Natural Disasters Roundtable

自然灾害圆桌会议的使命是促进和加强科学家、从业者和决策者之间的沟通和思想交流，以确定与自然灾害有关的新问题。圆桌会议是审查与减少自然灾害有关的紧急和重要问题的论坛。它强调思想交流，促进联邦机构和相关领域专家之间的个人工作关系。在“圆桌会议”形式中，联邦官员作为成员充分参与，从而使他们更密切地参与这一过程。圆桌会议每年召开三次，为讨论与了解和减轻自然灾害有关的问题提供一个论坛。它汇集了与自然灾害有关的科学和技术领域的专家以及相关的社会和政策科学，以确定、讨论和推进需要国家或区域关注的问题。圆桌会议是科学家、从业者和决策者交流信息和想法的中立会议场所。圆桌会议成员确定主题，制定议程，招募专家演讲者，并为公开会议的讨论收集信息。公开会议精心安排，以适当的介绍和讨论有关科学发展和及时的政策问题与自然灾害。作为当然成员的政府官员是发起联邦机构的现任官员，他们在圆桌会议面前的问题的相关方面负有项目责任。由大约13名成员组成的指导委员会（5名指定成员和8名发起成员）为会议制定议程，这些会议都是免费向公众开放的。论坛的总结报告发布在国家科学院网站上。

The mission of the Natural Disasters Roundtable is to facilitate and enhance communication and the exchange of ideas among scientists, practitioners, and policy makers in order to identify emerging issues related to natural disasters. The Roundtable is a forum for examining urgent and important issues related to natural disaster reduction. It emphasizes the exchange of ideas and facilitates personal working relationships between the federal agencies and experts in related fields. In the "roundtable" format, federal officials participate fully as members, thus engaging them more closely in the process. The Roundtable convenes three times a year to provide a forum for discussion on issues related to the understanding and mitigation of natural disasters. It brings together experts in the scientific and technical fields related to natural hazards and the relevant social and policy sciences to identify, discuss, and advance issues that require national or regional attention. The Roundtable is a neutral meeting ground for scientists, practitioners, and policy makers to exchange information and ideas. The Roundtable members identify topics, create agendas, recruit expert speakers, and assemble information for discussion for open meetings. Open sessions are carefully structured to feature appropriate presentations and discussions relevant to scientific developments and timely policy issues related to natural disasters. Government officials who serve as ex officio members are incumbents of the sponsoring federal agencies that have program responsibilities in pertinent aspects of the issues before the Roundtable. A steering committee of approximately 13 members (5 appointed members and 8 sponsoring members) set the agenda for the meetings, which are all open and free to the public. The forums result in summary reports which are posted on the National Academies website.