With support from the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate and the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory (CHL), lead author Dr. Sandra K. Knight, President of WaterWonks LLC, has released a new report in partnership with the Coastal Resilience Center, Evaluating Hydroanalytic Information.
A Coastal Resilience Center research team, led by Dr. Cassandra R. Davis of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has released a report that explores the disproportionate impacts of federal mitigation assistance on socially marginalized groups and under-resourced neighborhoods.
This past summer, Coastal Resilience Center researchers formed unique partnerships to investigate faster and more accurate ways to model hurricanes, as well as a tool to track the well-being of those experiencing those storms first-hand.
Graduate students at UNC-Chapel Hill who are part of a Natural Hazards Resilience Certificate course taught as part of a Coastal Resilience Center of Excellence (CRC) education project hosted a Climate Change and Resilience Symposium on April 20, 2018.
The City of Norfolk (Va.), one of two pilot communities working with researchers from a Coastal Resilience Center of Excellence (CRC) project, has begun formally adopting the Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard at the center of the project.
On March 8-9, 2017, The University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez (UPRM) hosted a conference, “Lessons Learned – Resilience of Coastal Infrastructure.”
Dr. Austin Becker, a co-PI on a Coastal Resilience Center of Excellence (CRC) project at the University of Rhode Island on a project led by Dr. James Opaluch, presented information on his DHS-funded work to the office of Rep. Alan Lowenthal (D-RI) on June 12, 2017, in Washington, D.C.
On Feb. 15-16, 2017, Coastal Resilience Center of Excellence (CRC) Director Dr. Gavin Smith was among a group of national experts on climate adaptation and resilience brought to the U.S. Virgin Islands for a two-day workshop on preparing for earthquakes, flooding, sea-level rise and other hazards.
In mid-January, the North Carolina State University College of Design held its first DesignWeek, in which students developed designs that could help three eastern North Carolina communities adapt to future flooding events.
Coastal Resilience Center of Excellence (CRC) researchers, leadership and students – along with federal reviewers and the Center’s Advisory Board – met on Feb. 1-3 for the Center’s second Annual Meeting.