[Esip-disasters] FW: AGU Natural Hazards Focus Group Announcement: Science for Disaster Risk Reduction

Fri Jul 31 12:06:11 EDT 2015

An interesting focus on the need to promote interdisciplinary disaster science. I think that ESIP Disasters Life Cycle cluster is focused on interdisciplinary disaster data science…

From: "<Upmanu Lall>", "<AGU Focus Group President>", Natural Hazards <section at agu.org<mailto:section at agu.org>>
Date: Friday, July 31, 2015 at 11:10 AM
To: Karen Moe <karen.moe at nasa.gov<mailto:karen.moe at nasa.gov>>
Subject: AGU Natural Hazards Focus Group Announcement: Science for Disaster Risk Reduction

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Natural Hazards Focus Group Announcement:
Science for Disaster Risk Reduction

Dear Colleague:

In her Editorial (Science, 3 April 2015), Dr. Marcia McNutt, editor-in-chief of Science, called for a better link between the academic community and the disaster response community and proposed to promote "interdisciplinary disaster scientists: researchers who focus on crises that severely disrupt the environment or threaten human health, and can apply scientific methods in a timely manner to understand how to prevent, mitigate, respond to, or recover from such events." Also, she proposed that the AGU Focus Group on Natural Hazards be broadened to include disaster science.

To discuss this and related topics of integrated research on disasters and disaster risks, we are organizing session NH027, "Science for Disaster Risk Reduction: From Integrated Research and Assessment of Risks to Communication and Engagements," at the 2015 AGU Fall Meeting (14-18 December 2015, San Francisco, CA). The deadline to submit your abstract is 5 August, 11:59 PM, EDT. You are invited to contribute to the session.

We are happy that several distinguished experts accepted our invitation to deliver a talk. They are:
- Marcia McNutt, editor-in-chief, Science magazine, and president-elect of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D. C.
- John Eichelberger, dean of the Graduate School, University of Alaska Fairbanks
- Roger Pulwarty, Director, National Integrated Drought Information System, NOAA, Boulder, CO
- Brett Sanders, chair, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine

We look forward to seeing you in San Francisco.

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