College of Arts & Sciences
Hazards & Vulnerability Research Institute

COVID-19

• Disparities in Response, Impact, and Recovery from the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States

Disaster Recovery

• South Carolina CDBG-MIT Action Plan
• Richland County CDBG-MIT Action Plan

  Hurricane Evacuations

• Hurricane Matthew Evacuation Research

Disaster Resilience

• New First Line of Defense: Building Community Resilience through Residential Risk Disclosure
• Identifying Existing Longitudinal Data and Systems for Measuring Resilience
• DRRC: Baseline Indicators for Monitoring Disaster Resilience in Rural Place

Social Vulnerability and Hazard Assessment

• Social Vulnerability Index 2010-2014
• SCEMD Mitigation Plan Risk Assessment Update Project 2018 

 GIScience and Remote Sensing

• Social Sensing and Big Data Computing for Disaster Management
• Rapid Flood Mapping by Enhancing Near Real-Time Satellite Imagery with Real-Time Gauge and Twitter Data