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DOI: 10.17603/ds2-shmb-rb07
title: CONVERGE Working Group on Economic Recovery: Enabling Comparative Research on COVID-19 Annotated Bibliography

description: This Working Group focuses on the economic recovery of businesses and economies from the COVID-19 pandemic. With communities around the world experiencing severe economic impacts, we anticipate a proliferation of efforts to track, assess, and explain local economic recovery. Our Working Group's efforts are focused on understanding how the knowledge base from other types of disasters – such as earthquakes, floods, and hurricanes – can provide key insights, methods, and cases to inform pandemic research. This bibliography has two primary aims. 1) With the anticipated growth in research of business and economic topics related to the pandemic, we wish to facilitate this effort by providing an annotated bibliography of key publications on business and economic recovery from disasters for researchers to have a baseline list of references for setting background on related research agendas. This annotated bibliography was created by our interdisciplinary and geographically diverse Working Group, which includes leading scholars in the area of economic impacts of disasters as well as students and recent Ph.D. graduates. 2) We wish to provide a select and tailored list of representative resources and articles to support our Research Agenda-Setting Paper, which establishes key concepts, resources, and priority research topics to enable comparable data collection and mutual learning in this pandemic.
DOI: 10.17603/ds2-sjbv-eg87
title: A National Evaluation of State Roles in Hazard Mitigation: Building Local Capacity to Implement FEMA Hazard Mitigation Assistance Grants

description: This research instrument is an online survey used to solicit information from State Hazard Mitigation Officers (SHMOs) who are responsible for managing FEMA-funded hazard mitigation assistance (HMA) grants, to include assisting local
governments implement these grants. The online survey was sent to the SHMO for each U.S. state and territory following an email request from the survey research team. Results from these data are intended to advance our understanding of the roles states and territories play in building the capacity needed to develop and implement HMA grants as well as inform evolving national and state-level hazard mitigation policy and practice. The survey was developed using Qualtrics, and survey questions include a series of close- and open-ended queries. Instructions for the survey flow and branch logic are included in the instrument PDF. Key topical areas covered in the survey include: state and territory hazard mitigation policy, FEMA hazard mitigation grants and associated policies, floodplain management, role of the governor in hazard mitigation grants management, state hazard mitigation assistance, jurisdictional challenges to develop and implement FEMA HMA grants, building local capacity through financial incentives and penalties, low capacity communities, and housing acquisition projects.
As this is a relatively extensive survey, researchers interested in any of the topical areas mentioned could use all or pieces of this survey to further explore state or local capacity to engage in hazard mitigation. Further, hazards researchers who work with tribes may be interested in using and adapting this survey instrument to explore tribal mitigation capacity in relation to FEMA HMA grant programs.
DOI: 10.17603/ahsz-8q96
title: Pre-1850 Eastern Florida Historical Hurricanes

description: This project investigates pre-1850 hurricanes that impacted Eastern Florida in attempt to extend the National Hurricane Center's Hurricane Database (HURDAT), which only includes hurricanes from 1850-present.
DOI: 10.17603/ds2-7019-cs31
title: Risk Perception, Information Seeking, and Protective Actions during COVID-19 among New Yorkers (May-July 2020)
title: in A Multi-Wave Study of Risk Perception, Information Seeking, and Protective Action in COVID-19

description: Research brief on information seeking, risk perception and protective action behaviors of study participants in New York. Findings are from the first wave of data collection of a multi-wave, multi-state project.
description: Surveys will be collected monthly for 12 months from a proportional quota sample in three states: one state with early onset of the virus (e.g. Washington), one with a later surge of the virus (e.g. New York), and one with late identification of cases (e.g. Louisiana). These three states are located in three different geographic regions of the United States offering an opportunity to examine regional policy differences over time. This approach is consistent with past studies of public health threats in the US. The COVID-19 pandemic is a simultaneously protracted and dynamic crisis. Locations of community transmission, the numbers of people presenting with COVID-19 symptoms, testing positive for the virus, and dying from the disease all change as the pandemic progresses, as do the type and severity of the response activities by local, state, and national governments. These changes can send different cues about the level and nature of risk as well as require or result in different protective actions as the science and risk communication strategies evolve. The only way to capture how this evolving risk scape shapes risks perceptions and protective actions is to examine these phenomena at multiple points during the pandemic.
DOI: 10.17603/ds2-d88a-yr63
title: Observations of Christchurch Earthquake Damage
title: in New Zealand Earthquake-Damaged Building Envelopes: Photographs from Christchurch and Wellington

description: This project captures earthquake damage to building envelopes due to seismic activity in New Zealand. Two cities central business districts were targeted; Christchurch following the 2010-2011 earthquakes, and Wellington following the 2016 Kaikoura earthquake. A total of 247 photographs for Christchurch and 1491 for Wellington were taken to establish the common failure types associated with the earthquakes and building types used in New Zealand. The findings showed that three types of failures were prevalent: window gasket dislodgement, glazing cracking, and glazing dislodgement. The three failures are found on the glazing systems that are common to all building envelopes and this provided a commonality when comparing envelopes of different kinds, on different superstructures, and in different regions of the country. The findings were used to develop a seismic testing protocol for the non-structural component (building envelopes), and to aid in developing a design prediction tool to predict seismic-related damage to the envelopes.
description: Images of damaged building envelopes in Christchurch financial district. During data gathering, all the damaged buildings were surveyed.
DOI: 10.17603/ds2-hv13-ra52
title: Human vulnerability to landslides: Fatality dataset

description: Understanding human vulnerability to landslides is essential for predicting and preventing human loss of life.  While much scholarship has been devoted to quantifying the physical vulnerability of buildings to landslides, there is no comparable work that quantifies human vulnerability for use in risk assessment.  The dataset presented in this project is the first step in (1) creating an empirical human vulnerability relationship to estimate an individual’s probability of death in a landslide; (2) detailing the human characteristics, behaviors, and settings that contribute to landslide mortality; and (3) developing evidence-based, actionable strategies to minimize personal landslide risk.  Conclusions drawn from this dataset are detailed in Pollock and Wartman (2020). 

In the construction of this dataset we reviewed academic literature, government reports, news stories, survivor accounts, coroner reports, and legal filings that described landslide events that impacted occupied structures.  The basic information required for inclusion in the dataset was the flow depth of debris at the structure, the number of occupants, and the outcome for the exposed individuals (survived or deceased).  We recorded basic information about the landslide (date, time of day, mode of failure), structure (construction material, location), and individuals (age, gender).  When available, we also used first- or second-hand accounts to reconstruct individuals’ prior knowledge of the threat, location in the structure, and behavior around the time of the impact, using proxies for deceased individuals.  We were unable to reconstruct complete information in all fields for all individuals.  No direct human subjects research was performed as part of this work, and all sources are public record.  Identifying information, even when publicly available, was anonymized to protect individuals’ privacy.

Pollock, W., Wartman, J. (2020). Human vulnerability to landslides. Manuscript submitted for publication.
DOI: 10.17603/ds2-k8jn-yy03
title: Phase 2: Gap Detailing in Drywall Partition Walls with Return Walls
title: in Bidirectional Testing of Drywall Partition Walls with Novel Details, Integrated into a Rocking Wall Subassembly

description: Two partition walls with return walls at both ends and traditional slip-track detailing were investigated. Special gap details were evaluated to reduce damage at the wall intersection. The first detail utilized a large gap in the wall intersection, while the other detail utilized distributed gaps along the wall. The walls were tested under a bidirectional loading protocol, to provide better insight into the wall intersection behavior under bidirectional loading.
description: Two different configurations of  drywall partition walls were built within a post-tensioned CLT rocking wall subassembly. The overarching objective is to investigate the seismic performance of drywall partition walls when integrated with a rocking wall system, and to assess the influence of out-of-plane loading on the in-plane resistance of the walls. Both configurations also incorporated novel details aimed to reduce damage at low level seismic drifts. In the first configuration, a double or telescoping top track detail aimed to reduce damage at the wall ends was compared to a conventional slip track detail. In the second configuration, two different gap details (a corner gap and a distributed gap) aimed to delay the onset of damage due to collisions at return walls were compared.
DOI: 10.17603/ds2-nne2-2s11
title: Stochastic NDA Workflow for Ground Deformations at Wynne Avenue in the Northridge Earthquake
title: in Stochastic Nonlinear Dynamic Analyses for Earthquake Ground Deformations

description: This example workflow was used by the author for evaluating ground deformations at Wynne Avenue in the 1994 Northridge earthquake. The workflow guide report is provided to assist users in understanding the workflow format and sequence. Please reference this document for details. This workflow is divided into four overarching analysis stages: (1) CPT processing and evaluation, (2) representative properties, (3) geostatistical modeling in SGeMS, and (4) NDA modeling in FLAC. This workflow supplements the submitted article: Bassal, P. C., & Boulanger, R. W. (Submitted). “System Response of an Interlayered Deposit with a Localized Graben Deformation in the Northridge Earthquake.” Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, special issue for the 4th Int. Conf. on Performance-Based Design in Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering.
description: This repository presents a workflow for performing Nonlinear Dynamic Analyses (NDAs) with stochastic fields for evaluating earthquake ground deformations at sites with interlayered and/or spatially variable subsurface soils. Site data from cone penetration tests (CPTs) are processed for determining representative soil properties and spatial correlations using Jupyter Notebooks in Python. Stochastic subsurface modeling using sequential Gaussian simulations (SGS) is performed using the open-source SGeMS program. A batch program is used to perform two-dimensional (2D) NDAs in the Fast Lagrangian Analysis of Continua (FLAC) finite difference program. The FLAC models use the PM4Sand and PM4Silt constitutive models, for evaluating the liquefaction and cyclic softening behavior of sand-like and clay-like soils. The workflow is presented as an example that was used to evaluate the Wynne Avenue case history site, which experienced a localized graben deformation in the 1994 Northridge earthquake.
DOI: 10.17603/ds2-sx2b-7p30
title: Joplin in Retrospect: Economic Outcomes and Funding

description: On May 22nd, 2011, the Joplin area in Missouri was devastated by an EF-5 tornado. After the catastrophic event, affected businesses in the region received aid in the form of federal grants and loans, with the Small Business Administration (SBA) loans being a major source. There have not been a lot of studies conducted on the efficiency of these funds and their impact on the business. This poster takes an analytical look at the survival of businesses that were granted assistance almost a decade following the 2011 tornado. This study uses loan data received from SBA through a FOIA request as well as primary data collected online. The source data includes pertinent information like borrower name, mailing address/city/state/county/ZIP, damaged property address/city/state/county/ZIP, approved loan amount, loan type, and business characteristics such as number of employees and sector. Primary data from business websites, Google Earth, Facebook, LinkedIn and other business networking websites helped track down the statuses of these businesses in 2020. These data were combined in order to compare differences in survival, closure, and relocation based on loan and business characteristics.
DOI: 10.17603/ds2-wxsx-qs30
title: Exploring the Experiences of University Students Evicted from Campus Housing During the COVID-19 Pandemic

description: During spring 2020, universities and colleges worldwide closed their campuses to minimize the spread of COVID-19. This shutdown, with little awareness of student vulnerabilities, and marginal or no coordination with other stakeholders, caused tens of thousands of students to be forced to evacuate their on-campus housing within a very short time. Through in-depth interviews with a non-random purposive sample of twenty evicted students from the United States and Canadian institutions, this report describes the ways in which this eviction has impacted students physical, social, and mental well-being, especially international and/or students from out-of-state. This research also identifies the students’ social, economic, and mobility challenges, among others, and their coping mechanisms. By exploring on-campus residential students’ evacuation experiences, this research aims to improve policies and the emergency and disaster response planning of institutions of higher education. It also aims to increase educational institution capacity to coordinate off-campus resources to facilitate their student relocation processes, which strengthens institution leadership in local and extended communities. The instruments used to gather the data were published here. The data collected in this project cannot be shared publicly due to privacy and ethical concerns. The data will be shared upon reasonable request to the project investigator.
DOI: 10.17603/ds2-2328-ec10
title: Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU), NHERI 2022: Damage Observations and Experimental Investigation of Wind Loads on Elevated Coastal Houses

description: This project experimentally investigates the effects of heavy hurricane winds on elevated houses located in coastal regions throughout Florida's Panhandle. This project is unique because ASCE building codes fail to include the structural expectations for elevated houses despite being especially vulnerable to hurricane hazards. The intended audience is wind engineers or researchers, civil engineers, or construction engineers.
DOI: 10.17603/ds2-54ds-6206
title: ZJU-A and ZJU-B - Zhejiang University Experiments
title: in LEAP-ASIA-2019 Experiments (Liquefaction Experiments and Analysis Projects)

description: Building upon the database of LEAP-UCD-2017, twenty centrifuge model tests of liquefaction and lateral spreading are shared and compared in this archive. Some of the experiments were conducted according to the conventional centrifuge scaling laws; others were conducted according to a generalized scaling law. Please see the general report section of the published project for an overview comparison and background of all of the experiments. The comparisons presented in the general report section will serve as an index to help the users find individual experiments of interest.  This data from the model tests is published as ten separate experiments in this archive (one experiment per centrifuge facility). Each "experiment" includes one or more model tests and each model test includes between one and three destructive shaking events.
All of the tests modeled a 4 m thick deposit of Ottawa F-65 sand with a 5-degree surface slope in a rigid box. The tests covered a range of ground motion intensities and a range of relative densities to define the median response and the sensitivity of the response to relative density and shaking intensity. The ten centrifuge facilities involved in this test program included Cambridge University (UK), Ehime University (Japan), IFSTTAR (France), NCU (Taiwan), KAIST (Korea), Kyoto University (Japan), RPI (USA), UC Davis (USA), Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan) and Zhejiang University (China).
description: Lateral spreading of a submerged slope and validation of generalized scaling laws for LEAP-ASIA-2019
DOI: 10.17603/ds2-8avc-9s93
title: GTWF Database of U.S. Geotechnical Faculty, 2022 (Geotechnical Women Faculty Project)

description: In 2016 the GTWF project built a national database of geotechnical faculty: first by gathering
names of geotechnical faculty whose articles appeared in The Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental
Engineering, and later expanding to web searches of universities with geotechnical programs and manual review
of Civil Engineering department websites. The database was updated (faculty rank and institution verified) in 2018 and again in 2022--presented here is the most current version (current as of March 2022). Only faculty who are tenure or tenure-track at a U.S. based institution are included.

Data is made available to the community for discussion, consultation, and as a means of self-reflection on gender parity within the field.
DOI: 10.17603/ds2-cj8w-a408
title: Hurricane Michael - The Role of Advection
title: in NOPP - ADCIRC Prediction System

description: In 2018, Hurricane Michael hit Mexico Beach, FL, as a Category 5 hurricane, with peak water levels over four meters. Michael's flooding was studied using computational models that simulated the storm's water levels and currents. Advective and Bernoulli's acceleration substantially affected the highest water levels and their timing across the affected area. The study identified how the storm's wind and regional geography influenced the advection process. Understanding this helps improve storm surge models by emphasizing the importance of considering advection in predicting storm-related water surges.
description: Project to evaluate forecast skill for storm surge, waves, erosion and damage due to tropical cyclones.
DOI: 10.17603/ds2-dh69-d398
title: Asia
title: in Rock Avalanche-Generated Mass Flow Observations

description: GIS mapping of the total area impacted primarily by coarse, rocky debris from rock avalanches (defined as Zone 1 deposits), as well as the total area impacted by sediment mass flows resulting from the rock avalanche events (defined as Zone 2 deposits). The data collected utilized published mapping, aerial and satellite imagery, topographic data, and terrain analysis.
description: Collection of rock avalanche case histories where the fragmented rock material overran sediments, including cases where the sediment was mobilized into a mass flow during the event. Impact areas have been mapped and basic descriptive attributes  were collected for each case. Events in this dataset include prehistoric events (maximum age approximately 8300 years before present) up to modern events. The events included in this dataset have been described previously in literature, but not combined into a single dataset with consistent descriptions of the coarse, rocky deposits and the sediment mass flows (if present). The data was used in the development of empirical relationships to estimate the runout distance and impact area for both the coarse, rocky debris and sediment mass flows stochastically for potential future events. The event description methodology, the data format and bibliography for case histories are described in the "Rock avalanche impact area data description and sources" file included. This methodology and data format are proposed as a template for the description of an expanded global dataset of events to be compiled. Spatial data is provided as shapefiles, which can be viewed within DesignSafe using the QGIS application within the Workspace.
DOI: 10.17603/ds2-fp5z-1a55
title: Geophysical Data - Next Generation Multi-Hazard Levee Assessment

description: This data set contains the geophysical results obtained in support for "Next Generation Multi-Hazard Levee Assessment" of Bacon Island, and aims to characterize the internal structure and subgrade of the levees of Bacon Island. The data set contains seismic data (sensitive to elastic properties) and Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT) data (mostly sensitive to variations in clay and water content)
DOI: 10.17603/ds2-gsbs-n383
title: Untreated Medium Dense Model - GLH07s
title: in Liquefaction resistance of MICP treated sands

description: A set of 1-m radius centrifuge tests on saturated loose Ottawa sand models treated to various cementation levels and subjected to multiple shaking events.  Changes in cone penetration resistance and shear wave velocity are monitored throughout each test.
description: An untreated medium dense model with an initial relative density of approximate 53% was saturated with a de-aired viscous fluid. The model was subjected to a series of shaking events. Cone penetration and shear wave velocity measurements were obtained at select times.
DOI: 10.17603/ds2-twcc-z522
title: Rapid Field Assessment of MICP/MIDP Test Sections
title: in RAPID Field Assessment of MICP/MIDP Test Sections

description: The objective of this field work is to assess the effectiveness of microbially induced carbonate precipitation (MICP) and microbially induced desaturation and precipitation (MIDP) method in terms of mitigating earthquake-induced soil liquefaction. The field work includes: (1) twelve direct-push crossholes seismic tests to determine primary wave velocity (VP) and shear wave velocity (VS) profiles, and (2) one nonlinear shaking test to evaluate the relationships between cyclic shear strain and the generation of excess pore water pressure in soils.
description: Test plots of slope stabilization via microbially induced calcite precipitation via hydrolysis of urea (MICP) and microbially induced desaturation and precipitation via dissimilatory reduction of nitrogen (MIDP) planned for this summer offer a unique, but time sensitive, opportunity to evaluate the potential of both of these technologies for mitigation of earthquake induced liquefaction. While the objective of these test plots is to evaluate the potential of these technologies for slope stabilization, the owner of the site has agreed to provide access for testing using the NSF National Hazard Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) large scale shaker developed by the University of Texas to evaluate the ability of these technologies to mitigate liquefaction potential after the slope stabilization field test.