CRC Projects
Coastal Infrastructure Resilience
- Dan Cox, Oregon State University & John van de Lindt, Colorado State University: “Experimental and Numerical Study to Improve Damage and Loss Estimation Due to Overland Wave and Surge Hazards on Near-Coast Structures”
Building Resilient Communities
- Phil Berke, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Jaimie Masterson, Texas A&M University: “Application of the Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard (PIRS™) at the National Scale in Partnership with the American Planning Association”
- James Prochaska, University of Rhode Island: “Communicating Risks to Motivate Individual Action”
- Robert Twilley, Louisiana State University: “Integrating CERA-Planning Software to Develop Hazus Modeling and Planning Tool for ADCIRC Prediction System™”
- Austin Becker, University of Rhode Island: “Hazard Consequence Threshold Models for Emergency Management and Response Decision Making”
Coastal Hazards Modeling
- Rick Luettich, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “ADCIRC Prediction System™ Development Coordination and Improved Connectivity with Hydrologic Models”
- Brian Blanton, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: “Extension of ASGS Operational Awareness Dashboard (OAD) for Real-time Visualization”
- Casey Dietrich, North Carolina State University: “Improving the Efficiency of Flooding Predictions Via Adaptive Mesh Resolution”
- Clint Dawson, University of Texas at Austin, “Accurate and Fast Spectral Wave Modeling and Coupling with ADCIRC”
- Isaac Ginis, University of Rhode Island: “Modeling the Combined Coastal and Inland Hazards from High-Impact Hurricanes”
- Jason Fleming, Seahorse Coastal Consulting: “Sustainable Real Time Model Guidance”
- Tom Richardson, Jackson State University: “ADCIRC Prediction System™ Business Plan Development”
Education and Workforce Development
- Robert Whalin, Jackson State University: “PhD in Engineering (Coastal Engineering and Computational Engineering) at an HBCU”
- Ahmed Faik, Johnson C. Smith University: “Preparing Tomorrow’s Minority Task Force in Coastal Resilience Through Interdisciplinary Education, Research and Curriculum Development”
- Meherun Laiju, Tougaloo College: “Expanding and Strengthening the Institutionalized Multidisciplinary Certificate: Disaster and Coastal Studies (DCS)”
- Ismael Pagán-Trinidad, University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez: “Education for Improving Resiliency of Coastal Infrastructure”
- Gavin Smith, North Carolina State University: “Institutionalizing the Graduate Certificate in Disaster Resilient Policy, Engineering and Design”
Additional Projects
- Olivia Scriven, Partners for Educational Development, Inc.: “Integrating Colleges and Universities in FEMA Disaster Recovery Field Operations and Steady State Preparedness”
Completed Projects (as of July 1, 2020)
- Larry Atkinson, Old Dominion University: “A Tool to Measure Community Stress to Support Disaster Resilience Planning and Stakeholder/End User Engagement”
- Victoria Bennett, Rensselaer Polytechnic University: “Establishment of Remote-Sensing Based Monitoring Program for Health Assessment of the Sacramento Delta”
- Rachel Davidson, University of Delaware: “An Interdisciplinary Approach to Household Strengthening and Insurance Decisions”
- Scott Hagen, Louisiana State University: “Development of an Optimized Tide and Hurricane Storm Surge Model for the West Coast of FL for Use Within the ADCIRC Surge Guidance System”
- Jennifer Horney, Texas A&M University: “Implementing the Disaster Recovery Tracking Tool”
- Barry Keim, Louisiana State University: “LSU’s Disaster Science and Management Program”
- Sandra Knight, University of Maryland: “Development and Testing of a Project Management Curriculum for Emergency Managers”
- James Opaluch, University of Rhode Island: “Overcoming Barriers to Motivate Community Action to Enhance Resilience”
- Al Wallace, Rensselaer Polytechnic University: “Decision Technologies to Support Coastal Infrastructure Resilience”
- Wie Yusuf, Old Dominion University, “Support for SUMREX, Summer Research Teams for Coastal Resilience Center”