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FIU experts are available for the 2021 hurricane season


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June 1, 2021 at 9:00am
The 2021 Atlantic Hurricane season begins today, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicts an above-average season, estimating 13 to 20 named storms with possibly half of those being hurricanes. Out of those storms, NOAA predicts between three and five may become major hurricanes.
FIU experts are available to discuss various issues surrounding hurricanes and their aftermath. The full list of experts will be continuously updated.
Meteorology and Hurricane Intensification
Distinguished Research Professor, Department of Earth and Environment
Hugh Willoughby studies tropical cyclone structure, intensity, and impacts. He has flown more than 400 missions into the eyes of hurricanes and typhoons as a meteorologist for the federal government.  Willoughby was a Research Meteorologist at the Hurricane Research Division of NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorologic ....

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Learning from Megadisasters: A Decade of Lessons from the Great East Japan Earthquake - World


Learning from Megadisasters: A Decade of Lessons from the Great East Japan Earthquake
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Authors: Shoko Takemoto, Naho Shibuya, and Keiko Sakoda
Today marks the ten-year anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake (GEJE), a mega-disaster that marked Japan and the world with its unprecedented scale of destruction. This feature story commemorates the disaster by reflecting on what it has taught us over the past decade in regards to infrastructure resilience, risk identification, reduction, and preparedness, and disaster risk finance. Since GEJE, the World Bank in partnership with the Government of Japan, especially through the Japan-World Bank Program on Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Management in Developing Countries has been working with Japanese and global partners to understand impact, response, and recovery from this megadisaster to identify larger lessons for disaster risk management (DRM). ....

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