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Nexus Labs, a platform of The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI), is designed to welcome research teams, universities, engineers, student teams and scientists into supervised research. This page explains the terms that protect everyone who takes part: who supervises the work, who owns what is made, which ethics rules apply and how contributions are credited. Applications open when their terms and review capacity exist; until then, you can register interest. The current service level is R0: information and enquiries.

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01FieldsResearch and evidence, Methods and modelling, Innovation
02STEM methods5 canonical methods applied
03Topics8 subject pages
04Counterparts3 platforms in shared fields
05PublisherThe Global Centre for Risk and Innovation

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01In brief

The short answer.

Research participation at Nexus Labs is how research teams, universities, engineers, student teams and scientists join supervised work, under terms that state who supervises, who owns what is made, which ethics rules apply and how contributions are credited. Applications open when terms and review capacity exist.

02Geography

Hazards and exposure in World.

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Layers 3

Hazards and exposure, for this page

Latest available

NASA GIBS / EOSDIS · ASTER GDEM (METI, NASA) · Blue Marble (NASA) · © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Natural Earth

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For participate in research, in GCRI's spatial-intelligence reading, the map opens on true-colour imagery, population density and land cover with true colour from NASA GIBS, framed on World; every other NASA layer, live feed and forecast waits in the layer list.Satellite and model products as NASA publishes them, each with its own date; indicators, not assessments of any place; claim ceiling INTEGRATED.

Data: NASA GIBS · ASTER GDEM · Blue Marble · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Natural Earth · Copernicus Sentinel-2 L2A · NASA HLS S30Sources and licences

We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA's Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS). Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA's Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS). Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
VIIRS near-real-time products (flood, land surface temperature, snow cover, corrected reflectance), NASA LANCE; imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University. 2018. Gridded Population of the World, Version 4 (GPWv4): Population Density, Revision 11. NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). CC BY 4.0
MODIS land products (vegetation indices, gross primary production, land cover), NASA LP DAAC and LANCE; imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
VIIRS Black Marble night-time lights, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; distributed by the NASA Level-1 and Atmosphere Archive and Distribution System (LAADS DAAC); imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
ASTER GDEM is a product of METI and NASA (ASTER Global Digital Elevation Model V003, NASA LP DAAC); imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
Made with Natural Earth. Free vector and raster map data @ naturalearthdata.com. Public domain
© OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), via NASA GIBS (coastlines, boundaries, roads and place names). Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). ODbL
Blue Marble, NASA Earth Observatory; imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
Context on the globe and flat map: coastlines, boundaries, roads and place names from NASA GIBS reference layers (OpenStreetMap data, ODbL, © OpenStreetMap contributors); Blue Marble imagery as an optional base; 3D terrain and the elevation read-out from the ASTER GDEM elevation colour index (5 m to 200 m classes, exaggerated for legibility). Boundaries are drawn as published and imply no position on any territory.
Globe: MapLibre GL JS 6.9.1, BSD-3-Clause, © MapLibre contributors.
Observed (EO): Copernicus Sentinel-2 L2A (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026), Microsoft Planetary Computer
Observed (EO): NASA HLS S30 (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026). We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA's Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS).
Optional layers (35 sources in the layer list: live, forecast, observed and context) print their provider credit on the map and here when switched on; forecasts are model output and derived indices are estimates.

Layers and dates

True colour: VIIRS NOAA-20 corrected reflectance, NASA LANCE · 13 Oct 2026
Population density, 2020: Population: CIESIN, Columbia University, Gridded Population of the World v4.11 (2018), NASA SEDAC, CC BY 4.0 · static
Land cover type (IGBP), yearly: MODIS Terra and Aqua land cover (MCD12Q1), NASA LP DAAC · 2024
Night-time lights, daily: VIIRS Black Marble (VNP46A2), NASA LAADS DAAC · 12 Oct 2026
Enhanced vegetation index, rolling 8 days: MODIS Terra EVI, NASA LANCE · 13 Oct 2026
Vegetation greenness (NDVI), rolling 8 days: MODIS Terra NDVI, NASA LANCE · 13 Oct 2026

03Supervision

Every participant has a named supervisor.

Students, early-career researchers and volunteers work on safe tasks with a mentor and a learning plan, never on an unsupervised high-consequence assignment. Senior contributors work to a written scope with a named reviewer.

04Intellectual property

Ownership and licences are agreed before work starts.

Each project's terms state who owns what is created, and the licence for data, code and publications.
Participants keep the rights in their prior work unless they agree otherwise in writing.
Contribution and rights terms are part of the research protocol and the resource decision.
Nothing is published using a participant's work beyond what the terms allow.

05Ethics

The same ethics rules for every participant.

Design

Protocols first

Work follows protocols and research design, including human subjects rules.

Integrity

Independent scrutiny

Negative findings and independent scrutiny always remain possible, whoever funds the work.

Concerns

Safe routes to raise concerns

Integrity concerns go to integrity@therisk.global; safeguarding concerns to safeguarding@therisk.global.

06Credit

Contributions are credited accurately.

01
Authorship
Authorship follows contribution, agreed openly and recorded with the result.
02
Contribution records
Each participant can receive a record of what they did, under whose supervision.
03
Limits
A contribution record is not a degree, a professional licence or a promise of employment.

07Key terms

Terms used on this page.

Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.

Term	Definition
Contributor role statement	A structured record of each person's part in a research output, often using the CRediT taxonomy of fourteen roles maintained by NISO.
Research ethics approval	Approval of a study protocol by an independent ethics committee before data collection involving people.
Invention disclosure	A researcher's formal report of an invention to their institution's technology transfer office.

08Privacy

How your information is used.

An expression of interest is used to answer you and to keep a record. It is never used for marketing or shared with The Global Risks Forum (GRF) or The Global Risks Alliance (GRA). Requests about your data go to privacy@therisk.global, and GCRI's notice is on privacy and data.

09Questions

Questions and answers.

Is there a fee to take part?

No fee applies to ordinary participation. Any payment for professional work is set out in written terms before the work starts.

Can I take part from outside a university?

Yes. Engineers, practitioners and independent scientists can take part under the same terms, subject to the eligibility policy.

How do I register interest?

Write to research@therisk.global with your field and the kind of work you are looking for. Students and experts can also see GCRI pathways for experts and students.

What if I disagree with how my work is credited?

Raise it with your supervisor, or with integrity@therisk.global. Disputes are reviewed by someone not responsible for the contested decision.

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