Donate to Tsunami Society International (TSI)
What We Do and Support
TSI is a nonprofit, professional organization dedicated to mitigating the adverse effects of tsunamis on humanity – reinforcing the concept that the impacts of tsunami disasters transcend national boundaries and interests.
The Society supports regional and international communication, cooperation, and coordination through the dissemination of existing professional knowledge and current advances in scientific research, which identifies new technologies and strategies needed to mitigate losses of lives and destruction of property through programs of public education and preparedness.
How TSI accomplishes its objectives?
1. The Society publishes quarterly “Science of Tsunami Hazards”, an open-access, peer-reviewed, international journal dedicated to the dissemination of scholarly theoretical and applied research and of advances in technology. Since its inception in 1982, “Science of Tsunami Hazards” has been the only scholarly journal in the world that publishes research findings exclusively pertaining to tsunamis and collateral hazards.
2. The Society archives and maintains extensive electronic databases of all current and past publications spanning almost 30 years at our own website and at mirror sites made available by the U.S. Los Alamos National Laboratory, the DOAJ electronic database maintained by the University of Lund in Sweden and by The National Library, THE HAGUE, Netherlands.
Recently, EBSCO Publishing invited the Society to include "Science of Tsunami Hazards" in their extensive online database. This collaboration (in process) will give the journal additional global exposure and readership in the databases of 90% of the academic institutions worldwide, including nation-wide access to databases in more than 70 countries.
3. The Society provides free-of-charge, to the general public and international scientific communities, access to all “Science of Tsunami Hazards” publications, since the journal’s inception in 1982.
4. Tsunami Society International maintains - by intention - low professional membership fees and “Science of Tsunami Hazards”, author publication charges in order to facilitate the participation of scientists from around the world, including those from developing countries.
5. The Society hosts Professional Tsunami Symposiums and workshops every two to three years, for the purpose of presenting recent advances in all aspects of tsunami research, including early warning systems and new technologies for warning systems and disaster preparedness.
When funds are available, TSI provides support to scientists from developing countries to participate at these international symposiums and workshops.
6. When funds are available, the Society coordinates field surveys and expert investigations of disaster stricken regions to determine the mechanisms of tsunami generation, tsunami travel paths and of terminal effects of inundation for the purpose of preparing recommendations for implementation of strategies that will minimize future losses of lives and properties.
TSI depends upon tax-deductible donations from sponsors like you. Your contributions enable TSI to continue significant strides regarding the international communication, coordination and dissemination of professional knowledge and scientific research advances, which lead to programs of preparedness and strategies for mitigating losses of lives and destruction of property from Tsunamis, worldwide.
Contributions of any amount are welcome.
How donations will help TSI to meet our mission?
a) Will insure the continued publication of “Science of Tsunami Hazards” as an open-access journal, free to all with no subscription charges.
b) Will insure the continued updating and maintenance of TSI’s website and of user-friendly access (via keywords) to online journal databases.
c) Will insure the continued marketing, organizing and cataloguing of “Science of Tsunami Hazards” in the worldwide databases.
d) Will insure continued affordable professional dues and author page publication charges for all international scientists.
e) Will enhance the Society’s ability to offer conference financial support to scientists from developing countries.
f) Will allow fact-finding field surveys of stricken areas and the evaluation of impacts from which recommendations will be derived for more effective tsunami disaster mitigation.
g) Will insure the Society’s ability to meet escalating yearly general operating costs due to the expanded electronic worldwide databases (website maintenance, and operation, archiving of individual research articles and journals, cross-referencing, printing and publications dissemination, extensive mailings e.t.c.)
Contributions of any amount are welcome. For donations of $50 or more, decorative electronic, printable “Certificates of Appreciation”, suitable for framing, are issued..
