SPRING 2025

CHEER Announces

2025 Summer Scholars Cohort

April 28, 2025

CHEER Featured in Cascadia CoPe Hub’s Monthly Seminar Series

March 7, 2025

CHEER Students Share and Celebrate Their Research at 2025 NHERI Symposium

February 20, 2025

Registration is open for Jingya Wang's Ocean Decade video competition. This event, done in partnership with the CHEER Hub and the United Nations' Ocean Decade program, invites participants to submit a two- to three-minute video that clearly and creatively explains a topic of interest or research project. See the Hub's Announcement or

download the Competition Guidelines for more information.

Submissions are due by 11:59 pm on Wednesday, May 14, 2025. 

Hongrak Pak has embraced innovative tools to analyze dozens of government documents. Connecting these dots – and identifying subtle patterns, inconsistencies, and gaps across the text – empowers experts to improve hazard planning and enhance policy development.

CHEER 2025 Journal Articles

• Where and How? The Effects of Land Use Policies and Building Codes in Reducing Residential Hurricane Risk. (International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction)
• Insurability and Government-Funded Mitigation: Safer but Costlier. (The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance)
• A Land Use Policy Analysis Method for Natural Hazard Risk Management Across a Regional Single-family Housing Inventory. (Land Use Policy)
• Computing Multi-Region Competitive Prices for Hurricane-Related Insurance. (International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction)

Visit the Hub's Research Products page for a full list of the Hub's publications, deliverables, and other research content.