A web-based tool being expanded as part of the Coastal Resilience Center (CRC) will enable local planners and emergency managers to improve integration of hazard mitigation to guide land use and urban development in hazardous areas.
This fall, the Department of Homeland Security’s Coastal Resilience Center (CRC) will collaborate with the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) to host the 7th Annual Maritime Risk Symposium. The event, which runs from Nov. 14-15, 2016, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will focus on “Integrating Maritime and Coastal Resilience.” The conference is designed to … Read more
Invited university, governmental and private sector officials will gather this fall to discuss the intersection of maritime and coastal resilience. The 7th Maritime Risk Symposium (MRS 2016) will be held on Nov. 14-15 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, hosted by the Department of Homeland Security’s Coastal Resilience Center of Excellence. The … Read more
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. Ginis and colleagues’ inputs this month. The upgrades will help track storms in the Northern … 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. Mei, is joining the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Department of Marine Sciences … 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 featured from June 24-July 24 at the Eno Gallery in Hillsborough, N.C. A reception will … 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 and colleges in 12 U.S. states and Puerto Rico. The CRC’s RETALK (short for Research … 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 the National Student Steel Bridge Competition on May 27-28 at Brigham Young University in Provo, … 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 officials decide on how to prepare for, respond to, mitigate against and recover from major hurricanes. They … 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 Dr. Anton Bezuglov, an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Benedict College in Columbia, S.C. … Read more