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Kevin Kupietz
Elizabeth City State University
<p class="MsoNormal">Dr. Kevin Kupietz, in the ECSU Department of Aviation and Emergency Management, is Assistant Professor of Emergency Management and the EM Program Coordinator. He is a NC certified Firefighter/Paramedic with over twenty years of emergency response experience with local, state, and federal agencies. He has a diverse emergency response and educational background with teaching certifications in a variety of emergency service topics. He has been in Emergency services higher education for twenty years teaching initial courses for job certifications, specialized fire/rescue classes as well as graduate and under-graduate programs, literally having taught thousands of students. His academic interests have included emergency responder safety, autism victims in disasters, preparedness education, business resiliency, emergency service leadership, adult education, and other related topics with several articles and publications. He has been a recognized speaker at local, state and national venues in the realm of public safety and is a big believer in the power of education to make communities safer through cooperative ventures. He is known for his passion in passing on knowledge to others, believing that knowledge is power. He lives by the saying that if you are not having fun you are not doing it right and tries to apply this saying in everything that he does.
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Community Flood Risk Assessment from Rising/Surging Seas Project part of CUREnet:Institutes:Other Institutes (2019-2020):Examples
Globally 634 million people, 10% of the world's population, live in coastal areas less than 10 meters above sea level. According to 2010 census data, 123 million people, 39% of the United States population, live in coastal counties with an estimated increase to this number by 8% in the 2020 census. As natural disasters have been seen to increase in frequency and severity in the past five years coupled with expected sea rises from climate change it is important that anyone involved with the safety and resiliency planning of their organization/community have an understanding of how to scientifically assess risk from flooding in order to mitigate and recover from the effects. This project allows students the ability to develop skills to utilize computer modeling systems and to apply the data to real world communities in examining risk to structures as well as different groups in the community.
See the activity page for details.