- 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.
Break the Cycle of Repeated Hurricane Disasters
Latest News and Insights
CHEER All-Team Meeting Advances Research and Strengthens Sense of Community for Hub Members
On Friday, March 1, CHEER researchers, postdocs, students, and staff gathered at Renaissance Computing Institute in Chapel Hill, NC, on Friday, March 1 during the Hub’s second annual all-team meeting.
CHEER’s Tricia Wachtendorf Authors Article in The Conversation
Alongside her fellow co-director of the Disaster Research Center, Tricia Wachtendorf, a professor of sociology at University of Delaware, authored a news feature that discussed how people’s social circumstances and individual challenges shape how they experience disasters.
Joseph Trainor Appointed Interim Dean at UD’s School of Public Policy and Administration
Joseph Trainor, the Hub’s practitioner engagement director and leader of the households thrust, has been named interim dean of the Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy and Administration at the University of Delaware.
Researcher Spotlight – Caroline Williams
Thanks to Caroline Williams, a postdoctoral researcher, CHEER’s knowledge framework is well on its way to becoming a vital resource for the Hub.
Research
Advance knowledge at the intersection of hurricane resilience, equity, economic prosperity, and climate change
Education
Engaging research and professional development opportunities for undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdocs
Thrust Areas
Research areas relate to hazards, buildings, households, government, economy, and integration of all of them
Partners
We work with university, community, practitioner, research, and education partners
Jobs
We are seeking post-docs, graduate student researchers, and undergraduate summer scholars to join this interdisciplinary, multi-university, multi-year project.