Early Career Research Fellow - Abdullahi Salman
Implementing Organization
The University of Alabama in Huntsville
Overview
DWH Project Funding
$76,000
Known Leveraged Funding
$0
Funding Organization
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine – Gulf Research Program (NASEM - GRP)
Funding Program
NASEM Gulf Research Program Grants
Details
Project Category
Human and Social
Project Actions
Education and Outreach
Targeted Resources
Project Description
Abdullahi Salman is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). He holds a B.E. in civil and construction engineering from Curtin University, Malaysia, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in civil engineering from Michigan Technological University. He served as a research associate at Case Western Reserve University before joining the faculty at UAH. Salman specializes in modeling the impacts of natural hazards and climate change on coastal ecosystems, civil infrastructure systems, and communities. He is especially interested in developing strategies and decision support systems to reduce the risks posed by natural hazards and climate change to the natural and built environment. Salman’s research involves developing models to predict changes in hurricane activity in the Gulf of Mexico due to climate change and how the changes will impact the ecosystems in the Gulf. He also develops comprehensive decision-making frameworks that stakeholders can use to make environmental protection decisions considering deep uncertainties. Another aspect of his research entails formulating infrastructure and community resilience models that integrate social-vulnerability factors, such as income/class, age, gender, health issues, and disability into pre-disaster resilience improvement and post-disaster recovery planning. He is the faculty adviser of the UAH chapter of Engineers Without Borders and is involved in planning the chapter’s clean water-related projects overseas. He is the recipient of the prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award.
Contact
Abdullahi SalmanNone
ams0098@uah.edu
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