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Center for Collective Impact in Earthquake Science (C-CIES)

Description: 

The Center for Collective Impact in Earthquake Science (C-CIES), funded as a Track 1 planning grant by National Science Foundation (NSF)’s Centers for Innovation and Community Engagement in Solid Earth Geohazards program, aims to address fundamental science questions related to natural hazards through a novel approach of involving all stakeholders. The C-CIES mission is to advance hazard science with the aim of meeting the natural hazard mitigation needs for all communities in regions of low probability but high impact hazard risk. The vision for the center is to become a world-class research center dedicated to improving resiliency from geohazards in an equitable, accessible, and sustainable manner. The core values of the center are scientific integrity, equity, excellence, diversity, access, justice, inclusion, and collective impact. The goals of the center will be to 1) Advance basic hazard science and engineering; 2) Establish a foundation for a shared, value-driven understanding of science; 3) Be responsive 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; 6) Develop a framework for impactful geoscience that translates results of scientific discovery into actions that can improve resilience and reduce risk from geohazards. C-CIES has adopted the collective impact (CI) model, which develops a network of community members, organizations, and institutions through the development of a common agenda, centralized support, continuous communication, mutually reinforcing activities, and shared measurement. C-CIES science will initially fund pilot projects that will address faulting, earthquakes, and their impact, and upon evaluation, may be promoted to a full project as the center launches in two years. If promoted to a full center, C-CIES science questions will be expanded to other LPHI geohazards. 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.

Session: Collective Impact in Earthquake Science [Poster]

Type: Poster

Date: 4/18/2023

Presentation Time: 08:00 AM (local time)

Presenting Author: Aaron A. Velasco

Student Presenter: No

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