Oakland, California, 1989 |
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Interstate 880 after Loma Prieta Earthquake
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San Francisco, California 1906 |
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Earthquake damage
Photo: UC Regents National Information Services for Earthquake Engineering
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About CCRM
The Center for Catastrophic Risk Management (CCRM) is part of the University's response to recent disasters—and our efforts to anticipate future ones. CCRM was started by the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society, and has become part of the Institute of Business and Economic Research to emphasize the interdisciplinary nature of its research team.
Created in September 2005 after Hurricane Katrina, CCRM includes faculty in Civil and Environmental Engineering with backgrounds in levee failure (New Orleans), structural failure (World Trade Center), earthquakes, and design of high reliability systems. They are joined by faculty from Architecture, City & Regional Planning, Business, Public Health, Law and Public Policy and from a new center at the University of Aix-en-Provence, France.
Their goal: to improve the safety and resilience of physical and social infrastructure in the face of disaster. Their mission: through multidisciplinary research, teaching and outreach, to help societies cope better with catastrophic hazards including hurricane, tornado, flood, tsunami, earthquake, volcano, landslide, wildfire, pandemic, industrial accident, chemical spill, blackout and terrorism attack. Preparations for catastrophic events come in many forms: disaster prevention and preparedness; urban infrastructure renewal and resilience; emergency decision-making; public health crisis management; recovery of impacted communities; domestic security; environmental management after crisis.
Download a copy of the CCRM Brochure
CCRM Brochure
View Rune Storesund's poster on Utilization of Terrestrial LiDAR in Reliability-Based Levee Operation and Maintenance. Available in Adobe PDF and Macromedia Flash format.
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Earthquake damage
Photo from andyhobotraveler.com
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| CEE Ph.D. Candidate Kofi Inkabi has been selected as a National Academies Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellow for the Fall of 2007. As a Fellow, Kofi Inkabi will participate with the National Academy of Engineering Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment (BICE) in the Division on Engineering and Physical Science (DEPS). As part of Kofi's studies and activities with the Academy will be the Committee to Assess the Bureau of Reclamation's Security Program, the Committee to Assess the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health's Construction Research Program, and a workshop titled Toward Sustainable Critical Infrastructure Systems. The aim of the 10-week NAS program is to engage graduate science, engineering, medical, veterinary, business, and law students in the analysis that informs the creation of science and technology policy and to familiarize them with the interactions of science, technology, and government. As a result, students develop essential skills different from those attained in academia and make the transition from being a graduate student to a professional. |
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