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LSU outlines LaSIER coordination and a proposed NSF 'DRY' engine to accelerate disaster-risk research and community tools
Summary
LSU faculty described a new coordination effort, LaSIER, to marshal university research for Louisiana resilience needs and presented an NSF 'engine' proposal (Louisiana DRY) that seeks to create a long-term innovation ecosystem linking research, communities and technology to reduce disaster risk.
LSU faculty and research partners addressed the task force about university efforts to coordinate research and to propose a large-scale National Science Foundation (NSF) research engineering "engine" to accelerate disaster-risk reduction in South Louisiana.
Thomas Douthat, faculty in the College of the Coast and Environment, described the Louisiana Social Environmental and Economic Resilience Center (LaSIER) as a university-led initiative to provide a single point of contact for the state's resilience research capacity. LaSIER's stated aim is to organize interdisciplinary teams across LSU to address compound flooding, mitigation modeling and local decision-support needs and to align academic research with state and local decision timelines.
Megan Franks, an LSU AgCenter faculty member, described a draft NSF 'engine' proposal for a Louisiana Disaster Reduction Initiative (abbreviated DRY in the presentation). The proposal seeks large-scale NSF funding to build a research and innovation ecosystem that integrates community co-design, advanced modeling and applied technology to support construction compliance, insurance affordability analysis, and decision-support tools for flood and wind risk.
Presenters said the proposal involves many university and external collaborators and seeks to translate academic capabilities into operational tools for parishes and municipalities. No commitment of federal funds was made at the meeting; presenters asked task force members to help align state needs with university research priorities and to identify potential local demonstration opportunities and data partners.
Task force members welcomed the coordination effort and suggested follow-up on topics including data access, translation of technical results for local officials, and workforce development to support a resilience economy.
