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2019 USGS Risk Research Projects

By Office of Risk and Resilience

The 2019 USGS Risk Research Projects highlight innovative, interdisciplinary research to advance hazard risk assessment, improve risk communication, and support informed decision-making to protect lives, property, and natural and cultural resources.

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  • Quantifying Rock Fall Hazard and Risk to Roadways in National Parks: Yosemite National Park Pilot Project 
    Brian Collins, Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center, Menlo Park, CA
     
  • The State of Our Coasts: Coastal Change Hazards Stakeholder Engagement & User Need Assessment 
    Juliette Finzi-Hart, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Manhattan Beach, CA
     
  • Re-visiting Bsal risk: how 3 years of pathogen surveillance, research, and regulatory action change our understanding of invasion risk of the exotic amphibian pathogen Batrochochytrium salamandrivorans
    Dan Grear, National Wildlife Health Center, Madison, WI
     
  • Assessing the Risk of Global Copper Supply Disruption from Earthquakes 
    Kishor Jaiswal, Geologic Hazards Science Center, Golden, CO
     
  • Communications of risk - uranium in groundwater in northeastern Washington state 
    Sue Kahle, Washington Water Science Center, Tacoma, WA
     
  • Cascading communication: exploring how scientific research affects policy and earthquake preparedness communication in areas of induced seismicity 
    Sara McBride, Earthquake Science Center, Menlo Park, CA
     
  • Hazard Exposure Analyst Tool (HEAT) 
    Jason Sherba, Western Geographic Science Center, Menlo Park, CA
     
  • Ecological Forecasts for Risk Management 
    Jake Weltzin, National Phenology Network, Fort Collins, CO
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