Committee on Geological and Geotechnical Engineering and its Activities

地质与岩土工程委员会（COGGE）是美国国家科学院地球科学与资源委员会的中心，负责处理与地球科学工程应用有关的科学、技术和公共政策问题。委员会的工作范围包括地球过程和材料，包括岩石和土壤力学，并侧重于安全和负责任的人类发展、风险评估和减轻自然人为危害。该委员会组织和监督研究：1)确定、调查并向政府、工业界、学术界和公众报告与地质和岩土工程有关的问题；2)提供科学和技术信息，为有关地质和岩土工程问题的公共政策提供信息；3)识别新技术和潜在应用；4)促进知识的获取和传播。此外，委员会还为学术和专业团体、政府机构和私营企业之间的讨论提供了一个论坛，以加强国家和国际合作和信息交流。COGGE是华盛顿特区内唯一一家致力于提高人们对地质和岩土工程在解决社会需求方面重要性的认识的智力组织，并致力于发展和监督由美国国家科学院、工程院和医学院特设委员会就与地质和岩土工程社区相关的主题进行的公正的、同行评审的共识研究。通过公开会议、网络研讨会和这些共识研究，COGGE(1)通过确定岩土工程和其他及其他工程和科学社区（包括社会科学）之间的合作战略，加强了研究和教育基础设施；(2)通过与学者、研究人员、从业者和政策制定者的互动促进能力建设；（三）通过广泛传播经审查的报告，增进对科学技术的了解；(4)通过向COGGE赞助商、更广泛的岩土工程社区、私营和公共部门的决策者以及公众提供最佳的科学和工程信息，从而造福社会。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Committee on Geological and Geotechnical Engineering (COGGE) is the focal point within the Board on Earth Sciences and Resources at the National Academies for scientific, technical, and public-policy issues pertaining to the engineering applications of Earth Sciences. The committee's scope encompasses Earth processes and materials, including the mechanics of rock and soil, and focuses on safe and responsible human development, risk assessment, and mitigation of natural anthropogenic hazards. The committee organizes and oversees studies: 1) to identify, investigate, and report on questions relating to geological and geotechnical engineering to government, industry, academia, and the public; 2) to provide scientific and technical information to inform public policy on geological and geotechnical engineering issues; 3) to identify new technologies and potential applications; and, 4) to promote the acquisition and dissemination of knowledge. In addition, the committee provides a forum for discussion among academic and professional groups, government agencies, and private industry to enhance national and international cooperation and exchange of information.COGGE is the only intellectual organization within the Washington, DC area dedicated to increasing awareness of the importance of geological and geotechnical engineering in addressing societal needs, and to developing and overseeing unbiased, peer reviewed consensus studies conducted by ad hoc committees of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on topics relevant to the geological and geotechnical engineering communities. Through public meetings, webinars, and those consensus studies, COGGE (1) enhances research and education infrastructure by identifying strategies for collaboration among geotechnical and other and other engineering and scientific communities (including the social sciences); (2) promotes capacity building through interaction with academics, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers; (3) improves scientific and technological understanding through reviewed reports for broad dissemination; (4) benefits society by providing the best science and engineering information to COGGE sponsors, the broader geotechnical engineering community, decision makers in the private and public sectors, and the general public.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.