Siyu Yu awarded the 2023 NASEM Early-Career Research Fellowship
Siyu Yu was awarded the 2023 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Early-Career Research Fellowship, which supports emerging scientific leaders as they take risks on developing understanding and mitigation of factors that compound effects of disasters on the health and resilience of communities.
PIRS™ for Wildfire Tool Developed to Increase Fire Resilience at the Community Scale
In partnership with California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly), our Texas A&M-based team has secured a grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (~$300,000 over 2 years) to develop a PIRS™ for Wildfire tool and apply it in up to four California communities.
PIRS™ training program launched with the American Planning Association
Jaimie Masterson, Siyu Yu and Matt Malecha at Texas A&M University and Phil Berke at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill have developed a training program for planners across the country that went live with the American Planning Association. The training program encourages planners to use the Plan Integration for…
Team Receives Funding to Improve Climate Change Planning for Coastal Communities
The PIRS team received funding from the Gulf Research Program of the National Academies of Science to increase the disaster and climate change planning capacity of small towns and rural communities in the Gulf Coast.
NSF-Funded Hub To Enhance Resilience In Underrepresented Communities
Siyu Yu and Texas A&M researchers received funding from the National Science Foundation to develop a hub to minimize the socio-economic impact of hazards to historically underrepresented communities along the Northern Gulf Coast.
