1376115434 Podcast: https://anthemoftheadventurer.simplecast.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/anthemoftheadventurer/   Resource Links: Wild at Heart: https://amzn.to/2L61Tcw Leaders Eat Last: https://amzn.to/2tBvful Tools of Titans: https://amzn.to/35ASUJB Ego is the Enemy: https://amzn.to/36l4Huv    Who: https://amzn.to/3foxoMP Team of Teams: https://amzn.to/2L6j25W The Speed of Trust: https://amzn.to/2ynEOiT Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to my podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a note in the comment section below! Subscribe to the podcast If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or Stitcher. You can also subscribe from the podcast app on your mobile device. Leave us an iTunes review Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to me and greatly appreciated. They help my podcast rank higher on iTunes, which exposes the show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on iTunes.

In this episode Dan Zehner of the Anthem of the Adventurer hosts a virtual campfire with me, The Road Chose Me, and Family Adventures Overlanding. This is a great opportunity to sit back and listen to some ideas that we have for things you can do right now during quarantine, as well as little inspiration for your next adventure. Echoes of Adventure: Season 2, Episode 7 - Jenn and Jeremy of Family Adventures Overlanding, Dan Grec of The Road Chose Me, and I sit down for a virtual campfire with Dan Zehner of the Anthem of the Adventurer podcast. Sit back and listen to what we have to discuss. Guests on this Episode: Dan Grec – The Road Chose Me – Facebook Instagram BlogJenn & Jeremy Ruzicka – Family Adventures Overlanding – Facebook Instagram BlogDan Zehner – Anthem of the Adventurer – Facebook Instagram Blog

In this episode Dan Zehner of the Anthem of the Adventurer hosts a virtual campfire with me, The Road Chose Me, and Family Adventures Overlanding. This is a great opportunity to sit back and listen to some ideas that we have for things you can do right now during quarantine, as well as little inspiration for your next adventure. Echoes of Adventure: Season 2, Episode 7 - Jenn and Jeremy of Family Adventures Overlanding, Dan Grec of The Road Chose Me, and I sit down for a virtual campfire with Dan Zehner of the Anthem of the Adventurer podcast. Sit back and listen to what we have to discuss. Guests on this Episode: Dan Grec – The Road Chose Me – Facebook Instagram BlogJenn & Jeremy Ruzicka – Family Adventures Overlanding – Facebook Instagram BlogDan Zehner – Anthem of the Adventurer – Facebook Instagram Blog

Click here for the video of this episodeIf you're like most people, you want to act on the environment. You want to make sure you make a difference and fear wasting your time or doing pointless work.I felt that way before I started the path that led to this podcast. Taking initiative overcame it. I wrote my book, Initiative, on taking initiative based on the course I've taught at corporations and NYU to stellar student reviews and videos.If you want to make a difference on something you care about to help a community and people you care about, the exercises in this book are the best way I know.Today's episode is a conversation with Dan Zehner, who did the exercises. Yes, I'm promoting the book, but to help empower this community. I didn't record it intending to post here, but found it so relevant to a world where one of the most common responses involves the phrase "but what I do doesn't matter" that I decided to share it here.Initiative teaches anyone to create more of what you love, get closer to your family and loved ones if you want, create community, develop social and emotional skills, connect with the top people in the world in your area.Went from below middle manager to realizing his dreams, spending more time with his family, wasting less time on uninteresting things, and going into business with one of the top people in the world to serve people and a community he cares about.He felt he had no other choice. He didn't see opportunities he now considers obvious. His world turned from scarcity and lonely struggle to abundance and progress with friends.Questions Dan answersWhat if IDon't have time?Don't have money?Have too many ideas?Have too few ideas?Can't focus?Don't want to start a company?Don't like to take risks?Don't know anyone who can help me?What if my husband/wife/family is my priority?What about all the problems in the world I should work on?How is Initiative's process different than all the other resources out there on entrepreneurship?What's wrong with other methods?What's the experience like?Where can I learn more details?Click here for the video of this episodeDan Zehner's blog Anthem of the AdventurerHis video of adventure. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The notes I read from for this episode:Service and giving back using Jason McCarthy GoRuck guy on Jocko.Friend, Dan Zehner, knows JasonTold me about his episode on Jocko Willink's podcastOne section resonated with me because it described what I feelHe speaks as a veteran and starts by describing owingJason says elsewhere in the conversation that military service isn't unique in providing these results. Other kinds of service do too.The sense of service and stewardship, and the depth and meaning of teamwork and community seem similar.I hear how most people describe the interaction with the environment, grasping to reusing disposable cups.They sound like they feel shameful and guilty, as if someone else and not their behavior, was causing the feelingsListen to Jason. Wouldn't you rather sound like him?Beyond feeling better about personal action, think of the potential to lead, to create that feeling based on effective results in othersImagine helping transform American and global culture, or your local community, to become clean, to foster and value stewardship, community, and connectionWho wouldn't want this?The recording starts with a question of JockoHear how much Jason wants to share the meaning and purpose of this activityBy the way, speaking of Dan, we became friends over his doing the exercises in my book Initiative, which led him to create his life's dream project, meeting the top people in the field in the process, and partnering with a dream partner. I'll include a link to his blog, where he is recording his experiences doing the exercises.If you want to do something meaningful with your life and haven't found a passion to build it on or how to bring it to life or your work, I recommend my book Initiative. Do I sound passionate about my work? This podcast resulted from what it teaches.Post-episodeHe talked about building a bridge between worlds, giving back. Maybe I'm projecting, but I see stewardship, especially environmental stewardship, overlapping with what he talked about. It's service.We who have acted on our environmental values have to build a bridge to because judgment, guilt, shame, facts, figures, doom, and gloom aren't what we're about, or at least not what I'm aboutStewardship for me is joy, community, connection, meaning, value, importance, purpose, and passion.The stories I know of people who have acted bring out those things.Let's make environmental action more about these things. I consider it my responsibility.Dan Zehner's blog on doing Initiative's exercisesGoRuckA Forbes article on Jason McCarthy, How A Special Forces Soldier Built A Multimillion-Dollar Backpack BrandThe Jocko podcast episode featuring Jason, 208: March Forward, One Foot In Front Of The Other. With Jason McCarthyJocko's TED talk See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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Daniel Zehner from the DesignSafe Radio podcast joins us on the Disaster Podcast this week. He highlights the research from NHERI (Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure) that looked at the damage from Hurricane Dorian. The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Structural Extreme Events Reconnaissance (StEER) Network gathered data immediately following Dorian’s [...] The post Structural Construction Lessons Learned with Dan Zehner from NHERI appeared first on Disaster Podcast.

Join us as our guest, 'Adventure Dan' Zehner, Operations focused Mechanical Engineer for Purdue University and NASA and founder of Anthem of the Adventurer Podcast and Tribe, explains how he has moved from holding a dream he discovered wasn't really his to crafting a lifestyle that prioritizes what he values most. More than just a man of many stories such as traveling to reenact the battle at Normandy, night swimming with a Navy SEAL and rucking 50+ miles in one day, Dan is an inspiring example of how to craft a life many would claim as their goal. About the Guest: When Dan isn't diving in the dark with Navy SEALs, rucking through the cold with a team carrying logs, or building something in his shop, he's serving his wife and three kids in the ways that only he can. He's ready and willing to show you how to have an epic, adventurous life and love the journey with some powerful tools that only 0.01% of the world has access to! Are you ready? Visit his website, www.anthemoftheadventurer.com for his podcast, blog, and to connect with a local adventure group near you! Personal Links: https://anthemoftheadventurer.com/ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-anthem-of-the-adventurer/id1376115434 https://anthemoftheadventurer.simplecast.com/ https://www.facebook.com/anthemoftheadventurer/  https://anthemoftheadventurer.thinkific.com/manage/courses/468530 Resource Links: Turn This Ship Around- https://amzn.to/2Ggq7OX The 4 Hour Work Week- https://amzn.to/36jXjzz Tools of Titans- https://amzn.to/2RKnFWc The 4 Hour Chef- https://amzn.to/2RkF9t5 Tribe of Mentors- https://amzn.to/2Rm7WgW Walking With God- https://amzn.to/2uq85XF   About the Host: Dan McPherson, International Speaker, Business and Personal Development Coach, and CEO of Leaders Must Lead, is on a mission to help Creatives and Entrepreneurs create and grow profit and understand that Dreams ARE Real. With more than 25 years’ experience in corporate roles leading teams of up to 2000 and responsible for more than $150M in revenue, Dan is a recognized expert in leadership, sales, and business strategy. Through his Leaders Must Learn Mastermind, Dreams ARE Real Podcast, Foundations of Success Training, and powerful 1-1 coaching, Dan helps hundreds of entrepreneurs around the world from musicians and artists to chiropractors, coaches, retailers, and beyond experience success and accomplish their goals. To learn more about Dan or to follow him on Social Media, you can find him on: Website: www.leadersmustlead.com Leaders Must Lead Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/leadersmustlead Dreams are Real Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/365493184118010/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leadersmustlead/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/leadersmustlead YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZXypDeFKyZnpeQXcX-AsBQ   Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to my podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a note in the comment section below! Subscribe to the podcast If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or Stitcher. You can also subscribe from the podcast app on your mobile device. Leave us an iTunes review Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to me and greatly appreciated. They help my podcast rank higher on iTunes, which exposes the show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on iTunes.

Name an area of life and Dan has transformed it and he is not stopping there. He is now on a mission to share the gifts and his new powers with others. "We must stop using the excuse of having kids and a mortgage to hold us back from a life filled with adventure." - Dan Zehner We will talk about why men need adventures and how to show up with more authenticity. - Why all men needs an, adventure to live, a battle to fight and a beauty to rescue - The transformative power of working out to exhaustion. - How Dan uses meditation and prayer to get ready for his daily adventure. - How Dans sons transformed and connected with his power with Marshal arts. - How to show in the world for someone being willing to die for you. - The power of asking for help. - The side effects in family and life by not taking care of the basics. Connect to Dan https://www.facebook.com/anthemoftheadventurer/ https://anthemoftheadventurer.com Join the Dadpreneur Revolution https://www.facebook.com/groups/dadpreneurs/ And get the 4 step process how to put family first without sacrificing your busieness growth. https://passionprofit.kartra.com/page/O-FAMILYFIRSTO Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/Dadpreneur/message

Well, the inmates were running the asylum this week as Larry relaxed on vacation! This episode was recorded live in the Dad Edge Alliance Mastermind community.   We've turned this into a live radio show and it's awesome! Join JMack and Dan Zehner as they bring on men from The Alliance LIVE and take their questions.

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Dan Zehner is a husband and father of three. Dan shares his experiences in starting a Tae Kwon Do program along with his young son and the ways he's been able to build more self-confidence in himself by creating a desired end-state. You can get more from Dan at https://anthemoftheadventurer.com/ ~ EPISODE SPOTLIGHT: The Good Dad Project The mission of The Good Dad Project is to help you become the best, strongest, and happiest version of yourself so that you can help guide your kids to the best version of themselves. Learn more at https://gooddadproject.com/

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Become a fearless father presents: The recording of the interview with Dadpreneur Dan Zehner, founder of Anthem of the Adventurer. 0:00 - What is the anthem of the adventurer all about? .:.. - Who is Dan Zehner? In this interview Klaas van Oosterhout had with Dan Zehner, they talked about: * Bring adventure in your kids lives; * Growth mindset training for kids; * What does an adventure actually mean; * How to fill up your cup; * And much more. Links mentioned by Dan Zehner: https://anthemoftheadventurer.com/ https://www.facebook.com/anthemoftheadventurer/ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-anthem-of-the-adventurer/id1376115434 Visit us at https://www.facebook.com/becomeafearlessfather/ Music: https://www.bensound.com

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"We must stop using the excuse of having kids and a mortgage to hold us back from a life filled with adventure." -- Dan Zehner The vast majority in society 'settle down' after marriage, kids, buying the house, etc and use those as an excuse to not live their lives on their terms anymore. While it's noble to make sacrifices for our families, that doesn't mean that we need to completely stop having exciting experiences. Dan Zehner is here to talk about how he has continued to live a life of adventure and why it's important to not stop even after starting a family! Check out Dan's Anthem of the Adventurer Podcast here! Are you ready for more DISCIPLINE, FOCUS & Zero Xcuses in your life? Take the first step and schedule a free 15 minute Strategy Session  with Kenyon HERE! If you're ready for even more, take advantage of our 5-week Discipline Deep Dive course starting 1APR! Just CLICK HERE (go to kenyonzitzka.com/DDD) to get enrolled!

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Frank Lombardo Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering Wind Engineering Research Laboratory University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign   On the cusp of Hurricane Florence, host Dan Zehner was lucky enough to meet up with wind engineer Frank Lombardo. Based at the University of Illinois, Lombardo studies extreme wind events and and their effects on structures.   Lombardo says he has always been interested in weather. As a college student, he briefly considered atmospheric science, but went into civil engineering. When looking at graduate programs, the multidisciplinary PhD program in wind science and engineering at Texas Tech appealed to him. He completed his PhD there in 2009 and was hired on faculty as a hazards engineer at U of I.   He describes his focus: wind engineering and extreme events: thunderstorms, tornados and hurricanes. He says the scientific community doesn’t know a lot about how thunder storms and tornados and affect buildings. Considered annually, the majority of wind-related losses in the U.S. tend to be from tornados and thunderstorms.   Currently, building codes don’t consider how thunderstorm and tornado loads affect structures, he says. He is part of an ASCE working group collects data on storms so engineers can mitigate for them in the future.   Lombardo and Zehner discuss the differences between hurricanes and other wind storms. Hurricanes are easier to sample, he says. You have advance notice and the winds are large scales. Thunderstorm and tornado winds are smaller scale, and so harder to capture. Part of his work is developing new instruments to capture tornadic and thunderstorm winds. Wind engineers need sturdy, accurate instrumentation, he says, which means they collaborate frequently with Industrial and electrical engineers.   Solutions are inherently multidisciplinary, Lombardo says.   He discusses his newly created measurement tool, a “wind loading cube,” which is a four-foot cube. Lombardo and his team are testing out the novel device in Hurricane Florence.   He discusses the way he designs projects: get full scale data, try to replicate it in wind tunnels – which will, with luck, lead to strategies for damage mitigation.   The cube is heavy and anchored to the ground. It will measure wind loads on the cube. During the upcoming storm Florence, he plans to deploy in the Wilmington, NC, with University of Florida wind engineer Forrest Masters, who will be here with his wind measurement towers.   Lombardo’s research mission to Wilmington is part of the Structural Extreme Events Reconnaissance, or StEER, network, which (among other things) coordinates official event responses. Deploying during a storm to collect perishable data is an integrated effort, Lombardo says.  He discusses the importance of post storm surveys.   Overall in his research, he hopes to determine factors responsible for damage to structures. Many variables come into play, he says. Not just wind, but there is terrain, structural aerodynamics, and the structure itself. Has it been “hardened” for a storm? All the factors combine to determine factors that cause damage.   He discusses new ways for determining tornado and thunderstorm wind strength. After storms, intensity is determined by damage, not wind speed. Lombardo is examining things like tree fall patterns and vortex patterns to estimate speed of winds.   As part of the ASCE committee on wind storms, he knows that the ASCE’s 2022 building codes will include tornado design. His committee hopes to build wind speeds into code – although other factors are key, such as atmospheric pressure, rotation load, upward winds and debris.    Practical measures are important, Lombardo says. He says one way to protect your home from severe winds is to reinforce your garage doors. For roofs, you could even use hurricane straps. In his lab, he’s exploring devices for protecting home roofs, which are vulnerable in wind storms.   Lastly, Lombardo and Zehner discuss predictions for Hurricane Florence wind and storm surge. Follow Lombardo and his research team on Twitter: @windlaboratory.

On today’s episode, host Dan Zehner visits Steve Schein, chief instrumentation engineer at the University of Florida’s Powell Family Structures and Material Laboratory.   From an early age, Steve Schein has been involved in science, coming from a family of engineers and scientists. He earned his degree in electrical and electronic engineering at UF and now enjoys building wind-generating machines for research projects at the Powell Lab.   A self-described instrumentation and measurement nut, Schein discusses a new wind machine project underway. It is a wall of fans: 319 prop-driven fans, each about 8 inches in diameter, and each driven by a 1 horsepower RC motor. Each fan will be able to individually generate any kind of wind field, such as gusts and turbulence, up to 40 miles per hour.   Briefly, Schein discusses another project underway at the UF, a scale model of Puerto Rico. The research team is it using to measure the effects of terrain on wind speed — in hopes of understanding damage caused by Hurricane Maria last year.   Schein describes another wind machine, the Multi-Axis Wind Load Simulator, called MAWLS, which is two stories tall and can generate 200 MPH winds. In one test, using relatively low wind speeds (not even Category five winds), MAWLS winds easily collapsed the type of unreinforced concrete walls typical in Puerto Rican construction.   Schein discusses building this wall of fans. His team started by building sample systems to see if they could build an apparatus that could make representative winds, such as down drafts, rotational vortices, and high frequency wind-peaks. After determining they could make it work, the team began building the machine from scratch. They 3-D printed most of the parts, including electronics mounting structures and air foils.   The Powell Lab team is the only one to build such a machine, Schein says. When operating at full capacity, it will consume about a half million watts.   He discusses some of the problems building the wall and details how it works. Schein says it be running in October and ready for research-testing by fall 2019.

In this week’s show, DesignSafe Radio host Dan Zehner talks with newly minted PhD, Barbara Simpson. Simpson discusses her academic path in engineering and what it’s like entering the workplace as a faculty member.   She says building things out of household articles as a kid naturally led to her career choice. She started in architecture, then switched to civil engineering. A pivotal experience for her was participating in the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program at the University of Illinois — as part of the NSF-funded earthquake engineering initiative called “NEES.” The exposure to earthquake engineering changed her attitude toward academia. She learned about seismic engineering, doing research, and hybrid simulation. She interacted with postdocs and PhD students, wrote a paper and presented at a national conference — in Hawaii.   The hybrid simulation technique combines physical testing and numerical modelling, and researchers often use it when a structure is too large to test. They will physically test a portion of the structure and simulate the rest in a combined fashion that represents the whole system.   She went to UC Berkeley for her master’s degree, and she found earthquake engineering so interesting she decided to stay and earn her PhD. In research, she says, there’s always some new problem that needs to be solved. It is never the same thing twice.   As a graduate student, she focused on testing older types of braced frames, a structural element used to protect against earthquake damage, and saw lots of interesting failures.   Simpson and Zehner discuss the usefulness of modern earthquake-proof provisions, which standardize protective construction features. She wrote her thesis on a kind of braced frame called a strongback, a tie or truss that you put in buildings to prevent weak stories.   As a postdoc, Simpson worked at the NHERI SimCenter, where she created an application that is a learning tool for numerically modeling braced frames. Learning to program is an important aspect of being an engineer, she says. Programming languages are tools that can make research easier and more efficient.   Now on faculty at Oregon State University, she sees that unlike being a PhD student with one cool project to focus on, professors must work on many different things at once. It is harder to choose what to explore, she says. At OSU, the OH Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory presents interesting possibilities for experimentation. She’s interested in control theory, too. She says being a professor is the best job she could ever have: Your research is your choice, she says. Academics have a kind of freedom other careers don’t have.   She encourages new PhDs to apply for jobs, even if the competition is stiff. Even if you don’t get the job, making an application helps you summarize your PhD work and hone your teaching goals, she says. The application cements what you’ve accomplished and helps you figure out where your career is going. 

On this week’s episode, host Dan Zehner meets up with political economist and writer Morten Wendelbo. As early as high school, the Denmark native was exposed to international viewpoints that shaped his understanding of the world. Today, he focuses on demographic research in an effort to improve the lives of as many people as possible.   He earned his bachelor’s degree in global politics and environmental studies from Washington and Lee University and his master’s in international affairs from Texas A&M University, where presently he is heading into a PhD. Despite being a life-long academic, he is committed to communicating science lay public.   In general, Wendelbo is interested in how humans organize themselves to improve themselves. For example: how do we save lives in the face of natural disasters? We start with data. In disaster studies, people typically quantify the severity of an event by its physical strength: magnitude, wind speed, inches of rain. But those measurements don’t tell us how the event affected people. Those measures tend to be deaths, injuries, economic damage. But those measurements are still incomplete, he says. It’s more complicated than, say, comparing Hurricane Katrina versus Maria. On the face of it, Katrina was a larger disaster, but Wendelbo says we need to measure consequences of disaster on variables such as consumption loss, where what you lose depends on social and educational status. And we have to measure affects that were indirectly caused by the natural hazard, such as anxiety.   He says we can aggregate such data, but, since indirect consequences can occur months and years later, it is an enormous effort, and furthermore, not terribly useful.   Predicting disasters, not hazards   Instead, Wendelbo says, there are ways we can discover in advance where the physical vulnerabilities are and to what degree they’ll affect people. In his research, he uses modeling that looks at different types of social vulnerability. Simply remove the natural hazard and focus on vulnerable populations and areas. Then use the physical model to tell you the areas that will be hardest hit by an earthquake or tsunami.   He uses the 2015 Nepal earthquake to illustrate how current disaster recovery efforts are clumsy and actually detrimental to the situation: Countries around the world sent help via Katmandu airport and created a huge bottleneck, which hindered rescue efforts. If we could determine where help was needed in advance, we could save lives, he emphasizes.   He uses USAID data on health and demographics and GPS data to see where people live. If we know a person’s social status, or “social endowments,” Wendelbo says we can see how vulnerable they are — and reverse engineer to solve the problem in advance.   He envisions a software that, using geospatial info systems, would enable people to view a country and have it auto-populate with hazard risks. The data should be accessible to anyone: government, first responders, local citizens.   He likes to say that disasters are not a consequence of hazards; it’s the hazard and how it affects people, depending on their level of wealth and education. He proposes modeling consequences of disaster (not just fatalities) based not only on where, but who people are. This information would help in disaster response – and in creating resilient communities.   Currently, Wendelbo is studying the long-term consequences of earthquakes in Nepal, in terms of variables such as health, education, ethnicity and social “endowments.” For instance, war has a surprisingly enduring ability to render populations vulnerable to disasters, he says. War affects education, health, access to government services. If we can quantify such things, he says, we can quantify who will be hit, so we can prepare for it and respond better.   His research is multidisciplinary and relies on academics in disciplines that do not normally communicate: for example, anthropology, natural science, economics. Because, he says, you have to model the physical hazards as well as human behavior. The benefit of such work, he says, is that it can potentially save tens of thousands of lives.   Just consider the enormous expense of disaster relief, he says. We could save more lives if we invested the funds in advance — in resilience. But, he says, it is hard to get people’s attention, to persuade people to spend money on resilience.   Wendelbo is interested in talking across disciplines — including with NHERI research engineers.   He publishes essays and research at TheConversation.com, a publishing platform for academics and subject-matter experts. The articles are available to read and share under the Creative Commons license.

Hermann Fritz School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Georgia Tech   In this episode, host Dan Zehner interviews Georgia Tech tsunami researcher Hermann Fritz. Professor Fritz discusses his unusual academic focus and his current project creating a tsunami generating machine at the University of Oregon.   As a civil engineering graduate student at ETH Zurich, he was interested in studying flooding. Switzerland is highly exposed to flooding, landslides and other hazards related to climate. Fritz explains that as the permafrost line lowers, rocks and mountains become less stable.   As for studying landslide-generated waves, the trigger point for Fritz came from observing a human-generated landslide into Lake Lucerne. Although the resulting impulse wave did not match experimental simulations, Fritz was nevertheless fascinated by the work and spurred to study waves generated by landslides for his PhD.   He says a big challenge in tsunami research is that tsunamis are poorly documented, typically limited to observations of post-event occurrences like runups, scars and broken foliage.   Fritz provides a rundown of the events he’s studied, including the July 9, 1958, Lituya Bay tsunami in Alaska – one of the first tsunamis observed in modern times. The landslide was “like an elephant in a bathtub,” he says. Fritz had a chance to meet with survivors of the event, the Swensons, who happened to be on a boat that day and were able to provide a unique eye-witness account of the disaster. In that case, Fritz says, there was good agreement between the physical model and the event.   A more recent event he’s studied was the June 2017 landslide in Greenland. The giant rockslide caused a tsunami with a runup of more than 90 meters.   As a young professor at Georgia Tech, Fritz had the opportunity to study the aftermath of the December 26, 2004, Indian Ocean tsunami. He is grateful, he says, for being able to learn from a pioneering survey team at the site. He learned from the likes of USC Professor Costas Synolakis. The Indian Ocean tragedy proved to be a great learning experience for Fritz as an early career researcher. The basin-wide impact affected Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Sumatra. During the post event reconnaissance, the team analyzed video taken by eye witnesses, which enabled the researchers to calibrate flow velocities.   Fritz also had the opportunity to study impact of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan – which he had visited just 18 months prior to the event to observe the region’s extensive preparation for disaster:  tsunami dykes, seawalls and vertical evacuation. Despite it all, 20,000 people perished. Fritz collected field data and analyzed video. It is one of the best documented tsunamis ever, he says. Submarine volcanic eruptions. At Oregon State University’s Hinsdale Wave Research Lab, a NHERI facility, Fritz is utilizing the tsunami wave basin to build physical models of submarine volcanoes with what may be the world’s first volcanic tsunami generator. The models fill in gaps that are difficult to observe directly.   Fritz discusses the rare, submarine volcano generated tsunamis that have happened in the past, including the island of Santorini in Greece and, more recently, Krakatoa – which killed 35,000 people due to landslides and tsunami. In the Hinsdale lab, the largest such facility in the U.S., Fritz can conduct large-scale experiments in a wave tank the size of an Olympic swimming pool,   Not only are volcanic tsunamis rare, they are compounded by ash, pyroclastic surges, and other characteristics, which make them difficult to study. In the lab, he says, he can isolate the elements. He is isolating the vertical explosion, wave propagation, landslide generation, the runup, the caldera formation -- all phases of an underwater volcano. The study will answer questions like: what kind of waves do we get, and how do they compare with other types of landslide or earthquake generated waves?   Follow Professor Fritz on Twitter: @hermfritz

Today DesignSafe Radio host Dan Zehner meets up with Jennifer Bridge, a research engineer from the University of Florida – and deputy director of UF’s NHERI facility.   When recalling her initial interest in engineering, she says she enjoyed math and physics in high school, making engineering a natural career path. In college, she majored in civil engineering. A turning point, she says, was when a college job fair unexpectedly landed her a position working as a research assistant for an engineering professor. There, as an undergrad, she learned she liked doing research, and she realized with a PhD she could do research for a living. She briefly describes that early project, which was in wind engineering.     She earned her master’s and PhD at the University of Illinois. During her master’s studies, she worked with Professor Doug Foutch on wind loads on highway sign structures. The team needed to instrument and monitor sign trusses to find out why they were cracking. She loved the practical nature of the work. For her PhD, she worked with Bill Spencer. She learned about structural health monitoring and to design wireless sensors and platforms for collecting data.   She describes the kinds of data that are important to collect, including vibration based acceleration data. She describes how structures, because they have inherent dynamic properties, can be monitored to detect damage. She discusses the state of “health monitoring” research and explains one of the more practical uses of the approach, which is to monitor structures with known deficiencies.   Bridge talks about a project she’s wrapping up, using UAVs to do bridge inspection – which is a visual way to examine structural health. She explains how much of the work involves advanced image processing, which can be used for decision support. UAV flight control is trickier that you’d think, she says, so her team devised a variety of techniques to take photographs in a consistent fashion. She discusses the value of machine in processing images.   She briefly discusses University of Florida projects that use the NHERI wind tunnel facility to devise real-time structural optimization techniques, which allow engineers to design a structure while it is experiencing a wind load.   Bridge talks about her current project: in-field, full-scale bridge testing under coastal storm loading. She measures forces that bridges experience during storms. There are good models, she says, but there is not much real data. You can look at damaged bridges, but researchers still don’t know how damage happens. Bridge is aiming to get the info to fill the gap. It means developing the proper instrumentation, a sensor kit that’s fast to set up and strong enough to hold up during a storm – and endure underwater fouling. With NSF and Florida Department of Transportation support, she’s developing an instrumentation system for coastal bridges. She’s hoping for a robust and practical system that works in the real world.   Bridge has a prototype system on a Tampa Bay bridge, and she’s hoping to instrument as many as 10 Florida bridges commonly in the paths of storms and hurricanes.

On this week’s episode host Dan Zehner talks with Maggie Exton, a PhD candidate at Oregon State University focusing on tsunami inundation. She talks about her interest in engineering and her current research project: creating tsunamis on a centrifuge.   She says her father, a sculptor, helped interest her in building things as a kid. As an undergraduate at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute she studied materials science and engineering. Also at RPI she earned her master’s degree in geotechnical engineering. She learned to love centrifuge modeling at RPI, where she modeled levees.   It is a heady feeling being in graduate school and focusing primarily research, she says. It can be confusing trying to figure out everything that’s going on.   Although she’s working on her PhD with tsunami experts at Oregon State University (one of the eight NHERI facilities), she and her research group are performing some of their experiments at the Center for Geotechnical Modeling at UC Davis, another NHERI facility. She describes working with the large, nine-meter radius centrifuge at the CGM, where her research team is building a “tsunami box” to spin on the centrifuge. The spinning centrifuge can model – very quickly – the effects of a tsunami wave on soil. They model the tsunami runup in .1 seconds, she says. The centrifuge tests at 40g, spinning at 63rpm.   Her team is the first to model a tsunami on the centrifuge, and building the tsunami box is a trial-and-error process. She describes the intricate experiment, which must have a reservoir of water, a gate to release water over the soil sample, and then another gate to let the water flow out. To make it work, she says, there’s intensive collaboration between her research group at OSU and the faculty at UC Davis.   The tsunami box needs to be adjustable so researchers can configure it as they continue their experiments. In the initial experiments, she says the flow was too fast, 10 meters per second. Five meters per second is preferable for emulating the tsunami wave. As the tests take place, a video camera records the action – which the researchers play back in slow motion. They added flow tracers, tiny Styrofoam balls, to track the exact movement of the water in the centrifuge.   This summer Exton will be back at UC Davis for another round of centrifuge testing. After that, she’ll analyze the resulting data. Exton is intrigued by the variety and pace of research underway at UC Davis – and especially the gigantic centrifuge. It’s so big, she says, it’s humbling.

This week, host Dan Zehner talks with Ben Mason, a natural hazards researcher at Oregon State University. Mason talks about his special interests: geotechnical earthquake engineering and soil-fluid-structure interactions.   Mason says that since childhood, he was interested in how things work. But it wasn’t until his undergraduate days at Georgia Tech that he discovered his deep interest in geotechnical engineering. Professor Larry Jacobs took Mason under his wing and encouraged him to go to graduate school. Mason says he envisioned traveling to earthquake zones and helping communities at risk from earthquakes and tsunamis.   As a grad student at UC Berkeley, Mason says, he spent a good deal of time working on experiments using the centrifuge at UC Davis, the Center for Geotechnical Modeling. He was examining “soil systems,” that, during an earthquake, affect the ground performance and naturally, the structures sitting on that ground.   But how exactly does the soil affect how buildings shake? And how can the performance of a soil system be improved? Mason’s interest in soil structure interaction extended to the buildings in dense urban areas — given that in an earthquake, buildings interact with each other through the soil. He says you can see evidence of this in post-earthquake zones like Katmandu, where one poorly performing building can damage many other, stronger buildings nearby. Mason describes how he used the centrifuge to model the problem.   Now at Oregon State, near the Cascadia Subduction Zone prone to earthquakes and possibly tsunamis, Mason studies soil structure interaction – and the variable of water.   It is a complex problem, with many compounding factors, he says. You can get photos after a tsunami or earthquake, and you can get images of a building before the event. Still, he says, you can only speculate some of the causes of damage. But, he says, thanks to smartphone video recordings of tsunamis, breakthroughs are being made. Mason mentions that fellow OSU researcher Hermann Fritz pieced together flow velocities of a tsunami based on amateur video footage.   Mason discusses his current research, also taking place at the UC Davis NHERI facility, which involves modeling a tsunami in a centrifuge. The team designed a tsunami-maker for the centrifuge and rigged up a high-speed camera to track water surface and velocity during testing. The idea is to discover what happened to soil during an earthquake —and a following tsunami – and to see what it may portend for the coastal communities like those along Pacific Northwest.   Mason says he has excellent working relationships with the team at the Davis-NHERI facility, and he is pleased to be using the DesignSafe cyberinfrastructure. He says the platform is flexible and supports unique data inputs – which is important for researchers providing novel findings. And he and his graduate students like using the DesignSafe software framework.   For more information on Ben Mason and his research, read up on his faculty page at Oregon State University.

Do you ever wonder how meteorologists get their hurricane data? On today's show, host Dan Zehner gets the answers from Commander Justin Kibbey, one of NOAA's “hurricane hunter” pilots. Kibbey flies NOAA's P-3 Orion aircraft missions straight into hurricanes, multiple times, while a crew of weather experts and technicians gather data to predict the path and strength of the storm. A U.S. Naval Academy graduate, Kibbey spent 10 years doing aerial reconnaissance and wartime flights over places like Iraq and Afghanistan. He flew the P-3, a four-engine turboprop designed to fly low and hunt submarines. After his Naval service, Kibbey joined NOAA's crew of hurricane hunters, where he is wrapping up his eighth season. Kibbey describes NOAA's rugged planes (built in the 1970s and based on 1950s designs) as flying research laboratories. The aircraft are powerful, with redundant systems, and built to fly low. Each mission is crewed with 15-20 people: NOAA officers, navigators, government and civilian technicians and meteorologists – and scientists, all working to collect data as they fly though hurricane storms. Kibbey describes the low altitude flights (5,000 to 12,000 feet), aiming for the “sweet spot,” or the eye of the storm, to get what he calls “an MRI” of the hurricane. In the no-wind, low-pressure center, researchers gather data for creating the spaghetti models that the public studies to see where a storm will travel. One tool used by hurricane hunters is tail Doppler radar, which reveals a storm's inner structure. The missions also deploy “dropsondes” small cylindrical tubes that fall through the atmosphere measuring pressure, temperature, humidity and wind speed, providing a profile of a column of air. Assembled together, these data paint an accurate picture of a storm and its intensity. NOAA's planes cover the breadth of a storm, 400 miles or more. While satellites can provide some data, a plane in the storm provides the most and most accurate information. Kibbey describes flying through Superstorm Sandy, the largest he's experienced. He also recalls his first mission as a hurricane hunter, an eight-hour flight through Hurricane Earl. It was a white-knuckle ride, until the plane passed into the eye. He describes the shock of seeing stars overhead – and a bolt of lightning that lit up the entire eye wall. One of his most turbulent flights was in Hurricane Irma, which put the plane through the wringer, he says. The crew on this flight was particularly stressed – because many of them had family in the path of the hurricane. The goal for hurricane hunters is to find out where the storm is will go, via reconnaissance and research. Technology constantly improves, and Kibbey speculates someday the research can be gathered remotely. Already, crews launch UAVs into hurricanes, into places too dangerous to fly a plane. And satellites may one day be able make readings as accurate as instruments on flying laboratories. Until then, from June through November, hurricane hunters fly through storms gathering data that can save lives. Hurricane data, including photos, from the 2017 hurricane season www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/data_sub/hurr.html More about NOAA's Hurricane Hunters www.omao.noaa.gov/learn/aircraft-o…urricane-hunters Hurricane Hunters on Facebook www.facebook.com/NOAAHurricaneHunters/ National Hurricane Center, to see data collected by the Hurricane Hunters. www.nhc.noaa.gov/ Justin Kibbey www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/Storm_pages/…F(DavidHall).jpg Music by Mike Tetrault

Jason Beunker: Profile of a rising research engineer   On this week’s episode, Dan Zehner speaks with research engineer Jason Beunker.  Currently in year two of his PhD, Jason Beunker studies soil structure interaction and seismicity at UCLA’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.   Why academia? Like many PhD candidates in the field, Beunker returned to academia after working as a professional engineer. He discusses enjoying work for Seattle-based firm Shannon and Wilson and how his projects there actually inspired him to come back to school. He explains the value of applied engineering, logging hours in the field and interacting with knowledgeable clients. Field work gives your analyses more “teeth,” he says. And seeing his designs in action was a rewarding experience.   Early on, as a civil engineering undergraduate at the University of Illinois, it was just that hands-on nature of geotechnical engineering that appealed to him, he says. It was the right mix of math and science and being outside, getting his hands dirty.   He explains how, after eight years as a practicing engineer, he was encountering larger projects — with more complex problems and greater technical demands. He decided that, while he was still young, to enroll in a PhD program to build his knowledge in soil structure integration and soil response.   Research in soft soils. Beunker describes working with UCLA researcher Scott Brandenberg on a project examining shallow foundations on soft soil. (Brandenberg was a recent guest on DesignSafe Radio.) By replicating the response of ground failure and structure failure in these conditions, the work will function as a case history, a guide for future engineers looking at structural responses to earthquake shaking.   Beunker details his “steep learning curve,” as a hands-on researcher. Brandenberg, a noted expert in soil structures, performs his experiments on the large centrifuges at the UC Davis Center for Geotechnical Modeling, a NHERI facility. New to centrifuge modelling, Beunker describes having to learn the nuts and bolts of centrifuge modelling with help from the support team at UC Davis. “I learned how to model there,” he says, thanks to the deep knowledge on the UC Davis team.   Host Dan Zehner was eager to learn about Beunker’s experience as a new NHERI researcher. As NHERI’s facility scheduling and operations coordinator, Zehner talked about providing new ways to “flatten the learning curve” for hazards engineers working at experimental faciities.   Data publishing. Beunker says that all the findings from the project will be posted to DesignSafe in a single Jupyter notebook. Currently he’s working to make the raw data from the experiments usable for colleagues, “dressed up and filtered,” as he puts it. He explains how Jupyter enables embedding direct connections to data in reports, so users can filter and examine the information in various ways. We can look forward to hearing more Jason Beunker’s adventures in geotechnical engineering in the coming years.

Today, DesignSafe radio host Dan Zehner starts a conversation with geotechnical research engineer Scott Brandenberg, engineering professor at UCLA. In his investigations, Brandenberg employs the very large geotechnical centrifuge at the UC Davis Center for Geotechnical Modeling, a NHERI experimental facility.   Brandenberg was raised on a cattle ranch, where he helped his father fix machinery. What hooked him on engineering as a kid, he says, was entering a toothpick bridge competition. He majored in geotechnical engineering at Cal Poly in San Louis Obispo, and in graduate school at UC Davis, he did research with professors Ross Boulanger and Bruce Kutter. Brandenberg enjoyed grad school at UC Davis so much that he ended up completing his PhD there. Although he has been on faculty at UCLA for about 12 years, he spends much of his research time at the UC Davis centrifuge — a world-class facility that’s available to researchers everywhere.   Geotechnical centrifuge. Brandenberg describes the nine-meter radius centrifuge, which was originally used by NASA to test components in high-G fields. The machine can reach up to about 80 Gs. When the centrifuge spins at 60 Gs, the nine-foot arm is spinning about one-and-a-half times per second. Brandenberg jokes: “It’s like the world’s biggest blender.”   Brandenberg explains how soil modeling via centrifuge works, including the scaling effect, and why understanding soil behavior is so important in seismic engineering. Centrifuge testing mimics real, field-level stress conditions — the behavior of soil under stress.   Spinning — and shaking. Not only does the contraption spin, Brandenberg explains that the soil models are built in containers that rest on top of a shake table. Then, while the soil models are spinning around, researchers impose earthquake motions on them. He explains the scaling effect that high-G force has for simulating earthquakes. Time gets compressed, he says; it takes mere seconds to impose a shaking-motion equivalent to a one-minute-long earthquake.   In each soil model, hundreds of sensors monitor and record acceleration, displacement, and even water pressure inside the soil. Researchers also embed structures with strain gauges mounted to them to measure the bending or the axial load demands on a structure.   Brandenberg emphasized that researchers make models to capture fundamental mechanisms of loading, not to mimic the world perfectly. By measuring simplified models that let them capture fundamental load mechanisms — researchers ultimately understand how engineers should be doing design calculations for real infrastructure, on real sites that are more complicated and difficult.   In the second half of the podcast, Brandenberg provides a fascinating and detailed overview of his first major research project, which was to study propagation of earthquake ground motions through soft soil layer —  from painstakingly building the models, to testing them and then analyzing the results.   Among other things, Brandenberg explains why it’s important to measure the sheer strength properly over a wide range of shaking intensities, not just for the really strong ground motions, a finding he says is in parallel with other fundamental profiling studies.

Today our host Dan Zehner talks with renowned earthquake engineer John van de Lindt, who has spent the past 20 years exploring wood-structure engineering and community resilience. Van de Lindt also is active in the NHERI hazards engineering community.   As an undergraduate, he started as a physics major, then moved to criminal justice and considered becoming a lawyer. Fortunately for the engineering world, he was inspired by a Statics course professor and changed his major to structural engineering – and went on to earn a graduate degree. Ultimately, he appreciates the transfer of knowledge: teaches earthquake engineering and wood.   He describes working as an engineer studying off shore structures: deep water oil platforms. It was his work at Michigan Tech that led him to testing wood structures. For one thing, he laughs, wood was a cheap material. He focused on testing shear walls in wood. (Sheer walls resist inertial loads, specifically the side-to-side forces.)   He explains that in the early 2000s, there were not many wood projects being funded, and they did not tend to be seismic projects. He says wood was thought of as a “conventional product,” meaning that it tended to be used in standard building projects --  although wood is used in less conventional ways In earthquake-prone regions.   Next, van de Lindt describes being part of a rather spectacular large wood project in Japan, called NEESWood. There, from 2005-2009, a group focused on building a mid-rise, six-story building — to a performance based seismic design. The shake at the E-Defense facility validated that design.   Building on such findings, a current wood project is underway at UC San Diego. The project, called Tall Wood is led by van de Lindt’s former student Shiling Pei. It will validate a 10-story at full scale at UCSD. Van de Lindt says that with so many universities and industry partners, including architects, involved, it is now possible we may see large wood buildings actually implemented. This project recently completed their first round of testing at UC San Diego this past summer.   After 2009, van de Lindt was part of a project called NEESsoft. It looked at large buildings with soft stories in San Francisco, buildings with relatively unsupported first floors that served as garages or retail space. Van de Lindt says everyone knew the buildings were dangerous but that the building owners no real incentives to retrofit. The NEESsoft project developed retrofits to protect buildings – which ultimately would prevent population dislocation after an earthquake. The team tested number of retrofits, including FEMA-based retrofits and performance based retrofits, hoping to give options to building owners. Because the buildings already existed, he says, there are many constraints, but achieved the best solution. He describes collapsing a four-story building to demonstrate what would happen without retrofits. Soft-story retrofits are now mandatory and still ongoing in San Francisco.

Do you ever wonder how meteorologists get their hurricane data? On today’s show, host Dan Zehner gets the answers from Commander Justin Kibbey, one of NOAA’s “hurricane hunter” pilots. Kibbey flies NOAA’s P-3 Orion aircraft missions straight into hurricanes, multiple times, while a crew of weather experts and technicians gather data to predict the path and strength of the storm. A U.S. Naval Academy graduate, Kibbey spent 10 years doing aerial reconnaissance and wartime flights over places like Iraq and Afghanistan. He flew the P-3, a four-engine turboprop designed to fly low and hunt submarines. After his Naval service, Kibbey joined NOAA’s crew of hurricane hunters, where he is wrapping up his eighth season. Kibbey describes NOAA’s rugged planes (built in the 1970s and based on 1950s designs) as flying research laboratories. The aircraft are powerful, with redundant systems, and built to fly low. Each mission is crewed with 15-20 people: NOAA officers, navigators, government and civilian technicians and meteorologists – and scientists, all working to collect data as they fly though hurricane storms. Kibbey describes the low altitude flights (5,000 to 12,000 feet), aiming for the “sweet spot,” or the eye of the storm, to get what he calls “an MRI” of the hurricane. In the no-wind, low-pressure center, researchers gather data for creating the spaghetti models that the public studies to see where a storm will travel. One tool used by hurricane hunters is tail Doppler radar, which reveals a storm’s inner structure. The missions also deploy “dropsondes” small cylindrical tubes that fall through the atmosphere measuring pressure, temperature, humidity and wind speed, providing a profile of a column of air. Assembled together, these data paint an accurate picture of a storm and its intensity. NOAA’s planes cover the breadth of a storm, 400 miles or more. While satellites can provide some data, a plane in the storm provides the most and most accurate information. Kibbey describes flying through Superstorm Sandy, the largest he’s experienced. He also recalls his first mission as a hurricane hunter, an eight-hour flight through Hurricane Earl. It was a white-knuckle ride, until the plane passed into the eye. He describes the shock of seeing stars overhead – and a bolt of lightning that lit up the entire eye wall. One of his most turbulent flights was in Hurricane Irma, which put the plane through the wringer, he says. The crew on this flight was particularly stressed – because many of them had family in the path of the hurricane. The goal for hurricane hunters is to find out where the storm is will go, via reconnaissance and research. Technology constantly improves, and Kibbey speculates someday the research can be gathered remotely. Already, crews launch UAVs into hurricanes, into places too dangerous to fly a plane. And satellites may one day be able make readings as accurate as instruments on flying laboratories. Until then, from June through November, hurricane hunters fly through storms gathering data that can save lives. Hurricane data, including photos, from the 2017 hurricane season www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/data_sub/hurr.html More about NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters www.omao.noaa.gov/learn/aircraft-o…urricane-hunters Hurricane Hunters on Facebook www.facebook.com/NOAAHurricaneHunters/ National Hurricane Center, to see data collected by the Hurricane Hunters. www.nhc.noaa.gov/ Justin Kibbey www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/Storm_pages/…F(DavidHall).jpg

Today, DesignSafe Radio host Dan Zehner talks with Joe Fargione, science director with The Nature Conservancy. The largest non-governmental organization in the world, The Nature Conservancy is also one of the first land trusts. Fargione explains how, by purchasing land in need of protection, the group saves natural environments with a non-confrontational approach. The group is also active in protecting oceans and freshwater areas. As a researcher with TNC, Fargione focuses on zero-carbon energy release as a way to protect against global warming. He explains why preventing a two-degree temperature rise is so important. Fargione discusses the science behind research projects that keep carbon in the earth – for example protecting peat-based wetlands that, if drained, would emit carbon into the atmosphere. He and his diverse collaborators focus on natural methods of preventing climate change, often using remote sensing to analyze land characteristics and compare distributions, for example, of forests. He helps land owners and managers keep carbon emissions low. Tidal wetlands, he explains, are important to preserve because salt water, unlike encroaching freshwater, has no methane emissions. Similarly, for farmers, cover crops help keep carbon in the soil – and can also increase yields and retain nutrients. Fargione describes a successful project with the Soil Health Partnership and corn growers. Fargione says that efforts to retain carbon in the soil and water helps local environments, land owners and farmers, and helps keep global temperatures from rising. Follow TNC’s Cool Green Science blog for more stories about conservation science.

On this week’s episode, Dan Zehner interviews an expert on oceans and ocean storms. Dr. Philip Orton studies ocean physics and evaluates coastal problems, such as storm surge, at the Stevens Institute of Technology. Growing up on Lake St. Clair in Michigan, Orton developed an affinity for water early on. Perhaps it was surfing on those stormy lake waves that got him interested in studying storms and thinking like an oceanographer. As an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, he majored in physical oceanography, an offshoot of engineering. His parents, cancer researchers, were role models – scientists who wanted to help people. “Storms were always underneath it all,” he says. Orton completed his postdoc at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, which became his research home. At SIT, he studies ocean and atmospheric interactions -- and climate, with a focus on sea level rise. He works with influential researchers developing modeling systems in ocean science. Hurricanes Irene and Sandy Orton talks about his trial-by-fire during Hurricane Irene, when he was one of the primary scientists providing public forecasts -- on his blog and on local television. That experience helped provide similar services during hurricane Sandy, especially providing real-time instruction about storm surges for the individuals living in the affected areas. He describes working with multidisciplinary teams to solve the post-storm problems in the New York City area, including brainstorming with a variety of specialists (teachers, public policy experts, engineers) to design resilient coastal community. In particular he talks about a project to rebuild the Hudson Bay oyster beds, which will serve as a living breakwater to protect Staten Island (http://www.silive.com/news/2014/06/60_million_living_oyster_reef.html). Phase 1 of the project involves creating a scale model. He and Dan discussed the possibility of using the Oregon State University wave tank facility, a NHERI experimental site, for testing the model oyster bed. Orton details his work with designers, including artists, who have influenced his thinking about what a resilient coastline might look like. He also discusses the complexity of solving the problem of sea level rise and storm surge. For example, he says, understanding human behavior crucial. Many residents in the coastal area do not understand tides and do not know how to swim. And there is terminology to learn. What does it mean to a homeowner if he’s facing a 6-to-11 foot storm surge? Orton talks about improvements in forecasting since hurricane Sandy, which help people better understand the actual impact of a storm. He discusses the importance of probabilistic data, which you obtain by running the model for 100 different forecasts, representing a range of different weather conditions. The results can tell you what the median flood height might be. At the Stevens institute, Orton and his colleagues provide probabilistic forecasts and data on flood hazards in the NYC area, including near worst case scenarios, which are crucial for decision-making.

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Engineer Tracy Kijewski-Correa has been doing post-disaster reconnaissance missions since 2005, after the Indian Ocean tsunami. On today’s episode, host Dan Zehner talks with Kijewski-Correa about assessing structural damage and the difficulty of rebuilding communities hit by a natural disaster. At Notre Dame, Kijewski-Correa holds a dual position in engineering and global affairs, the first engineer there to hold such a joint appointment. With her engineering background, she studies how political, socio-economic, religious and cultural norms come into play when making public policy decisions – including preparing for disasters and re-building after one. She cites the example of Haiti, where seven years after a major earthquake the country is still not returned to normal. Thanks to NGOs and others, there are new materials and skill sets to build resilient houses in Haiti, but because people do not have access to mortgages, many Haitians are still in shelters, waiting for financing to access those new homes. She explains that the engineering world lacks proper pipelines for linking fundamental research, such as post-disaster assessment, to concrete advancements in building codes, or practical advocacy programs. What holds back progress, she says, is that different funding agencies have differing priorities and timelines – making it hard to link the projects and complete the work necessary. After Hurricane Sandy, there was a remarkable coordination of NSF RAPID funding, which documented the damage, sustained funding from Army Corps of Engineers, to develop the coastal hazard simulation tool to map and recommend structural changes, and then funding from the state of New Jersey, which was necessary to implement the changes. It was a rare example of early seed funding, linked to translational funding down a pipeline that led to successfully rebuilding the area. Dual appointment engineers are pioneers, she says. You have to have an understanding of social constructs – if you want stuff to really happen. Academia traditionally does not focus on solving real problems, she explains. With her dual appointment, she tries to push the traditional research/education model to do more translational work. For most engineers, translational work is like a “night job,” work done on weekends and evenings. During the day, engineers do traditional, NSF-funded research, work that leads to publishing. Work such as post-earthquake reconnaissance or community-building, has to be done in an academic’s free time. And it takes years to make a difference. She’s grateful that Notre Dame recognizes the importance of having engineers with a dual focus. She credits it small size and its religious mission. Kijewski-Correa details the problems in Haiti, starting with difficulty reaching the cities after the 2010 earthquake. Hurricane Matthew in 2016 made the situation even worse. It was a struggle to move from reconnaissance to rebuilding. When a major earthquake struck Chile in 2016, she says that NGOs and funding agencies left Haiti for Chile, calculating they could be of more use in a country with an infrastructure similar to one many Western cities. Kijewski and her team are the only NGOs working to rebuild in Haiti, currently.

Do you ever wonder how meteorologists get their hurricane data? On today’s show, host Dan Zehner gets the answers from Commander Justin Kibbey, one of NOAA’s “hurricane hunter” pilots. Kibbey flies NOAA’s P-3 Orion aircraft missions straight into hurricanes, multiple times, while a crew of weather experts and technicians gather data to predict the path and strength of the storm. A U.S. Naval Academy graduate, Kibbey spent 10 years doing aerial reconnaissance and wartime flights over places like Iraq and Afghanistan. He flew the P-3, a four-engine turboprop designed to fly low and hunt submarines. After his Naval service, Kibbey joined NOAA’s crew of hurricane hunters, where he is wrapping up his eighth season. Kibbey describes NOAA’s rugged planes (built in the 1970s and based on 1950s designs) as flying research laboratories. The aircraft are powerful, with redundant systems, and built to fly low. Each mission is crewed with 15-20 people: NOAA officers, navigators, government and civilian technicians and meteorologists – and scientists, all working to collect data as they fly though hurricane storms. Kibbey describes the low altitude flights (5,000 to 12,000 feet), aiming for the “sweet spot,” or the eye of the storm, to get what he calls “an MRI” of the hurricane. In the no-wind, low-pressure center, researchers gather data for creating the spaghetti models that the public studies to see where a storm will travel. One tool used by hurricane hunters is tail Doppler radar, which reveals a storm’s inner structure. The missions also deploy “dropsondes” small cylindrical tubes that fall through the atmosphere measuring pressure, temperature, humidity and wind speed, providing a profile of a column of air. Assembled together, these data paint an accurate picture of a storm and its intensity. NOAA’s planes cover the breadth of a storm, 400 miles or more. While satellites can provide some data, a plane in the storm provides the most and most accurate information. Kibbey describes flying through Superstorm Sandy, the largest he’s experienced. He also recalls his first mission as a hurricane hunter, an eight-hour flight through Hurricane Earl. It was a white-knuckle ride, until the plane passed into the eye. He describes the shock of seeing stars overhead – and a bolt of lightning that lit up the entire eye wall. One of his most turbulent flights was in Hurricane Irma, which put the plane through the wringer, he says. The crew on this flight was particularly stressed – because many of them had family in the path of the hurricane. The goal for hurricane hunters is to find out where the storm is will go, via reconnaissance and research. Technology constantly improves, and Kibbey speculates someday the research can be gathered remotely. Already, crews launch UAVs into hurricanes, into places too dangerous to fly a plane. And satellites may one day be able make readings as accurate as instruments on flying laboratories. Until then, from June through November, hurricane hunters fly through storms gathering data that can save lives. Hurricane data, including photos, from the 2017 hurricane season http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/data_sub/hurr.html More about NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters https://www.omao.noaa.gov/learn/aircraft-operations/about/hurricane-hunters Hurricane Hunters on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/NOAAHurricaneHunters/ National Hurricane Center, to see data collected by the Hurricane Hunters. http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ Justin Kibbey http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/Storm_pages/edouard2014/LCDRJustinKibbeyN42RF(DavidHall).jpg

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“Be constantly plugged into relationship with God.”   Dan Zehner has recently turned 30 and has already been inspiring men around the planet through his Facebook videos for over a year. Dan has a lot of wisdom to share and today he shares it with us on Warrior Rise. In this wide-ranging conversation, Dan talks about family, the role of the man and woman in the family relationship, being a light in the world as well as one of the biggest challenges facing men today. In addition to being a husband, father and woodworker, Dan also works in natural hazards engineering and has his own podcast show discussing how scientists are working towards making society more resilient to everything nature has to throw at us!     See more of Dan’s work at: Follow Design Safe Radio through:   Like us on Facebook   Thanks to our sponsor nexus concept studios        

What does it mean to do “reconnaissance” after a natural disaster? To find out, host Dan Zehner catches up with Ellen Rathje, an earthquake engineer at the University of Texas, Austin. Among her many interests, Rathje is a founding member and co-chair of the Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance (GEER) Association (http://www.geerassociation.org). Rathje explains that although she originally wanted to be a journalist, she really liked math in high school. When she learned that civil engineers worked on big projects like bridges, she was hooked. During her undergraduate years at Cornell, the Loma Prieta earthquake occurred. She was fascinated. She decided she wanted to be the kind of engineer who designed structures that could withstand earthquakes. In 1999, as a new faculty member at UT, she was selected for a reconnaissance team investigating Turkey’s Kocaeli earthquake, a 7.6 magnitude temblor that killed 17,000 people. Rathje describes the experience and the damage she encountered, including liquefaction. On this trip, she says she came to understand the importance of collecting post-disaster information. She says natural disasters are “Nature’s large-scale tests.” With reconnaissance, we can begin to understand the results of the tests. Rathje describes GEER, an NSF-funded association that organizes recon teams. With modest federal funding, GEER volunteers document natural disaster events large and small. To date, more than 50 events have been documented, and all the reports are available on the GEER website (http://www.geerassociation.org/reconnaissance-reports/map-view). Rathje says technology is enabling better and better observations. She describes hunting for paper maps and using a camera with 3.5” floppy discs in 1999. Hand-held GPS devices helped provide latitude and longitude for observations and photos. Later came geotagging. GEER teams were among the first to geotag photos. After the 2010 Haiti earthquake, a 7.0 magnitude quake that killed hundreds of thousands of people, technology was much more advanced. Rathje describes using Google Earth and digital camera synching. New recon tools included high-resolution aerial photography. Teams used sensors and weights for measuring shear wave velocity. In 2017, Rathje says, technology such as LIDAR and drones allow for fast, relatively inexpensive 3D models of damage, models which can be used in perpetuity for research. In less than 20 years, reconnaissance efforts have changed dramatically. Now, it is possible to get high quality datasets and make them publically available. Rathjes, the PI for NHERI’s cyberinfrastructure, DesignSafe, says the goal is to provide a mechanism for researchers to publish and organize their datasets for the whole research community. She discusses DesignSafe’s online data repository and the ability for researchers to publish data, much like a research paper, as a scholarly contribution. DesignSafe researchers access and analyze data in the cloud. In the Discovery workspace, tools include Jupyter and Matlab for lab experiments and simulations. Rathje describes DesignSafe’s Reconnaissance Portal with provides access to hazard event datasets. Currently, NHERI-affiliated recon teams are providing data from recent natural disasters in Mexico, Florida, Texas, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Rathje says the most difficult disaster she experienced was the 2010 Haiti earthquake, where so many people lost their lives. Her team brought their own food, stayed in tents, and worked under the protection of armed guards. After the recon mission was over, her team worked with the United Nations to educate local Haitians about geotechnics, which would help them in rebuilding efforts.

This week, host Dan Zehner catches up with Tom Iovino, the public information director for the Florida Department of Health in Manatee County. Iovino, who mans the county’s emergency operations center during hurricanes, talks about storm preparation in the Tampa Bay area and about what he learned from Hurricane Irma. Although the Florida forecast was dire, precipitating the largest evacuation in the state’s history, Hurricane Irma took an unexpected eastward course, which improved the forecast dramatically and left the Tampa-Orlando area relatively unscathed. Despite relatively light damage, however, there was plenty to learn from this storm. For days after the storm, a major problem was lack of power. Iovino lists items missing in his own hurricane kit: an extra flashlight, a power brick, and a battery-operated fan. Traffic accidents were frequent, he says, due to incautious drivers sailing through intersections with no traffic lights. While he and his area first-responders hunkered down to wait out the storm, his center was still getting phone calls from people who decided – at the last minute – that they needed help. Such poor planning endangers the lives of first responders, and he warned that even first responders cannot rescue people in the midst of a Cat 5 hurricane. Iovino urges everyone in hurricane-prone regions to plan ahead, and the best way to know if the threat is serious is to listen to the National Weather Service. Iovino recalls what a beloved area weatherman, Dick Fletcher, was fond of saying: “If you don’t listen to what the emergency managers are telling you, you are betting your life they are wrong.” Iovino urges everyone to be safe and plan ahead, to take what they’ve learned from the last storm and apply it to the next.

Nick Mrzlak from Team Rubicon joins Dan Zehner to talk about this unusual disaster-relief organization. We learn about the group’s trick of teaming veterans and first responders and its mission to focus on the underserved. With his background of serving in the U.S. Navy, working as an emergency medical technician, teaching EMTs, and volunteering with FEMA, Mrzlak is skilled and eager to help. A volunteer with Team Rubicon since 2010, he’s worked in places like Haiti, where he trained local civilians as EMTs. He has worked full-time for Team Rubicon since December 2017. “There’s not much we can’t do,” Mrzlak says. Team Rubicon volunteers are a special breed. “A tribe,” Mrzlak laughs. In one of their first deployments, in Haiti, the Team Rubicon founders realized that pairing veterans and first responders made for especially effective teams. “These types of people want to help, and they have unique skills.” Plus, these particular volunteers crave a sense of purpose and community. Light and nimble, Team Rubicon bridges the gap between disaster and the arrival of established aid organizations, like FEMA. Mrzlak describes current work in the Houston area post-Harvey. 400-450 volunteers are still in the first phase of recovery: clearing debris, sawing down trees and hauling stuff away. They are mucking out homes, removing drywall and salvaging what’s possible – often for residents who do not have a lot to begin with. In these desperate situations, Mrzlak says, Team Rubicon volunteers form meaningful bonds with each other and with the people they help. Team Rubicon has 60,000 volunteers in the U.S. Mrzlak says 13,000 people have volunteered since Hurricane Harvey alone. In this year’s busy disaster season, teams are deployed in Texas, Puerto Rico, Florida, the Caribbean and in the Mexico City area. Mrzlak describes organization’s data-gathering and logistics. The group depends heavily on volunteers in affected regions, like local EMTs, firefighters and police. They also leverage help from corporate partners, like Home Depot, who can ship equipment and supplies to local stores. “We often set up operations in Home Depot parking lots,” Mrzlak explains. Other partners include Tyson Foods, Walmart, the National Fish and Wildlife Service, and Palantir – which provides software for mapping and tracking work orders and assets. Links from the episode: https://teamrubiconusa.org/response/capabilities-services/ https://teamrubiconusa.org/operation/operation-hard-hustle/#overview https://www.palantir.com/

DesignSafe Radio host Dan Zehner catches up with Dr. John Vidale, renowned geophysicist and seismologist. Until recently, Vidale directed the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network. Now he directs the Southern California Earthquake Center at USCCS. He discusses highlights of his research career. As a college physics student, he became enamored with geology – taking 11 geology courses in his senior year — and went on to study geophysics. He discusses the PNSN study called IMUSH, Imaging Magma Under St. Helens. His team uses various excitation sources to image and map the three-dimensional structure of underground features, including the large magma chamber, under Mount St. Helens, Mount Adams and Mount Rainer. It is the most comprehensive study of the geology under a chain of volcanos, involving numerous institutions and agencies. Also at the University of Washington, Vidale worked on the M9 Project (https://hazards.uw.edu/geology/m9/), a large, NSF-funded study exploring the potential impact of a large earthquake in the Pacific Northwest. (M9 stands for a “magnitude 9” earthquake.) Part of that PNSN study included measuring the vibrations made by Seattle Seahawks fans at CenturyLink Field (https://www.livescience.com/57441-seattle-seahawks-stadium-seismology.html)– which were especially strong after a play by Marshawn Lynch, the infamous Beast Quake (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfdJqpbUPIE&t=8s). Vidale discusses streaming data real time and educating the public about earthquake warning systems. In his new job as director of the Southern California Earthquake Center, one project he’ll undertake is developing a physical model, a hazard map, of the Southern California fault system. A large, multi-institutional undertaking, the idea is to understand the geophysical properties of the region in order to predict behaviors of the earth. Vidale says supercomputing simulations play a major role in this work. For young scientists, Vidale recommends studying chemistry and physics and learning computer tools, which are crucial for modern science experiments. In general, he warns against fake science and extreme claims. He recommends vetting information about earthquakes with reputable agencies such as the United States Geological Service and local emergency managers.

For two engineering undergrads from Puerto Rico, working on the beach is a dream job. In this week’s edition of DesignSafe Radio, host Dan Zehner meets up with these two students, who took part in NHERI’s 2017 Research Experiences for Undergraduates program. Civil engineering students Hector Colon Delacruz and Peter Rivera Casillas talk to host Dan Zehner about their summer working at Oregon State University’s Hinsdale Wave Lab, one of NHERI’s eight experimental sites. Both students attend the University of Puerto Rico. Hector Colon De la Cruz, a senior, plans to earn his master’s degree in coastal engineering. Doing hands-on research at OSU confirmed his desire to be a coastal engineer. He wants to explore using mangrove plantings to prevent coastal erosion. Similarly, Peter Rivera Casillas, a surfer, says his summer experience convinced him earn an advanced degree in a profession that involves the sea: coastal engineering or oceanography. In the Hinsdale Wave Lab, the students worked on several research projects, including a multi-university effort that examined how tsunami waves are affected by conical islands. Much of their work involved creating and validating computer models; they describe using Matlab and a new tool called Celeris (https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.05984) , an open-source program that can compute wave paths, and visualize them, at the same time. Peter, who had experience in coding, helped Hector learn Matlab over the course of the summer. As for their experiences in natural disasters, Peter describes surfing in 12-foot foot hurricane swells – and getting dragged out to sea by the current. Fortunately, he was able to reach shoreline rocks and climb out. Hector describes his own sea-going scare when a sudden series of waves appeared and threatened to capsize his small boat. Waves can be scary -- but not as scary as tornados, they say!

In this episode, host Dan Zehner talks with UC San Diego’s Darren McKay, development engineer and operations manager for LHPOST, the world’s largest outdoor shake table. The shake table, part of the UCSD Jacobs School of Civil Engineering, is one of NHERI’s 8 experimental facilities. At McKay’s site, researchers “build big.” They construct full-scale and near-full scale structures, often multiple-story buildings, to test designs for seismic reliability. McKay introduces three engineering students who did summer research at the facility as part of NHERI’s research experiences for undergraduates program. The REU students relate their experiences doing hands-on things like setting up instrumentation, applying sensors and analyzing data -- and using construction power tools for the first time. A little scary! And find out what NOT to wear when spending the summer climbing in and around a large-scale test structure. Also, learn why safety is a top priority at the facility, when McKay tells anecdotes about engineers don’t follow safety protocols. Feeling goulish, host Dan Zehner asks everyone to tell their favorite natural disaster story – including the one about a plane-ride through a typhoon. Lastly, find out about the engineering research capabilities of the LHPOST shake table, where multi-university research projects are the order of the day – even if the schools are football rivals like Oregon State and the University of Washington.

On this special episode covering Hurricane Harvey and the NHERI network's commitment to science during this extreme event, host Dan Zehner talks with Dr. Clint Dawson of the University of Texas at Austin about his team's work in storm surge forecast modelling over his career. They have developed one of only two high fidelity models of coastal storm surge that experts use for forecasting and local officials rely upon for their disaster response. You can find out more about Dr. Dawson's work and the most up to date storm surge forecast for Hurricane Harvey here: http://chg.ices.utexas.edu/