Over the summer semester, students from CRC institutions will work in a visiting capacity at other CRC partners for an opportunity to collaborate on ongoing Center projects. The CRC SUMREX (SUMmer Research Experience) Program is the centerpiece of the Center’s integration of research and education projects. The purpose of the SUMREX Program is to provide … Read more
New research from UNC-Chapel Hill and the University of Michigan published this week shows that local communities are good at developing strategies to combat the harmful effects of climate change but often fail to prioritize actions or offer details necessary to support implementation. UNC graduate student Sierra Woodruff is the lead author of the new paper … Read more
An undergraduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel has attracted recent attention from Asian media for his work on climate change adaptation measures by a remote island nation. James Ellsmoor, an undergraduate student at UNC-Chapel Hill, recently made news in South Pacific nations for his paper on climate change adaptation in Kiribati, … Read more
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 a regional competition to build the best concrete canoe, steel bridge and other competitions. Professors … 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 recovering from major storm events. The video, “The Role of States in Disaster Recovery,” is … Read more
This video highlights the roles played by state agency officials, leaders of state recovery organizations, and governors in disaster recovery following extreme events
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 of engineering, social sciences and economics to model community resilience, is co-directed by Coastal Resilience … 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 Texas Tribune, presents storm surge and flooding scenarios along the Texas coast using the ADCIRC … 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 Coastal Hazards Center of Excellence (which preceded the Coastal Resilience Center of Excellence), the BAF has … 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 response and recovery efforts. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Craig Fugate spoke at UNC-Chapel … Read more