In the News

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Coastal Resilience Center projects in the news:

• Darien Williams: Chronicling Black resilience to disaster by Sofia Tong // MIT News (6.24.20)

• 2020 hurricane season may include up to 19 storms by Alyssa LaFaro //UNC Research (6.18.20)

• Inside UNC Research: Preparing for the unexpected by UNC Research // Inside Research (6.11.20)

• Student Spotlight: Shaleen Miller by Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (6.9.20)

• ENC braces for active hurricane season in the tropics by WITN (6.3.20)

• New UNC-Chapel Hill center helps prepare North Carolina for increasing environmental threats by The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (6.1.20)

• A resilient North Carolina: Preparing our state for hurricanes by The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (6.1.20)

• Simulations indicate heightened risks when pandemic and hurricane season overlap by Rensselaer News (6.1.20)

• Rebuilding their trust in what we say: Public information’s new frontier by Patience Wall // Carolina Angles (5.28.20)

• CRC announces new partnership with American Planning Association by UNC Research // Inside Research (5.18.20)

• District Energy and Sustainability at UNC by Amy Sechrist // Carolina Angles (4.9.20)

• Prepare or panic: URI professor’s advice for addressing a global pandemic and the climate crisis by Tim Faulkner // ecoRI News (4.4.20)

• Uptown Radio broadcast April 3, 2020 (impacts of COVID-19 on hurricane preparedness) by Uptown Radio/Columbia University School of Journalism (4.3.20)

• NC State study finds levees are at risk with frequent flooding by Mandy Mitchell // WRAL (2.18.20)

• Local university students examine hurricane effects on mental health in North Carolina by Julia Varnier // WTKR (2.4.20)

• Resilience scorecard by UNC-Chapel Hill Department of City and Regional Planning (Feb. 2020)

• Weatherwatch: how repeated flooding can shift levees by David Hambling // The Guardian (1.31.20)

• Disaster Resilience Design Syllabus, FEMA Emergency Management Higher Education Program Webinar Series (1.28.20)

• Study finds flooding damage to levees is cumulative – and often invisible by Matt Shipman // North Carolina State University (1.21.20)

• DHS S&T awards Minority Serving Institutions $373K to advance Summer Research Team projects by Homeland Security Today (1.21.20)

• Unseen science by Alyssa LaFaro // UNC Research (1.21.20)

• Envisioning a hopeful future at the COE Student Grand Challenge by Catalyst-Go (audio) (12.24.19)

• Knauss fellows prepare to serve in DC by North Carolina Sea Grant (12.17.19)

• S&T technologies: Supporting Dorian response by U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science & Technology Directorate (9.23.19)

• Future hurricane could loop around twice and make landfall twice in the U.S., causing catastrophic flooding and storm surges by Aristos Georgiou // Newsweek (9.20.19)

• Idea from Oklahoma can help NC plan for future of increased flooding by Richard Adkins, WRAL (9.17.19)

• Is R.I. prepared for the next big hurricane? by Grace Kelly //  ecoRI News (9.16.19)

• Powerful surge in store for sounds, rivers by Kirk Ross // Coastal Review Online (9.5.19)

• Storm surge predictions accurate to within a foot. Is your neighborhood at risk? by Zachary Eanes // The News & Observer (9.5.19)

• Dorian could hit NC with major storm surge by Jason DeBruyn // WUNC (9.4.19)

• Hurricane Dorian resumes approach by Mike Shutak // Carteret County News-Times (9.3.19)

• URI expert says RI should be ready for bigger storms by Joseph B. Nadeau // Pawtucket Times (9.3.19)

• DHS S&T introduces storm surge, flooding forecast suite by ExecutiveGov (7.31.19)

• Snapshot: The ADCIRC Prediction System by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science & Technology Directorate (7.30.19)

• Luettich selected as Distinguished Professor by Coastal Review Online (7.19.19)

• Learn more about the ADCIRC Prediction System by UNC Research (7.18.19)

• One year after deadly flooding in western Japan, disaster resonates for vulnerable areas of Tokyo by Alex Martin // The Japan Times (7.5.19)

• Facing a Jersey Shore underwater, Stockton proposes coastal resiliency institute in Atlantic City by Nicholas Pugliese // WHYY (7.4.19)

• Florida A&M professor, students awarded Homeland Security grant by Byron Dobson // Tallahassee Democrat (7.1.19)

• 2019 Distinguished Professorships by UNC-Chapel Hill (6.17.19)

• FEMA officials in the hot seat over disaster preparedness by Andy Uhler // Marketplace (6.12.19)

• Storm surge research helps save lives by WITN (6.3.19)

• Facing the inevitable storm by U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science & Technology Directorate (6.3.19)

• How much could stilts help a building survive a tsunami or hurricane storm surge? by Mark Furman / KMTR (5.31.19)

• OSU wave experiment targets beach houses by Jim Day //Corvallis Gazette-Times (5.31.19)

• DesignSafe, ADCIRC provide storm surge simulators for natural hazards community by Faith Singer-Villalobos // Texas Advanced Computing Center (5.29.19) / HPCWire (5.31.19)

• OSU making waves with hurricane resilience test by Emma Jerome // KEZI (5.30.19)

• Snapshot: Vulnerability Reduction Scorecard helps cities save lives and resources by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science & Technology Directorate (5.14.19)

• USA: Study: Mitigation investments yield returns in eastern North Carolina by PreventionWeb (5.13.19)

• CRC releases first impact video as part of upcoming series by UNC Research Communications // Inside Research (5.10.19)

• News Release: DHS selects 2019 participants for minority serving institutions Summer Research Team program by Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate (4.16.19)

• Rising threat: Can Providence’s hurricane barrier withstand sea-level rise? by Alex Kuffner // Providence Journal (4.2.19)

• Innovation Capital by Innovate Carolina (3.22.19)

• Damaged by hurricanes, a historic North Carolina town plans for a resilient future by Virginia Fall, Andy Fox, & Lindsey Naylor // Medium (2.6.19)

• Dr. Gavin Smith on “The Big Picture with Olivier Knox” // POTUS/SiriusXM (1.31.19)

• Floods: The river didn’t rise like that by Zoeann Murphy and Chris Mooney // The Washington Post (1.29.19)

• Hurricane Matthew recovery reports available on CRC website by UNC Research (1.28.19)

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