Dr. Phil Berke, a Principal Investigator (PI) for the Coastal Resilience Center of Excellence (CRC) and a professor at Texas A&M University, will be honored with his co-authors with an award for a paper assessing a “resilience scorecard” for communities. Berke is first author of “Evaluation of Networks of Plans and Vulnerability to Hazards and … Read more
The nation’s top emergency management official, Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator (FEMA) Craig Fugate, will speak about the future of addressing threats from severe weather and other disasters at 4:30 p.m. on Feb. 17 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Gerrard Hall. Fugate’s lecture, “Emergency Management in the 21st Century: Addressing Long-Standing … Read more
A “Big Data” initiative focusing on the Southern United States could have big impacts for coastal resilience. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) and the Georgia Institute of Technology will co-direct a national effort to develop a big data innovation hub serving 16 Southern states and the District of … Read more