A University of Texas at Arlington civil engineer is leading an interdisciplinary team to help Texas coastal communities and nonprofit organizations better monitor climate and industrial changes in their neighborhoods.
Michelle Hummel, assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, is leading a $2.4 million National Science Foundation-funded project titled “SCC-IRG Track 1: Enabling Smart Cities in Coastal Regions of Environmental and Industrial Change: Building Adaptive Capacity Through Sociotechnical Networks on the Texas Gulf Coast.”
Co-principal investigators include Yonghe Liu, associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering; Karabi Bezboruah, associate professor of public affairs in the College of Architecture, Planning and Public Affairs (CAPPA); Oswald Jenewein, assistant professor of architecture in CAPPA; and Kathryn Masten, president and CEO of Maritimatix, a consulting firm that specializes in maritime informatics.
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Michelle Hummel (Photo Credit: UT Arlington)