Risk Strategy
The USGS Risk Plan includes recommendations for capacity building, case studies, and project ideas. Through the USGS Risk Research and Applications Community of Practice, seed funding is provided to risk-focused projects to ensure that they deliver USGS hazards information, tools, and products to decision makers so they can reduce loss.
Risk Community of Practice
The purpose of the Risk Research and Applications Community of Practice is to convene like-minded scientists and staff from across USGS to discuss issues relevant to risk research and applications. Monthly virtual meetings include a mix of presentations, training, discussions, and announcements about relevant resources, events, and activities.
Risk Awards
Every year, the USGS issues a bureau-wide request for proposals to award seed funding to projects that focus on innovative risk research and applications. Project teams interact with the USGS Risk Community of Practice; foster cross-center, cross-mission area, and interdisciplinary research; strengthen user engagement; demonstrate lessons learned; and, identify new resources. Below is a list of awarded projects.
2022 Risk Research Projects and Lead Principal Investigators
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Mapping Semantic Networks in Risk Informed Decision-Making to Improve Integrated Science Communication
Katharine Dahm, Rocky Mountain Region -
Stakeholder Engagement for Natural Hazards Investigations in the Caribbean (SENHIC) (Co-funded with USAID-BHA)
Donya Frank-Gilchrist, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center -
Flood Risk and Reward: Quantifying differences in flood events under alternative management strategies in vulnerable communities of the Cape Fear River Basin, North Carolina
Laura Gurley, South Atlantic Water Science Center -
Drought Vulnerability Assessment of Public Water Supplies in West Virginia
Matthew Kearns, Virginia-West Virginia Water Science Center -
Historical Trends and Future Projections of Snow in Glacier National Park and Vicinity: Implications for avalanches, water resources, and habitat
Erich Peitzsch, Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center -
Co-production of satellite-derived vegetation health reports with Marshall Islands stakeholder communities (Co-funded with USAID-BHA)
Gabriel Senay, Earth Resources and Observation Science Center -
When the earth sends you a trend request: Developing a social media listening platform to assist multi-hazard response and research
Wendy Stovall, Volcano Science Center