MACRL Doctoral Candidate, David Ostwind, Appointed to FEMA Response Directorate as Director of Planning and Exercises - David Ostwind, a Doctoral Candidate within the URI Department of Marine Affairs, has joined the Federal Emergency Management Agency as a Senior Executive serving as the Director of the Planning and Exercises Division within the Response Directorate. The Planning and Exercises Division leads national and regional response planning initiatives such as the National Hurricane Program, […]- MACRL research highlighted in URI Magazine
- Serving the Country and the Environment: David Bourbeau’s Application of RI CHAMP to the U.S. Coast Guard
- MACRL Lab Student David Bourbeau profiled in CELS
- MACRL lab part of new NSF Award
- New MACRL Publication – Operationalizing resilience planning, theory, and practice: Insights from U.S. seaports
- New MACRL Publication – Survey of U.S. Shipyards - MMA Grad Dave Hill, Austin Becker, and MAF Undergrad Athena Vieira published the latest MACRL paper, entitled, “The U.S. shipbuilding and repair industry’s considerations of coastal hazards resilience – a baseline survey” ABSTRACT Climate change and associated coastal hazards can disrupt the United States shipbuilding and repair industry’s operations. These disruptions present risks to […]
- Becker team featured in URI’s Momentum Research Magazine
- RICHAMP featured on GSO Site
- Worst-Case Scenario: Big Storm Could Unleash Problems on Port of Providence Area
- DHS funded work featured in Westerly Sun
- Recent work featured on URI Today
- Becker lab continues to work with RI Emergency Managers
- Becker lab publishes new paper on hazard modeling
- Marine Affairs Visualization Lab Images Featured in ProJo
- Prof. Becker and Peter Stempel award URI Excellence Awards
- Vanessa Anderson (MMA 2018) Presents Green Ports Research to Providence Harbor Commission - Vanessa Anderson (MMA 2018) presented her research on ‘Green Ports’ to the Harbor Management Commission (HMC) at Providence City Hall on Wednesday, February 7th. The Harbor Management Commission enforces provisions of the Harbor Management plan for the City of Providence and serves as the regulatory body for the Port of Providence. The ‘Green Port Initiatives: […]
- Becker and Bove present at UNCTAD workshop
- Dr. Mclean (MAF Research Associate) eyes seaports’ vulnerabilities
- URI Team Assists with RIEMA Hurricane Exercise - As tropical depression Cindy made land fall in Louisiana last week, Rhode Island emergency managers (EM’s) ran a training exercise using a powerful, fictitious storm called “Hurricane Rhody”. The storm was created by Isaac Ginis, Chris Kincaid, and David Ullman of URI’s Graduate School of Oceanography and was based on historical data from Hurricane Carol […]
