Gulf Coast Post-Katrina Forum

EPSCoR在路易斯安那州、亚拉巴马州和密西西比州的领导层共同努力，提交了一份计划和实施为期两天的墨西哥湾沿岸讲习班的提案，该讲习班旨在制定更有效的自然和人为灾害研究方法。之所以需要举办拟议的讲习班，是因为从卡特里娜和丽塔飓风造成的破坏，包括数十年研究数据和基础设施的损失中吸取了经验和教训。该地区为促进科学和工程领域的知识和教育而在人力和物质资源方面进行的长期战略投资受到了干扰、破坏，在许多情况下甚至被摧毁。亚拉巴马、路易斯安那和密西西比）举行一次墨西哥湾沿岸论坛，该论坛将汇集区域和国家专家，制定自然灾害研究的方法。三国将通过三国战略规划委员会，在规划和实施论坛的所有阶段共同努力。该论坛将扩大以前在路易斯安那州举行的论坛的范围，并通过进一步完善和重点关注振兴和重建受灾州灾前科学研究轨迹的具体机会来取得进展。因此，该论坛的主要目的是建立一条通往发展成功，高影响力和可持续研究的道路，通过汇集关键参与者并鼓励来自不同学科和研究兴趣的更广泛合作来支持墨西哥湾沿岸。

The EPSCoR leadership in Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi has joint efforts to submit a proposal for planning and implementing a two-day Gulf coast workshop aimed at developing more effective approaches to natural and human-induced disaster research. The need for the proposed workshop emerges from the experience and learning from the devastation caused by both Katrina and Rita hurricanes, including the lost of decades of research data and infrastructure. The region's long-term strategic investments in human and material resources to advance knowledge and education in the fields of science and engineering have been disrupted, damaged, and in many instances, destroyed.This proposal constitutes a tri-state collaboration (i.e., Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi) to hold a Gulf Coast forum, which will bring together regional and national experts to develop approaches to natural disaster research. The three states will work together in all stages of the planning and implementation of the pursued forum through a tri-state strategic planning committee. The forum will serve to widen the scope of the previously held forum in Louisiana and advance by further refining and focusing on specific opportunities for revitalizing and re-establishing the pre-disaster scientific research trajectories of the affected states. Thus, the main purpose of the forum is to establish a path towards developing successful, high-impact, and sustainable research supporting the Gulf coast by bringing together key participants and encouraging broader collaboration from diverse disciplines and research interests.