BEFORE THE TAR RIVER CRESTED (Monday, October 10, 2016) Hurricane Matthew has cut a wide swath of damage and flooding in the state of North Carolina. As the City of Greenville, located in the Tar-Pamlico River Basin in Eastern North Carolina, deals with rising water in the Tar River, below are images that document the…
Author: mukherjia
Floodplain Management in Greenville
Abe Fellowship Award 2014-2016
Honored to be a recipient of the Abe Fellowship (2014-16), awarded by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) in collaboration with the American Council of Learned Societies and with funding from The Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership. This year the SSRC received 90+ applications and awarded 12 fellowships. The fellowship provides research support that…
Traveling Through Tohoku
During Summer 2012 the Japan Foundation awarded me a short-term JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) fellowship (nominated by Social Science Research Council, SSRC) to observe ongoing recovery planning processes in Japan following the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. The 9.0 magnitude earthquake off the east coast of northern Japan…
2010 HAITI EARTHQUAKE: REPORTS FROM THE FIELD
Collapsed Haiti Presidential Palace in Port-au-Prince after Magnitude 7.0 earthquake. This satellite image was released by Google and GeoEye as Google Earth layer.