This page contains links to one pager descriptions of the current and completed projects of the Marine Affairs Coastal Resilience Lab.

Current Funded Projects

• WARREN CHAMP: Coastal & Inland Flood Hazards, Analysis, Modeling & Prediction System
• New England Community-Driven Coastal Climate Research and Solutions (3CRS) Hub
• Rhode Island Coastal Hazards, Analysis, Modeling and Prediction (RI-CHAMP)

Current Dissertation/Thesis Projects

• Cruise Industry Considerations of Coastal Hazards Resilience of Cruise Ports: A Baseline Survey — Abigail Murray  
• Planning for the Future: The Resilience of the Commercial Fishing Industry to Compounding Economic, Environmental, and Social Pressures — Nicole Lengyel Costa
• From Prediction to Practice: Barriers to Adoption of Tools for Emergency Management – Noah Hallisey

Completed Projects

• Coastal Resilience Risk Analysis of Rhode Island Coast Guard Units: A CHAMP Approach to Hazard Consequence Prediction
• Designing Port Infrastructure for Sea Level Change: A Survey of U.S. Engineers and Designers
• Incentives for Closing the Resilience Gap in Port Planning – R. Fusco
• Implementing CISA’s IRPF across three case study sites
• Connecticut CHAMP
• USCG CHAMP
• Working Together to Plan for Resilient Infrastructure in ProvPort, Rhode Island
• Points of Interest: Implementing Simulation-Based Storm Hazard Consequence Prediction for Emergency Management – Sam Adams
• Navigating Flood Risk in Municipal Urban Planning: A Mental Model Approach – K. McElroy
• Applying Lewin Force-field Analysis to Enable Evacuation by Sea in the United States Evacuation by Sea: Overcoming Technological, Behavioral, and Institutional Barriers to Save Lives and Alleviate Suffering – David Ostwind
• U. S. Domestic Shipbuilding and Repair Industry’s Considerations of Coastal Hazards Resiliency: A Baseline Survey
• How do seaports value resilience assessments? Decision making, capacity building, and implementation
• A Hazard Resilient Future for Naval Station Newport within its Coastal Community: Military Installation Resilience Review for Short-term Preparedness & Long-term Planning
• Seaport Vulnerabilities to Climate Change
• Climate Critical Resources
• Visualizing Consequences and Perceptions of Risk