Each unit focuses on tackling particular challenges in disaster management and public safety and on developing innovative solutions to meet our Research Priority Areas and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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Coastal and Ocean Extremes
Using technology to predict coastal and ocean extremes to mitigate the impacts on human activity.
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Community Resilience and Public Health
Building our understanding of the social impacts of disasters and the strategies for individual and community resilience and recovery.
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Dynamic Hazards Mitigation
Supporting the mitigation of the dynamic hazards of earthquakes, collisions, landslides, rockfalls, wind-borne debris and hail.
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Flood Management
Improving the accuracy of flood risk estimation for planning purposes, and our understanding of the factors that assist our ability to manage floods in real time.
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Geospatial and Location Intelligence
Studying global, continental, and local disaster related problems affecting society by utilising geospatial and location intelligence research capabilities.
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Infrastructure Resilience
Advancing the field of disaster mitigation by fostering the scientific community's collaboration for critical technology.
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Mission Critical Communications
Raising awareness and understanding of the importance of resilient, interoperable communications for the public safety market.
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Transport and Logistics
Increasing the resilience of transport networks and enhance post-disaster humanitarian logistics practices by developing improved decision support systems
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Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Developing novel and advanced applications of UAS technology in disaster management practice.
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Mental health and wellbeing interventions
Advancing the understanding and effective implementation of disaster-related mental health, wellbeing and recovery interventions and programs.