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To promote research and analysis that ultimately reduces the harm caused by natural forces to life, communities and the environment.
In The News
The 2012 NCEM-ECU Hurricane Workshop in the news:
WNCT:Hurricane workshop 2011 at East Carolina University
WITN:National Hurricane Center Director Speaks At ECU Workshop
The CNHR is proud to announce that director Dr. Jamie Kruse has won the Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activity, and Assistant Director Dr. Craig Landry has won the Five Year Achievement Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activity.
The ECU Community and General Public are encouraged and invited to attend open presentations given by the 2012 recipients of the Awards.
UPDATE:
Click here to view Dr. Jamie Kruse's presentation, "Economics and Natural Hazards" given on March 26th.
Click here to read the ECU News Service's interviews with Drs. Kruse and Landry about the awards, as well as their ongoing research projects.
CNHR Research Associate Dr. Thomas Allen was interviewed by WCTI12 about his "NC Tornado Alley Hypothesis". Click here to watch!
HIGH WATER! A map for visualizing and communicating the risk of sea-level rise to coastal resources is paramount to the Albemarle-Pamlico Estuarine System.
Rising sea-level imperils the second largest estuarine system in the conterminous 48 United States. The Albemarle-Pamlico is vulnerable to coastal tectonic subsidence as well as rising eustatic sea-level and potential inlet-opening and breakdown of the Outer Banks barrier islands. Our map aims to convey the vulnerable extent of potential land and wetland losses by 2100 using advanced GIS and cartographic techniques. This map incorporates the best available data (LiDAR DEMs, NOAA coastal land cover), spatial inundation modeling using hydro-connectivity analysis, and state-of-the-art cartography (aquafication, topographic hillshading, and land cover texturization) with the aim of informing the public and decision-makers about the geography of our coastal vulnerability.
Copyright
Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) at East Carolina University
Authors:
Brent Gore, Matt Carey, Travis Hill, Michelle Covi
Advisor: Dr. Tom Allen, Department of Geography
Data sources
NOAA C-CAP land cover, NC Floodplain Mapping Program LiDAR, RENCI ECU inundation model
Dr. Sam Brody of Texas A&M University presented "Flooding in Coastal Communities: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Implications" on Thursday, February 9th at ECU. The event was sponsored by the CNHR and the Center for Sustainable Tourism.
Click here to view the event via streaming video.
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Pea Island: An Inlet On the Move (with Slide Show)
Tracking the movement of the inlet created at mid-Pea Island by Hurricane Irene on August 27th, 2011.
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North Carolina Counties' Participation in the Community Rating System of NFIP
CNHR Assistant Director Craig Landry and Coastal Resources Management Doctoral Student Jingyuan Li's research is featured in the latest Association of Flood Plain Managers Newsletter.
Click here to download the newsletter.
IBHS Stresses Proactive Approach to Resiliency During National Preparedness Month
The first step for residents to be prepared is to determine the natural hazards common in their area. IBHS' website, http://www.disastersafety.org offers a ZIP Code–based tool that will generate a list of the risks common to various geographic areas. ...
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Double jeopardy: Building codes may underestimate risks due to multiple hazards
This is because current codes consider natural hazards individually, explains NIST's Dat Duthinh, a research structural engineer. So, if earthquakes rank as the top threat in a particular area, local codes require buildings to withstand a specified ...
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