On August 7-8, 2025 the Consortium for Enhancing Resilience and Catastrophe Modeling (CERCat) held its inaugural Industry Advisory Board Meeting. It was a fantastic two days and a true testament to the power of coming together to solve shared challenges.
Our Industry Advisory Board played a critical role providing project feedback and their voting helped us prioritize the key projects we’ll tackle together during our first year.
We are thrilled to get started working on:
- Transforming current hail fragility curves into SCS multi-hazard fragility curves
- Empirical wildfire fragility curves for residential buildings, based on past event data
- Linking regional climate variability to local TC hazard probabilities
- Multi-modal damage assessment in post-disaster scenarios with AI and remote sensing
- Parametric fragility models of slender structures under hurricane wind loads
- A nonstationary joint probability method for tropical cyclone hazard assessment
If you’re interested in these topics and want to learn more about becoming a member, reach out! Our partners receive early access to research results and can leverage their research dollars through jointly funded projects.
This is just the beginning, and we eagerly await the results of this collaborative effort. Stay tuned for updates!
Visit our CERCat website: www.catmodeling.org