Oluwakemi Izomo

Hans-Peter PlagOctober 23, 2014

Research Areas

Plans

Proposals SubmittedAvailable/Likely Funding

Infrastructure:- common platform for all MARI projects- comprehensive database - advanced tools, including GIS, games, simulation, and modeling- common outreach platform

MARI is participating in proposals:- Global Innovation Initiative: New health risk from climate change (NF) - NSF EasM: predictability of interannual to decadal sea level variations (NF);- NSF CyberSEES: EIPIG, Infrastructure development (NF)- Impacts of Flooding on Asthma Incidences (NF)- DHS: Center of Coastal Resilience: A tool to Measure Community Stress to Support Disaster Resilience Planning (pending)- NSF DRMS: Decisions about Risks and Impacts in Response to an Abrupt Change Early Warning System (pending)- NIST: Center for Community Resilience (subcontract to Stevens Institute of Technology, pending)- NOAA/COCA: A Tool to Link Decision-Making and Scientific Information for Minimizing Climate Change Impacts on Public Health within the Coastal Area (pending)

MARI is participating/leading projects:- Developing cyber infrastructure with internal funding - A First Assessment Report Of the State of Knowledge on Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation in Virginia (support from Virginia Space Grant)- ARUP/NERC: Cities and Sea Level Rise - Flood Hazards Assessment & Adaptation Tools (funded, subcontract with University of London - Diane Horn; Norfolk and Bristol involved)

MARI is preparing more proposals:- Need to develop networks for larger proposal opportunities- Need to write joint papers If you are see a funding opportunity relevant to MARI, please let us know ...

MARI is developing new proposals:- Two Intramural Proposals for seed funding- NSF Hazards SEES: Assessing the threat of extreme geohazards: A global simulation Experiment (LoI submitted - one of 213; proposal due on December 3, 2014- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: Memorandum of Understanding and possible funding to develop service learning courses- EU H2020: Virtual Research Environments

Anna Jeng/Muge Akpinar-Elci

Projects• Policy options to mitigate the effect of sea level rise on the public health and medically

fragile population, funded by Perry Endowment• A Community-based participatory research approach to understanding and reducing

risks from toxic pollutant exposure in the Southeast Community of Newport News, Virginia, funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

• Community action for a renewed environment project, funded by The Greater Southeast Development Corporation

• Community-based participatory approaches to assess air quality in the Southeast Community, proposed to US EPA

• Preventing adverse health outcomes due to air pollution and other hazardous substances, proposed to the U.S. National Center for Environmental Health of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Publications• Diaz R, Khattak A, Behr J, JENG HA, Longo F, Duanmun J. 2012.The Effects of transit corridor

developments on the healthcare access of medically fragile vulnerable populations. The Proceeding of European Modeling and Simulation Symposium (EMMS and IWISH), Sept 17-20, 2012, Vienna, Austria, 134-139

• Diaz R, Behr J, Ng M, JENG HA, Giles B, Berry C. 2013. The effect of transit corridor developments on the healthcare access of medically fragile vulnerable populations International Journal of Privacy and Health Information Management. 1(2):19

• JENG HA, Holloman E, Blount T, DeBrew M, Moore S. 2015. Community-based participatory approaches to increase environmental health risk of residents in a disadvantaged community. Journal of Community Health. Accepted August 2014

• JENG HA, Holloman E, Blount T, DeBrew M, Moore S. 2015. Assessment of environmental health risks and perspectives and health impacts of residents in a disadvantaged community. In preparation.

Center for Global Health

•Pending Projects–A Tool to Link Decision-making and Scientific Information for Minimizing Climate Change Impacts on Public Health within the Coastal Area

(Funding Agency: NOAA/COCA - submitted)

–Impact of Flooding on the Incidence of Asthma in Hampton Roads (Preparation)

For further information please contact Dr. Muge Akpinar (makpinar@odu.edu)

Michael McShane

MARI Networking Meeting: Oct 23, 2014Michael McShane

•Affiliations–Strome College of Business– Finance Department–Specialty: Corporate Risk Management and Insurance

•Main research area related to MARI–Flood Insurance: especially comparative flood insurance across countries.

•Aspirations for other MARI research–Corporate Enterprise Risk Management

•Providing practice-relevant data to aid in investment decision making•To allow cost/benefit analysis for mitigation and adaptation activities to increase resilience.

–Opportunities related to the sea level rise/flood situation in Hampton Roads.

MARI Networking Meeting: Oct 23, 2014Michael McShane (continued)

Kent Carpenter

IUCN Species Programme Marine Biodiversity Unit

A Marine Biodiversity Mitigation and Adaptation Research Tool based on ODU’s

Global Marine Species Assessment

- Over 12,000 (20,000 projected) Red List Assessments completed at ODU

- All vertebrates, habitat forming primary producers, selected invertebrates

Potentially powerful database-Species specific->550 relational tables->500 binary & text traits ->12,000 species range maps

Red List Species Information System to BMAR

BMAR tool:-Simple disaster response-Mitigation planning-Complex future modelling-Adaptation research

IUCN Species Programme Marine Biodiversity Unit

Adrian Gheorghe/Ariel Pinto

Adrian GheorgheC. Ariel PintoEngineering Management & Systems EngineeringSystems Research Bldg.

Related research proposals (pending)Decisions about Risks and Impacts in Response to an Abrupt Change in Early Warning Systems (NSF; Pi: Juita Yusuf)Center for Community Resilience (NSF; Pi: Hans-Peter Plag)

Engineering Resilience

Source:FEMA The Full Spectrum Risk Knowledgebase‐Flooding Hazard Threat Networkhttps://riskknowledge.fema.gov

Source:http://www.cultivatingexcellence.com/eChngEbook/S2d/ResilienceDilemma.html

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Nora Noffke

Shoreline protection by sediment-stabilizingmicrobial mats

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Old Dominion UniversityNorfolk, USA

Carnegie Institution Washington DC, USA

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Wie Yusuf

Hans-Peter PlagOctober 23, 2014

MARI is engaged in a number of teaching initiatives:- Used for student projects in courses;- Development of an interdisciplinary PhD program; concentration on “Community Resilience”- Service learning: undergraduate and graduate courses with internships at FWS and (other federal agencies)- Honor’s college: living and learning community- New courses: - Science in Literature: Reflections on the social construct of science in society - Introduction to Mitigation and Adaptation Science- Development of on-line courses- Development of certificates at different levelsIf you give a course that is of direct interest to MARI, please let us know ...

If you organize an event relevant to MARI, please let us know ...