Brenda Philips

	Name	Brenda Philips
	Company	UMASS Amherst
	Company Position	Co-Director
	City, State	Northampton MA
	Country	United States
	Sectors	Wellbeing

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Activities

		Next Generation Resilient Warning Systems for Tornados and Flash Floods
		Objectives Next Gen communications/networking for delivery of hyper-local, user driven, context aware severe weather warnings. Mobile phones and hyper-local data enable customization to improve response and outcomes Development of communication, networking and warning concepts benefits from live experimentation and user co-creation CASA has established a Living Lab for Severe Weather Warning with an end-to-end warning infrastructure from radars to the public. Cities are facing greater vulnerability due to increasing population concentration and frequency/severity of storms