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<br />e <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />PSOO-19 <br /> <br />Mark Siegel, Ph.D. <br />University of the District of Columbia <br />202-274-5699 <br />msiel!el@bellatlantic.net <br /> <br />John Sutter, Ph,D. <br />CESIR/USGS <br />703-648-5351 <br />isutter@usl!S,l!OV <br /> <br />David Pesanelli, B.A. <br />David Pesanelli & Associates <br />30-871-7355 <br />doesanelli@aol.com <br /> <br />Designing Tools for Communicating Natural Hazards Risk Maps to Non-Geoscientists <br /> <br />The Southwest Indiana Disaster Resistant Community Corporation (SWIDRCC) and the USGS Center <br />for Earth Science Information Research (CESIR) have formed a partnership and are leading a consortium <br />of organizations in the development of a series of probabilistic multi-hazard vulnerability maps for the <br />greater Evansville, Indiana region. The development of these hazard maps begins with the construction <br />ofa digital, 3-dimensional earth science map database of materials from the present-day surface down to <br />and including the bedrock surface. This database is translated into a series of natural hazard <br />susceptibility maps by natural hazard process experts and then combined with stochastic natural hazards <br />process models to produce probabilistic hazard maps. Finally, the individual probabilistic hazard maps <br />are combined, statistically, into a multi-hazard map that is used together with various socioeconomic <br />databases to demonstrate how this map can be used to estimate spatial vulnerability of social <br />infrastructure in the region. Such a vulnerability forecast can serve as the basis for the creation of a <br />cost-effective, risk-based, public policy framework for building safer communities and minimizing <br />economic loses from future natural hazard events, <br /> <br />CESIR is committed to use the right science and to employ that science correctly. The social utility of <br />the CESIR maps depends on an effective communications design. The research effort is also committed <br />to communicating the scientific knowledge meaningfully. Thus, one goal of CESIR is to develop <br />three-dimensional maps that convey four dimensional stochastic science data about natural hazard <br />vulnerability to a diverse audience of non-scientists who are responsible for hazard mitigation planning <br />and policy formulation. <br /> <br />The poster will present prototype examples of the cartographic methodology sed to represent the earth <br />science data and the proposed methodology, drawn rom cognitive science, interactive instructional <br />technology, and graphic rts practice, to build an effective communications design structure. The CESIR <br />project is multi-faceted and each component is in its own stage of development. The poster will reflect <br />these differences, The purpose of this poster presentation is to inform the research community <br />represented by the Workshop attendees about the CESIR project and to demonstrate how social science, <br />learning science, and communications design can collaborate with earth science in community <br />partnerships solving natural hazard mitigation problems. <br />