Oct 2, 2021
Building on five years of partnership, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has initiated a new project with the University of Hawai’i (UH)’s Pacific Disaster Center (PDC) to develop a one-of-a-kind, advanced technology system for expanding the level of...
Oct 2, 2021
The impacts of climate change are being felt around the world, but few know the urgency of action more than Guyana. Immersed in the recent impacts of record-breaking floods which destroyed crops, houses, and livestock throughout the country, Guyana’s officials moved...
Oct 1, 2021
In a time of unprecedented humanitarian need, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and the Pacific Disaster Center (PDC), an applied science and research center under the University of Hawai‘i, have announced a partnership to...
May 5, 2021
Building on years of joint commitment to Latin America and the Caribbean, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and Pacific Disaster Center (PDC) are formalizing efforts to support the second most disaster-prone region in the...
May 4, 2021
Although floods are consistently ranked among the leading causes of natural disaster losses and fatalities, there has been a major gap in technology to help sense and anticipate flood risk on a global scale—until now. The NASA Disasters Program and Pacific Disaster...
