DHS Center of Excellence - Natural Disasters, Coastal Infrastructure and Emergency Management (DIEM)

UNC Center for the Study of Natural Hazards and Disasters

DHS Center of Excellence - Natural Disasters, Coastal Infrastructure and Emergency Management (DIEM)

UNC Center for the Study of Natural Hazards and Disasters

Center of Excellence Objectives

• Expand our understanding of hazard science through interdisciplinary research

• Translate research to practice

• Link research, educational and extension initiatives

• Develop, sustain and expand institutional capacity

• Resilience as an Integrative Theme

Enhanced Resilience of the Built and Natural

EnvironmentsOverton/Wallace

NCSU/RPI

Coastal Hazard Modeling

Luettich/Kolar

UNCCH/OU

Planning for ResilienceBerke/Smith

UNCCH

Disaster Response and Social Resilience

LSU

Advanced Information Systems

RENCI/UNCC

Education

JSU

Engagement & Extension

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Integrating Programs

Advisory Boards

Integrating ProgramsAdvisory Board and Steering Committee

Emergency Management Scholars

Federal, State & Local Officials

Corporations & Small BusinessNon-Profit OrganizationsProfessional Associations

Foundations

Enhanced Resilience of the Built and Natural

EnvironmentsOverton/Wallace

NCSU/RPI

Coastal Hazard Modeling

Luettich/Kolar

UNCCH/OU

Advanced Information Systems

RENCI/UNCC

Education

JSU

Engagement & Extension

???

Integrating Programs Advisory Board and Steering Committee

Emergency Management Scholars

Federal, State & Local Officials

Corporations & Small BusinessNon-Profit OrganizationsProfessional Associations

Foundations

Planning for ResilienceBerke/Smith

UNCCH

Integrating Programs

Advisory Boards

Disaster Response and Social Resilience

LSU

Coastal Hazard Modeling

Intensity and Structure of

Tropical Cyclones

P. Fitzpatrick – MS State

Hydrologic Modeling in Coastal Systems

R. Kolar – Oklahoma

J. Gourley - NOAA NSSL

Coastal Ocean Response

R. Luettich – UNC

J. Hanson – US ACE

Enhanced Resilience of the Built and Natural

EnvironmentsOverton/Wallace

NCSU/RPI

Planning for ResilienceBerke/Smith

UNCCH

Disaster Response and Social Resilience

LSU

Advanced Information Systems

RENCI/UNCC

Education

JSU

Engagement & Extension

???

Integrating Programs Advisory Board and Steering Committee

Emergency Management Scholars

Federal, State & Local Officials

Corporations & Small BusinessNon-Profit OrganizationsProfessional Associations

Foundations

Coastal Hazard Modeling

Luettich/Kolar

UNCCH/OU

Integrating Programs

Advisory Boards

Enhanced Resilience of the Built and Natural Environment

• Focus: New ways to make infrastructure more resilient to both short-term hazard events and long-term coastal change

• Projects:– Coupling coastal processes with engineered

and evolved landforms

– Integrating prognostic/diagnostic tools with enhanced observability

– New paradigms and criteria for resilient design

– Modeling the resilient behavior of interdependent infrastructures

– Advances in cyberinfrastructure to support resilient design and system management

Disaster Response and Social Resilience

LSU

Advisory Board and Steering Committee

Emergency Management Scholars

Federal, State & Local Officials

Corporations & Small BusinessNon-Profit OrganizationsProfessional Associations

Foundations

Enhanced Resilience of the Built and Natural

EnvironmentsOverton/Wallace

NCSU/RPI

Coastal Hazard Modeling

Luettich/Kolar

UNCCH/OU

Planning for ResilienceBerke/Smith

UNCCH

Integrating Programs

Advisory Boards

Advanced Information Systems

RENCI/UNCC

Education

JSU

Engagement & Extension

???

Integrating Programs

Disaster Response and Social Resilience

• Evacuation models and dynamics• Computational network modeling• Optimizing knowledge networks in

disaster response• Analysis of emergency supply chain

management• Multi-organizational collaborative

leadership• Espoused perception and

preferences• Revealed preferences

Disaster Response and Social Resilience

LSU

Advisory Board and Steering Committee

Emergency Management Scholars

Federal, State & Local Officials

Corporations & Small BusinessNon-Profit OrganizationsProfessional Associations

Foundations

Enhanced Resilience of the Built and Natural

EnvironmentsOverton/Wallace

NCSU/RPI

Coastal Hazard Modeling

Luettich/Kolar

UNCCH/OU

Planning for ResilienceBerke/Smith

UNCCH

Integrating Programs

Advisory Boards

Advanced Information Systems

RENCI/UNCC

Education

JSU

Engagement & Extension

???

Integrating Programs

Planning for Resilience

• Content analysis of state and local hazards mitigation plans

• Build practical vulnerability and impact assessment model for local/regional use

• Conduct national resiliency audit

• Assess partnership building to promote resiliency

• Content analysis of state and local disaster recovery plans