We are an international community of practice for emergency informatics, the emerging interdisciplinary, socio-technical field that addresses the information processes (real-time collection, analysis, distribution, and visualization) for prevention, preparedness, response and recovery from emergencies. Texas A&M through TEES and TEEX serves as the nexus for this new field, already having world class facilities, state and federal US&R teams, existing research efforts addressing key (but as yet unconnected) facets of emergency informatics, and an engaged, multidisciplinary faculty. Ohio State, Prairie View A&M, and Texas A&M Corpus Christi are domestic university partners while TAMU-Q, Tohoku University, University of Melbourne bring additional expertise in petro-chemical related disasters, earthquakes, and blast effects. The community includes industry, agencies, and innovation partners as well as “K through gray” educational partners.

Our Mission

Our mission is to provide the dedicated, sustained, comprehensive focus needed to leverage advances in unmanned systems, wireless networks, computing, decision-making, simulation and visualization, social networking, and other technologies. A systems approach will advance  the  field  of  emergency  informatics  to  save  lives,  accelerate  damage  assessment,  and  reduce  economic  downtime while developing  a competent future work force. The goal of the CEI academic, response agency, and industry partnership is to research, commercialize, and use information technologies to cut response and recovery decision making times in half for Type I (large) incidents in 5 years and reduce deaths and downtime by an order of magnitude within 10 years.