By Dr. Scott C. Hagen Dr. Hagen is a professor at Louisiana State University (LSU) and Principal Investigator (PI) for the Coastal Resilience Center project “Development of an optimized tide and hurricane storm surge model for the northern Gulf of Mexico (MS, AL, FL) for use with the ADCIRC Surge Guidance System.” A version of … Read more
Representatives from the U.S. Coast Guard, the Coastal Resilience Center of Excellence (CRC) and academic and practitioners from around the country came together on Nov. 14-15, 2016, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for the 7th Annual Maritime Risk Symposium.
Jaimie Hicks Masterson is Program Manager for Texas Target Communities at Texas A&M University and a researcher on the Coastal Resilience Center project “Local Planning Networks and Neighborhood Vulnerability Indicators,” led by Principal Investigator Dr. Phil Berke. Masterson writes with an update for the integration of the Resilience Scorecard element of the project, which measures when and where their community plans are in conflict, as well as how well they target areas of the community that are most vulnerable.
From Sept. 12-14, CRC researchers and students presented at the Carolinas Climate Resilience Conference, a biennial meeting convened to provide an opportunity for practitioners and academics to share information about climate-related tools, resources, experiences and activities in North and South Carolina.
Dr. Jennifer Horney of Texas A&M University, whose Coastal Resilience Center (CRC) project focuses on tracking long-term disaster recovery, recently published an article on the website The Conversation about the reasons that people don’t evacuate in the face of imminent threats such as hurricanes.