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Kurtis Gurley

Kurtis Gurley

· Professor and ESSIE Interim Director

University of Florida · Civil and Coastal Engineering

Active 1993–2026

h-index36
Citations3.7k
Papers14930 last 5y
Funding$1.1M1 active

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Professor Kurtis Gurley is a faculty member at the Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment. The provided page text does not include specific details about his research focus, background, or key contributions. Therefore, there is no available biographical information to summarize.

Research topics

  • Computer Science
  • Engineering
  • Aerospace engineering
  • Data science
  • Political Science
  • Geography
  • Mechanical engineering
  • Geology
  • Marine engineering
  • Systems engineering

Selected publications

  • Research Needs, Challenges, and Strategic Approaches for Natural Hazards and Disaster Reconnaissance

    Frontiers in Built Environment · 2020 · 74 citations

    Natural hazards and disaster reconnaissance investigations have provided many lessons for the research and practice communities and have greatly improved our scientific understanding of extreme events. Yet, many challenges remain for these communities, including improving our ability to model hazards, make decisions in the face of uncertainty, enhance community resilience, and mitigate risk. State-of-the-art instrumentation and mobile data collection applications have significantly advanced the…

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  • Automated terrain generation for precise atmospheric boundary layer simulation in the wind tunnel

    Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics · 2020 · 44 citations

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  • Automation and New Capabilities in the University of Florida NHERI Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel

    Frontiers in Built Environment · 2020 · 41 citations

    The Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) experimental facility at the University of Florida provides a diverse suite of experimental resources to support wind hazard research. The 40-m long Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel (BLWT) simulates boundary layer flows to characterize wind loading on rigid structural models and assess the response of aeroelastic structures. The use of experimental automation tools provides researchers unparalleled flexibility in their test configurations…

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  • Natural Hazards Reconnaissance With the NHERI RAPID Facility

    Frontiers in Built Environment · 2020 · 41 citations

    In 2016 NSF funded an interdisciplinary multi-institutions team to develop and operate the Natural Hazards Reconnaissance Facility (known as the “RAPID”) as part of the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) program. To enable support of state of the art natural hazard reconnaissance research, the RAPID facility’s instrumentation portfolio and operational plan were developed over the following two years. Input was gathered from the natural hazards engineering community, the…

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  • Uncertainty Reduction Through Data Management in the Development, Validation, Calibration, and Operation of a Hurricane Vulnerability Model

    International Journal of Disaster Risk Science · 2020-11-20 · 33 citations

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    Abstract Catastrophe models estimate risk at the intersection of hazard, exposure, and vulnerability. Each of these areas requires diverse sources of data, which are very often incomplete, inconsistent, or missing altogether. The poor quality of the data is a source of epistemic uncertainty, which affects the vulnerability models as well as the output of the catastrophe models. This article identifies the different sources of epistemic uncertainty in the data, and elaborates on strategies to red…

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