January 2019 Spotlight
PROTECT Researchers evaluate Hurricane Maria’s Impact and suggest a ‘Visionary Rebuilding’ plan for Government Institutions
The impact of Hurricanes Irma and Maria on the island is massive, with over a thousand lives lost and over $90 billion dollars in damage, part of which decimated the electric grid and 80% of the agricultural sector. Many Puerto Ricans were left homeless and a total of 215,000 people left the island for the mainland as a result. This, combined with the lack of an appropriate federal response, pre-existing colonial debt, and over a century of environmental injustices, made the overall negative impact of the hurricanes stark and beyond devastating.
PROTECT, CRECE, ECHO, & ZIP researchers collaborated to publish an article for the Environmental Justice Journal discussing our cross-center interdisciplinary research team’s disaster response to the aftermath and destruction that resulted from Hurricanes Irma and Maria in Puerto Rico in September of 2017, but also proposed a ‘Visionary Rebuilding’ plan for the future.
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In the News
- PROTECT and Silent Spring Institute’s Report Back App deemed a model for future research at the PEPH Conference
- Trainee Spotlight: Morgan Hines
- Project 5’s Long Chen Promoted to Associate Research Scientist
- PROTECT Team Participates in 2018 Superfund Research Program Annual Meeting
- PROTECT Project 4 Trainees Autum Downey & Jill Riddell Present at the Geological Society of America 130th Annual Meeting
- Kelly Ferguson, Former PROTECT Trainee, Wins NIEHS Mentor of the Year
PROTECT Calendar
Upcoming Events
SOT Annual Meeting – March 10-14, 2019 | Baltimore, MD
Northeast SRP Meeting – TBD
All Events Download the PROTECT 2019 meetings & events calendar (updated 12/19/18)
