INTEGRATIVE GROUP
Community Engagement and Workforce Development
To foster a broader understanding of geohazards and enhance efforts in hazard mitigation
The Community Engagement and Workforce Development Integrative Group is identifying impactful activities to leverage SZ4D's unique strengths - its focus on geohazards, partnerships, instrumentation, and multi-institutional collaboration. Our goal is to advance science through meaningful investment in education, outreach, workforce development, and collaborative engagement.
Key questions being addressed by CEWD include:
Capacity Building
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How can we foster international partnerships that enhance capabilities - such as skills, data, software, technology, and understanding - for all scientists and stakeholders involved?
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What key elements should we incorporate into our programs to ensure these improvements are sustainable?
Hazard Mitigation
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How can improved understanding of subduction zone geohazards be translated into products for hazard mitigation in affected communities?
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What considerations are essential to ensure meaningful engagement and positive outcomes for those communities?
Education and Training Strategies
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Educational programs with measurable learning outcomes are essential to strengthening our scientific community. What strategies can we identify, develop, and implement to create impactful and effective learning opportunities for all.
Improving Outreach Effectiveness
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Effective hazard monitoring and rapid response efforts depend on clear communication with decision-makers globally, and the public. What science communication strategies can help communicties better understand geohazards and their associated risks?
Interdisciplinary Collaboration
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What evidence-based practices are most effective for breaking down disciplinary silos and improving collaboration and mutual understanding across disciplines?
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How can SZ4D lead the way in interdisciplinary, community-engaged science? What steps can be taken to position SZ4D as a model for fostering impactful partnerships and advancing meaningful outcomes in community-driven research?
Fostering a Collaborative Geoscience Community
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What steps can SZ4D take to enact meaningful change and foster a more collaborative geoscience community?
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How can SZ4D’s programs and initiatives be structures to promote participation across careers and disciplines?
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In what ways can SZ4D support funding models and partnerships that provide mutual benefits for all stakeholders?
Achieving Long-Term Impact Through a Collective Impact Framework
To ensure SZ4D achieves its goals, the CEWD group recommends adopting a Collective Impact (CI) framework. CI is the commitment of a group of people from different sectors to a common agenda for solving a specific social problem, using a structured form of collaboration. It is essentially the “how” to effectively achieve a big vision. CI has quickly grown in popularity and has been recognized as an important framework for progress on social issues by the White House Council for Community Solutions and the National Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine. CI is designed in contrast with the isolated impact approach in which single entities try to make the most impact with the fewest resources. Instead, SZ4D community members should be envisioned as playing a role in a larger cooperative effort that is seeking to accomplish long-term transformative impacts guided by the CI framework.
Research shows that successful CI initiatives meet five criteria:
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a common agenda
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a shared measurement system
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mutually reinforcing activities
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continuous communication
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a backbone organization
When these criteria are met, CI fosters cascading levels of linked collaboration, driving sustainable progress toward SZ4D's mission.
Group Members
Xiaochuan Tian | UC Davis | ||
Hannah Shabtian | Brown University | ||
Emily Brodsky | UC Santa Cruz | ||
Veronica Oliveros | Universidad de Concepción | ||
Sammy Nyarko | Indiana University Indianapolis | ||
Justin Sweet | EarthScope | ||
Elizabeth Nadin | University of Alaska | ||
Renate Hartog | University of Washington | ||
Julie Sexton* | UC Boulder | ||
Brian Terbush | Washington State Emergency Management | ||
Steven Semken | Arizona State University | ||
Patricia Persaud | University of Arizona | ||
Carolina Muñoz-Saez | University of Nevada Reno | ||
Catalina Morales-Yáñez* | Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción | ||
Tiegan Hobbs | Geological Survey of Canada | ||
Mike Brudzinski* | Miami University of Ohio | ||
Beth Bartel | Michigan Tech University |
*Group Co-Chairs