sunset along the Hudson River with the WTC and New York City skyline

Urban & Coastal Resilience

Stevens Helps Save Lives 

Stevens Institute of Technology is helping save lives and prepare communities, using leading-edge flood and storm-surge tools to inform both emergency response and long-term planning.

We also develop natural and engineered defenses against climate change, sea-level rise and extreme-weather events.

Government, Corporate and Academic Partners

  • American Bureau of Shipping

  • Carnegie Mellon

  • Coast Guard

  • Department of Homeland Security

  • Department of Defense

  • New York City

  • NASA

  • NOAA

  • NSF

  • Office of Naval Research

  • Port Authority

  • Princeton

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Research in: Urban & Coastal Resilience

Resilience By the Numbers

40%
U.S. population living in coastal regions
700+
Lives saved w/ assistance of Stevens data
1,200
Times yearly Coast Guard uses Stevens observations
1 to 6 feet
Rise in NYC-area sea level by 2100

Research That Prepares, Protects Communities

Stevens is a national leader in resiliency research, helping communities plan, prepare and face challenges such as extreme weather and climate change with leading-edge prediction systems and engineered defenses.

Ice jam on Vistula River in Poland. Water transport on the river. Aerial view of wildlife in Poland.

NOAA Grants Marouane Temimi Funding to Improve Mapping of River Ice

This innovative project combines radar and optical imagery to help communities better prepare for winter flooding.

Stevens Institute of Technology Installs Advanced X-Band Weather Radar to Strengthen Flood Monitoring and Severe Weather Forecasting for the New York Metropolitan Area

Stevens Installs Advanced X-Band Weather Radar to Strengthen Flood Monitoring and Severe Weather Forecasting

The new radar system, operated by the Davidson Laboratory, will provide high-resolution precipitation data to enhance real-time forecasting and community preparedness across the region.

satellite-generated image of 2024 Hurricane Milton

As 2025 Hurricane Season Begins, Stevens Prepares Communities in the Region

University’s experts share life-saving data, forecast and warning tools.

[Stevens’] model remains our only consistently reliable model for one of the busiest maritime environments in the nation. It was used in more than 300 search and rescue responses in the last twelve months, saving or assisting [saving] nearly 700 lives.
Commander Matthew Mitchell, Policy ChiefU.S. Coast Guard Office of Search and Rescue
A photo of melting river ice

Protecting Water Supplies

Stevens is developing AI to monitor changing winter ice in the Northeast — and keep an eye on NYC's water supply

Wave energy converter being tested at the Davidson Lab

Davidson Laboratory

The Davidson Laboratory at Stevens Institute of Technology is a global leader in delivering new knowledge, advanced technologies and higher education in support of forecasting for extreme weather events, coastal resilience and marine hydrodynamics.

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