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Ncsa Part of Team Developing Tools to Help Governments Deal With Disasters
A $20-million grant by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology will be used to develop computer tools to help local governments handle extreme weather and natural disasters.
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The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded $20 million to a team including the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) to develop computer tools to help local governments prepare for extreme weather and recover quickly in the aftermath of natural hazards.
The tools will help communities improve decision-making and make the best use of resources.
NIST has reached a cooperative agreement with Colorado State University to establish the Community Resilience Center of Excellence. The center will bring NIST researchers and partners from 10 other universities together to develop the tools.
The centerpiece of the project will be the NIST-Community Resilience Modeling Environment (NIST-CORE). NIST-CORE, which will be developed at NCSA, will be based on the Ergo software developed at NCSA for hazard assessment, response, and planning.
"This center complements NIST's long-standing efforts to improve the performance of the built environment against natural hazards--such as tornadoes, coastal flooding, wildfires, and earthquakes--as well as large-scale, human-caused disruptions," says acting NIST director Willie May. "The tools developed by the center will help to further advance the important goal of disaster resilience from ambitious concepts to cost-effective solutions that communities can implement over time."
From National Center for Supercomputing Applications
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