Making Waves, Saving Lives

Making waves provides insight into nature's most destructive forces. The horrifying tsunami that struck Southeast Asia in 2004 changed a lot of things for the engineers who study those natural disasters. "Before 2004, tsunami research was really a niche area," says civil engineering Professor Dan Cox, director of the OH Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory (HWRL) at Oregon State University. HWRL is part of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) program. For more information, go to: www.nsf.gov

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