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Center of Excellence Objectives

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

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Center of Excellence Objectives

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  1. DHS Center of Excellence - Natural Disasters, Coastal Infrastructure and Emergency Management (DIEM)UNC Center for the Study of Natural Hazards and Disasters

  2. 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

  3. Coastal Hazard Modeling Luettich/Kolar UNCCH/OU Planning for Resilience Berke/Smith UNCCH Enhanced Resilience of the Built and Natural Environments Overton/Wallace NCSU/RPI Integrating Programs Advisory Boards Disaster Response and Social Resilience LSU Advisory Board and Steering Committee Emergency Management Scholars Federal, State & Local Officials Corporations & Small Business Non-Profit Organizations Professional Associations Foundations Integrating Programs

  4. Coastal Hazard Modeling Luettich/Kolar UNCCH/OU Planning for Resilience Berke/Smith UNCCH Enhanced Resilience of the Built and Natural Environments Overton/Wallace NCSU/RPI Integrating Programs Advisory Boards Disaster Response and Social Resilience LSU Integrating Programs Advisory Board and Steering Committee Emergency Management Scholars Federal, State & Local Officials Corporations & Small Business Non-Profit Organizations Professional Associations Foundations

  5. 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

  6. Coastal Hazard Modeling Luettich/Kolar UNCCH/OU Planning for Resilience Berke/Smith UNCCH Enhanced Resilience of the Built and Natural Environments Overton/Wallace NCSU/RPI Integrating Programs Advisory Boards Disaster Response and Social Resilience LSU Integrating Programs Advisory Board and Steering Committee Emergency Management Scholars Federal, State & Local Officials Corporations & Small Business Non-Profit Organizations Professional Associations Foundations

  7. 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

  8. Coastal Hazard Modeling Luettich/Kolar UNCCH/OU Planning for Resilience Berke/Smith UNCCH Enhanced Resilience of the Built and Natural Environments Overton/Wallace NCSU/RPI Integrating Programs Advisory Boards Disaster Response and Social Resilience LSU Advisory Board and Steering Committee Emergency Management Scholars Federal, State & Local Officials Corporations & Small Business Non-Profit Organizations Professional Associations Foundations Integrating Programs

  9. 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

  10. Coastal Hazard Modeling Luettich/Kolar UNCCH/OU Planning for Resilience Berke/Smith UNCCH Enhanced Resilience of the Built and Natural Environments Overton/Wallace NCSU/RPI Integrating Programs Advisory Boards Disaster Response and Social Resilience LSU Advisory Board and Steering Committee Emergency Management Scholars Federal, State & Local Officials Corporations & Small Business Non-Profit Organizations Professional Associations Foundations Integrating Programs

  11. 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

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