The Links is a monthly roundup of articles from the Center, good reading and job links that have been posted on our website and social media in the last month.
Website news/blog posts/publications:
2018 Natural Hazards Resilience Speakers Series
Event: ‘Rising’ exhibition opening
CRC Researchers in the News:
- Louisiana struggles to save its coast and delta by Courthouse News Service (1.24.18)
- Harvey exposes another gap between rich and poor by Houston Chronicle (1.5.18)
- Why do people return to flawed places? Because it’s home by Fairbanks New-Miner (12.21.17)
Good reading:
- 2017 second-costliest year on record for natural-disaster insured losses: Aon by Reuters (1.24.18)
- Here’s how Louisiana plans to spend $92 million on coastal land loss response by The New Orleans Times-Picayune (1.23.18)
- For tsunami forecasters, speed Is everything by The New York Times (1.23.18)
- Cooper gauges storm recovery efforts by The Rocky Mount Telegram (1.12.18)
- Every $1 invested in disaster mitigation saves $6 by The Pew Charitable Trusts (1.11.18)
- As storms get bigger, oyster reefs can help protect shorelines by Smithsonian Magazine (1.10.18)
- Extreme hurricanes and wildfires made 2017 the most costly U.S. disaster year on record by The Washington Post (1.8.18)
- In New York, drawing flood maps is a ‘game of inches’ by The New York Times (1.7.18)
- FEMA signs pact with reinsurers to take on $1.46 billion in flood risk byReuters (1.5.18)
- Anger grows and hope fades as Puerto Rico’s ground zero remains without power by NBC News (1.4.18)
- Why Puerto Rico’s death toll from Hurricane Maria is so much higher than officials though by The Conversation (1.3.18)
- NFIP claims for 2017 disasters reach $8 billion by Business Insurance (1.2.18)
- Charleston picks plan to rebuild the Low Battery, but it could edge out free parking spots by The Post and Courier (1.1.18)
- 15 ways Louisianans helped restore the coast in 2017 by The New Orleans Times-Picayune (12.21.17)
- How to rebuild Puerto Rico by Bloomberg News (12.14.17)
- The house of the future is elevated by CityLab (12.8.17)
- Nine ways to start connecting stormwater and floodplain management: A new report by Willamette Partnership (12.8.17)
- Special Report: How engineers are preparing for sea-level rise by Engineering News-Record (8.10.17)
- Billion-dollar weather and climate disasters: Overview by the National Centers for Environmental Information
Job and funding postings:
- Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURFO), University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography
- National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Gulf Research Program fellowships
- Scientific Research Disaster Recovery Grants, National Academies
- University of Delaware: College of Arts & Sciences Director, William A. Anderson Fund (Associate or Full Professor)
- NOAA Student Opportunities
- N.C. Rural Center Small Business Recovery Fund