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Workshop Explores Regional Priority Setting for Health, Social, and Economic Disruption from Spills
CRGC director Melissa Finucane participated in the kick-off of a collaborative workshop series, “Regional priority setting for health, social, and economic disruption from spills.” The two-day event took place December 4-5 in Houma, Louisiana. Read more »
Overlapping Environmental Disasters Put a Strain on Gulf Communities
Recent news suggests that the Deepwater Horizon oil spill will soon be eclipsed by the millions of barrels of oil leaking from the Taylor Energy platform since 2004. The Coast Guard this week ordered Taylor to contain the mess, or face massive fines. But cleanup alone may not fully mitigate the damage and effects may linger, as they did after the Deepwater Horizon spill, writes CRGC director Melissa Finucane. Read more »
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At the kick-off of a collaborative workshop series, “Regional priority setting for health, social, and economic disruption from spills,” CRGC director Melissa Finucane presented her research on risk communication and also participated in a panel discussion on Sharing Oil Spill Experiences and Insights.
The two-day event took place last week in Houma, Louisiana. The workshop series is presented by the Gulf Research Program (GRP) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI); and various Sea Grant partners.
Learn more: www.resilientgulf.org/2018/12/10/regional-priority-setting-workshop/
Communities in the Gulf of Mexico are no strangers to coastal disasters, but overlapping disasters, like the Taylor and Deepwater Horizon spills, pose unique challenges, writes CRGC director Melissa Finucane
Check out highlights from yesterday’s presentation given by CRGC’s Rajeev Ramchand at The Natural Hazards Center’s 2018 Researchers Meeting, hosted in partnership with The International Research Committee on Disasters (IRCD), and with funding from The National Science Foundation!
www.resilientgulf.org/2018/07/13/national-hazards/
“How will coastal land and ecosystems along the Gulf respond to natural and human-induced rapid changes in conditions, especially in light of an expected acceleration in sea level rise fueled by global warming? How will coastal communities and jobs be impacted by the changes?” Check out new National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report!
Projects
Health, Social, and Community Economic Impacts of the Oil Spill
We are surveying individuals in Gulf of Mexico communities to assess the health, social, and economic impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on households. Read More »
Economic Impact of the Oil Spill on Industry
We are assessing the economic impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on the fishing, fish/seafood processing, and tourism industries. Read More »
Community Action Planning
We are developing and implementing a community action planning process to increase awareness and use of evidence-based resilience strategies. Read More »
Targeted Information for Disaster-Affected Communities
We are developing a web portal, tailored to the needs of communities in the Gulf region, to deliver targeted information about oil spills. Read More »
Mentor the Next Generation
We are training undergraduate and graduate students in disaster resilience research and outreach methods. Read More »
Real-Time Program Self-Evaluation
We are evaluating the Consortium’s performance as we do our work, to demonstrate success and to improve our research, outreach, and education activities. Read More »