by TIPI Staff | Aug 28, 2024
Disaster Preparedness for Small Businesses Project Pages Continuity after DisasterResilience in the lower Rio Grande Valley To view the full project, click here. Project Description: Disasters are frequent in Texas, whether fire, hurricanes, floods, extreme weather,...
by TIPI Staff | Aug 21, 2024
Extreme Weather Infrastructure Communication Project Description This interdisciplinary line of research focuses on infrastructure and communication. These projects are predominately funded by the National Science Foundation, but some are also working directly with...
by TIPI Staff | Aug 3, 2024
Strengthening Community Resilience: Connecting Online and Offline Networks Project Description A Team of researchers from The University of Texas at Austin explored how Texas communities responded during the 2021 winter storm. The study revealed that a unique...
by TIPI Staff | Aug 28, 2022
Rural Libraries and Disasters Investigating resiliency in the digital environment Introduction This research investigates the situations, constraints and opportunities associated with smaller, rural libraries as they cope with disasters. Conceived in the wake of...
by TIPI Staff | Jul 21, 2022
Continuity after Disaster Project Description Disasters are frequent in Texas, whether fire, hurricanes, floods, extreme weather, or COVID-19. They affect businesses both large and small, and highlight the vulnerabilities of infrastructural systems such as power,...
by TIPI Staff | Feb 28, 2021
Communicating Flood Risk for Texas Project Description Think about it… Did you ever learn how to protect yourself against flooding when you were growing up? Probably not, unless you grew up in a flood prone area. However, flood prone areas in Texas have expanded...
by TIPI Staff | Feb 21, 2021
Travis County Community-Driven Wildfire Evacuation Drill Project Description Natural disasters are increasing, and communities prone to wildfires need to better understand how to prepare and evacuate before disaster strikes. Preparedness is an important issue because...
by TIPI Staff | Jan 30, 2018
Past Projects 2014 Austin Digital Inclusion SurveyA team of researchers under the supervision of professors Sharon Strover, Joseph Straubhaar, and Wenhong Chen are collaborating with the City of Austin to perform a survey that assesses digital inclusion among...
