Natural Hazards & Disasters Information & Research Centers
The purpose of this resource is to provide a listing of information and research centers located around the world dedicated to the study of natural disasters and hazard mitigation.
- Aon Benfield
- http://www.aon.com/reinsurance/
- Arkansas Center for Earthquake Education and Technology Transfer (ACEETT)
- http://quake.ualr.edu/
- Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC)
- http://www.adpc.net/
- Asian Disaster Reduction Center
- www.adrc.asia
- Awareness and Localization of Explosives-Related Threats (ALERT)
- http://www.northeastern.edu/alert/
- British Geological Survey
- http://www.bgs.ac.uk/
- California – Department of Conservation Earthquakes
- http://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/geologic_hazards/earthquakes/
- California Emergency Management Agency
- http://www.calema.ca.gov/
- Caltech Library Services – Earthquake Engineering
- http://library.caltech.edu/
- Center for Advancing Microbial Risk Assessment (CAMRA)
- http://www.camra.msu.edu/index.html
- Center for Catastrophe Preparedness & Response
- http://www.nyu.edu/ccpr/
- Center for Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (CDMHA)
- http://www.cdmha.org/
- Center for Disaster Research & Education (CDRE)
- http://www.millersville.edu/cdre/index.php
- Center for Earthquake Research and Information (CERI) – University of Memphis
- http://www.ceri.memphis.edu/
- Center for Emergency Education and Disaster Research (CEEDR)
- http://ehs.umbc.edu/CEEDR1
- Center for Geotechnical Practice & Research – Virginia Tech
- http://cgpr.ce.vt.edu/
- Center for Hazards and Risk Research (CHRR) – Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Columbia University
- http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/
- Center for Hazards Assessment, Response and Technology – University of New Orleans (UNO-CHART)
- http://chart.uno.edu/
- Center for Hazards Research and Policy Development (CHR)
- http://hazardcenter.louisville.edu/index.php?option=com_frontpage &Itemid=1
- Center for Island, Maritime, and Extreme Environment Security (CIMES)
- http://cimes.hawaii.edu
- Center for Natural Hazards and Disaster Reseach (NHDR)
- http://nhdr.ou.edu/index.php
- Center for Natural Hazards Research (CNHR)
- https://author.ecu.edu/cs-cas/hazards/index.cfm
- Center for Public Health and Disasters – University of California Los Angeles (CPHD)
- http://www.cphd.ucla.edu/
- Center for Risk Management of Engineering Systems
- http://www.sys.virginia.edu/risk/
- Center for the Study of Natural Hazards and Disasters
- http://hazardscenter.unc.edu/
- Center for Urban and Regional Studies
- http://curs.unc.edu/index.html
- Center of Excellence for Explosives Detection, Mitigation and Response
- http://energetics.chm.uri.edu/
- Central United States Earthquake Consortium
- http://www.cusec.org/
- Centre for Disaster Studies – James Cook University
- http://www.jcu.edu.au/cds/
- Collaborative Program on the Societal Impacts and Economic Benefits of Weather Information (SIC)
- http://www.sip.ucar.edu/
- Consortium of Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering (CUREE)
- http://www.curee.org/
- Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)
- http://cires.colorado.edu/
- Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)
- http://www.cira.colostate.edu/index.php
- Dartmouth Flood Observatory
- http://floodobservatory.colorado.edu/index.html
- Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
- http://www.dhs.gov/
- Disaster Management Center – University of Wisconsim (UW-DMC)
- http://dmc.engr.wisc.edu/index.lasso
- Disaster Mental Health Institute (DMHI)
- http://www.usd.edu/dmhi
- Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI) – Kyoto University
- http://www.dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/
- Disaster Research Center – University of Delaware
- http://www.udel.edu/
- Disasters Roundtable of the National Academies
- http://dels.nas.edu/
- Division of Seismology, Geology & Tectonophysics – Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
- Earth Observatory
- Earthquake Engineering Research Center – University of Bristol, UK
- http://www.bristol.ac.uk/
- Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI)
- http://www.eeri.org/
- Earthquake Hazard Center (EHC) – University of Wellington, New Zealand
- http://www.victoria.ac.nz/
- Earthquake Information Center – University of Tokyo
- http://wwweic.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp/
- Earthquakes Canada – Natural Resources Canada
- http://earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/
- Emergency Management Institute: Australia
- http://www.ema.gov.au/
- Emergency Management Institute (EMI)
- http://training.fema.gov/emi/
- FAZD Center – National Center for Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Disease Defense
- http://fazd.tamu.edu/
- Get Disaster Information – Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
- http://www.fema.gov/
- Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR)
- http://gfdrr.org/
- Global Seismic Hazard Assessment Program (GSHAP)
- http://www.seismo.ethz.ch/GSHAP/
- Hazards and Vulnerability Research Institute (HVRI)
- http://webra.cas.sc.edu/hvri/
- Hazard Reduction & Recovery Center – Texas A&M University
- http://archone.tamu.edu/hrrc/
- Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC)
- http://www.harc.edu/Default.aspx
- Information Network of Earthquake Disaster Prevention Technologies – International Institute of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering (IISEE)
- http://iisee.kenken.go.jp/net/
- Institute for Business and Home Safety (IBHS)
- http://www.ibhs.org/
- Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction (ICLR)
- http://www.iclr.org/
- Institute for Crisis, Disaster and Risk Management (ICDRM)
- http://www.gwu.edu/~icdrm/index.html
- Institute for Science Technology and Public Policy (ISTPP)
- http://bush.tamu.edu/istpp/
- International Centre for Geohazards – Norwegian Geotechnical Institute
- http://www.geohazards.no/
- International Hurricane Research Center (IHRC)
- http://www.ihrc.fiu.edu/
- International Seismological Centre
- http://www.isc.ac.uk/
- International Tsunami Information Centre – UNESCO
- http://ioc3.unesco.org/itic/
- James and Marilyn Lovell Center for Environemental Geography and Hazards Research (JMLC)
- http://www.geo.txstate.edu/lovell/
- John A. Blume Earthquake Engineering Center – Stanford University
- http://blume.stanford.edu/
- Louisiana Environmental Research Center at McNeese State University (LERC)
- http://lerc.mcneese.edu/
- MCEER Information Service
- http://mceer.buffalo.edu/infoservice/
- Mid-America Earthquake Center (MAE)
- http://mae.cee.illinois.edu//
- National Center for Border Security and Immigration (BORDERS)
- http://www.borders.arizona.edu/
- National Center for Disaster Preparedness
- http://www.ncdp.mailman.columbia.edu
- National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH) – Center for Disease Control & Prevention
- http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/
- National Center for Flood Protection and Defense (NCFPD)
- www.ncfpd.umn.edu/
- National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE)
- http://create.usc.edu/
- National Center for the Secure and Resilient Maritime Commerce (Port Security CSR)
- http://www.stevens.edu/csr/
- National Center for the Study of Preparedness and Catastrophic Event Response (PACER)
- http://www.pacercenter.org/default.aspx
- National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START)
- http://www.start.umd.edu/start/
- National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC)
- http://drought.unl.edu/
- National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC) - USGS
- http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/neic/
- National Fire Protection Agency (NFPA)
- http://www.nfpa.org/
- National Hazards Center
- http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/
- National Hazards Centre & New Zealand
- http://www.naturalhazards.net.nz/
- National Hazards Data & National Geophysical Center (NGDC)
- http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/
- Natural Hazards Gateway – United States Geological Survey (USGS)
- http://www.usgs.gov/hazards/
- National Information Center for Earthquake Engineering (NICEE) – IIT Kanpur, India
- http://www.nicee.org/
- National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering (NISEE) & EERC
- http://nisee.berkeley.edu/
- National Institute for Urban Search and Rescue (NIUSR)
- http://www.niusr.org/
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Center for Tsunami Research (NCTR)
- http://nctr.pmel.noaa.gov/index.html
- National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention & NIED
- http://www.bosai.go.jp/e/
- National Transportation Security Center of Excellence (NTSCOE)
- http://transportation.tsu.edu/NTSCE/home.htm
- New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering Inc.
- http://www.nzsee.org.nz/
- Northeast States Emergency Consortium (NESEC)
- http://www.nesec.org/
- O.H. Hinsdale Wave Resaerch Laboratory
- http://wave.oregonstate.edu/
- Observatories and Research Facilities for European Seismology (ORFEUS)
- http://www.orfeus-eu.org/
- Ottawa-Carleton Earthquake Engineering Research Centre
- http://www.ocice.ca/research/ocice_rc4.shtml
- Pacific Disaster Center (PDC)
- http://www.pdc.org/
- Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER)
- http://peer.berkeley.edu/
- Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL)
- http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/index.shtml
- Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
- http://www.paho.org/
- Regional Disaster Information Center (CRID) Latin American & the Caribbean
- http://www.crid.or.cr/crid/ing/
- Risk Frontiers – Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
- http://www.riskfrontiers.com/
- Risk Management and Decision Processes Center
- http://wharton.upenn.edu/riskcenter
- Seismology Research Centre
- http://www.seis.com.au/
- Severe Storm Prediction, Education, and Evacuation from Disasters (SSPEED)
- http://sspeed.rice.edu/sspeed/
- Societal Aspects of Weather
- http://www.sip.ucar.edu/socasp/
- Southern California Earthquake Center
- http://www.scec.org/
- Texas Tech Wind Science and Engineering Research Center (WISE)
- http://www.depts.ttu.edu/weweb/
- Tsunami Research Center
- http://cwis.usc.edu/dept/tsunamis/2005/index.php
- University of the West Indies Seismic Research Unit
- http://www.uwiseismic.com/
- Western States Seismic Policy Council (WSSPC)
- http://www.wsspc.org/