ABOUT StEER
StEER builds societal resilience by generating new knowledge on the performance of the built environment through impactful post-disaster reconnaissance disseminated to affected communities.
VISION
CAPACITY
promoting community-driven standards, best practices, and training for field reconnaissance
COORDINATION
coordinating early, efficient and impactful event responses
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COLLABORATION
broadly engaging communities of research, practice and policy to accelerate learning from disasters
MISSION
StEER deepens the structural natural hazards engineering (NHE) community’s capacity for reliable post-event reconnaissance through:
StEER broadly serves any and all stakeholders invested in or affected by the performance of buildings and other infrastructure, including academia, public and private sectors, government, non-profit, and public-at-large. While StEER directly funds only US academic researchers on our Field Assessment Structural Teams (FASTs), we engage the broader community through our Virtual Assessment Structural Teams (VASTs), unfunded collaborations and dissemination of data and findings to a wide range of individuals and organizations responding to and affected by disasters.
Under the banner of NHERI's CONVERGE node, StEER works closely with the wider Extreme Events Reconnaissance consortium including the Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance (GEER) Association and the networks for Nearshore Extreme Events Reconnaissance (NEER), Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Extreme Events Research (ISEEER) and Social Science Extreme Events Research (SSEER), as well as the NHERI RAPID equipment facility and NHERI DesignSafe CI, long-term home to all StEER data and reports.
Note that StEER does not conduct hypothesis-driven research or support the research agenda of any specific researcher. StEER’s mandate is to collect perishable data swiftly and systematically in order to inform the community's continued study of a disaster through subsequent in-depth data collection that addresses specific research questions (see FAQs for details).
HAZARDS
StEER focuses on natural hazards causing structural damage to the built environment, including:
HURRICANES
TORNADOES
EARTHQUAKES
TSUNAMIS
Collectively, StEER's leadership brings experience in responding to a wide range of disasters both domestically and internationally. Associate Directors respectively liaise with the earthquake, wind and coastal hazard communities, as well as advancing the cross-cutting theme of data standards to deliver support for the diverse needs of the structural engineering reconnaissance community.
OUR
LEADERSHIP
Tracy
Kijewski-Correa
Director
University of Notre Dame
David Prevatt
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Associate Director for Wind Hazards
University of Florida
Khalid Mosalam
Associate Director for Seismic Hazards
University of California, Berkeley
Ian Robertson
Associate Director for Coastal Hazards University of Hawaii, Manoa
David Roueche
Associate Director for Data Standards
Auburn University
HAZARD ADVISORY BOARDS
These 5-person Advisory Boards are established separately for Coastal, Wind, and earthquake and coastal communities of research and practice, convened by the Associate Directors for their respective hazard and have the primary charge of representing that hazard’s needs and interests in the governance, operations, and scope of StEER’s efforts.
COASTAL HAZARD ADVISORY BOARDS
Denis Istrati
Assistant
Research
Professor
University
of Nevada
Reno
Fritz Hermann
Professor
Georgia Tech
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Tori Tomiczek
Assistant Professor
US Naval Academy
James Kaihatu
Profesor
Texas A&M University
Andrew Kennedy
Professor
University of Notre Dame
WIND HAZARD ADVISORY BOARDS
Kurt Gurley
Professor & ESSIE Associate Director
University of Florida
Assistant Professor
UNC Charlotte
Frank Lombardo
Assistant Professor
University of Illinois
Civil Engineer at AECOM
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Leighton Cochran
Senior Engineer Director
Consultant
Stephanie Pilkington
Samantha Krautwurst
EARTHQUAKE HAZARD ADVISORY BOARDS
Carlos A. Arteta
Assistant Professor
University del Norte
Erica Fischer
Assistant Professor Oregon St. University
Halil Sezen
Professor
Ohio State University
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Janise Rodgers
Chief Operating Officer
GeoHazards Intl.
Selim Gunay
Research Scientist University California Berkeley SJS/SFSU
RESEARCH ASSOCIATES
Mohammad Alam
Postdoctoral Research AssociateUniversity of Notre Dame
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Dinah Lawan
StEER Student Administrator
University of Notre Dame
Amir Safiey
Postdoctoral associate
Auburn University
StEER has members and regional nodes around the world. Currently our regional nodes reside at the institutions of our five founding universities: University of Notre Dame, University of Florida, Auburn University, University of California, Berkeley and University of Hawai'i at Manoa, but will soon expand globally as we grow our membership. Explore the map below and click on the pins to learn about each member's participation in various Field Assessment Structural Teams (VASTs) and Virtual Assessment Structural Teams (VASTs) for different events.