Extreme events such as hurricanes have significant impacts on the nearshore water-land system—where ocean, sound, and estuary processes interact with the nearby land. These events pose high risks to society and ecosystems; they also represent important opportunities to learn from disaster as will be described during this brief webinar. This online forum featured the leaders of the National Science Foundation-supported Nearshore Extreme Events Reconnaissance (NEER) Association, which organizes interdisciplinary teams and supports travel for rapid, pre-event site characterization and instrument deployments to collect perishable data needed to understand impacts of major storms on the nearshore system. NEER is dedicated, in part, to characterizing interactions and feedbacks among natural and built environments and corresponding human actions and reactions. The webinar speakers described NEER’s mission, the benefits of membership, and NEER’s event-response and data-distribution plans. Please watch this recorded webinar if you are interested in learning more or getting involved with NEER as a member!
CONVERGE is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation, Program on Humans, Disasters, and the Built Environment (Award #1841338). Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.