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。该中心的基本功能是作为美国危害研究和从业者社区之间的桥梁。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。中心每年出版发行6期《自然灾害观察》，订阅者超过13300人；经营电子通讯《灾害研究》；并通过万维网和传统的纸质出版物传播信息。它每年举办一次涉及危害研究的使用者和生产者的讲习班，并根据询问提供资料。该中心开展与社会对自然灾害反应有关的研究活动，并支持全国各地的研究人员对特定灾害事件进行“快速反应”研究。除美国国家科学基金会外，为这项活动提供支持的其他机构包括联邦应急管理局、美国地质勘探局、美国农业部、美国国家海洋和大气管理局、美国交通部和美国工程兵部队。

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.