To overcome these barriers to communication, we've designed this website to connect community, academics and agencies amongst one another. This prototype website communicates information relevant to disaster research and response, and contains three portals, each optimized for each of the three audiences. There is already a tremendous amount of resources online, and in particular at the DR2 website. Our objective is to make these more accessible and to provide more direct connections among the community, academics and agencies in formats that each can understand and appreciate.