Community Engagement and Collaboration

Increasing frequency and intensity of disasters require the growth of a field that must have the capability to transcend disciplinary and organizational boundaries as well as deal with complex social and political challenges. For example, there is an urgent need to collaborate across disciplines and agencies to understand and train our current and future workforce in how to engage responsibly following disasters. Perishable field data collected soon after a disaster is critical to advancing hazard science, but such engagement produces complex issues when working in communities recently affected by disaster. 

Specific activites of our CLaSH community collaboration program span from disaster response training, community (public) disaster preparedness activities, broadening participation in “supercharged” scientific partnerships between the Center and stakeholders through annual meetings, CLaSH Stakeholder Workshops, science focus groups, and publicly showcasing findings and educational material with commitment to open science and FAIR and CARE data principles.