Resilience and Recovery Summit

Resilience and Recovery: Building a Collaborative Community

The primary focus of the RnR Summit this year will be to foster a collaborative community approach to strengthen recovery from recent challenges and build multi-disaster resiliency through informed planning.

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Day 1Welcome/Government Updates
  • Welcome - Dr. Brenda Nichols, Provost, Lamar University
  • Explanation of Professional Development - Dr. Cynthia Stinson
  • Judge McDaniel, Hardin County
  • Judge Gothia, Orange County

Healthcare
  1. New and Old Diseases: I Didn't Learn This in School - Drs. Cynthia Stinson & Ruthie Robinson
  2. No Visitors: Family Perceptions of Separation from Hospitalized Loved Ones - Drs. Stacey Knight, Ruthie Robinson, & Cynthia Stinson

Industry
  1. Resiliency of Real Estate/Construction Sector and Financial Recovery of Southeast Texas - Drs. Gevorg Sargsyan, Enrique Venta, James Slaydon, & Ricardo Colon
  2. COVID 19: Threat and Opportunity for Economic Resiliency of Southeast Texas - Drs. Gevorg Sargsyan, Enrique Venta, James Slaydon, & Ricardo Colon

Government
  1. High Freqency Radar for Sabine Lake and Galveston Bay - Chris Fuller (RATEs)
  2. Low-cost Flood Sensors and the Lot - Dr. Nicholas Brake

Community Preparedness
  1. Disaster Response: The Need for Culturally Diverse Services - Angela Clavijo
  2. Local Government Perceptions and Definitions of Resilience in Southeast Texas and on the Gulf Coast - Brian Williams

Day 2Welcome/Health Department Updates
  • Welcome - Dr. Lynn Maurer, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
  • Explanation of Professional Development - Dr. Cynthia Stinson
  • Judith Smith, RN Director of Health Services - City of Port Arthur
  • Kenneth Coleman, Director of Beaumont Health Department

Community Outreach
  1. Outreach the SETX Community: Report Progress of the Recovery and Resilience Academy Program - Drs. Chiung-Fang Chang, Jennifer Fagen, B. Garrick Harden, & Margot Gage
  2. Infinite Potential and Lamar University - Dr. Angeliqueca Avery, Megan Austin, Olga Luna, & Kimberly Glaudy

Environmental
  1. Tunable Laser Imaging for the Detection of Methane Leaks in Soils - Drs. Philip Cole and Jim Jordan, Gary Strahan, David Halnon, Gary Forister, & Joe Strahan
  2. Preliminary Measurement of Methane Emissions from SETX Coastal Marshes to Assess Blue Carbon Potential Pre- and Post-BUDM Restoration - Dr. Matthew Hoch
  3. Real-time Waterborne Pathogen Detection with Mobile Electronics - Dr. Ian Lian

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Healthcare
  1. PRIME: Partnerships for Resilience Interventions and Mental Health Effectiveness - Dr. Ginger Gummelt
  2. Increased Risk of Dementia/Alzheimer's Disease After a Disaster - Drs. Maryam Vasefi, Kami Makki, Ginger Gummelt, Stacey Knight, & Sommer Shackelford

Industry
  1. Resiliency and Reliability of Electronics Infrastructure: Aging and Degradation of Material and Component - Dr. Xuejun Fan
  2. Resilience Analysis and Enhancement of Power Grid During Disasters Using Machine Learning-Based Restoration Algorithm - Dr. Reza Barzegaran
  3. Increasing the Oil and Gas Pipeline Resiliency Using Drones and Image Processing Algorithm - Dr. Berna Tokgoz

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Environmental
  1. Data Analytics and Prediction for Weather Station - Drs. Stephan Andrei and Brian Williams, Sri Satya Surya C Nunnaguppala, Shivam Soin, & Tejinder Singh
  2. The Effect of Catastrophic River Flooding on the Brackish Water Clam, Rangia Cuneata, in the Lower Neches River - Drs. Matthew Pyne & Ana Christensen 

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Healthcare - Panel
  • Kim Phelan, Director of Mental Health America
  • Kayla Tiller, Representative for Homeless Coalition
  • Chris Robertson, Catholic Charities SETX/Volunteer Organizations Active in Disasters
  • Dr. J.T. Seaman, Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner/Baptist Hospital Beaumont

Co-Sponsored by: Lamar University Dishman School of Nursing, Lamar University Economic Recovery and Resiliency Program, the Mamie McFaddin Ward Trust, and the Program Center for Public Policy.