- Identify, explain, and quantify the interactions and tradeoffs among the coastal community goals of equity, economic prosperity, and resilience to hazards.
- Develop methods to model long-term hurricane hazards in a way that accounts for climate change and integrates wind, rain, storm surge, and wave hazards.
- Develop a computational tool to help design policies that can achieve sustainable equity, economic prosperity, and coastal resilience in the context of climate change.
Break the Cycle of Repeated Hurricane Disasters
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Latest News and Insights
Hub Hosts Science Communication Workshops for Ocean Decade Video Competition
Participants in the Hub’s coastal protection-themed video competition have several opportunities to develop their science communication skills and video production skills.
CHEER Featured in Fellow CoPe Hub’s Monthly Seminar Series
Six CHEER researchers discussed the Hub’s latest research on the Cascadia CoPes Hub/Cascadia Coastal Hazards Research Coordination Network’s “First Thursday” virtual seminar series.
CHEER Students Share and Celebrate Their Research at 2025 NHERI Computational Symposium
Three of CHEER’s students presented their research to more than 250 attendees at the third-annual Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) Computational Symposium in Los Angeles.
Registration Open for Coastal-Protection Themed Video Competition in April 2025
Registration is officially open for a national coastal protection-themed video competition hosted by Dr. Jingya Wang, a postdoctoral researcher in the CHEER Hub at the University of Delaware.
Research
Advance knowledge at the intersection of hurricane resilience, equity, economic prosperity, and climate change
Education
Engaging research and professional development opportunities for undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdocs
Thrust Areas
Research areas relate to hazards, buildings, households, government, economy, and integration of all of them
Partners
We work with university, community, practitioner, research, and education partners
Jobs
We are seeking post-docs, graduate student researchers, and undergraduate summer scholars to join this interdisciplinary, multi-university, multi-year project.
