Students from three central North Carolina universities – the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), North Carolina State University (NCSU) and Duke University – met last month at a student-organized event to present and discuss issues tied to resilience, … Read more
Students at Texas A&M University have won awards for their proposed flood protection measures for vulnerable communities identified through a tool developed by a Coastal Resilience Center of Excellence (CRC) project. Graduate student Zixu Qiao and an undergraduate team – Alaina … Read more
Students interested in coastal natural disasters can soon pursue specialized concentrations within the doctoral engineering degree program at Jackson State University (JSU). Through the Coastal Resilience Center of Excellence (CRC) project “PhD in Engineering (Coastal Engineering and Computational Engineering concentrations) … Read more
Dr. Sierra Woodruff, who will graduate this spring from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was recognized for her outstanding PhD work on climate change adaptation planning. Woodruff received the 2017 Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award in Social Sciences … Read more
Researchers on a Coastal Resilience Center of Excellence (CRC) project at the University of Rhode Island will have the resources of a major cloud-computing technology to improve the safety of coastal communities. Dr. Isaac Ginis recently received a Microsoft Azure … Read more
How can a method used to get smokers to quit be used to get people better prepared for hurricanes? As much as building better levees, tracking storms more accurately and training future emergency professionals, changing the behavior of residents in … Read more
Building better levees, tracking storms more accurately and training future emergency management professionals can have a major impact on community resilience to natural hazards. On the individual level, however, changing the behavior of residents in storm-susceptible communities could yield similarly … Read more
Doug Bellomo is a civil engineer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Institute for Water Resources in Fort Belvoir, Va. (and a member of the CRC Advisory Board). He helps lead the Corps National Flood Risk Management program … Read more
Researchers and students interested in coastal modeling will gather this spring for the 21st time to learn the latest about ADCIRC storm surge modeling, meet with peers and learn the state of the art in predicting flooding impacts on coastal … Read more
About 43 percent of the nation’s population lives in areas protected by levees, but rising sea levels and land subsidence increasingly threaten these structures. That’s why Dr. Victoria Bennett of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) is working to empower levee officials … Read more
