NICHE brings the vital capability to simulate the individual and combined impact of wind, waves, and surge at unprecedented scales and intensities, physically studying their dynamic actions on the built and natural environment...and computationally examining societal impacts at the community to regional scale.  

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NICHE will provide versatility in configurations, scales, and intensities necessary to more faithfully simulate the effects of natural hazards on the built and natural environment, bringing a Convergence Research infrastructure that integrates physical experiments, computational modeling and field observations to spur breakthrough discovery.

 

NICHE's stakeholder engagement and research translation programming promises to speed reduction of losses by up to four different pathways, (1) spurring code reforms, (2) promoting proactive mitigation investments, (3) commercializing new mitigation products and (4) mainstreaming state-of-the-art risk forecasting.

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As such, NICHE is envisioned to engage a wide user base including but not limited to wind and coastal hazards, critical infrastructure, insurance, offshore systems, and oceanography working on key research areas to achieve broad societal impacts.