From left to right: Will Hill, Savannah Collier, John Mathias, daughter of John Mathias, Arda Vanli. Photo courtesy: A Vanli.
Researchers from the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering and the Florida State University College of Social Work shared their expertise on sheltering vulnerable populations safely in a disaster at the annual Florida Governor’s Hurricane Conference in West Palm Beach, Florida. Conference attendees had the opportunity to hear from experts on new methods to prepare Floridians for a hurricane or tropical storm.
The engineering presentation featured the results from data analytical modeling of Covid-19 data with the concurrent impacts of Hurricane Sally. The team also shared their findings from an ongoing survey study of emergency management officials across Florida.
The workshop was part of a National Science Foundation-funded research project, “NSF/EiR: Bending the curve for vulnerable populations.” Arda Vanli is an industrial and manufacturing engineering associate professor at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering and the project’s principal investigator.
Eren Ozguven, associate professor in civil and environmental engineering from the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, John Mathias, assistant professor from the Florida State University College of Social Work, and Eren Piekalkiewicz, from the FSU College of Social Work, are co-investigators for the study. Will Hill, the associate director of the Resilient Infrastructure and Disaster Response Center, and Savannah Collier, program manager at the FSU College of Social Work, presented the group’s findings at the event.
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