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If you've made it this far, we are going to assume you know a little bit about the Center for Collective Impact in Earthquake Science or C-CIES, pronounced C-C-S or si, si es!
Our Mission: To increase societal resilience to earthquakes through collective impact hazard research.
Our Vision: 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 for Collective Impact in Earthquake Science (C‐CIES), a catalyst project funded by the National Science Foundation, is working toward becoming a full‐fledged interdisciplinary research center that focuses on high‐impact, low‐probability events, with an emphasis on community engagement. C‐CIES will develop strategies for better identifying, and potentially quantifying, seismic hazards and will inform many aspects of fundamental earthquake science of broad importance. Using collective impact, C‐CIES’s research will prioritize the needs of vulnerable populations that have been historically underserved by current earthquake science, engineering, and public policy. To accomplish its vision and mission, C‐CIES will solicit and fund pilot projects that will address critical earthquake science questions with strong social impact and community engagement plans. The pilot projects will be evaluated using the five elements of collective impact: common agenda, mutually reinforcing activities, shared metrics, constant communication, and a backbone organization. These pilot projects will serve as case studies to help develop a strategic plan for how to structure the new center. The projects will also examine the novel topic of citizen science of hazards, along with the ripple effects of diversifying citizen science. We believe a new center using this approach will transform how earthquake and associated hazard science
is being conducted, leading to fundamental breakthroughs that will profoundly and positively impact communities throughout the country.
Who are "we" you may be asking yourself, well let me introduce you to our team:
PI: Aaron Velasco, The University of Texas at El Paso
Co‐PI: Jeffrey Weidner, The University of Texas at El Paso
Co‐PI: Marianne Karplus, The University of Texas at El Paso
Susan Bilek, New Mexico Tech
Michael Brudzinski, Miami University
Divya Chandrasekhar, University of Utah
John Ebel, Boston College
Tiegan Hobbs, Geological Survey of Canada
Jose Hurtado, The University of Texas at El Paso
Steven Jaume, College of Charleston
Eric Jones, UT Health Science Center at Houston
Alan Kafka, Boston College
Yolanda Lin, University of New Mexico
Anne‐Marie Nunez, The University of Texas at El Paso
Kristine Pankow, University of Utah
Zhigang Peng, Georgia Institute of Technology
Alexandros Savvaidis, The University of Texas at Austin
Iris Tien, Georgia Institute of Technology
Conevery Valencius, Boston College
Elizabeth Vanacore, University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez
Staff: Monica Alvillar, The University of Texas at El Paso
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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Award No. 2225395. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.