Coastal Hazards, Equity, Economic prosperity and Resilience (CHEER) Hub

The Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware has been awarded $16.5 million from the National Science Foundation to lead a multi-institutional effort exploring the tension and tradeoffs between a community’s goals of managing hurricane risk while also achieving equity and economic prosperity. The UD-led hub — Coastal Hazards, Equity, Economic prosperity and Resilience (CHEER) — is one of five NSF-funded projects announced recently as part of the agency’s Coastlines and People program, which is infusing $51 million in research funding to protect the natural, social and economic resources of U.S. coasts, and to help create more resilient coastal communities. R

RENCI is a partner in this NSF Hub, working on computation and analysis of coastal hazards from hurricanes and knowledge/data management.

• Boston University
• Cornell University
• North Carolina State University
• Stony Brook University
• Texas A&M University
• University of California, Los Angeles
• University of Delaware
• University of Florida
• University of Oklahoma

• National Science Foundation