UMR partners with the USGS to help prepare for future natural disasters
Nathan Harl
Issue date: 10/13/05 Section: News
Dr. Gardner's point of seeing UMR as a credible research institution goes along with the other two agreements that were made during the ceremony besides the general partnership between UMR and the USGS. Particularly, agreements were signed that will allow UMR to use a special research facility at the USGS office in Rolla, located at 1400 Independence Road. The agreements also allow a UMR faculty member to conduct landslide and earthquake science research with the USGS.
The UMR-USGS partnership is already working hard on two projects. The first is an effort to document the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina along the Gulf Coast, led by Emitt C. Witt, director of the USGS's Mid-Continent Geographical Sciences Center. The second project involves the development of a map to help government planners in the prediction of landslides.
"The USGS is undergoing many changes, but one of the positive mission changes is to focus the science of the agency on prediction, assessment, and mitigation of natural hazards," said Witt. "This partnership is a positive step toward that goal and provides a building block for the geographic sciences in cooperation with world-renowned engineering expertise to begin addressing the USGS natural hazard initiative."
UMR and the USGS have been partners ever since the USGS first came to Rolla in the 1930's. This latest partnership will hopefully bring the two organizations even closer together and lead to a great outcome in terms of being prepared for natural disasters.
The UMR-USGS partnership is already working hard on two projects. The first is an effort to document the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina along the Gulf Coast, led by Emitt C. Witt, director of the USGS's Mid-Continent Geographical Sciences Center. The second project involves the development of a map to help government planners in the prediction of landslides.
"The USGS is undergoing many changes, but one of the positive mission changes is to focus the science of the agency on prediction, assessment, and mitigation of natural hazards," said Witt. "This partnership is a positive step toward that goal and provides a building block for the geographic sciences in cooperation with world-renowned engineering expertise to begin addressing the USGS natural hazard initiative."
UMR and the USGS have been partners ever since the USGS first came to Rolla in the 1930's. This latest partnership will hopefully bring the two organizations even closer together and lead to a great outcome in terms of being prepared for natural disasters.