Disaster expert: Why power outages, transportation issues likely to stay in the dark
November 14, 2012
Superstorm Sandy and the approaching winter season are reminders that communities have a choice: pay in advance to improve energy and transportation networks that are vulnerable to disaster or risk future power outages and infrastructure disruptions, says a Purdue University disaster recovery expert.
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Purdue's Jeff Trapp part of month-long field research campaign to improve severe storm prediction
May 16, 2013
As a principal investigator in the NSF-funded Mesoscale Predictability Experiment (MPEX), Jeff will be collecting data with three radiosonde launch units operated by Purdue and NSSL in vehicles that will maneuver around late-day thunderstorms.
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