Planning Grant: I/UCRC for Geoscience

地震风险降低中心（CERR）旨在通过开发工具和战略来减少地震的影响，从而保护生命和基础设施免受地震的破坏性影响。CERR将解决行业相关和具有挑战性的问题，同时为学生提供多学科的教育机会。CERR最初的大学成员将是加州大学伯克利分校（UCB）、加州理工学院（CIT）和华盛顿大学（UW）。 这三个机构已经在快速发展的地震预警（EEW）领域建立了密切的合作伙伴关系，包括行业合作伙伴为这一发展做出贡献。 在现有合作伙伴关系的基础上，CERR将把其使命扩展到地震预警之外，吸引更多的行业和政府合作伙伴，并欢迎更多的大学合作伙伴。该计划拨款提案旨在资助行业、政府和大学团体（UCB、UW和CIT）之间为期两天的规划研讨会，以制定初步研究议程，就中心政策达成一致，并建立行业附属机构委员会（IAB）。CERR将处于独特的位置，汇集行业、政府和学术专业知识，推动地震风险降低领域的发展。关键的挑战是将地震科学的发现转化为可操作的信息，从而影响企业，政府部门和广大公众。这将通过以下方式实现：开发实时信息反馈，加强对特定地点风险降低（包括路径效应）的研究，基于物理的破裂情景，整合低成本传感器数据，以及分析诱发地震的机制。总体愿景是推动现有数据和知识领域的最新技术，以在大破裂之前和之后显著影响风险缓解。I/UCRC框架提供了一个重要的机制，将具有共同利益但历史上没有方法利用其个人优势的不同群体聚集在一起。通过共同努力，很有可能对减少风险的挑战产生广泛影响。CERR还将在一个接触广泛的商业和政府部门的环境中培养下一代学生研究人员。

The proposed Center for Earthquake Risk Reduction (CERR) aims to protect lives and infrastructure from the devastating effects of earthquakes through development of tools and strategies to reduce their impact. CERR will solve industry relevant and challenging problems, while providing educational opportunities for students, which are multi-disciplinary in scope. The initial university members of CERR will be the University of California, Berkeley (UCB), the California Institute of Technology (CIT), and the University of Washington (UW). These three institutions already have a close partnership in the rapidly evolving area of Earthquake Early Warning (EEW) including having industry partners contributing to that development. Building on this existing partnership kernel, CERR will expand its mission beyond earthquake early warning, attract additional industry and government partners, and welcome additional university partners. This planning grant proposal seeks to fund a two-day planning workshop between the industry, government, and university groups (UCB, UW, and CIT) to map out an initial research agenda, agree on center policies, and establish the Industry Affiliates Board (IAB).The CERR would be in the unique position to bring together industrial, government, and academic expertise to advance the field of earthquake risk reduction. The critical challenge is to translate discoveries in earthquake science into actionable information, which impacts businesses, government sectors, and the public at large. This will be accomplished through the development of real-time information feeds, enhanced research for site-specific risk reduction (including path effects), physics-based rupture scenarios, the integration of low-cost sensor data, and analysis of the mechanics of induced earthquakes. The overarching vision is to push the state of the art in available data and knowledge areas to significantly impact risk mitigation both before and after a large rupture. The I/UCRC framework provides an important mechanism to bring together diverse groups who share common interests, but who have not historically had a method to leverage their individual strengths. Working together, there is a high potential for broad impacts on the challenge of risk reduction. CERR will also train the next generation of student researchers in an environment with an exposure to a broad range of business and government sectors.