1. Hazard conundrum
NSF: fundamental processes
FEMA: hazard mitigation

2. New multidisciplinary initiatives in NSF
Human and social dynamics
Coupled human and natural systems

3. HSD Cross-cutting NSF-wide priority area 5-year : 2008 final year
Agents of change (AOC)
Dynamics of human behavior (DHB)
Decision making, risk, and uncertainty (DRU)
complexity and systems thinking,
emergent properties of dynamic systems.
human drivers of environmental change
the consequences of environmental change on humans.

4. HSD 2008 POOL: $30,000,000 Type 2 maximum award sizes of $1,250,000
All proposals must include three or more senior personnel from at least two different fields.

5. Boulder Hazards Center
DRU: TSUNAMI: Social cognitive modeling of preparedness and effectiveness of warnings
3 year:
Other partners
FEMA
State of Washington, EM
Oregon Dept. of Geol. & Min. Ind.
City of Seaside, Oregon
Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, California.
Coronado Fire Department
San Diego County EM
Kauai County Civil Defense
NOAA, Kodiak AK
Researchers: UH
ETSA
U North Carolina
Mississippi State
Boulder Hazards Center
U Tasmania
GNS (NZ)
There are nine individuals with major roles in the project. They come from three different countries, and 7 different institutions.
In each community, we worked directly with the local agencies in charge of dealing with local disasters. In some cities, like California, it was mainly the fire department, although others, like Hawaii, it was the County Civil Defense. All of the data created in this survey will be given back to these key agencies upon completion.

6. Factors affecting behavioral response to natural warning signs of tsunami: the case study of the December 26, 2004 earthquake.
One year in

7. Dynamics of coupled natural and human systems
First multi-directorate program in NSF
Directorate for Biological Sciences,
Directorate for Geosciences,
Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences.
$9,000,000 available
roughly $500,000 to $1,500,000.

8. Dynamics of coupled natural and human systems
quantitative, interdisciplinary analyses of relevant human and natural system processes and complex interactions among human and natural systems at diverse scales.

9. Dynamics of coupled natural and human systems
In 2008: proposal with Regional and Urban Planning to look at linkage between physical, biological and human systems in context of 3 volcanoes:
Kīlauea
St Helens
Pinatubo