Investigators
Coastal Infrastructure Resilience

Dr. Dan Cox
Experimental and Numerical Study to Improve Damage and Loss Estimation due to Overland Wave and Surge Hazards on Near-Coast Structures: Evaluation of Building Fragilities and Mitigation Alternatives for HAZUS-MH, including Engineering with Nature for Surge and Wave AttenuationOregon State University
dan.cox@oregonstate.edu

Dr. John van de Lindt
Experimental and Numerical Study to Improve Damage and Loss Estimation due to Overland Wave and Surge Hazards on Near-Coast Structures: Evaluation of Building Fragilities and Mitigation Alternatives for HAZUS-MH, including Engineering with Nature for Surge and Wave AttenuationColorado State University
jwv@engr.colostate.edu

Building Resilient Communities

Dr. Cassandra R. Davis
A Landscape Study of Social Equity Data Needs and its Access and Availability to Support the Disaster Resilience of Marginalized CommunitiesUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
cnrichar@email.unc.edu

Dr. Phil Berke
An Extension of the Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard™ (PIRS): Coupling PIRS™ with Plan Quality Evaluation ToolsUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
pberke@email.unc.edu

Jaimie Masterson
Application of the Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard (PIRS™) at the National Scale in Partnership with the American Planning AssociationTexas A&M University
jmasterson@arch.tamu.edu

Dr. James Prochaska
Communicating Risks to Motivate Individual ActionUniversity of Rhode Island
jop@uri.edu

Dr. Robert Twilley
Integrating ADCIRC Prediction System Tools to Support Hazus Damage Assessments and Planning: Evaluating Mitigation Alternatives using Ecosystem Design for Surge/Wave AttenuationLouisiana State University
rtwilley@lsu.edu

Dr. Austin Becker
Coastal Hazards Analysis, Modeling, and Prediction System for Emergency Management and ResponseUniversity of Rhode Island
abecker@uri.edu
Coastal Hazards Modeling

Dr. Rick Luettich
ADCIRC Prediction System™ Enhancements and CoordinationUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
rick_luettich@unc.edu

Dr. Brian Blanton
Enhancements and Extensions to the ADCIRC Prediction System Operational Awareness Dashboard Health MonitorUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Brian_Blanton@renci.org

Dr. Casey Dietrich
Improving the Efficiency of Flooding Predictions and Wave PredictionNorth Carolina State University
jcdietrich@ncsu.edu

Dr. Clint Dawson
Accurate and Fast Spectral Wave Modeling and Coupling with ADCIRCUniversity of Texas at Austin
clint@ices.utexas.edu

Dr. Don Resio
Accurate and Fast Spectral Wave Modeling and Coupling with ADCIRCUniversity of North Florida
don.resio@unf.edu

Dr. Isaac Ginis
Modeling the Combined Coastal and Inland Hazards from High-Impact HurricanesUniversity of Rhode Island
iginis@gso.uri.edu

Dr. Wenrui Huang
Modeling the Combined Coastal and Inland Hazards from High-Impact HurricanesFlorida State University
whuang@eng.famu.fsu.edu

Tom Richardson
ADCIRC Prediction System™ Business Plan DevelopmentJackson State University
thomas.w.richardson@jsums.edu

Dr. Jason Fleming
Advancing ADCIRC OperationsSeahorse Coastal Consulting
jason.fleming@seahorsecoastal.com

Dr. Shintaro Bunya
ADCIRC Prediction System™ Capability Enhancement, Efficient and Effective OperationsUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
sbunya@unc.edu
Education and Workforce Development

Dr. Jessica Murphy
Community Resilience: Education and Training Endeavors (CREATE 2.0)Jackson State University
jessica.l.murphy@jsums.edu

Dr. Robert Whalin
Ph.D. in Engineering (Coastal Engineering and Computational Engineering) at an HBCUJackson State University
robert.w.whalin@jsums.edu

Dr. Ahmed Faik
Preparing Tomorrow’s Minority Task Force in Coastal Resilience through Interdisciplinary Education and ResearchJohnson C. Smith University
afaik@jcsu.edu

Dr. Meherun Laiju
Expanding and Strengthening the Institutionalized Multidisciplinary Certificate: Disaster and Coastal Studies (DCS)Tougaloo College
mlaiju@tougaloo.edu

Prof. Ismael Pagán-Trinidad
Education for Improving Resiliency of Coastal InfrastructureUniversity of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez
ismael.pagan@upr.edu

Dr. Gavin Smith
The Creation of an Open Space Management Guide for FEMA-Funded Buyout Properties and Injecting the Study and Practice of Buyouts and Resettlement into the Graduate Certificate ProgramNorth Carolina State University
gsmith5@ncsu.edu
Completed Projects (as of July 1, 2020)

Dr. Larry Atkinson
Stakeholder/End User Engagement Support of Two CRC ProjectsOld Dominion University

Dr. Victoria Bennett
Establishment of a Remote-Sensing Based Monitoring Program for Performance Health Assessment of the Sacramento DeltaRennselaer Polytechnic Institute
bennev@rpi.edu

Dr. Matthew Bilskie
Development of an Optimized Tide and Hurricane Storm Surge Model for the West Coast of FL for Use with the ADCIRC Surge Guidance SystemUniversity of Georgia
mbilskie@uga.edu

Dr. Rachel Davidson
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Household Strengthening and Insurance DecisionsUniversity of Delaware
rdavidso@udel.edu

Dr. Scott Hagen
Development of an Optimized Tide and Hurricane Storm Surge Model for the West Coast of FL for Use with the ADCIRC Surge Guidance SystemLouisiana State University

Dr. Jennifer Horney
Implementing the Disaster Recovery Tracking ToolUniversity of Delaware (formerly TAMU)
horney@udel.edu

Dr. Barry Keim
Disaster Science and Management Program at LSULouisiana State University
keim@lsu.edu

Dr. Stephen Medeiros
Development of an Optimized Tide and Hurricane Storm Surge Model for the West Coast of FL for Use with the ADCIRC Surge Guidance SystemEmbry-Riddle Aeronautical University
stephen.medeiros@erau.edu

Dr. James Opaluch
Overcoming Barriers to Motivate Community Action to Enhance ResilienceUniversity of Rhode Island
jimo@uri.edu

Dr. William “Al” Wallace
Community Supply Resiliency (COMSURE)Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute
wallaw@rpi.edu

Dr. Wie Yusuf
Connecting Universities for Resilience Research Accessible to End Users (CUR2ATE)Old Dominion University
jyusuf@odu.edu