Office of Risk and Resilience
The Office of Risk and Resilience works to ensure that relevant and actionable USGS hazards and risk information is developed and delivered in user-friendly ways to support risk-reduction efforts at a national scale.
Much of the research undertaken by USGS is hazards-focused, whether that hazard is an earthquake, an invasive species, an inland flood, poor water quality, or a toxin in the soil. Risk research explores how these hazards could affect people and the things we care about as a society like infrastructure, natural and cultural resources. Understanding risk can help ensure that decision-makers are able to make data-driven decisions about how best to mitigate, prepare for, respond to, and recover from natural hazard events.
What we do
The work of the Office of Risk and Resilience is to explore how hazards can affect the things that we care about as a society. This includes funding risk research at USGS, bringing USGS experts interested in risk together to foster interdisciplinary research, making connections with the national and international communities related to risk reduction, and developing consistent methodologies for national hazard exposure and disaster loss reporting analyses.
Our goal
To ensure that USGS risk research enables decision makers at all levels of society to better protect lives, property, and natural/cultural resources.