Introduction

The SUstainable Material Management Extreme Events Reconnaissance (SUMMEER) research organization aims to facilitate data collection, develop reconnaissance guidance, train stakeholders, share resources, and support innovative research. Through its activities, the ultimate aim of SUMMEER is to enable and advance sustainable management of post-disaster materials.

SUMMEER is funded by the United States National Science Foundation (NSF) (Grant #2014330).

Purpose

As per the bylaws of the organization, the primary purpose of SUMMEER is to advance the state-of-the-art and the state-of-the practice in sustainable management of post-disaster materials through pre- and post-disaster planning and reconnaissance activities including development of guidance documents, training stakeholders, facilitating data collection, archiving, and sharing, and supporting innovative research. The activities of the organization serve to reduce the adverse impacts of the large quantities and wide varieties of debris and waste materials generated due to extreme disaster events. A broad range of natural disasters including geophysical events (earthquake, dry mass movement, volcanic activity), meteorological events (extreme temperature, fog, storm), hydrological events (flood, landslide, wave action), climatological events (drought, glacial outburst, wildfire), biological (epidemic, animal infestations and accidents), extraterrestrial events (impact, space weather) and technological events including industrial accidents (liquid/gas spill/leak, fire, facility collapse, explosion, radiation), transportation accidents (air, surface/subsurface, water), other accidents fall under the purview of the organization.

Members

Existing members and prospective members are invited to visit the here page.

Bylaws

You can find a copy of the SUMMEER bylaws here here.