Disaster Research Wiki Edit #2

I decided to edit the Disaster research wiki tonight. Just last week I traveled to Puerto Rico to present my undergraduate research in the disaster research field. What I noticed while there was that there is a general lack of understanding as to the benefits of disaster research. For this reason, I added a paragraph to the wiki discussing the impacts disaster research has on developing more effective policies, programs, and planning to reduce disaster impacts. Additionally, I added a section discussing the various organizations that fund the researchers who dedicate their lives to researching the social science impacts of disasters. I also included a section that lists the different advisory boards and committees that have been created as forums for this field of research. I hope to continue to add to this wiki but am kind of disappointed that no one has been contributing to the wiki. I am thinking of possibly sending out an email to a big listserv I was put on when I attended a convention at the Natural Hazards Center in Boulder, Colorado in order to see if some others will start to contribute to the wiki. This listserv is full of crazy graduate and post-docs and I think they would go wild if they knew that there is a wiki for the field of research about which they are so passionate.