Hurricane Ian GCR

This report summarizes the second Hurricane Ian workshop, held on March 17 and 18, 2025, in Fort Myers, Florida.This second Ian workshop focused on the state of research for coastal surge and wave hazards and impacts on the built environment.Participants highlighted lessons learned and technologies developed or leveraged for reconnaissance efforts.Novel experimental campaigns and numerical model simulations were also presented, sharing integrated approaches to capture primary and cascading hazards and preliminary work applying these to interactions with the built environment.A common thread was found using Fort Myers Beach as a test bed to communicate the urgency and importance for collaborative approaches, to share data and information among agencies, researchers, practitioners, and to develop better understanding of model capabilities for prediction storm impacts from coastal surge and waves.The report concludes with strategies to be considered and potential avenues for future research including: the exploration and continued development of new technologies (e.g., sensors), methods for capturing data (e.g., surveys), continued testing either in a laboratory (e.g., scaled hurricane surge experiment), or in-situ opportunities (e.g., Rodanthe testbed).