The Department of Civil Engineering and Surveying at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (UPR-M), home school of Coastal Resilience Center of Excellence (CRC) project Principal Investigator Ismael Pagán-Trinidad and Co-Principal Investigator Ricardo López, recently took first prize in … Read more
Former North Carolina Governor Jim Hunt and former Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour have some advice for dealing with major hurricane recovery. In a new video, the governors and former senior emergency management staff discuss the complexities of planning for and … Read more
The Center for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning will hold a webinar on “Supporting Community Resilience” from 9 a.m. to noon in MDT (noon to 3 p.m. EST) on Thursday, April 28. The Colorado State University-based center, which merges the disciplines … Read more
Researchers and engineers from the Coastal Resilience Center of Excellence (CRC) were recently involved in a major investigative multimedia report on Houston’s vulnerability to major storm damage. “Hell and High Water,” a report by investigative journalism site ProPublica and the … Read more
The William Averette Anderson Fund (BAF), a nonprofit organization focused on increasing African-American and other minority representation in the fields of hazard and disaster mitigation, is seeking volunteer involvement in its Program Councils. Founded in honor of Bill Anderson, a former board member of the … Read more
The nation’s top emergency management official says that the ultimate goal of the public agency should be to lead the public toward a risk scenario that the private sector would underwrite, and to include the public more thoroughly in disaster … Read more
Dr. Phil Berke, a Principal Investigator (PI) for the Coastal Resilience Center of Excellence (CRC) and a professor at Texas A&M University, will be honored with his co-authors with an award for a paper assessing a “resilience scorecard” for communities. … Read more
The nation’s top emergency management official, Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator (FEMA) Craig Fugate, will speak about the future of addressing threats from severe weather and other disasters at 4:30 p.m. on Feb. 17 at the University of North Carolina … Read more
A “Big Data” initiative focusing on the Southern United States could have big impacts for coastal resilience. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) and the Georgia Institute of Technology will co-direct a national effort … Read more
