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.                              

Lab News

Dr. Yan wins $14 million NSF Mid-scale RI-1 grant







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Dr. Yan to host 15th Americas Conference on Wind Engineering







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Congratulations Dr. Yan to Be Awarded a Development Grant by Taylor Geospatial Institute! 







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WHAM Lab and Center for Hazard Mitigation and Community Resilience Welcome TGI Visitors 




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WHWM Research in THRIVE is highlighted by AAWE's September Newsletter






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Dr. Yi Zhao wins Laegeler Fellowship for solar farm protection research



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Dr. Grace Yan successfully hosted the Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation Symposium (Wind Hazard): From Challenge to Opportunity



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Sinquefield Missouri Tornado Simulator Twins







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Congratulations to Dr. Grace Yan for Faculty Excellence Award




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Congratulations to Dr. Grace Yan for receiving in annual Kummer Missouri S&T Ignition Grants!  Marvelous job!



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Interviewing Dr. Grace Yan For 2021 Midwest Tornado Outbreak



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NSF Civic Innovation Challenge Project Movie





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Congratulations to Dr. Grace Yan for winning the NFC Civic Innovation Challenge Stage 1 grant by leading a team of academic partners and 15 civic partners!


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Congratulations to Dr. Grace Yan for being elected as the Chair of  Board of Directors of NAAHDRI in September, 2021. 



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Caleb Fink presented at the Undergraduate Research Day held at the state capitol. 



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Heartbreaking Damage Survey of 2021 Midwest Tornado Outbreak! 



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NIBS shines spotlight on Yan 







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