Dan Zehner from NHERI rejoins us for today’s episode. The Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure, NHERI, is a shared-use network funded by multiple grants from the National Science Foundation. They conduct studies of natural hazards and their effects on manmade infrastructure elements to determine safer and more resilient construction methods and materials.

NHERI 3rd Five Year Science Plan

NFPA Preparing Homes and Property for Wildfire Risks

Dan chats with co-hosts Sam Bradley and Jamie Davis about the current projects the NHERI centers are using to learn how to build safer and stronger homes and businesses. we talk about research into wildfire resilience especially in the wildfire urban interface. We also have our disaster meteorologist Dan DePodwin to share some of the unique climatically relevant facts on how natural disasters are becoming more prevalent.

Thank you as always to Paragon Medical Education Group for their long-term support of the Disaster Podcast. Dr. Joe Holley and the team at Paragon continue to provide excellent and customized disaster response training to jurisdictions around the U.S. and internationally as well.

Our Meteorologist Dan Depodwin joins Dr. Joe Holley and our cohosts Sam Bradley and Jamie Davis on this episode. The team looks at the early major hurricane named Beryl that caused a revision of the current seasonal hurricane forecast to reflect an even more active season this year.

We talk about preparedness in the face of increased severe weather. We also look at the causes of rapid tropical cyclone intensification and the overall outlook in the future as ocean water temperatures continue to rise. Expect a longer and stronger hurricane season with more intense and stronger storms moving forward.

Thank you as always to Paragon Medical Education Group for their long-term support of the Disaster Podcast. Dr. Joe Holley and the team at Paragon continue to provide excellent and customized disaster response training to jurisdictions around the U.S. and internationally as well.