Coastal Hazards, Equity, Economic prosperity and Resilience (CHEER) Hub Research Aims
- Identify, explain, and quantify the interactions and tradeoffs among the coastal community goals of equity, economic prosperity, and resilience to hazards.
- Develop methods to model long-term hurricane hazards in a way that accounts for climate change and integrates wind, rain, storm surge, and wave hazards.
- Develop a computational tool to help design policies that can achieve sustainable equity, economic prosperity, and coastal resilience in the context of climate change.
- Identify, explain, and quantify the interactions and tradeoffs among the coastal community goals of equity, economic prosperity, and resilience to hazards.
- Develop methods to model long-term hurricane hazards in a way that accounts for climate change and integrates wind, rain, storm surge, and wave hazards.
- Develop a computational tool to help design policies that can achieve sustainable equity, economic prosperity, and coastal resilience in the context of climate change.
Interdisciplinary, Multi-University Partnership
The CHEER Hub includes researchers from 11 universities and from many disciplines—atmospheric sciences, risk modeling, systems engineering, hydrology, public policy, sociology, economics, wind engineering, geospatial data science, urban planning, coastal oceanography, and program evaluation.
THE NEXT GENERATION
Collaborations
McNair Scholars and the Bill Anderson Fund are highly respected national organizations supporting graduate students from underrepresented groups. Partnering with them on recruitment and providing research opportunities benefits all students.
Activities
Student/post-doc professional development is supported through carefully designed activities, including regular cohort seminars, interdisciplinary quick response research opportunities, development of DRCit! modules, and summer lab exchanges.
Mentoring
Current Opportunities
PARTNERSHIPS ARE CRITICAL
Communities
Partnerships with grassroots community organizations in our 3 case study communities—including NCCAA, CARE of New Bern, CIDA, The Restoration Team and community-affiliate, Pamlico County Disaster Recovery Coalition– help ensure the research reflects and serves the interests of those most affected by hurricane hazards.
Practitioners
Collaborating closely with emergency management practitioners—including FEMA, U.S. HUD Philadelphia Region, and NCIUA—who can ultimately use CHEER tools will ensure they are as useful as possible.
NHERI
We are working with NHERI SimCenter and DesignSafe-CI to make the data and models created by CHEER widely available.
