About Us

NEER will improve resilience of the “nearshore system” by obtaining perishable observations before, during, and after “extreme events,” with a primary focus on storms, that are critical to understanding and modeling interactions between natural-system processes, the built environment, and societal responses and actions.

The “nearshore system” is defined as the region where oceans and estuaries interact with land. NEER may investigate processes that affect the nearshore system, as well as those within the nearshore system.

The primary focus of NEER is on major storms. However, “extreme events” is defined broadly to include events that are predicted to cause rapid changes (shocks) to the coupled nearshore system, and thus require rapid, pre-event deployments to obtain observations of the evolving interactions between natural processes, the built environment, and communities.

Mission

NEER enables rapid advances in understanding the nearshore system by:

Entraining a broad community of researchers.
Coordinating interdisciplinary teams.
Obtaining perishable observations before, during, and after major events.

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Leadership

NEER activities will be guided by a steering committee and advisory panel.

Steering Committee (SC) Members will be Regular Members who volunteer to participate actively in the leadership of the NEER Association.

The SC duties will include:

Reviewing and acting on applications for membership.
Appointing officers as needed, and establishing NEER policies.
Nominating and inviting AP members.
Initiating a event responses and identifying Team Leaders and Field and Home Team Members, including soliciting and considering input from RM and regional site coordinators.

An Advisory Panel (AP) will be established to provide guidance to the SC. The AP may be comprised of Regular Members or Organizational Partners, and will be invited to serve by the SC. There are no term limits for AP members.

The AP duties will include providing: