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Baton Rouge, Louisiana |
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
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Using GIS to integrate paleotempestological data with socio-economic data for studying vulnerability
of Caribbean societies to hurricane strikes
Co-PI Nina Lam will integrate
the natural science component and the social science component of this project using a GIS approach.
The objective of this task is to develop a GIS that will integrate the paleotempestological and
climatological data with the socio-economic data of the countries selected for this study.
The ultimate goal is to provide the database and flexibility for incorporating numerical models
for evaluating the vulnerability of the Caribbean countries to hurricane strikes. A multi-level,
multi-resolution approach will be adopted in developing the GIS, including data layers with biophysical
and socio-economic variables. The GIS can be used to model scenarios and to estimate exposure levels
for individual locations or nations in the Caribbean. These scenarios and the exposure estimates
will be extremely useful to decision makers, especially when there is a high degree of uncertainty
involved in hurricane prediction.
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