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

MISSION

StEER deepens the structural natural hazards engineering (NHE) community’s capacity for reliable post-event reconnaissance through:

CAPACITY

promoting community-driven standards, best practices, and training for field reconnaissance

COORDINATION

coordinating early, efficient and impactful event responses

COLLABORATION

broadly engaging communities of research, practice and policy to accelerate learning from disasters

OUR COMMUNITY

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.

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.

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).

StEER focuses on natural hazards causing structural damage to the built environment, including:

HAZARDS

HURRICANES

TORNADOES

EARTHQUAKES

TSUNAMIS

OUR LEADERSHIP

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.

Tracy Kijewski-Correa Director University of Notre Dame	David Prevatt 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

Mohammad Alam Post-Doctoral Scholar University of Notre Dame