Texas A&M Institute for Sustainable Communities

Texas A&M Researchers Develop Flooding Prediction Tool today.tamu.edu/2020/03/02/tex…

Students Want To Fix Air Quality For People With Asthma On The Yakama Reservation npr.org/2020/03/04/810…

A distinguished panel of University professors will discuss the current Coronavirus situation and what to expect at the TAMU Bush School “What’s Next?” TODAY,March 2, at 5:30 PM on the Texas A&M University campus in Rudder Forum. calendar.tamu.edu/bushschool/vie…

Happy Monday, people! Have a great week!

The IFSC meeting scheduled for Tuesday, January 28th has been CANCELED, sorry for the inconvenience. Information about our February meeting will be shared soon. #IFSC #TAMU

Attend our Welcome Back Meeting and learn more about the Institute and its future! Come and enjoy a free lunch with us at 217 ARCA from 11:00am-12:30pm! #IFSC #TAMU

At the 2019 National Planning Conference outstanding planning projects and people who have made a positive impact on the profession and their communities were recognized, recipients included Texas Target Communities (TTC) Planning team ifsc.tamu.edu/News/April-201…

Kamrie Sarnosky, a doctoral student at Texas A&M School of Public Health, recently presented her research focusing on the sustainability of remote working, especially during disaster recovery. Click the link below to read more! ifsc.tamu.edu/News/April-201…

Dr. Sara Meerow developed a research objective that focuses on exactly what the term 'urban resilience' means. Click the link below to read more and find out what it means! ifsc.tamu.edu/News/March-201…

Dr. Michelle Meyer and Dr. Lei Zou presented their research on big data and how social media can be applied towards disaster resilience. Click the link below to read more! ifsc.tamu.edu/News/February-…

The @tamuIfSC’s Dr. Berke and Dr. Masterson are part of this project! Click the link to find out more about the resilience scorecard

TAMU Galveston's David Retchless will be presenting on Developing and User Testing Tools for Communicating Storm Surge Risk on April 23, 2019 at 12:30 in Rudder Tower Rm. 510!

Doctoral Student in the Environmental and Occupational Health Department will present on her research entitled “Employee Transitions During Disaster Recovery and Sustainability of the Remote Office" today at 12:30 in Rudder Tower Rm. 410!

Dr. Sara Meerow will be presenting on the differences in conceptualizations of resilience across academic literature March 26, 2019 at 12:30 pm in Rudder Tower Rm. 410!

On February 26 at 12:30 pm Dr. Michelle Meyer and Dr. Lei Zou will be presenting on the role that big data and social media play in disaster resilience. Don't miss it in Rudder Tower Rm 410

You can read more on Dr. Ali Mostafavi's CAREER award and his exciting research to come in the link below! engineering.tamu.edu/news/2019/02/m…

Honored and grateful to receive NSF CAREER Award from ⁦@NSF_ENG⁩ to support interdisciplinary #convergence research and education on urban #resilience in my lab. ⁦@TAMUEngineering⁩ ⁦@TAMUCivilEng⁩ ⁦@tamuHRRC⁩ ⁦@tamuIfSC⁩ engineering.tamu.edu/news/2019/02/m…

Congratulations to @Mostafavi_Ali for receiving the CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (@NSF)-one of the most prestigious awards for up-and-coming researchers! The award will be used to study the impact of infrastructure failures during natural disasters on people

Recently members from @tamuIfSC traveled to Austin to meet with the Chief Emergency Manager and leaders from the Department of Emergency Management. Dr. Van Zandt laid out several ways in which the IfSC could lead the 44 initiatives in @GovAbbott's 2018 report to rebuild Texas.

Don’t forget that Dr. Richard Feiock is presenting on his Sustainable Healthy Cities Network today at 12:30 in Rudder Rm. 402! You don’t want to miss it!