NHERI Graduate Student Council

Reconnaissance RSR Meeting

Hurricane Otis Post-Disaster Assessment

I hosted Juan Antonio Balderrama Garcia Mendez, Associate Professor of Instruction at The University of Texas at Arlington, as part of the ongoing NHERI GSC webinar series on reconnaissance research and data collection.

In this talk, he discussed how his team assessed the impacts of Hurricane Otis, a Category 5 hurricane that made devastating landfall near the Mexican city of Acapulco in October 2023.

Dr. Balderrama is an associate professor of electrical engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington. His academic work focuses on advancing performance-based wind design, risk-consistent structural engineering, and interdisciplinary approaches to infrastructure resilience.

You can watch the talk on the NHERI ECO YouTube channel.