Welcome!

Welcome to the Wind Hazard Mitigation (WHAM) laboratory at Missouri University of Science and Technology! WHAM team has been conducting interdisciplinary research to enhance community resilience under a changing climate from different perspective. From the engineering perspective, they simulate different natural hazards (e.g., tornadoes, hurricanes, storm surge, and floods, etc.) numerically and experimentally and investigates their interactions with the built environment, and study vulnerability of the bult environment to natural hazards. By collaborating with other researchers nationwide, they are developing innovative approaches to mitigate the damage to mobile homes from tornadoes, developing a new communication infrastructure to improve risk communication, and develop a novel financial infrastructure to raise fund for implementing resilience infrastructure, and so on. Their research is sponsored by the National Science Foundation, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration U.S. Department of Transportation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Australian Research Council.