2008
06/01/08: 2007-2008 CNHR Annual Report
The CNHR Annual Report includes information about the many ongoing activites that the faculty have been actively engaged in throughout the past academic year.
05/20/08: World Disaster Hotspots
Article that discusses a recent risk analysis study by a team from the World Bank and Columbia University on natural disaster hotspots around the world.
05/02/08: ECU Researchers Want to Know What Makes People Flee (or Face) Impending Coastal Storms [431 KB]
Three CNHR Research Associates receive an award to study risk perception and emergency communication from NC Sea Grant. Read about it in the latest edition of 'Exploration & Discovery'...
04/30/08: NC State Leads Effort to Create 'Next Generation' of Experts on Hazards and Natural Disasters
Dr. Jamie Kruse, Director of the Center for Natural Hazards Research at East Carolina University, has been selected to serve as an experienced mentor for a newly funded NCSU project to train up-and-coming hazards researchers to study disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and the September 11 terrorist attacks...
04/30/08: Inexpensive Roof Vent Could Prevent Billions Of Dollars In Wind Damage
Hurricanes often lift the roofs off buildings and expose them to havoc and damaging conditions, even after the worst of the wind has passed. A local roofer, Virginia Tech faculty members from architecture and engineering, and a graduate student have devised an inexpensive vent that can reduce roof uplift on buildings during high winds, even a hurricane...
04/10/08: 'Well Above-average' Hurricane Season Forecast For 2008
The Colorado State University forecast team upgraded its early season forecast today from the Bahamas Weather Conference, saying the U.S. Atlantic basin will likely experience a well above-average hurricane season...
03/12/08: Network of Tsunami Detection Buoys Now in Place
NOAA recently deployed the final two tsunami detection buoys developed by NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) in Seattle, WA, to complete a network aimed at bolstering the U.S. tsunami warning system...
02/20/08: African Dust Storms May Cool Atlantic, Lessen Hurricanes
Every year, storms over West Africa disturb millions of tons of dust and strong winds carry those particles into the skies over the Atlantic. According to a recent study led by University of Wisconsin-Madison atmospheric scientists, this dust from Africa directly affects ocean temperature...
01/31/08: Increased Hurricane Activity Linked To Sea Surface Warming
The link between changes in the temperature of the sea's surface and increases in North Atlantic hurricane activity has been quantified for the first time...
01/25/08: Warmer Ocean Could Reduce Number Of Atlantic Hurricane Landfalls
A warming global ocean — influencing the winds that shear off the tops of developing storms — could mean fewer Atlantic hurricanes striking the United States according to new findings by NOAA climate scientists...
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