Undergraduate and graduate students in Coastal Resilience Center of Excellence (CRC) education programs were involved in a wide variety of academic exchange and professional internship programs this past summer, providing them the opportunity to gain important research skills and experience … Read more

  Researchers from Oregon State University and Colorado State University are conducting benchmark laboratory and numerical experiments to improve the resilience of coastal structures subject to hurricane waves and surge. Principal investigator Dr. Daniel Cox and co-Principal Investigator Dr. John … Read more

Two new graduate students have joined the Coastal Resilience Center of Excellence (CRC) as fellows. This semester, Colleen Durfee and Darien Williams, both graduate students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), began as Science & Engineering … Read more

Landfalling typhoons in East and Southeast Asia have been increasing in intensity, new research from a Coastal Resilience Center of Excellence (CRC) scientist shows. In an article published this month in Nature Geoscience, CRC Assistant Research Scientist Dr. Wei Mei … Read more

As part of a Department of Homeland Security-funded summer research team program at the Coastal Resilience Center (CRC), Principal Investigator Brian Blanton at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill hosted Dr. Anton Bezuglov, an Associate Professor of Computer … Read more

The ADCIRC storm surge model is a major focus of Coastal Resilience Center research projects. Each of the four projects focus on making improvements to the model to allow faster simulations of flooding, both onshore and inland, in time-sensitive situations. … Read more

Todd Davison has managed the Gulf, Southeast and Caribbean Region for the NOAA Office for Coastal Management since 2006. A native of Baton Rouge, La., Davison was Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Region IV Mitigation Division and previously … Read more

A web-based tool being expanded as part of the Coastal Resilience Center (CRC) will enable local planners and emergency managers to improve integration of hazard mitigation to guide land use and urban development in hazardous areas. CRC Principal Investigator Dr. … Read more

This fall, the Department of Homeland Security’s Coastal Resilience Center (CRC) will collaborate with the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) to host the 7th Annual Maritime Risk Symposium. The event, which runs from Nov. 14-15, 2016, at the University of North Carolina … Read more

Invited university, governmental and private sector officials will gather this fall to discuss the intersection of maritime and coastal resilience. The 7th Maritime Risk Symposium (MRS 2016) will be held on Nov. 14-15 at the University of North Carolina at … Read more