Dr. Yolanda Lin from the University of New Mexico and Dr. Divya Chandrasekhar from the University of Utah attended the 48th Annual Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop in Boulder, Colorado. This year's theme was Ethical Action for Disaster Risk Reduction.
Dr. Lin and Dr. Chandrasekhar represented the C-CIES Team with a poster: Building Inclusive Excellence Through the Center for Collective Impact in Earthquake Science. They engaged with other attendees to share their experiences with the project and plans for the future.
Abstract: The Center for Collective Impact in Earthquake Science (C-CIES), funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), aims to address fundamental science questions related to natural hazards through a novel approach that involves all stakeholders. The C-CIES mission is to increase societal resilience to earthquakes through collective impact (CI) hazard research. Its vision is to become an interdisciplinary research center rooted in equity, diversity, and engagement that helps communities prepare for, withstand, and recover from earthquakes and associated hazards. The center has eight core values: scientific integrity, equity, excellence, diversity, access, justice, inclusion, and collective impact. The center has six goals: (1) Advance basic hazard science and engineering; (2) Establish a foundation for a shared, value-driven understanding of science; (3) Respond to the needs of all communities through user-inspired research; (4) Grow to national prominence; (5) Recruit, retain, and train the next generation of diverse, interdisciplinary scientists; and (6) Develop a framework for impactful geoscience that bridges the science-to-policy gap and improves resilience to geohazards.
C-CIES adopts the CI model, which brings together a network of community stakeholders to build a common agenda, provide centralized support, continuous communication, mutually reinforcing activities, and develop shared measurement. C-CIES science is currently undertaking pilot projects that address faulting, High-Impact Low-Probability earthquakes, and their impact. Using CI, we aim to change the way geoscience is conducted by answering fundamental community-driven science questions that will have a broad, positive impact on all communities.