A Clearinghouse on Natural Hazards Research and Applications

该奖项为自然灾害研究和应用信息中心提供了新的支持。 该中心的基本职能是充当美国危害研究和从业人员社区之间的桥梁。 该中心监测并向多个用户传播危害研究信息：管理员，从业人员，政策制定者，工程师和科学家。 该中心每年六次向13 300多个订户出版和分发《自然灾害观察家》;经营一份电子通讯《灾害研究》;并通过万维网和传统的硬拷贝出版物传播信息。 它每年举办一次讲习班，参加者包括危害研究的使用者和生产者，并根据询问提供日常信息。 该中心开展与社会应对自然灾害有关的研究活动，并支持全国各地的研究人员对具体灾害事件进行“快速反应”研究。 除了NSF之外，为这项活动提供支持的其他机构包括FEMA，USGS，USDA，NOAA，DOT和工程兵团。

This award provides renewed support for the Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center. The Center's basic function is to serve as a bridge between the hazards research and practitioner communities in the United States. The Center monitors and disseminates hazards research information to multiple users: administrators, practitioners, policy makers, engineers, and scientists. The Center publishes and distributes the Natural Hazards Observer to over 13,300 subscribers six times a year; operates an electronic newsletter, Disaster Research; and disseminates information via the World Wide Web and traditional hard copy publications. It holds an annual workshop involving users and producers of hazards research, and it provides information on a day-to-day basis in response to inquiries. The Center conducts research activities relating to societal response to natural hazards and it supports researchers throughout the nation as they carry out `quick response` studies of specific hazard events. In addition to NSF, other agencies providing support for this activity include FEMA, USGS, USDA, NOAA, DOT, and the Corps of Engineers.