It’s been a year since Hurricane Sandy barreled up the East Coast and from emergency agencies to nonprofit groups to media outlets, there’s been a lot of looking back at what we’ve learned and what progress has been made. Now it’s our turn.
Shortly into the recovery phase, the Natural Hazard Center’s Quick Response Grant Program issued a special call for research related to Hurricane Sandy. The program provides small grants to fund travel to disaster-affected areas to capture perishable data. We received more than 35 proposals to study Sandy. The following reports were funded:
Influence of Household Recovery Capacity and Urgency on Post-Disaster Relocation: A Case Study of The Rockaways, New York After Hurricane Sandy
--Divya Chandrasekhar and Donovan Finn
Impacts of Superstorm Sandy on New York City’s New Waterfront Parks
--Rutherford Platt
Resilience and Post-Disaster Relocation: A Study of New York's Home Buyout Plan in the Wake of Hurricane Sandy
--Sherri Brokopp Binder
Partnership Behavior in Disaster Relief Operations: A Case Study of the Response to Hurricane Sandy in New Jersey
--John Coles and Jun Zhuang
Querying Facility Management Teams: Document Preservation and Debris Removal for Cultural Collections
--Paulette Hebert and Lori Schram
The Effects of Hurricane Sandy on the Homeless in New Jersey
--Marc Settembrino
Assessing the Impacts of Hurricane Sandy on the Port of New York and New Jersey's Maritime Responders and Response Infrastructure
--Tiffany Smythe