Resilience Projects

Funded by NOAA, this three phase CIROH study investigates the potential applications of the National Water Model (NWM) and how it may help in protecting communities and building resilience to flood and water-based disasters, working on the ground with community resilience planners, hydrologists, and local residents.

In this three-phased NASA funded project, GRI and PRSTRT organized and co-hosted a collaborative community session in the La Margarita Community Centre that brought the interviewees together to identify community environmental justice concerns that NASA EO tools might usefully help to address. The project aims to provide a pathway for future community engagement that supports calibrating federal resources to more effectively support communities facing environmental injustices. This pathway will include a specific set of actions that NASA can take for future data applications.

Shortly after the pandemic began to have significant effects on U.S. public health and economic systems, GRI undertook a regional effort to develop Rapid Needs Assessments in each of the six New England states to provide to FEMA, state, and local decision makers. FEMA Region 1 asked GRI to examine the economic impact of COVID-19 on each of the states to quickly identify and provide insight on complex interdependencies, unaddressed problems, and economic recovery priorities.

In this USAID funded project from 2019, the Global Resilience Institute (GRI) at Northeastern University (NEU) and the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (UH) collaborated together in order to help form the Caribbean Islands Higher Education Resilience Consortium (CIHERC). The shared goal of the consortium members is to aid Caribbean Island States in mitigating and adapting to climate change effects while also pursuing economic development opportunities associated with building a resilient blue and green economy.