Experts from the Department of Defense, industry and academia convened at Northeastern University’s Boston campus April 25-26 for two days of research presentations and collaboration focused on DoD infrastructure resilience as part of the Networked Infrastructure under Compound Extremes (NICE) workshop.

Northeastern University Distinguished Professor and Director of AI for Climate and Sustainability (AI4CaS), Auroop Ganguly is lead PI on the project, which is funded by DoD’s Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP). The project seeks to prepare DoD infrastructure to adapt and recover from changing climate conditions, extreme weather, and other threats. The work will also lead to new frameworks and models for improving the science of resilience.

The gathering gave the DoD an update on the NICE project, with presentations from research collaborators including the University of California at Berkeley, the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Labs, the US Army Corps of Engineers, the US Naval Research Lab, Northeastern University and more.