The Natural Hazards Risk and Resiliency Research Center (NHR3) is a multidisciplinary and multi-university research center with the goal of reducing the risk of natural hazards from becoming natural disasters. Research at NHR3 focuses on improving resiliency of communities and reduction of risks to infrastructures against natural hazards.
NHR3 addresses multidisciplinary topic areas of natural hazards including:
- Earthquake engineering and science
- Fire engineering, including wildfires
- Tsunami engineering
- Drought: Causes, and socio-economical impacts
- Floods: Causes and impacts
- Wind, tornados, storms, hurricanes
- Volcanic eruptions & their impacts
- Landslides
Currently the following research universities are members of the NHR3, as listed (alphabetically):
- California Polytechnic State University
- California Institute of Technology
- Southern California Earthquake Center
- University of California, Irvine
- University of California, Los Angeles
- University of California, San Diego
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- University of Southern California
For general questions please contact us via email at: nhr3@risksciences.ucla.edu
For questions related to the GitHub repositories please email Greg Lavrentiadis at: glavrentiadis@risksciences.ucla.edu