Tag: Risk and Resilience
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Nature Meets Infrastructure: A New Vision for Stormwater Resilience in Southeast Michigan
With support from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, U-M researchers lead a collaborative, community-focused effort to integrate nature-based solutions with traditional infrastructure to reduce flooding, restore ecosystems, and build long-term resilience.
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CEE Researchers Secure NSF Grants for Transformative Stormwater Projects
Both projects would have a measurable impact on their respective communities.
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CEE-Led Interdisciplinary Team Investigates Equitable and Sustainable Infrastructure Finance
CEE Professors, will use smart infrastructure data to develop equitable and sustainable financing models for underserved communities
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Traditional infrastructure design often makes extreme flooding events worse
Massive 2014 flooding event in southeast Michigan showed why systems thinking beats local thinking in flood protection.
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Sabine Loos explores Flood Impact in Nepal’s Chitwan Valley
This summer, CEE Assistant Professor Sabine Loos led a team of students and collaborators from the Center for Social Solutions (CSS) in conducting an in-depth study in Nepal’s Chitwan Valley as part of a pilot grant funded by the Institute for Social Research (ISR) and the College of Engineering. The project sought to blend engineering…
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Building Flint’s trust in its drinking water
Even with lead service line replacement, the city’s water has issues that require public education FLINT—Flint residents have learned to question everything in the decade since the city’s drinking water first began showing signs of lead contamination. Even now, after seven straight years with water meeting federal safety guidelines, the lack of trust remains for…
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$7.5 million to predict and communicate flood risk
Engineers, atmospheric scientists, psychologists and anthropologists team up to develop better flood predictions and ensure decision-makers can understand them.
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Striving for Equity in Water Access is a Personal Commitment for CEE Student
PhD student Brittany Hicks’ experiences inspire her research
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U-M Researchers Examine Ways to Reduce Arsenic Exposure to Bangladesh Residents
Interdisciplinary team used low-cost information campaign to raise awareness of arsenic in water.
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Collaborative Project to Help Improve Coastal Community Resilience in Michigan, Wisconsin
National Sea Grant Program to Fund Flood Risk Research
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Grant Seeks to Improve Storm Surge Barriers
CEE Associate Prof. Jeremy Bricker is Part of Team Receiving NSF Grant
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NSF Grant Will Support Research to Reduce Wildfire Threats
Associate Prof. Ann Jeffers leads a team on modeling firebrand transport
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Building disaster-resilient systems for the future: A Q+A with Jack Baker, Chris Poland and Sherif El-Tawil
The panel discussion is part of the fifth and final installment of CEE’s Building the Future Lecture Series.
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Michigan Engineering group creates model for layering COVID-19 defenses
The model can be used as a tool to inform decision-makers and individuals on relative risks and advantages associated with a layered defense.