Part 1: Presentations
- Rapid Response, Recovery, Mitigation and Damage Assessment
Author: Ramesh L. Shrestha, Craig Glennie, William E. Carter, Vipulanandan Cumaraswamy, Keh-Han Wang and Kyle Storm - Coordinating Recovery Efforts in Alabama Following the Worst Tornadoes in United States History
Author: Sam Rosania and Trent Slovak - Planning Post Disaster Recovery: A Review of the United States Disaster Assistance Framework
Author: Gavin Smith - Remote Sensing for Rapid Respose to Gulf Oil Spills
Author: Craig Glennie - Assessing Impacts of Hurricane Evacuation Strategies on Transportation Network: A Case Study of Houston-Galveston Region
Author: Praprut Songchitruksa - Rapid Estimation of High Resolution Local Storm and Interactive Operation with a Disaster Response Intelligent System
Author: Don Baldwin, Hoonshin Jung, Himangshu Das, Gordon Skelton and Robert Whalin - Hybrid Finite Element/Volume Method to Solve Shallow Water Equations for Storm Surge Modeling
Author: Shahrouz Alibadi and Muhammad Akbar - The Ike Dike: A Coastal Barrier Protecting the Houston/Galveston Region from Hurricane Storm Surge
Author: William Merrell - Investigate Innovative Coastal Protection Methods (Ike Dike and Shutter) for Houston Ship Channel and Galveston Coatline Using Numerical Models (Hybrid of Adcirc)
Author: C. Vipulanandan and Y. Jeannot Ahossin Guezo - Air Quality Issues in Texas City
Author: Bruce Clawson - The Role of Local Governments in Disaster Resiliency: Findings from a Survey of Gulf Coast Municipal Officials
Author: Ashley Ross and Melissa Beeler
Part 2: Posters
- Behavior of Oil Contaminated CL Soil
Author: Ahmed S. Mohammed and C. Vipulanandan, University of Houston - Polymeric Piezoresistive Structural Sensors (PRSS-CIGMAT (P)) to Detect Small Pressures During Hurricane Winds
Author: S. Pakeetharan and C. Vipulanandan, University of Houston - IPad/IPhone Applications in Assisting Hurricane Tracking and Evacuation
Author: Linsen Wu, Dmytro Chenchykov and Yuhua Chen, University of Houston - Dikes and Levees - Classification, Formation, Morphology, Failure and Rehabilitation
Author: Shiva Sunder and C. Vipulanandan, University of Houston - Effect of Salt on the Growth Rate of Freshwater Algae in Wastewater Media
Author: Deepthi Kumar Sugumar and C. Vipulanandan, University of Houston - Origin of Hurricanes Reaching the Texas and U.S. Gulf Coast
Author: Dongmei Pan and C. Vipulanandan, University of Houston - Sea Surface Temperature (SST) in the Caribbean Sea and the Hurricanes in the U.S. Gulf Coast
Author: Dongmei Pan and C. Vipulanandan, University of Houston - Rapid Repair of Reinforced Concrete Bridge Columns After a Disaster
Author: M.Burak Kazez and C. Vipulanandan, University of Houston - Shoreline Oil Spill Remediaton by Using Microbial Fuel Cell Technology
Author: Jia Liu and C. Vipulanandan, University of Houston - Behavior of Oil Contaminated Clayey Sand as a Construction Material
Author: Abdelkader Zerrouk and C. Vipulanandan, University of Houston