There were 20 million tweets in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. Ashlea Milburn, assistant professor of industrial engineering at the University of Arkansas, was awarded a $500,000 grant to research how emergency management agencies can integrate such social media posts into their response plans. It is a five year grant, and Milburn says the current phase involves spending time with managers to learn the obstacles with which they are faced.
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