UPRM CRC Conference Series – October Calendar

October 1, 2020 – Resilient Design of Coastal Structures — Dr. Alí­ Saffar, Professor, UPRMOctober 7, 2020 – Compound Inundation: Puerto Rico vs. Louisiana — Félix L. Santiago-Collazo, PhD Candidate, Louisiana State UniversityOctober 14, 2020 – Past, present and future conditions for tide, surge and hydrologic flows over low gradient coastal land-margin systems of the northern…

Earthquakes of the Caribbean: 1918 – 2019

The M6.0 earthquake that occurred near Puerto Rico on September 24, 2019, was the largest earthquake to strike the U.S. territory in five years. It was not, however, the largest recorded earthquake there. That distinction goes to the July 7, 1943, M7.7 earthquake that thankfully did not generate a tsunami. Other earthquakes, and sometimes the…

UPRM/CRC focus on greater diversity in STEM/HSE

The Coastal Resilience Center (CRC) is committed to increasing the representation of minority groups in the Homeland Security Enterprise (HSE), in emergency management, planning and engineering fields. To meet this goal, the CRC is partnering with four Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs) to create undergraduate and graduate programs to improve access to the education needed to pursue…