Coastal Resilience Center of Excellence (CRC) Principal Investigator Dr. Isaac Ginis and colleagues have made significant contributions to the National Weather Service’s operational hurricane prediction models. The Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory and Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting models adopted Dr. … Read more
Dr. Wei Mei will join the Coastal Resilience Center of Excellence (CRC) as an Assistant Research Scientist in August. Dr. Mei specializes in the study of tropical cyclones and climate change. In addition to his position in the CRC, Dr. … Read more
The photography of Donn Young, which captured the aftermath of and rebuilding from Hurricane Katrina, will have his work honored this summer at a North Carolina gallery and later at a national museum. Works from throughout Young’s career will be … Read more
Over the next few semesters, Coastal Resilience Center (CRC) investigators will be giving lectures to students in other parts of the country about their research as part of the integration of CRC research and education projects distributed among 21 universities … Read more
Engineering students from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (UPR-M) picked up several top-5 awards at the ASCE Concrete Canoe Championship, held June 9-11 in Tyler, Texas. They placed seventh overall among universities in both Concrete Canoe and in … Read more
This past semester, students enrolled in certificate courses at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) got the chance to ask questions of the nation’s top emergency management official and tour the facility where North Carolina … Read more
A Coastal Resilience Center (CRC) PI will host faculty this summer semester as part of a program to facilitate further involvement of Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs) in the Center’s projects. This summer, Principal Investigator Brian Blanton, at UNC-Chapel Hill, will host … Read more
Over the summer semester, students from CRC institutions will work in a visiting capacity at other CRC partners for an opportunity to collaborate on ongoing Center projects. The CRC SUMREX (SUMmer Research Experience) Program is the centerpiece of the Center’s … Read more
New research from UNC-Chapel Hill and the University of Michigan published this week shows that local communities are good at developing strategies to combat the harmful effects of climate change but often fail to prioritize actions or offer details necessary to … Read more
An undergraduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel has attracted recent attention from Asian media for his work on climate change adaptation measures by a remote island nation. James Ellsmoor, an undergraduate student at UNC-Chapel Hill, recently … Read more
