Keep up with the work of HVRI and its researchers!
The HVRI team, led by Ph.D. student Sarah Jackson, has published a COVID-19 paper, "Spatial Disparities of COVID-19 Cases and Fatalities in United States Counties," in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. The other authors include Sahar Derakhshan, Leah Blackwood, Logan Lee, Qian Huang, Margot Habets, and Susan L. Cutter. (August 16, 2021)
HVRI Director Dr. Susan Cutter comments on the newly established state Office of Resilience and its role in future disaster recovery in the Charleston Post & Courier. (July 12, 2021)
Dr. Greg Carbone describes changes in weather extremes — heat, rainfall, tropical systems, and tidal flooding and what this means for Charleston in the Post & Courier. (June 29, 2021)
A new study in a Historical New Orleans Collection corroborates Cary Mock's research that the 1812 hurricane was the worst storm to hit the city, not Hurricane Katrina. (June 11, 2021)
HVRI just released an updated version of the Socioeconomic Impacts of Natural Hazards web-based dashboard called Haz-Dash. It provides mapped data for the U.S. on hazard losses from 2000–2019 using the SHELDUS database. (June 7, 2021)