Hurricanes

Darien Williams, doctoral student in MIT’s Department of Urban Studies & Planning, photographed on the site of the Museum of African American History in Beacon Hill.

Darien Williams: Chronicling Black resilience to disaster

In researching disaster recovery and marginalized populations, the PhD student seeks out people with deep knowledge of their communities.

June 24, 2020

MIT climate scientist Kerry Emanuel has been elected a foreign member of the Royal Society.

Kerry Emanuel elected a Royal Society foreign member

Professor of atmospheric science honored for his work on atmospheric physics and dynamics of tropical weather patterns.

May 6, 2020

Researchers at the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub are studying the connections between urban layouts and hazard losses.

Discerning the texture of urban resilience

MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub researchers are investigating how the layouts, or textures, of cities influence extreme weather events.

March 30, 2020

An aerial photograph of a home built to FEMA standards in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina

3Q: Jeremy Gregory on measuring the benefits of hazard resilience

MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub scientist explains how rating systems akin to LEED for resilient construction can make communities more hazard-resistant.

August 7, 2019

A building modeled with the molecular dynamics-based structural modeling approach

An atomic-scale erector set

To predict building damage, Kostas Keremidis of the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub is modeling structures as ensembles of atoms.

July 3, 2019

This lidar image shows how lake water has spilled over and washed out several large sections of roadway and train tracks in Boiling Spring Lakes, North Carolina.

Lidar accelerates hurricane recovery in the Carolinas

Lincoln Laboratory's lidar data, processed quickly with support from the organization MCNC, helped FEMA assess flooding and damages caused by Hurricane Florence.

December 21, 2018

Angela Crews, a PhD candidate in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, coauthored a study comparing weather data collected by low-cost, shoebox-size satellites with that gathered by much larger, more expensive traditional weather satellite.

For collecting weather data, tiny satellites measure up to billion-dollar cousins

Study finds shoebox-sized CubeSats gather weather data comparably to data collected by larger satellites.

September 27, 2018

Dozens of Lincoln Laboratory staff members spanning five of the laboratory's technical divisions worked on the lidar mapping effort in Puerto Rico.

Using lidar to assess destruction in Puerto Rico

Lincoln Laboratory team's lidar data will allow FEMA to track further damage if another hurricane strikes the island.

August 30, 2018

At the MIT Conference for the Resilient Reconstruction of the Caribbean, Puerto Rico’s governor, Ricardo Rosselló ’01 (left), described the devastation of recent hurricanes and discussed opportunities for collaboration on resilient rebuilding. He spoke with Robert Stoner, deputy director of the MIT Energy Initiative and director of the Tata Center for Technology and Design.

MIT conference seeks solutions for reconstruction in devastated Caribbean

Two-day workshop featuring island leaders explores ways to rebuild better, more resilient infrastructure.

December 15, 2017

A team in the coastal town of Loíza, Puerto Rico, begins rolling out the first of 16 solar modules from MIT Lincoln Laboratory and Infinitum Humanitarian Systems (IHS). Left to right: Abdoun of the Boys and Girls Club; George Villec, president of GeoInnovation; Denisse Abdo, dietician and translator; Erik Limpaecher of Lincoln Laboratory; Alex Hatoum, IHS managing director; Eric Rasmussen, IHS CE...

Solar water purifier is serving 600 Puerto Ricans daily

An off-grid, battery-less system from MIT Lincoln Laboratory and Infinitum Humanitarian Systems will be run indefinitely by a local Boys and Girls Club.

December 4, 2017