CURBE was established to create a structure for interdisciplinary collaboration for disaster and risk research and application. Projects link the skills and expertise from distinct disciplines to understand and resolve disaster and risk issues, particularly related to reducing detrimental impacts of disasters and vulnerability of the built environment. Typically, studies are carried out at city scale or above. Click here to read more about CURBE.
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[August 2009]
EPSRC studentship announcement: Integration of building physics and remote sensing technology for large-scale energy performance assessment.
Application closing date: 31st August 2009
Applications are invited for a PhD Studentship on developing an integrated tool/technique for assessing energy performance of large-scale building developments, using a combination of building physics (energy modelling) and remote sensing technology (satellite and/or aerial data).More information can be found here.
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[March 2009]
Post-earthquake damage/RECOVERY recon mission in China.
Robin Spence and Michael Ramage visited the earthquake areas in Sichuan, China as part of the EPSRC funded project "Field survey following the 12.5.08 Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan Province, China. A report on the findings will be published in due course.
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[February 2009]
Field trip to Thailand for the Tsunami RECOVERY study.
A team of researchers including Torwong Chenvidyakarn, Keiko Saito and Daniel Brown from CURBE, carried out field work in Thailand for 2 weeks for the RECOVERY project. Funded by EPSRC ref: EP/F015232/1), the RECOVERY project is a collaboration between CURBE, Cambridge Architectural Research and ImageCAT. For a description of the project please go to this page
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[October 2008]
Reconnaissance trip to the areas affected by the Wenchuan earthquake, Sichuan, China.
A team of researchers including Keiko Saito, Emily So and Daniel Brown from CURBE, carried out field work in Sichuan province for a week to assess the damage as well as the level of recovery that has taken place since the devastating Mw 7.9 earthquake in May 2008. The trip was funded by EPSRC. A preliminary report is currently being prepared and will be available from here in due course.
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[October 2008]
Cambridge University Earthquake Damage Database presented at 14WCEE in Beijing, China
Emily So made a presentation about the Earthquake Damage database at the 14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (14WCEE). Funded by the Coburn Foundation, the Earthquake Damage Database puts together building damage data from major earthquakes during the past 50 years collected by researchers around the world. The database can be accessed here free of charge.
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[April 2008]
Presentation at the Geospatial Seminar, Willis Re (WRN)
A talk was given by Keiko Saito on the use of remotely sensed data to extract building inventory data. The talk was part of the Geospatial seminar hosted by Willis Research Network (WRN) targeting the insurance industry to raise the awareness of the cutting edge geospatial sceince and techniques within the industry. A PDF of the presentation can be found here. For a description of the event, go to this page.
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[April 2008]
EXPLORIS paper published in JVGR
The final results from the EU funded EXPLORIS project has been published in the Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research (JVGR). Spence et al, (2008), Modelling the impact of a hypothetical sub-plinian eruption at La Soufriere of Guadeloupe (Lesser Antilles), vol. 178, pp. 516-528.
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[September 2007]
Post-earthquake damage/ survivor survey carried out in Peru.
Earthquake Engineering Field Investigation Team (EEFIT ) sent a team of engineers that included Emily So (CURBE) to survey the damage after the Pisco, Peru earthquake. In addition to the damage survey she is currently conducting a survivor survey with the help of the local academic community for her casualty model. The results of this survivor survey, together with surveys carried out using the same forms after the Pakistan and Yog Jakarta (Indonesia) earthquakes, will be used to update casualty models. A preliminary report of the damage survey can be found here.
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[June 2007]
CURBE joins the Willis Research Network (WRN)
CURBE
has joined the Willis Research Network (WRN). WRN is an interdiciplinary research network established in 2007 to advance the science and technological capabilities of catastrophy modelling for the insurance industry. CURBE's contribution to the network will be in the area of vulnerability assessment of structures from various natural disasters and the collection of exposure data using remote sensing, as well as identifying the population at risk from volcanic eruptions in Europe. More information on WRN can be found
here and here.
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[June 2007]
Tsunami survivor survey paper published in the Journal of Maritime Engineering.
Our paper on the survey of the survivors of the 26.12.03 Indian Ocean Tsunami has been published in the Journal of Maritime Engineering vol 160, issue 2, pp.75-85. See our Tsunami reseach page.
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Photo by Tim KAY
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[updated: May 2007]
4th International Workshop on the use of Remote Sensing for Post-Disaster Response
CURBE, together with ImageCAT Inc hosted the 4th International Workshop on the use of Remote Sensing for Post Disaster Response on the 25-26th of September 2006 at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge.
Papers and presentations from the workshop are now available HERE.
Papers from previous workshops are available from
the MCEER website.
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