Cornelia Posch
PRESENTER EMAIL: posch@udel.edu
SUBMISSION DATE: 08/17/2023
PRESENTATION TYPE: Professional
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: Collective Work and Changing Hazards: Reimagining Emergency Planning for Cultural Institutions.
Workshop at Archives*Records 2023, the Joint Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) and the Council of State Archivists (CoSA). July 26-29, 2023. Washington, D.C.
Co-presented with Valerie Marlowe (UD) and Lia Warner (NYU).
RELATED URL: https://whova.com/embedded/session/NFdCWcgMulEQMwx9Xmlwgf4rdPHHEcJf8mkv5hKzZJ8%3D/3016070/?widget=primary
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
Cultural organizations today face an evolving hazard landscape, making emergency planning more important than ever. Using real-world scenarios that include pandemic lockdowns, strikes, and consequences of climate change, this session offers an opportunity for participants to reimagine emergency planning. Participants are encouraged to consider non-traditional approaches to planning, apply critical theories, and actively re-examine their own assumptions throughout the process.
Cornelia Posch
PRESENTER EMAIL: posch@udel.edu
SUBMISSION DATE: 08/17/2023
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: Adaptation, Improvisation, Stability: Delaware Public Libraries During the Early Months of COVID-19.
Poster presented at the 48th Annual Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop. July 8-12, 2023. Broomfield, Colorado.
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
The poster presented preliminary findings from my dissertation research.
Cornelia Posch
PRESENTER EMAIL: posch@udel.edu
SUBMISSION DATE: 06/08/2023
PRESENTATION TYPE: Professional
LOCATION: International
CITATION: Public libraries in Delaware (USA) and their communities in the face of COVID-19. Improvisation and adaptation to changing needs. 15th Qualitative & Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference. 30 May – 3 June 2023, Heraklion, Crete, Greece/Hybrid. Virtual Presentation.
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
This talk for an international audience of library researchers and professionals gave insight into my ongoing dissertation research that examines libraries’ contributions to the wellbeing – physical, mental, emotional, occupational/educational, financial – of their communities, by analyzing what they did, how they did it, and why they did it.
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Jennifer M Trivedi
PRESENTER EMAIL: jtrivedi@udel.edu
SUBMISSION DATE: 04/11/2023
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: Trivedi, Jennifer. 2023. “Living Within and Without: Perceptions, Realities, and Complexities of Navigating Covid-19 and Anthropology with Chronic Illness.” Crossroads of Disaster, Disability, and Chronic Illness. Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) Annual Meeting. Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Hybrid. March 31.
RELATED URL: https://www.appliedanthro.org/annual-meeting#theme
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
A discussion of the experiences of navigating the COVID-19 pandemic with chronic illness and contestations, discussions, and questions regarding disaster recovery, the end of Covid-19, endemic Covid, and risk perceptions and realities.
Cornelia Posch
PRESENTER EMAIL: posch@udel.edu
SUBMISSION DATE: 02/15/2023
PRESENTATION TYPE: Professional
LOCATION: International
CITATION: BCMA Podcast: It’s a Work Emergency! How Labour Relations Impacts Emergency Planning in Museums. Cornelia Posch & Valerie Marlowe, in conversation with Lorenda Calvert. January 2023.
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
In this episode of the BCMA Podcast, Lorenda Calvert (British Columbia Museums Association), Valerie Marlowe, and I had a conversation about museums, emergency preparedness, and how labor relations are linked to preparedness. We talked about emergency plans, why the planning process and the people involved in the process are the most important elements of the plan, and how risky it is to rely solely on the passion that drives your employees.
Cornelia Posch
PRESENTER EMAIL: posch@udel.edu
SUBMISSION DATE: 02/15/2023
PRESENTATION TYPE: Professional
LOCATION: International
CITATION: BCMA Podcast: It’s a Work Emergency! How Labour Relations Impacts Emergency Planning in Museums. Cornelia Posch & Valerie Marlowe, in conversation with Lorenda Calvert. January 2023.
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
In this episode of the BCMA Podcast, Lorenda Calvert (British Columbia Museums Association), Valerie Marlowe, and I had a conversation about museums, emergency preparedness, and how labor relations are linked to preparedness. We talked about emergency plans, why the planning process and the people involved in the process are the most important elements of the plan, and how risky it is to rely solely on the passion that drives your employees.
Cornelia Posch
PRESENTER EMAIL: posch@udel.edu
SUBMISSION DATE: 02/15/2023
PRESENTATION TYPE: Professional
LOCATION: International
CITATION: BCMA Podcast: It’s a Work Emergency! How Labour Relations Impacts Emergency Planning in Museums. Cornelia Posch & Valerie Marlowe, in conversation with Lorenda Calvert. January 2023.
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
In this episode of the BCMA Podcast, Lorenda Calvert (British Columbia Museums Association), Valerie Marlowe, and I had a conversation about museums, emergency preparedness, and how labor relations are linked to preparedness. We talked about emergency plans, why the planning process and the people involved in the process are the most important elements of the plan, and how risky it is to rely solely on the passion that drives your employees.
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Elle B
PRESENTER EMAIL: elbornem@udel.edu
SUBMISSION DATE: 01/28/2023
PRESENTATION TYPE: Professional
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: test
RELATED URL: https://www.facebook.com/disasterresearchcenter/
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
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Cornelia Posch
PRESENTER EMAIL: posch@udel.edu
SUBMISSION DATE: 01/27/2023
PRESENTATION TYPE: Professional
LOCATION: International
CITATION: BCMA Podcast: It’s a Work Emergency! How Labour Relations Impacts Emergency Planning in Museums. Cornelia Posch & Valerie Marlowe, in conversation with Lorenda Calvert. January 2023.
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
In this episode of the BCMA Podcast, Lorenda Calvert (British Columbia Museums Association), Valerie Marlowe, and I had a conversation about museums, emergency preparedness, and how labor relations are linked to preparedness. We talked about emergency plans, why the planning process and the people involved in the process are the most important elements of the plan, and how risky it is to rely solely on the passion that drives your employees.
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Cornelia Posch
PRESENTER EMAIL: posch@udel.edu
SUBMISSION DATE: 01/27/2023
PRESENTATION TYPE: Professional
LOCATION: International
CITATION: BCMA Podcast: It’s a Work Emergency! How Labour Relations Impacts Emergency Planning in Museums. Cornelia Posch & Valerie Marlowe, in conversation with Lorenda Calvert. January 2023.
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
In this episode of the BCMA Podcast, Lorenda Calvert (British Columbia Museums Association), Valerie Marlowe, and I had a conversation about museums, emergency preparedness, and how labor relations are linked to preparedness. We talked about emergency plans, why the planning process and the people involved in the process are the most important elements of the plan, and how risky it is to rely solely on the passion that drives your employees.
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Cornelia Posch
PRESENTER EMAIL: posch@udel.edu
SUBMISSION DATE: 01/25/2023
PRESENTATION TYPE: Professional
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: Working with Cultural Heritage and Disaster. American Institute for Conservation, Emergency Committee Meeting. November 9, 2022. Virtual.
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
In this talk, I gave an overview of the Disaster Science and Management Program at UD, the collection and the work of the E.L. Quarantelli Resource Collection at the Disaster Research Center, my professional background, and the ways in which I am connecting my interests and my research into cultural heritage, emergency preparedness, and disaster science. I shared examples of collaborations with agencies like DEMA (Delaware Emergency Management Agency), HENTF (Heritage Emergency National Task Force), and the National Heritage Responders, showed some of my favorite disaster memes, introduced the #NoNaturalDisaster philosophy, and suggested readings for those who are interested in disasters.
Rachel Davidson
PRESENTER EMAIL: rdavidso@udel.edu
SUBMISSION DATE: 01/25/2023
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: Davidson, R. Systems modeling in search of win-win solutions to coastal resilience. Shaw Lecture, Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, North Carolina State University, January 23, 2023.
RELATED URL: https://calendar.ncsu.edu/event/shaw_lecture_systems_modeling_in_search_of_win-win_solutions_to_coastal_resilience
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
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Rachel Davidson
PRESENTER EMAIL: rdavidso@udel.edu
SUBMISSION DATE: 01/25/2023
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION: International
CITATION: Davidson, R. Disaster research in support of public policy and interventions. Desafios en resiliencia de infrastructura critica para Chile, Santiago, Chile, 15 de diciembre 2022, invited talk.
RELATED URL: https://seminario.fondef.2022.ing.uc.cl/programa/
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
How researchers and practitioners can and should complement each other in disaster policy work.
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 05/13/2022
PRESENTATION TYPE: Professional
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: Fraser, R. J. (2022). “Mission First, Greyshirts Always: An Exploration into the Reintegration Experiences of Short-term Volunteers Following Disaster Response Operations.” Presentation and poster for the Florida Governor’s Hurricane Conference, West Palm Beach, FL. May 2022.
RELATED URL: https://flghc.org/
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
Presented the results of my thesis research both in poster and presentation formats.
I was also one of fifteen students selected for the 2022 Governor’s Hurricane Conference Student Scholarship.
I also had the opportunity to briefly talk with FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell and share my research with her!
Valerie Marlowe
PRESENTER EMAIL: marlowev@udel.edu
SUBMISSION DATE: 04/05/2022
PRESENTATION TYPE: Professional
LOCATION: International
CITATION: #490. COVIDCalls. 3/17/2022 RESTORING MEMORY: The COVID Archives. Scott G. Knowles in conversation with Adrianna Link (American Philosopical Society), Valerie Marlowe, and Cornelia Posch (both University of Delaware).
RELATED URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rObrs3UNR74
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
COVIDCalls are hour-long conversations with experts that have been streamed live on YouTube every weekday since March 16, 2020. In episode #490, Adrianna Link, Valerie Marlowe, and Cornelia Posch are in conversation with COVID Calls host Scott G. Knowles, reflecting on archives and libraries in the pandemic. We had a chance to talk about the COVID Collections project (https://wp.nyu.edu/disasters/covid-collections-project/) and collaborative collecting more generally, about library and archival work in a remote environment, and our recollections of the early days of the pandemic.
Jennifer Trivedi
PRESENTER EMAIL: jtrivedi@udel.edu
SUBMISSION DATE: 03/28/2022
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: Trivedi, Jennifer. 2022. Spoonies and Sacrificial Thanks: The Complexities of Moving through the COVID-19 Pandemic with Chronic Illness. Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) Annual Meeting. Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Hybrid. March 26.
RELATED URL: https://www.appliedanthro.org/annual-meeting/virtual-meeting-agenda
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
The COVID-19 pandemic sent shockwaves through the American healthcare system. Messages circulated to “flatten the curve” while “non-essential” treatments were canceled to help ensure the availability of medical care. However, those with chronic illness before the pandemic found themselves facing limited access to treatment, medication, and more. As the pandemic progressed, accessibility questions continued through vaccine distribution and reopenings, simultaneously closing down emerging forms of online accommodations. This work begins to explore the complicated reality for some people living with chronic illness before, and still during, the pandemic and the ways in which it has been both unaltered and transformative.
Sarah DeYoung
PRESENTER EMAIL: sedeyoun@udel.edu
SUBMISSION DATE: 03/24/2022
PRESENTATION TYPE: Parallel event held in conjunction with the 66th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women
LOCATION: International
CITATION: DeYoung, S.E. (2022). “Maternal & Infant Justice in Disasters”. Feminist Approaches to Justice Panel: Women, Disasters and Climate Change: The Research Speaks. NGO/CSW, Parallel 66th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women, March 23, 2022.
RELATED URL: https://ngocsw.org/ngo-csw-66/
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
Dr. DeYoung presented research and frameworks for improving maternal and infant justice in disasters. Her presentation included a critical examination of issues in disasters and complex humanitarian emergencies with a focus on nutrition, mental health, and pandemic support for birthing, pregnancy, and postpartum support systems.
Sarah DeYoung
PRESENTER EMAIL: sedeyoun@udel.edu
SUBMISSION DATE: 03/24/2022
PRESENTATION TYPE: Regional Mass Care Conference
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: DeYoung, Sarah. “Evacuation, Sheltering, & Companion Animals”. Regional Mass Care Conference. March 24th, 2022. King County Washington (multi-county meeting).
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
Dr. DeYoung spoke with over 140 practitioners at this Regional Mass Care conference about sheltering and organizational issues that arise related to companion animals in disaster evacuations.
R. J. Fraser
SUBMISSION DATE: 03/09/2022
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: Fraser, R. J., and DeYoung, S. E. (2022). “Maternal and Infant Vaccine Protection in the Age of COVID-19.” Presentation for the 2022 University of North Texas Disaster Preparedness, Response, Innovation, Mitigation, and Recovery (PRIMR) Conference, Denton, TX. March 2022.
RELATED URL: https://hps.unt.edu/2022primr
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
Maternal and infant vaccine decision-making during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Jennifer Trivedi
PRESENTER EMAIL: jtrivedi@udel.edu
SUBMISSION DATE: 02/19/2022
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: Trivedi, Jennifer. 2022. Recoveries, Risks, and Recognitions: Covid-19 and Chronic Illness in America Filtered Through an Autoethnographic Anthropological Lens. Center for Global and Area Studies Series “Global Viruses/ Global Virality.” University of Delaware. Newark, Delaware, USA. February 15.
RELATED URL: https://www.anthropology.udel.edu/news/Pages/Global-VirusesGlobal-Virality.aspx
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
Discussion of the impact of COVID-19 and the pandemic more broadly on people with immunocompromised status, chronic illness, and disability and how “questions of medical access, alongside its affordability and ableism in are in no way new with the pandemic, rooted in issues that long pre-date Covid, a not unexpected situation from the perspective of anthropology, disaster science, and disaster anthropology which have long explored how daily life and its problems set up the problems that make a virus into a disaster.”
AR Siders
PRESENTER EMAIL: siders@udel.edu
SUBMISSION DATE: 01/28/2022
PRESENTATION TYPE: Community/Volunteer
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: Siders, Managed Retreat Introduction for Rockport, MA, 25 Jan 2022
RELATED URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS-DEunQ0Ww
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
Public webinar providing an overview of why managed retreat as an adaptation option, an introduction to several types of managed retreat that might be useful, and a few scenarios of how managed retreat could be used in combination with other flood management strategies to address flooding at Long Beach in Rockport, Massachusetts.
M. S. Michaud
SUBMISSION DATE: 01/27/2022
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic, Professional
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: Michaud, M. S., Dubots, L., & Eosco, G. (2022, January). An EPIC dive into social science: An analysis of the community aspects of community modeling. 1st Symposium on Earth Prediction Innovation and Community Modeling. Oral presentation during the American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, Houston, TX.
Michaud, M. S., (2022, January). Who are we? Considering the “community” of social, behavior, and economic scientists and practitioners in the weather enterprise. 17th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice. Oral presentation during the American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, Houston, TX.
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
Oral presentation on findings from summer internship analyzing the sense of community within the Unified Forecast System (UFS) and Earth Prediction Innovation Center (EPIC) modeling community.
Raised questions about the sense of community within Social Behavioral and Economic research on the Weather Enterprise and the future of the field.
Moderated a panel of interdisciplinary researchers about how they have formed interdisciplinary teams.
Paige Fitzgerald
SUBMISSION DATE: 01/20/2022
PRESENTATION TYPE: Community/Volunteer
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: Fitzgerald, Paige ; Kelly, Joshua ; Posch, Cornelia. Delaware Asset Mapping Project, co-presented at the Delaware Libraries and Disasters Initiative Roundtable Meeting. January 20, 2022, virtual.
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
The Delaware Libraries and Disasters Initiative (DLDI) is a group of professionals from the library field as well as public agencies from across the state, such as the Delaware Medical Reserve Corps, Delaware Health and Social Services, or the Delaware Emergency Management Agency.
Together with Paige Fitzgerald (DEMA) and Joshua Kelly (former DEMA, now UD), we presented the Delaware Asset Mapping Project that had been initiated in late 2020. Supported by HENTF (Heritage Emergency National Task Force), cultural stewards and DEMA have built a comprehensive list of cultural assets in the state of Delaware and created a map that will be an important tool for response as well as mitigation efforts. We underlined the benefits of asset mapping, talked about steps to take to increase an organization’s resilience, to whom institutions can reach out before and after disasters, and about some of the challenges we encountered in creating and maintaining a database with consistent entries for a large number of very diverse institutions.
Jennifer Trivedi
PRESENTER EMAIL: jtrivedi@udel.edu
SUBMISSION DATE: 11/22/2021
PRESENTATION TYPE: Professional
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: Trivedi, J. 2021. Knowing Better, Losing Even More: The 2020 Corona Virus Pandemic in Anthropological Perspective as Discussed by a Panel of Disaster Anthropologists. American Anthropological Association (AAA) Annual Meeting. Invited Session. Baltimore, Maryland. Hybrid. November 20.
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
As part of the roundtable, Jennifer Trivedi discussed impact the Covid-19 pandemic has had on health care access for people with immunocompromised statuses, chronic illnesses, and disabilities, including care for Covid-19, Covid-19 vaccines, and treatment for non-Covid-19 medical issues.
Sue McNeil
PRESENTER EMAIL: smcneil@udel.edu
SUBMISSION DATE: 10/05/2021
PRESENTATION TYPE: Professional
LOCATION: International
CITATION: McNeil, Sue, (2021). “Infrastructure Resilience: A Framework for Assessment, Management and Governance,” World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, October 2021.
RELATED URL: https://www.17wcee.jp/
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
An international infrastructure resilience framework developed collaboratively by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Infrastructure Resilience Division (IRD) and the Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE) is presented. The framework supports the engineering of resilient infrastructure systems, provides opportunities for improved efficiency through standards, improves the global understanding of what makes infrastructure systems resilient, and focuses institutions on common research, development, and implementation goals. The framework identifies processes, tools and outcomes for system assessment, management, and governance useful for analyzing and designing systems prior to or following actual disruptions. Its structure does not dictate any specific computational models and allows numerous other processes to be utilized and interact.
Cornelia Posch
PRESENTER EMAIL: posch@udel.edu
SUBMISSION DATE: 09/23/2021
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION: International
CITATION: Posch, Cornelia. Delaware Public Libraries in Times of COVID-19. How Branch Libraries Adapted to Support Their Communities. Northern European Conference on Emergency and Disaster Studies. Online. September 21-23, 2021.
RELATED URL: https://www.needs2021.com/
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
The presentation gives insight into a pilot study conducted in the spring of 2021. An analysis of 22 months of library programming and services (July 2019 – April 2021) in five public libraries in Delaware investigates if and how the libraries shifted their operations in response to new and growing needs in their communities, generated by the disruption that the COVID-19 pandemic presents.
Cornelia Posch
PRESENTER EMAIL: posch@udel.edu
SUBMISSION DATE: 09/23/2021
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION: International
CITATION: Posch, Cornelia. Cultural Asset Mapping: Building Networks Among Cultural Steward and Emergency Managers. Northern European Conference on Emergency and Disaster Studies. Online. September 21-23, 2021.
RELATED URL: https://www.needs2021.com/
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
The presentation investigates issues that arise at the intersection of cultural heritage and disasters, and presents asset mapping as one example of “blue sky activities” that can have a significant impact on how cultural institutions fare in the aftermath of a disaster.
Part of this work is informed by the participation in the Delaware Project to Protect Cultural Heritage, a collaborative asset mapping effort by HENTF (Heritage Emergency National Task Force) and DEMA (Delaware Emergency Management Agency).
A. Ayala
SUBMISSION DATE: 06/10/2021
PRESENTATION TYPE: Professional
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: Ayala, A., & Pixley Lane., C. (2021) USBC National Breastfeeding Conference & Convening: 2021
Roundtable Discussion 6: Using social science to understand risk exposure & infant feeding in hazards & disasters. June 10th, 2021.
RELATED URL: http://www.usbreastfeeding.org/p/cm/ld/&fid=931
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
DISA Graduate Students Yajaira Ayala and Cotina Lane Pixley were presenters at the United States Breastfeeding Conference and Convening on June 10th, 2021. The title of their roundtable session was: Using social science to understand risk exposure & infant feeding in hazards & disasters.
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 05/27/2021
PRESENTATION TYPE: Professional
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: “Exotic Imperial: Sex Work in Tropical Borderlands.” Christopher Tharp. Law & Society Association (LSA) May 27, 2021 Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL. [virtual-hybrid meeting format].
RELATED URL: https://lsa-annualmeeting.secure-platform.com/a
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
My chapter “Exotic Imperial: Sex Work in Tropical Borderlands” concerns the case study of Puerto Rico; in this chapter, I employ the postcolonial framework of Sally Engle Merry and Homi Bhabha to demystify the way in which modern law was developed during / shaped by an era of imperial expansion and mercantilism. Modern law has come to define the “civilized” against the “decayed” society characterized by backwardness or lack of history. I seek to investigate how the colonial Anglo-American legal system’s regulation of everyday family, community, and work life in Puerto Rico throughout the late-19th, 20th, and early-21st centuries forms a fragment of the global processes of imperialism, capitalist expansion, and transition to modernity. Because the legacies of colonialism can only be understood through a detailed exploration of the colonial forms of the imposition of rule, I explore / denaturalize throughout this chapter the way in which the law has become one of the core institutions of neocolonial control, repression, exploitation, expropriation, and extraction.
My chapter emphasizes intersectionality by endeavoring to understand how colonial law has transformed and controlled racialized, gendered, and sexualized subjects— specifically Puerto Rican women of African descent— through constructions of desirability and narratives of assimilation within a normative, domesticated culture. When law is deployed to repress particular “Othered” subjects, it is done in two registers: the subject is simultaneously “dangerous” and “endangered.” In this way, law keeps citizens secure and away from danger; it also works to reform non-normative subjectivities to be incorporated into the “rights of man” and civilization. I also endeavor to understand how colonial subjects have mobilized or transgressed the imposed legal system in resistance. For those who have mastered its forms and language, the law provides ways of resisting capitalist appropriation of land and labor.
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 03/30/2021
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: Trivedi, Jennifer. 2021. Sharing Ideas & Joining Forces: Connections, intersections, and collaborations among Extraction & Environment, Risk & Disaster, and PESO. SfAA Annual Meeting. Norfolk, Virginia (Virtual). 3/22.
RELATED URL: https://www.appliedanthro.org/annual-meeting
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
A conversation about how we are and how we can be talking across areas of interest and larger problems around the world in different related anthropological organizations.
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 03/30/2021
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: Trivedi, Jennifer. 2021. “COVID-19: What Do Recoveries Look Like?” Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) Annual Meeting. Norfolk, Virginia (Virtual). 3/23.
RELATED URL: https://www.appliedanthro.org/annual-meeting
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
“What happens after COVID-19 will be a series of ongoing and long-term recoveries, experienced by different people in different ways in different time scales, rooted in a variety of different historical and cultural contexts.”
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 03/29/2021
PRESENTATION TYPE: Professional
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: The Political Economy of Puerto Rico’s Financial Debt Crisis and the Left-wing, Anti-austerity Response. Christopher Tharp. Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) Annual Meeting 2021. Norfolk, VA [virtual-hybrid meeting format].
RELATED URL: https://www.appliedanthro.org/application/files/9616/1676/2317/Final_Program_2021.pdf
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
My attempt at trying to understand or make sense of what Gov. Alejandro García Padilla in 2015 referred to as Puerto Rico’s “unpayable” $72 billion “death spiral,” referring to the debt— as well as paths forward.
Puerto Rico has become the frontline in the legal battle over debt sovereignty and the legal obligations of indebted governments to repay their creditors. A lack of regulatory controls within the politico-legal architecture of the U.S. neocolonial, neo-Mercantilist project has directly benefited speculative finance capital and intensified hedge fund speculation on the public debt. The right of hedge fund managers to pursue profits by suing Puerto Rico’s government in ‘friendly’ New York/Washington DC courts supersedes the Puerto Rican government’s right to protect their people through a ‘fiscal covenant’ of government spending on health, education, and labor and welfare protections. Due to international financial legal precedent established in the U.S. Court of Appeals, private creditors have largely remained unwilling to coordinate or cooperate to work out a mutually beneficial agreement. Instead, they have attempted to seek legal recourse to compel Puerto Rico to pay them in full.
It is only through zooming out to view disaster’s longue durée that intergenerational injustices might be perceived; this viewpoint is capable of discerning the way in which decades of socioeconomic marginalization, colonial and neocolonial extraction, dispossession, and assimilation (or cultural genocide), and generations of exclusion of BIPOC from earning relatively high incomes have conspired to disadvantage people of color in the Caribbean, in everything from health and life-expectancy to the systemic exposure to premature death. Austerity doesn’t work.
Contradictions in the global political economy can be resolved by means of collective actions and by building adequate common institutions. For instance, it is possible to build a mechanism through which world trade surpluses and deficits are automatically balanced through tax-and-transfer along the lines of a global central bank that can issue reserve money. Such institutions can be characterized as global Keynesian, framing questions of public economic policy and politics on the world economic scale. Global Keynesianism aims to regulate global interdependencies to produce stable and high growth, employment and welfare for everyone everywhere, simultaneously. Likewise, Piketty discusses various questions of European and world economic policy: the appropriate role of a central bank; whether inflation could be a solution to public debt and the need for redistribution. In other words, just keep printing money.
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 03/03/2021
PRESENTATION TYPE: Professional
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: Exotic Imperial: Sex Work in Tropical Borderlands. Christopher Tharp. 2021 LSA Graduate Student & Early Career Workshop. Chicago, IL. [virtual-hybrid meeting format].
RELATED URL: https://lawandsociety.site-ym.com/general/custom.asp?page=GSW
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
I was invited to participate in the 2021 LSA Graduate Student / Early Career Workshop, and I will be presenting this paper following the workshop at the 2021 Law and Society Association annual meeting.The workshop will be held virtually on 25 – 26 May 2021, immediately preceding the Law and Society Association annual meeting, which would have been held in Chicago, but will now be online. The Early Career Workshop received nearly 200 applications for the 50 seats. The workshop brings together a diverse group of scholars with empirically driven and theoretically rich interests in law and society. I will serve as a peer mentor on the other papers in my small group for the workshop.
My theoretical paper analyzes / problematizes the way in which the US established a bureau of vaccination in charge of public hygiene in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines in 1899 following the Spanish–American War. While I do not refute the necessity (or marvel of science / medicine) of vaccinations, smallpox vaccines were made compulsory in Cuba and elsewhere to allow travel to and from the United States to pursue trade and profitable mercantilism in the years preceding World War 1.
Even more problematically at this time, the US military— under the rubric of modern science and public health— enforced the legal technology of the CD Acts, required sex workers near bases where soldiers were stationed to be registered. Women suspected of selling sex, or women engaging in patriarchal sexual and economic arrangements but who did not recognize this as “prostitution” were increasingly vaginally inspected for signs of syphilis and confined to a hospital if found to be ill with venereal disease. The U.S. military began endorsing existing Spanish policies of protecting the families of gente decente (respectable people) from “rowdy”, “dark-skinned”, “immoral” women. This de facto regulation of sex work was formalized in 1905, and until 1917, sex workers (or women accused of sex work) were required to submit to weekly medical inspections and pelvic exams at hospitals or local police stations.
On the one hand, the US vaccination campaign to eliminate smallpox and quarantine those with leprosy and yellow fever in the Philippines and Caribbean was commendable, however, racist and ethnocentric assumptions about civilization, modernity, commerce, and “nuclear” families and domesticity, brought much harm as well. For instance, in the Philippines, sex workers near the U.S. Subic Bay naval base were still subject to coerced registration, painful and humiliating pelvic exams, and vaginal irrigations in 1989.
I argue that beginning in 1899 when America took possession of several former-Spanish island colonies, the US— through the decisions made by lawyers, politicians, and judges, bureaucrats and military officials, biologists, public health experts, social scientists, economists, demographers, missionaries, and Catholic bishops— constructed women of color as a public health crisis in need of a solution. The solution, that has considerable impacts lasting into the present (thinking about HIV/AIDs, and even the administration of COVID vaccines) for women and communities of color is that their bodies are endangered through the imposed legal and political economic order.
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 02/17/2021
PRESENTATION TYPE: Professional
LOCATION: International
CITATION: DeYoung, S.E. & Farmer, A.K. (2021). The impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Community-based animal programs in the United States. Global Animal Disaster Management Conference. February 17th, 2021.
RELATED URL: https://gadmc.org/
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
Sarah DeYoung and Ashley Farmer shared early findings from their new research on the COVID-19 pandemic and companion animal services in the United States. Their findings include major issues that animal services organizations as well as households face in animal care during COVID-19 illnesses, unemployment, and other critical issues. There were more than 75 people in attendance from all over the world for their online presentation.
Logan Gerber-Chavez
PRESENTER EMAIL: lmgc@udel.edu
SUBMISSION DATE: 01/29/2021
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: Gerber-Chavez, L. & Pavelea, A. (2020, October 16-17) Compound risk and Natech disaster management in Romania. Middle States Association of American Geographers (MSAAG) Annual Meeting, Hempstead, NY (Virtual)
RELATED URL: https://msaag.aag.org/annual-meetings/
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
3rd Place Award in the Paper Competition
The goal of this exploratory study was to investigate how authorities from Cluj, Romania consider and prepare for compound disasters, when multiple disasters happen subsequently or simultaneously, namely for events known as natech disasters, where a natural hazard triggers a technological hazard. In order to do this we talked to representatives from different entities at multiple levels of government, who deal with risk management and planning, regarding their organizations’ perception and handling of risks in the area. We found three main themes emerged from the interviews: (1) that the organization of government in Romania leads to fragmentation of the emergency management process and negatively impacts the ability to provide a comprehensive risk mitigation agenda; (2) that the representatives from each agency or research unit have different perceptions of the most dangerous and most important risks to be addressed and therefore are not matched on an aspect that should be complementary; and (3) there is no recognition of climate change as a real risk amplifier that will complicate current approaches to risk management.
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 01/08/2021
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: A logit-based stochastic user equilibrium model for the integrated scenario-based hurricane evacuation framework
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
Di successfully defended his PhD dissertation (title above) on January 7, 2021.
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 10/29/2020
PRESENTATION TYPE: Professional
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: Fraser, R. “Raising the Beer Flag: Bonding and Bridging Social Capital Among Disaster Response Volunteers as Protective Factors Against the Post-Deployment Blues.” Presentation and Poster for the International Association of Emergency Managers 68th Annual Conference, Virtual due to COVID-19. Fall 2020.
RELATED URL: https://www.iaem.org/usconf/program/poster-showcase
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
Received silver recognition; Presented thesis research about how social capital acts as a protective factor against the post-deployment blues among disaster response volunteers with Team Rubicon.
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 10/14/2020
PRESENTATION TYPE: Community/Volunteer
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: Knowles, S. (Producer. (2020, October 12). COVIDCalls small businesses and COVID-19 [Audio Podcast]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RdPeK3JogQ.
RELATED URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RdPeK3JogQ
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
Small businesses and COVID-19
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 10/05/2020
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: Hans Louis-Charles, Virginia Commonwealth University
Presenter: Farah Nibbs, University of Delaware
Rosalyn Howard, University of Central Florida
Lionel Remy, Behavioural Management Services
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
Justice Framework for Post Disaster Field Research in the Caribbean Region
This paper highlights the ethical challenges of gathering perishable data from communities impacted by disaster in the Caribbean region and provides a justice framework to navigate these ethical challenges. The post-disaster environment presents a multitude of ethical and logistical challenges for researchers interested in gathering timely and unpreserved data. However, there are social barriers and unspoken societal norms that can be greater obstacles for researchers considered outsiders to the community. Although a researcher may gain physical access to the “space” where a disaster occurred, gaining social access and the trust of community members require vastly alternative methods. In the Caribbean, this social barrier is compounded by a colonial and neo-colonial legacy of exploitation and the mistrust of predatory research conducted by outsiders. The authors highlight the challenges encountered from post-disaster fieldwork and community studies conducted between 1989 and 2017 along with the methods utilized to overcome these barriers. The disaster events covered include fieldwork conducted in St. Thomas and Montserrat after Hurricane Hugo (1989), Grenada after Hurricane Ivan (2004), the United States Virgin Islands following Hurricanes Irma and Maria (2017-2018), Dominica following Hurricane Maria, and the Bahamas following Hurricane Dorian (2019). Also, informing this study are community studies conducted in Bermuda (2008-2009), Jamaica (1995), and the Bahamas (1996-2012). Additionally, the authors conducted interviews with emergency managers and residents in four Caribbean countries (the Bahamas, St. Kitts & Nevis, Trinidad & Tobago, and Dominica) to gauge their opinion on external researchers and the possibility of their offices serving as coordinating centers. Ethical challenges covered include research ethics committees or institutional review board approval; local institutional oversight and capacity building; engaging in the acute phase; local and equitable collaborators; reciprocal travel by survivors; cultural competency; and sufficient compensation for research participants.
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 08/26/2020
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: Miller A, Kwok R, Packenham J, Lutrick K, Horney JA, Errett N, Peek L, Mistry A. Crossing silos and networking to advance environmental health disaster research. International Society for Environmental Epidemiology Annual Conference August 2020.
RELATED URL: https://www.iseepi.org/
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
How to leverage community engagement to conduct disaster response research.
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 07/23/2020
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: Cox, Z., & Kobokovich, A. (2020). Improving nationwide community resilience through self-assessment “rubrics” linked to a conceptual system dynamics computational model. Poster presented at the Natural Hazards Workshop. Boulder, Colorado.
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
The COPEWELL Rubrics and how they build on the COPEWELL computational model.
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 07/22/2020
PRESENTATION TYPE: Professional
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: Gerber-Chavez, L. & Pavelea, A. (2020, July 15). Compound risk and Natech disaster management perceptions and planning in Romania [Conference Presentation]. Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences Annual Conference, New York City, NY, US (Virtual). https://pheedloop.com/aess2020/site/home/
RELATED URL: https://aessconference.org/
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
The goal of this exploratory study was to investigate how authorities from Cluj, Romania consider and prepare for compound disasters, when multiple disasters happen subsequently or simultaneously, namely for events known as Natech disasters, where a natural hazard triggers a technological hazard. The risk for such disasters is amplified by population increase in Cluj and effects of climate changes, thus specific considerations are required in order to be prepared. In order to do this we talked to representatives from different entities at multiple levels of government, who deal with risk management and planning, regarding their organizations’ perception and handling of risks in the area. The topic evolved as the content of the interviews was based on the interviewee’s experience and expertise. We were not able to incorporate climate change policy implementation as a factor or method, because no one interviewed was working with any related policies. We found three main themes emerged from the interviews: (1) that the organization of government in Romania leads to fragmentation of the emergency management process and negatively impacts the ability to provide a comprehensive risk mitigation agenda; (2) that the representatives from each agency or research unit have different perceptions of the most dangerous and most important risks to be addressed and therefore are not matched on an aspect that should be complementary; and (3) there is no recognition of climate change as a real risk amplifier that will complicate current approaches to risk management.
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 07/04/2020
PRESENTATION TYPE: Professional
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: Young, Eileen “Complexifying Factors in Group Behavior in Fire Evacuation”. Hazards Research by New Professionals Panel, Natural Hazards Workshop, Virtual Event, July 15, 2020.
RELATED URL: https://hazards.colorado.edu/workshop/2020/session/hazards-research-by-new-professionals-2020?row=29
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
The Station nightclub fire and modeling it, as well as the emerging data from studying the Beverly Hills Supper Club fire, the differences emerging from the data, and the way COVID-19 has impacted research.
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 02/10/2020
PRESENTATION TYPE: Community/Volunteer
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: Tharp, Christopher. “The First Post-Postmodernist Catastrophe: Cultural Memory and the Affective Turn after 9/11.” Discussion and Q&A Session. Delaware Art Museum. Wilmington, DE. February 28, 2019.
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
While some museums are honest about their projects and visions, others disguise value-laden and didactic
curatorial work as simply documenting history and culture. Some museums, like the 9/11 Museum,
present master-narratives of history while excluding the voices of less powerful and often
marginalized stakeholders (such as those Muslims who were offended by the 7-minute video that
teaches visitors about Islamist practices and the history of Al Qaeda). Other museums, like the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, displays modern art that depicts violence in a manner more open
to interpretation. Specifically, a painting by Marlene Dumas titled “Osama” depicts the al-Qaeda leader
as a man with soft features, which undermines our idea of a monster and a hardened terrorist. The
painting prompts an uncomfortable combination of feelings like repugnance, but it also prompts the
viewer to see bin laden as a human being. Depictions of bin Laden in the 9/11 Museum intend to
teach us something about this man. Affect and emotion are powerful tools that are used in these
depictions to make their messages resonate.
Postmodernity has challenged many narratives of modernity: the teleological arc of history, the linear progress of civilization, and master-narratives (or meta-narratives) that privilege the voices of those with power and exclude those voices not powerful enough to contribute to our collective cultural memory. Particularly post-9/11, many of the narratives we have been told have been scrutinized, problematized, and refuted. Many of these narratives are troubled by art and literature. Should museums strive to control the interpretations that visitors come to about the art on display as they would if they were taking a class on the art, or should the art be allowed to speak for itself with very minimal interference from docents, curators, and didactic descriptions? What is the trade-off? Is there value in pursuing either as a goal? Is there a happy medium that museums should attempt to strive for?
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 02/10/2020
PRESENTATION TYPE: Professional
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: Tharp, Christopher. “Disaster Tourism and Nationalism in Post-Hurricane Maria Puerto Rico.” SfAA 2019 Society for Applied Anthropology. Portland, OR. March 21, 2019.
RELATED URL: https://www.appliedanthro.org/previous-meetings
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
Although Puerto Rico is suffering under draconian austerity measures imposed by the Financial Oversight and Management Board (“la junta”) as they restructure what is now an unpayable $78 billion debt, and although immediately after Maria, an estimated 2,000 people departed daily, (New York Times Ed. Board 2017), “The Emptying Island” and “brain drain” are nothing new.
Taken together, though, I argue that these are two crisis triggers that have led to a nation-changing critical juncture which will have enduring legacies. This is an opportunity to refigure the Puerto Rican nation as inextricably linked with the fate of the multicultural American nation (New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina); or, I predict that attitudes in Puerto Rico are being shaped by Hurricane Maria and the mishandled response, and these attitudes are inculcating a stronger Puerto Rican national identity.
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 02/10/2020
PRESENTATION TYPE: Professional
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: Tharp, Christopher. “Hurricane Maria: Crisis Trigger for a Critical Juncture in Puerto Rico.” 2019 Natural Hazards Workshop. Broomfield, CO. July 15, 2019.
RELATED URL: https://hazards.colorado.edu/workshop/2019
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
Although Puerto Rico is suffering under draconian austerity measures imposed by the Financial Oversight and Management Board as they restructure what is now an unpayable $74 billion debt; and although immediately after Maria, an estimated 2,000 people departed daily, the trope of the “emptying island” (Negrón-Muntaner 2019) is not a new phenomenon.
While Hurricane Maria might be considered exceptional by Caribbean standards, massive hurricanes are not a new phenomenon to Puerto Rico either. Taken together, though, I argue that these are two crisis triggers that have led to a nation-changing critical juncture which will have enduring legacies for the island.
The alternatives at this choice point in Puerto Rico’s history are stark: in the first scenario, the land, energy, food, and water are attentively and democratically managed by the Puerto Rican people in an exercise of collective sovereignty; in the second scenario—the scenario some have referred to as “Puertopia” (Klein 2018)—a small elite purchase the island out from underneath its residents, partially through the privatization of public goods and services.
I predict that attitudes in Puerto Rico are being shaped by Hurricane Maria and the mishandled response, and these attitudes are inculcating a stronger Puerto Rican national identity.
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 02/10/2020
PRESENTATION TYPE: Professional
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: Tharp, Christopher. “Rethinking Postcolonial Sovereignty through Mouffean “Artivism” in Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rican Diaspora.” SfAA 2020 Society for Applied Anthropology. Albuquerque, NM. March 18, 2020.
RELATED URL: https://www.appliedanthro.org/annual-meeting
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
In the postcolonial context, people are often already interpellated by Western government institutions that frame their communities and political futures in particular kinds of ways. In Puerto Rico, politics have traditionally been framed around the question of Puerto Rico’s status vis-à-vis the U.S.—constrained by the categories “statehood,” “commonwealth,” and “independence.” Puerto Rican critical artistic practice (or Mouffean “artivism”) struggles against post-Enlightenment Western hegemony by imagining political alternatives. Examining the artivism of Adál Maldonado and Pablo Delano, I analyze their aesthetico-political agendas to generate counter-narratives of popular sovereignty and dissent throughout contemporary Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rican diaspora.
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 02/10/2020
PRESENTATION TYPE: Professional
LOCATION: International
CITATION: Tharp, Christopher. “Situating “El Verano Boricua” Within Puerto Rico’s “Debt Crisis” and Hurricane Maria Recovery Process.” NEEDS 2020 Northern European Conference on Emergency and Disaster Studies. Östersund, Sweden. March 11, 2020.
RELATED URL: https://www.needs2020.com/
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
El Verano Boricua—specifically the island-wide strike and mass street protests which toppled Governor Ricardo Rosselló’s government—represents an agonistic moment in contemporary Puerto Rican politics. This moment is impossible to understand outside of a two-decade long economic recession, the decade-long “Debt Crisis,” austerity politics, and the long-term Hurricane Maria recovery process. The 2019 mass street protests emerged from the student strikes at the University of Puerto Rico, effectively organized boycotts of the referendum, political parties, labor union protests, feminist activism, anarchist and socialist collectives, environmental justice advocates, art, and many more sources that had become disenchanted with Puerto Rican politics and the promises of postcolonial sovereignty. Using historical research and interview methods, this paper will contextualize and historicize the contemporary emergency situation in Puerto Rico by situating it within these long-term processes.
In the moment of impact and in the wake of hurricanes and other disasters, the ability to recover is directly shaped by existing socioeconomic and racial inequalities. The risk?prone environments of the marginalized and rural-poor magnify the impacts of catastrophic events like Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico—exposing stark inequalities. Disaster?vulnerability and exposure to risk are unevenly distributed throughout every community—the situation being especially dire in Puerto Rico in the context of “Debt Crisis” and imposed austerity measures. Puerto Rico’s “Debt Crisis” has its origins in the ten-year phase-out of Section 936 of the U.S. Tax Code which began in 1996 and ended in 2006—the year Puerto Rico’s current depression began. Many U.S. corporations were initially drawn to the island through the strategy of “industrialization by invitation,” and then kept on the island throughout the 1970s period of trade liberalization with incentives in a special tax regime under Section 936. The phase-out of Section 936 triggered a deindustrialization process (Caraballo-Cueto and Lara 2018).
Not everything in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria has been negative, however. Spaces of popular, agonistic sovereignty have emerged in People’s Assemblies throughout Puerto Rico and the U.S. mainland, challenging disaster neoliberalism (privatization) and austerity measures imposed by the Financial Oversight and Management Board. Hurricane Maria exposed poverty, environmental injustice, and differential vulnerability, but since El Verano Boricua, a debate has opened for the need for a transformation of the island based on popular sovereignty.
References
Caraballo-Cueto, J. and Lara, J., 2018. Deindustrialization and Unsustainable Debt in Middle-Income Countries: The Case of Puerto Rico. Journal of Globalization and Development, 8(2).
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 02/01/2020
PRESENTATION TYPE: Community/Volunteer
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: Resilient and Sustainable Communities League (RASCL), Discussion hour, Dover, 13 Jan, 2020.
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
Concepts of equity in climate adaptation.
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 02/01/2020
PRESENTATION TYPE: Professional
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: Mid-Atlantic Climate Resilience, 20-20 Visions Conference, Citizens Climate Lobby, Wilmington, Jan 18, 2020.
RELATED URL: https://baltimore.civicaction.center/event/2020-citizens-climate-lobby-mid-atlantic-regional-conference
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
Climate vulnerabilities and adaptation strategies for the mid-Atlantic region.
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 02/01/2020
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: Georgia Institute of Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering Cross-Cutting Resilience Research Seminar, Jan 27, 2020.
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
Equity in climate adaptation and managed retreat.
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 12/02/2019
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: Stone KH, Akpalu Y, Horney JA. Use of Community Assessment for Public Health Emergency Response (CASPER) to assess influenza activity in Brazos County, Texas. Texas Public Health Association Annual Conference March 2019
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 12/02/2019
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: Horney JA, Rauscher EA, Newman G. Green infrastructure for flood control: How flooding contaminated parks and impacted resident perceptions of environmental health. National Council for Science and the Environment Annual Conference January 2019.
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 12/02/2019
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: Stone KH, Akpalu Y, Kirsch K*, Horney JA. Use of Community Assessment for Public Health Emergency Response (CASPER) method to assess influenza vaccination and activity in Brazos County, Texas, 2017 – 18. Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists Annual Conference June 2019
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 12/02/2019
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: Gloeckner PB*, Campbell-Salome GM*, Everett BE*, Horney JA, Rauscher EA. It’s just not something you think about: Resident perspectives of environmental health risk exposures after Hurricane Harvey. 69th Annual Meeting of the International Communication Association May 2019.
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 12/02/2019
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: Perez MJ*, Salter PS, Kirsch KR*, Casillas G*, Horney JA. Perceptions of environmental risk and desire for public apologies. Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues July 2019
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 12/02/2019
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: Hrysko M*, Hooks SK*, Karaye IM, Dixon B*, Kirsch KR*, Strickland C*, Horney JA. Applying disaster epidemiology methods to investigate potential health impacts of industry in environmental justice neighborhoods. American College of Epidemiology Annual Meeting September 2019.
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 12/02/2019
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: Kirsch KR*, Horney JA. Engaged environmental science: Empowering students and communities through accessible learning. National Conference on Health Communication, Marketing, and Media August 2019.
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 12/02/2019
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: Karaye I*, Ross A, Horney JA. Self-rated mental and physical health of hazard vulnerable U.S. Gulf Coast residents. Natural Hazards Center Annual Workshop July 2019.
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 12/02/2019
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: Karaye I*, Thompson C, Perez-Patron M, Taylor N, Horney JA. Estimating evacuation shelter deficits in the Houston-Galveston Metropolitan Area. Natural Hazards Center Annual Workshop July 2019.
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 12/02/2019
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: Camargo KM*, Unger MA, Knap AH, Wade TL, Sericano JL, Horney JA, Dellapenna TM, McDonald TJ, Chiu WA. Biosensor Technology Applications in Galveston Bay and Houston Ship Channel: Rapid Analyses for Soils and Sediments. NIEHS Superfund Research Center Annual Meeting November 2019.
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 12/02/2019
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: Horney JA, Perez-Patron M, Gearhart S*. Impact of Natural Disasters on Suicide Risk in the U.S., 1999-2014. APHA Annual Meeting November 2019.
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 12/02/2019
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: Preston LE*, Murray KO, Midturi JK, Hamer S, Pillai SD, Gorchakov R, Gulas-Wrobewski BE, Fisher RS, Horney JA. Investigation of the emergence of Typhus group rickettsiosis in Central Texas. American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Annual Meeting November 2019
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 12/02/2019
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: Tao Z, Zhu R, Newman G, Horney JA. Detoxifying Neighborhood Contaminants through Green Infrastructure Planning: An NIEHS Translational Framework Approach. NIEHS Superfund Research Center Annual Meeting November 2019.
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 12/02/2019
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: Zhu R, Tao Z, Newman G, Horney JA. Resilience through Regeneration: Counteracting the Effects of Urban Decline and Flooding Using the NIEHS Translational Research Framework. NIEHS Superfund Research Center Annual Meeting November 2019.
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 12/02/2019
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: Horney JA, Rauscher EA, Newman G. How flooding from Hurricane Harvey potentially contaminated parks and impacted resident perceptions of environmental health and resilience. Boston University Superfund Research Program’s Climate Change and Toxic Hazards Program, January 24, 2019.
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 12/02/2019
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: Horney JA, Stone KW, Casillas G, McDonald TJ. Assessing Environmental Justice Neighborhood Soils for Contamination after Hurricane Harvey Flooding. Soils Across Latitudes: 2018-2019 International Soils Meeting, January 9, 2019
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 12/02/2019
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: Karaye I and Horney JA. Innovative Methods in Disaster Epidemiology, Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists Disaster Epidemiology Workshop, Atlanta, GA, May 14, 2019.
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 12/02/2019
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: Horney JA, Karaye I. Building Emergency Preparedness and Response Capacity for Maternal and Infant Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Division of Reproductive Health and Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs, San Antonio, TX, March 13, 2019.
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 12/02/2019
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION: International
CITATION: Horney JA. Research to Resilience. East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Symposium, Hirosaki University, Japan March 11, 2019.
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 12/02/2019
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: Newman G, Horney JA. Integrating Citizen Scientists into Community-Engagement Cores: Neighborhood Scaled Contaminant Sampling with Urban Growth Planning, NIEHS Superfund Research Program Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, November 18, 2019.
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 11/10/2019
PRESENTATION TYPE: Professional, Community/Volunteer
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: Trivedi, Jennifer. 2019. Adaptation and Mitigation in Disaster Response and Long-Term Recovery. Lutheran Disaster Response (LDR) Consultation: Climate Mitigation and Adaption. New Orleans, LA, USA. October 17.
RELATED URL: https://www.elca.org/Our-Work/Relief-and-Development/Lutheran-Disaster-Response/
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
I presented on the intersections of adaptation and preparedness, long-term recovery, and climate change in disasters with discussions of my own research in Mississippi and my work at the DRC in Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina, and Hawaii and what did or did not work for people on the ground, including what people affected described as things they wanted or needed but didn’t get and things that they did get and appreciated. (Note the attached photos was taken by one of the attendees and shared on the group’s schedule app for the event.)
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 11/01/2019
PRESENTATION TYPE: Community/Volunteer
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: Siders, A.R. “Retreat – The R Word … When is it Time to Leave?” Newburyport, MA, 6 Nov, 2019.
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
A presentation on coastal hazards, adaptation strategies, and the prospect of relocation. Hosted by StormSurge.
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 10/19/2019
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION: International
CITATION: Otegui, Diego . 2019. “Relevant According to Whom? A debate on setting priority needs” Participant in the
Main Panel at the 2019 32nd ALNAP Annual Meeting. Active Learning Network for Accountability and
Performance in Humanitarian Action, October 15-17, Berlin, Germany
RELATED URL: https://www.alnap.org/upcoming-events/annual-meetings/alnap-32nd-annual-meeting
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
The panelist presented arguments for and against the application of tools and methods to define priorities for post disaster humanitarian interventions. The purpose of the panel was to confront the positions of experts that support the definition of global priorities, and those that support a more culturally sensitive approach to the provision of relief that contemplates the particular circumstances of the local population
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 10/18/2019
PRESENTATION TYPE: Community/Volunteer
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: Trivedi, Jennifer. 2019. Adaptation and Mitigation in Disaster Response and Long-Term Recovery. Lutheran Disaster Response (LDR) Consultation: Climate Mitigation and Adaption. New Orleans, LA, USA. October 17.
RELATED URL: https://www.facebook.com/ELCALDR
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
A discussion of how adaptation and mitigation emerge from disaster response and recovery, especially in response to hurricanes and flooding in the American South, in an era of climate change.
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 09/30/2019
PRESENTATION TYPE: Community/Volunteer
LOCATION: Domestic
CITATION: Siders, A.R., “Designing a Future NYC,” The Nature Conservancy Presents: Climate Change and Coastal Resilience, New Yorker Festival, 11 Oct 2019, New York, NY.
RELATED URL: https://festival.newyorker.com/tickets/the-nature-conservancy-presents-climate-change-and-coastal-resilience/
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
A panel examining the health of New York City’s coast lines in a climate changing world, and what this means for our future.
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 09/21/2019
PRESENTATION TYPE: Professional
LOCATION:
CITATION: Wachtendorf, Tricia. 2019. The Role and Needs of Academic Research in Disasters. Disaster Health State of Science Symposium. Washington, DC. April 25-26.
RELATED URL: https://www.usuhs.edu/ncdmph/research-education/disaster-health-education-symposium
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
Full video available at https://www.facebook.com/NCDMPH1/videos/319841532030816/?q=national%20center%20for%20disaster%20medicine%20and%20public%20health&epa=SEARCH_BOX at minute 1:39. We should likely try to download it.
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 09/21/2019
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION:
CITATION: Wachtendorf, Tricia. Disaster Planning for Near and Distant Future Events: Implications for Climate Change Adaptation. Presented at the 4th Northern European Conference on Emergency and Disaster Studies. Uppsala, Sweden. June 10-12.
RELATED URL: https://needs2019.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/needs-2019-schedule-order-of-presentations-1.pdf
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 09/03/2019
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION:
CITATION: Fraser, Roni. (2019). Demons of Disaster: Predictors of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Following Hurricane Ike. Presented at the Governor’s Hurricane Conference in West Palm Beach, Florida, May 2019.
RELATED URL: http://flghc.org/
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
Predictors of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Following Hurricane Ike (2008).
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 08/27/2019
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION:
CITATION: Al Ruwaithi, A. (2019). The Organizational Conflicts Impacting the Emergency Medical Services in Mass Gatherings: A Case Study of the Hajj. The 14th Conference of the European Sociological Association.
RELATED URL: http://europeansociology.org
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
The abstract:
The Hajj (or pilgrimage to Mecca) is one of the largest annual mass-gathering events, with a considerable international attendance. Over its long history, the Hajj has been prone to many documented risks, which require high-performance emergency medical services (EMS) systems. This study investigates the organizational factors that shape or impact the EMS delivery process within the Hajj mass gatherings. Nineteen semi-structured interviews were conducted with key informants, ambulance teams and police officers. Also, non-obtrusive observations for selected segments of mass gatherings in the Hajj was performed. A thematic qualitative analysis was applied to the data retrieved from the interviews and the ethnographic notes. The qualitative analysis reveals different issues affected the process of delivery EMS to the attendees of the Hajj mass gathering. The most reported obstacle hindering the EMS delivery is traffic control points managed by the police. The variations on police and EMS systems’ priorities lead to conflict significantly delaying EMS. The police focus on crowd disaster preventive measures, whereas EMS systems focus on response to urgent medical care calls. It was also noted that some patients deprioritize their medical needs as they focus on completing their ritual duties on time. Working on resolving issues highlighted by this study should promote the EMS services in the Hajj. The current study could inform future research on mass gathering medicine and crowd disasters about the necessity of considering the potential conflicts impacting the EMS response rather than a sole focus on medical demands or preventive measures.
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 08/26/2019
PRESENTATION TYPE: Keynote Seminar Speaker
LOCATION:
CITATION: DeYoung, S.E. (2019). Ethics & Integrity in Emergency Management. Jacksonville State University Doctoral Seminar (Invited Speaker). August 13th, 2019.
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
Dr. DeYoung was an invited keynote speaker for Jacksonville State University’s Emergency Management Program (doctoral seminar). She gave an interactive talk how public health, ethics, and integrity overall in disaster management.
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 08/06/2019
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic, Professional
LOCATION:
CITATION: Mankins, Aimee. (2019, July). Research Recalibrated: If you don’t know it, DRC It!. Poster presented at the 44th annual Hazards Workshop Bloomfield, CO.
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
ABSTRACT: An enduring challenge for practitioners and researchers is the difference between their communication styles. Researchers tend to communicate their findings to one another which inadvertently creates access and comprehension barriers for others. To address this challenge in the disaster science and management field, the Disaster Research Center developed “DRC It!” a convergent, communication initiative that consolidates known research findings for a specific topic and repackages the content for quick and scalable understanding. For each topic, an extensive literature review was conducted and common themes were identified across the sources. Four public-facing products were created: a full bibliography, a thematic synthesis, an executive summary, and a short animated video. These products allow emergency managers, media, and other stakeholders alike to access their desired level of detail on the subject. Topics are chosen based on expressed need by both practitioners and researchers. The two completed topics are “Hurricane Evacuation Decision-Making” and “Business Recovery Following a Disaster”. Additional topics are being developed to continue building a bridge between practice and research.
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SUBMISSION DATE: 08/06/2019
PRESENTATION TYPE: Professional
LOCATION:
CITATION: Complexities of Mass Fatality Incidents:
The difficulty in predicting data surge to promote preparedness and response
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
In response to the growing number of mass fatality incidents (MFIs) across the world and specifically in the United States, there is a need to both understand the nuances associated with MFIs and to create a better prepared and resilient community in the face of these tragic incidents. Recent terroristic events (2018 MSD High School 17 dead, 2017 Vegas Harvest Festival 58 dead, 2016 Pulse Nightclub 50 dead), natural disasters (2018 Camp Fire 88 dead, 2017 Hurricane Maria 64-2,900+ dead, 2011 Alabama tornadoes 348 dead) and transportation accidents (2018 NY limo crash 20 dead, 2018 Duck Boat 17 dead, 2016 Texas hot air balloon 16 dead) highlight opportunities to determine lessons learned and utilize data from After Action Reports to create a collaborative increase in preparedness for the future.
This proposed research focuses on the need presented by the NIST’s Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Science’s Disaster Victim Identification. It recognizes the urgency to move from anecdotal, single event data, to a comprehensive view of multiple MFIs to determine if there is a way to predict the surge in communication and data requests following an event. Predicted surge can then be utilized to promote policy and budgeting adjustment/changes in both the disaster management and first responder fields. The predictive model aims to provide objective data to support requests and needs for additional personnel, technology and infrastructure in any community nationwide, and potentially across the world.
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SUBMISSION DATE: 08/05/2019
PRESENTATION TYPE: Professional
LOCATION:
CITATION: Tharp, Christopher. 2019. “Hurricane Maria: Crisis Trigger for a Critical Juncture in Puerto Rico.”
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
Although Puerto Rico is suffering under draconian austerity measures imposed by the Financial Oversight and Management Board as they restructure what is now an unpayable $74 billion debt; and although immediately after Maria, an estimated 2,000 people departed daily, the trope of the “emptying island” (Negrón-Muntaner 2019) is not a new phenomenon.
While Hurricane Maria might be considered exceptional by Caribbean standards, massive hurricanes are not a new phenomenon to Puerto Rico either. Taken together, though, I argue that these are two crisis triggers that have led to a nation-changing critical juncture which will have enduring legacies for the island.
The alternatives at this choice point in Puerto Rico’s history are stark: in the first scenario, the land, energy, food, and water are attentively and democratically managed by the Puerto Rican people in an exercise of collective sovereignty; in the second scenario—the scenario some have referred to as “Puertopia” (Klein 2018)—a small elite purchase the island out from underneath its residents, partially through the privatization of public goods and services.
I predict that attitudes in Puerto Rico are being shaped by Hurricane Maria and the mishandled response, and these attitudes are inculcating a stronger Puerto Rican national identity.
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 08/05/2019
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION:
CITATION: Reshaur, L., Cox, Z. & Wachtendorf, T. (2019). An examination of collective violence and theories concerning collective behaviour during the 1992 Los Angeles Riot. Natural Hazards Workshop
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
The 1992 Los Angeles riot sparked by the acquittal of police officers accused of beating Rodney King has been frequently framed as a race riot (Gooding-Williams, 1993; Albert & Max, 1998). On the surface this appears plausible—obvious even. However, in exploring the event through data, this paper posits that class—not race—offers a more compelling explanation for the riot. Drawing on a comprehensive dataset from five sources, our analysis of literature published in the aftermath of the event applies deprivation, assembling and emergent norm theories to lead us to this conclusion. Our research determined that in the United States race and class are closely linked and this finding offers a new explanation of the riot: a disenfranchised population rebelling against its low socioeconomic status.
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 08/05/2019
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION:
CITATION: Dacey, Connor: The Perception of Storm Spotters as part of a Natural Hazards Integrated Warning System
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
The academic poster discussed preliminary survey results relating to my dissertation: The Perception of Storm Spotters as part of a Natural Hazards Integrated Warning System. It is important to note that these results were preliminary and are now out-of-date as new data has since been collected and is in the process of being analyzed.
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 07/31/2019
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION:
CITATION: Otegui, Diego. 2019. “International Deployments Under the Siege of Symbols” Presentation at the 2019 Natural Hazards Workshop, July 14-17, Colorado, United States
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
I presented a poster with the content of my doctoral dissertation. It is an analysis of the way in which humanitarian executives process information in order to make decisions about international deployments. The study improves our understanding of the convergence of actors in post-disaster contexts
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 07/27/2019
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION:
CITATION: Young, Eileen. 2019. Social Science in Modeling Fire Evacuation. Annual Graduate Student Forum, University of Delaware. Newark, DE. April 26.
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 07/27/2019
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION:
CITATION: Young, Eileen. 2019. Fire Evacuation Modeling and Social Science. Annual Graduate Student Conference for the Sociology and Criminal Justice Department, University of Delaware. Newark, DE. April 19.
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 07/25/2019
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION:
CITATION: Young, Eileen and Ben Aguirre. 2019. Group Loyalty in Fire Evacuation. Annual Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop. Broomfield, CO. July 17.
RELATED URL: https://hazards.colorado.edu/workshop/2019/researchers-meeting/overview
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
Does group loyalty break down in an emergency? When? The Station nightclub fire of 2003 has been modeled extensively because of a large and extensive dataset. Models of the Station fire, from both engineering and disaster science, showed dramatic differences from the dataset when it was assumed that people noticed a problem immediately or that they acted in a perfectly rational manner. Because evacuation was not rational but the results of that evacuation pointed to group ties as an important factor, this agent-based model is built around the idea of prevailing group loyalty as the norm. The model is built around individual priorities, and those priorities are in line with affiliative behavior patterns unless under extreme stress from environmental hazards. The degree of extreme stress required for abandonment of the group as a priority varies by level of group intimacy. Results support this model as more accurate than models which do not incorporate group loyalty.
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SUBMISSION DATE: 07/09/2019
PRESENTATION TYPE: Professional
LOCATION:
CITATION: ?
RELATED URL: http://flghc.org/
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
Predictors of acute post-traumatic stress disorder among Galveston and Chambers county residents following Hurricane Ike (2008).
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 07/02/2019
PRESENTATION TYPE: Professional
LOCATION:
CITATION: The Fourth European Conference on Emergency and Disaster Studies- NEEDS-
RELATED URL: https://needs2019.com
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
My conference was about the 2016 Water Crisis in San Andres, a Colombian Caribbean island, in which I analyzed if the crisis was an opportunity for change. Preliminary results indicated that islanders had the sense that a change would be possible to the intensification of the crisis through conflict. However, changes in the water sector were unusual and people continue having significant problems in the access to water in 2018 as in 2016. The institutional response was conservative preserving organizational structures and reinforcing the technocratic paradigm. There was not an opportunity for change for all. It was an opportunity for the private water company who got an additional 15 years to operate the water services on the island and two new desalinization plant to produce water. Sharing my research in this specialized conference enhanced my knowledge about crises. I could generate insightful discussions with experts in the field that allowed me to identify the same water issues in different parts of the world like Africa. Finally, this opportunity helped me to increase my academic social networking by connecting with researchers from Argentina, London, Sweden, Germany, Amsterdam within others.
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SUBMISSION DATE: 06/26/2019
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION:
CITATION: Berndt, Virginia Kuulei. 2019. “Drying Climates and Disproportionate Disease: Droughts and the HIV Burden among Women in Less-Developed Nations.” Paper presented at the Fourth Northern European Conference on Emergency and Disaster Studies, June 11, Uppsala, Sweden.
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
I presented research on the impact of droughts on women’s HIV burden in less-developed nations. There was a statistically significant relationship between droughts and women’s HIV burden in less-developed nations in my sample, where countries with higher percentages of population affected by drought held higher ratios of HIV cases among women compared to men. There was a statistically significant interaction effect as well, between drought and Sub-Saharan African location. This interaction effect suggests that the impact of droughts on women’s HIV burden is especially powerful in Sub-Saharan African nations, where, indeed, the pandemic is especially acute.
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SUBMISSION DATE: 06/06/2019
PRESENTATION TYPE: Community/Volunteer
LOCATION:
CITATION: Davidson, R., Blanton, B., Colle, B., Kolar, R., Nozick, L., Wachtendorf, T. The Integrated Scenario-based Evacuation (ISE) Tool, Interagency Coordinating Committee on Hurricanes Annual Meeting, Columbia, SC, June 4-5, 2019
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
Integrated Scenario-based Evacuation (ISE) tool, a new tool to support issuance of official hurricane evacuation orders.
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 05/09/2019
PRESENTATION TYPE: Professional
LOCATION:
CITATION: Nichting, C. , Marlowe, V.G., Davis, R., and Hawkins, D. (2019, April). Safeguarding Museums and Public Venues During Special Events and First Amendment-Protected Events. National Capital Region Threat Intelligence Consortium (NTIC) webinar for Infragard.
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
Brief summary of disaster myths, Charlottesville case study.
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 04/19/2019
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION:
CITATION: Young, Eileen. 2019. Student Panel. Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice 12th Annual Graduate Student Conference. Newark, DE. April 19.
RELATED URL: https://sites.udel.edu/scj-gc/graduate-student-conference/
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
Fire Evacuation Modeling and Social Science
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 03/25/2019
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION:
CITATION: Young, Eileen. (2019). Agent-Based Modeling of Evacuation from Fire Which Incorporates Group Loyalty: The Society for Applied Anthropology. Presentation, Portland, OR.
RELATED URL: https://www.sfaa.net/annual-meeting/
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
Agent-based modeling as an approach to disaster science allows for quantification of the social
forces explored in qualitative research. It also bridges social science and engineering when it
comes to simulating building egress in emergency situations. Incorporating social dynamics and
diverse individual motivations generates significantly more accurate results than egress simulations that do not incorporate a social dynamic, as demonstrated in simulation of evacuation
from the Station Nightclub fire which incorporates group loyalty as a motivating factor. ABM
contributes to more resilient infrastructure by demonstrating possible outcomes.
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 01/14/2019
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION:
CITATION: Horney JA, Rauscher EA, Newman G. Green infrastructure for flood control: How flooding contaminated parks and impacted resident perceptions of environmental health. National Council for Science and the Environment Annual Conference January 2019.
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
How the use of green infrastructure to mitigate flooding after Hurricane Harvey may have exposed residents using recreation areas to contaminated water and soils.
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 01/07/2019
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION:
CITATION: Miller A, Nakayama SF, Croissant S, Horney JA, Hughes C. Empowering and Involving Academia, Public Health, and At-Risk Communities in Vital Health and Exposure Research after Environmental Disasters. APHA Annual Meeting November 2018.
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 01/07/2019
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION:
CITATION: Kirsch KR*, Elizondo J, Salazar DDH, Washington S, Burdick T, Alvarez P, Horney JA. Engaged environmental science: Empowering students and communities through accessible learning, NIEHS Superfund Research Center Annual Meeting November 2018.
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 01/07/2019
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION:
CITATION: Horney JA, Stone KW, Kirsch KR*, Knap A. Partnering to improve understanding of chronic and acute neighborhood-level contamination, Manchester, Houston, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting December 2018.
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 11/06/2018
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION:
CITATION: Prof. Rachel Davidson (presenter), Dong Wang, Prof. Linda Nozick, Prof. Joseph Trainer, Prof. Jamie Kruse, and others. A computational framework to support government policy-making for regional disaster resilience, Duke University, Durham, NC, November 5, 2018.
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 11/02/2018
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION:
CITATION: Dissertation Defense: A COMPUTATIONAL FRAMEWORK TO SUPPORT GOVERNMENT DECISION-MAKING IN REGIONAL HURRICANE RISK MANAGEMENT
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
She passed!
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 10/11/2018
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic, Professional
LOCATION:
CITATION: Co-coordinator of the Ettersburg Ecohydrology Workshop
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
I was one of the co-coordinator and participants of the Ettersburg Ecohydrology Workshop, in Weimar, Germany, from October 1 to 4. This workshop focused on how the discipline of Ecohydrology (and allied fields) can help solve global water crises from an interdisciplinary perspective. The main objective of the workshop was to assemble some of the thought leaders in Ecohydrology and allied fields to specifically identify the research needs and gaps that must be closed in order for ecohydrologists to provide timely, relevant, and flexible research strategies (and data) to help mitigate some of the word’s water problems.
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 10/08/2018
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION:
CITATION: Davidson, R., Wang, D., Nozick, L., Trainor, J., Kruse, J., and others. A computational framework to support government policy-making for regional disaster resilience. Convergence of Performance-based Engineering with Urban Resilience Workshop, Stanford, CA, October 5, 2018.
RELATED URL: https://app.certain.com/profile/web/index.cfm?PKwebID=0x108290673f7&varPage=home
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
Computational framework for regional hurricane risk management
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 08/29/2018
PRESENTATION TYPE: Community/Volunteer
LOCATION:
CITATION: Young, Eileen (2018). Computer Modeling in the Social Science of Disasters. Presentation, New York.
RELATED URL: https://2018.pygotham.org/
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
Computer modeling of exactly what happens during a disaster isn’t just a cool way to understand things and make better disaster movies – it saves lives. And getting a social scientist involved means that it will be more accurate, because panic and perfectly rational behavior are both myths. Learn about disaster myths, exactly how social science can be used in disaster modeling, how it’s being used now, and why having more software developers involved would be great for everyone.
After this talk, you should have some ideas about the ways programming and social science are working together to make the future both more exciting and more predictable – and maybe ideas for a project of your own. There will be a somewhat long question period because of the subject matter.
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 08/11/2018
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION:
CITATION: “The Historical Construction of Social Vulnerability to Disasters on Madeira Island, Portugal (1800-2015” V. Nuno Martins
Paper presented at the 113th ASA Annual Meeting, August 11, 2018, Philadelphia
Thematic session: Race, Disasters, and Emotions
RELATED URL: https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/asa/asa18/
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
This presentation aimed to describe how the historical evolution of political, economic and social processes influenced the levels and patterns of social vulnerability to disasters on Madeira Island in the period from 1800 to 2015.
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 08/09/2018
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic, Professional
LOCATION:
CITATION: Al Ruwaithi, Abdulhadi and Joanne Nigg
A Methodology for Estimating Flood Risk: A Case Study of Long-Term Care Facilities
RELATED URL: https://hazards.colorado.edu/workshop/2018/abstract/index/poster-session
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 08/06/2018
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION:
CITATION: Sarmiento, F; Rivas, C; Al Ruwaithi, A; Kendra, J; Nigg, J. Hawaii’s Health Care Facilities’ Response to the False Ballistic Missile Alert. Poster presented at the 43rd Natural Hazards Workshop. Broomfield, Colorado. 2018
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
As part of a larger study funded by the National Science Foundation on health care facility resilience and emergency preparedness, this study would allow us to see how HC facilities (including their staffs, patients, and visitors) respond to low probability – high impact disaster events, giving us an insight into the types of behaviors that could become problematic.
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 07/31/2018
PRESENTATION TYPE: Professional
LOCATION:
CITATION: XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology. RC39 Sociology of Disasters, Livelihood Resilience and Vulnerability. Toronto, Canada July 15-21
RELATED URL: https://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/world-congress/toronto-2018/
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
Making Sense of the 2016 Water Crisis in San Andres, a Colombian Caribbean Island. October 2015, the Colombian Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies -IDEAM declared that the El Niño Phenomenon had reached severe conditions, and later, on July 13, 2016, reported conditions of neutrality. One of the affected areas was San Andres, a drought prone Colombian Caribbean island. On April 2, 2016, there were 11 road protests spread throughout the south-center of the island where the Raizales, an ethnic-minority group, and people from poor neighborhoods burned tires, blocked streets, and held up signs saying “We need water.” That was the official beginning of the water crisis, which had by then affected 14.000 people. On April 15, the local Government, for the first time in its history, declared a State of Public Calamity, attributing the causes of the the lack of water to the Niño phenomenon. Although the government established the Niño phenomenon as the only trigger, the ways in which the community framed and understood the water crisis were omitted. Acknowledging the importance of the community voice, this research analyzes the way the San Andres community and institutions made sense of the causes of the water crisis and the factors that made this crisis unique from others. 34 semi-structured interviews were conducted in August 2016 with a variety of stakeholders. The results show that officials were more inclined to framed the water crisis as a long-lasting problem triggered mainly by technical and natural issues. It was unexpected, something new, characterized by conflicts, violence and negotiations in which was necessary to act immediately. Three main causes were highlighted: 1) The Niño phenomenon, 2) overpopulation, and 3) lack of technology and water storage capacity. On the community side, people framed the water crisis as a problem where social issues like justice were predominantly named. This study helps to expose and understand the complexity of the San Andres water crisis and ultimately contributes to the prevention of repeated or more severe crises.
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SUBMISSION DATE: 07/23/2018
PRESENTATION TYPE: Professional
LOCATION:
CITATION: International Sociological Association World Congress XIX 2018: Research Committee 39 – Sociology of Disasters. “Differential Impacts of Disasters by Gender and Generation” session, Presentation Title: “Different Disasters, Differential Impacts: The Effect of Droughts and Floods on Women’s HIV Burden in Developing Nations.”
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
Environmental change is an under-examined factor impacting women’s health, globally. Climate-related disasters lack research in their connection to HIV, but nevertheless potentially have a tremendous impact on women’s health in a variety of ways. Drawing on ecofeminist perspectives as a theoretical basis, I conduct analyses examining if the HIV burden among women is higher in nations that experience elevated rates of floods and droughts. In so doing, I examine whether different disasters impact women’s health in different ways. Specifically, I posit that droughts, which are unpredictable, prolonged, and less understood, more negatively affect women’s HIV burden than floods. I utilize two cross-national datasets and conduct ordinary least squares (OLS) regression to explore and interpret these relationships between climate-related disasters and women’s HIV burden across developing nations. Overall, the results support the hypotheses, and also reveal important interaction effects between droughts and urban growth. Together, these findings suggest that suffering from disasters and moving to rapidly growing urban environments differentially impact women’s health, as transactional sex likely becomes a coping mechanism in the face of such hardships.
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 07/23/2018
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic, Professional
LOCATION:
CITATION: Natural Hazards Workshop, 2018: Hazards Research by New Professionals Session.
Virginia Berndt, University of Delaware, Disaster Research Center
“Compromised Contraceptive Access in Disaster Settings: An Analysis of State-Level Contraceptive Policies, Title X Clinic Availability, and Emergency Refill Laws in North Carolina and Illinois”
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
Despite an increasing focus on health and the intersection of gender and disaster, there are few empirical studies on women’s access to essential reproductive healthcare during and after disasters. Policy changes that run counter to the objective importance of contraceptives in maintaining reproductive health and resulted in a perception of women’s healthcare as superfluous or morally wrong. With a hegemonic perception of women’s reproductive healthcare as superfluous or morally wrong, are state-level contraceptive policies and emergency refill laws written in a way that compromises women’s ability to maintain an emergency supply of contraceptives and/or hinders their contraceptive access in disasters?
At the Natural Hazards Workshop in July 2018, I presented this paper which won the Natural Hazards Center Graduate Student Paper Award.
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SUBMISSION DATE: 07/19/2018
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION:
CITATION: • Chiquoine, R. “Making the Case for Better Models and Information Sharing of the Transportation Impacts Around Points of Dispensing During a Biological Event.” Poster for and Proceedings of the ASCE International Conference on Transportation & Development: Planning, Sustainability, and Infrastructure Systems, 336-344. Pittsburgh, PA. July 15-18, 2018.
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
Points of Dispensing (PODs) are locations that distribute medicine to populations during a public health biological event. Underestimated demand may lead to insufficient parking capacity and network congestion, causing distribution delays. A customized travel demand model provided a preliminary analysis of traffic impacts, using measures of effectiveness for the transportation network and POD operations. The case study modeled an aerosolized anthrax release in Wilmington, Delaware. Results indicated that although PODs did not significantly impact the surrounding network, localized congestion and large delays may occur at PODs depending on patient assignment, parking availability, and traffic management. Analysis underscored the need to model interactions between POD operations and the transportation network, revealed gaps in understanding of how patients will respond to biological events, and highlighted the need for parking management and mechanisms for sharing information about PODs. The objective of this paper is to address these issues through new and existing technologies.
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 07/19/2018
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION:
CITATION: Chiquoine, R. “When and Where: Investigating Travel Decisions during the Response to a Widespread Anthrax Release.” Poster for the 43rd Annual Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop. Broomfield, CO. July 8-11, 2018.
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
In the event of a large-scale biological outbreak, the public may need to receive medical countermeasures to protect against exposure. Points of Dispensing (PODs) are one strategy that require the public to pick up medicine at predetermined locations. The majority of POD planning and exercises focus on site location, layout, and staffing, but implicitly assume uniform and unrealistic behaviors on the part of the public. In reality, we have only vague ideas of how people would behave during this type of public health emergency. The purpose of this research is to investigate the travel decisions that the public would make during such an event, including if they would go to pick up medicine, to which POD location, and during what time of day. This poster presents preliminary findings of the public’s stated preferences during a hypothetical aerosolized anthrax release in Wilmington, Delaware. The survey also investigates how travel decisions differ depending on the time that PODs initially open. A discrete choice behavioral model will use this stated preference data to estimate spatial and temporal demand at POD locations. Understanding people’s behaviors will allow public health, emergency management, and transportation agencies to better respond and execute plans, promoting the goal to distribute medicine to the public in a timely and efficient manner.
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 07/18/2018
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION:
CITATION: Otegui, Diego. 2018. “The Weaknesses of a Strong Early Warning System. The Case of Mexico” Presentation at the 2018 Natural Hazards Workshop, July 8-12, Colorado, United States
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
In September 2017 Mexico experienced a sequence of events that stressed its Early Warning System (EWS). In 17 days it was hit by two earthquakes that triggered the system. It was additionally activated in three other circumstances.
In the city of Mexico, the EWS presents remarkable strengths. Despite asperities in the government, agencies from all levels have managed to work in coordination. Additionally, the entire emergency management system is well resourced. However, the national EWS has not been able to break through the constant harassment of economic and political convenience. The unfortunate outcome is a system that is unusually strong in the city of Mexico, to the detriment of the rest of the country that is practically unprotected.
In this paper I discuss the weaknesses and strengths of the Mexican EWS. The data were collected during a reconnaissance trip organized by the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) in October 2017
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 07/18/2018
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION:
CITATION: Ribeiro, F. (2018). The Connection Between Social Networks and Social Capital in Accessing Water. Poster session at the 43th Natural Hazards Workshop, Broomsfield-CO, USA.
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
This poster is the result of a field trip to Brazil to understand the social impact of the São Francisco inter-basin water transfer, the biggest water infrastructure in Latin America, built to mitigate the impacts of drought for the 12 million people living in the semi-arid region of Brazil.
The poster will show the methodology to collect data and some preliminary results of how social capital is used (or misused?) to get access to this new source of fresh water coming from the São Francisco inter-basin water transfer in the driest and poorest region of Brazil. For this study, social capital was defined as the by-product of social interactions that are embedded in and accessed via formal and informal social relationships with individuals, communities, and institutions. Evidence from different disasters has shown that social capital resources and networks are a vital part of community efforts to mitigate, prepare, respond, and recover from disasters. In drought-prone regions, researchers indicate that social capital contributes to promoting local adaptation to climate change, responsible use of water, and increasing agricultural productivity.
However, the preliminary results of this study show a dark side of social capital, where the quality of the relationship between local institutions, politicians, and families is a determinant factor to access fresh water during periods of drought.
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 06/12/2018
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION:
CITATION: 43rd Annual Conference, Caribbean Studies Association (CSA). Education, Culture and Emancipatory thought in the Caribbean. Havana, Cuba, 4th to 8th of June 2018.
RELATED URL: http://www.caribbeanstudiesassociation.org/annual-conference-2018/
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
Panel: Territoriality and Environmental Justice in San Andres island. Abstract: Small Caribbean Islands are common tourist destinations and are vulnerable to effects of climate change. San Andres, a Colombian island, has experienced water stress resulting in a water crisis in 2016. This talk discusses the relationship between water injustice and water crisis; an adaptive governance approach and the incorporation water justice, tourism, and drought preparedness are recommended to delineate water public policies.
Finally, the researcher also participated in the CSA Environment and sustainability Working group to discuss issues of regional policy integration for sustainable development.
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SUBMISSION DATE: 05/21/2018
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION:
CITATION: Title of Paper: The Role of Volunteered Geographic Information in Disaster Management
Conference: The Third Northern European Conference on Emergency and Disaster Studies, March 21-23, 2018
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
We are in the era of rapid emergence of web-based services that have enabled the collection and dissemination of geospatial information from the public, giving rise to the idea of using Volunteer Geographic Information (VGI) to aid disaster management. The presentation delved into the current state of knowledge in the developing field, potential empowerment through VGI and provide recommendations for further research.
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 05/02/2018
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION:
CITATION: Trivedi, Jennifer. 2018. Disaster After Disaster: How Experiences with and Knowledge of Past Disasters Influences Perceptions of and Reactions to Future Disasters. Dr. Sue McNeil’s DISA 680: Disaster Science and Management Seminar. University of Delaware. March 5.
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A discussion of how experience with previous disasters influences people’s experience with, knowledge of, and decision making in disasters, particularly focused on the case study of Biloxi, Mississippi and how experience with or knowledge of Hurricane Camille (1969) influenced people’s behavior in Hurricane Katrina (2005).
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SUBMISSION DATE: 05/02/2018
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
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CITATION: Trivedi, Jennifer. 2018. THIS IS NOT A DRILL: Studying Responses to and Perceptions of Hawaii’s False Missile Alarm on January 13, 2018. Dr. Tricia Wachtendorf’s SOCI 325: Disasters and Society. University of Delaware. February 20.
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A presentation of initial findings from the Hawaii false missile alert research trip in January 2018, along with a discussion about methods and approaches used in the field.
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SUBMISSION DATE: 05/02/2018
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
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CITATION: Trivedi, Jennifer. 2018. Disaster Research in Anthropology & History. Guest Speaker for Dr. Eve Buckley’s HIST 268: Hurricanes, Earthquakes & Drought: Social History of Disaster in the Americas. University of Delaware. March 6.
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A discussion with undergraduate history students on disaster work in history and anthropology.
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SUBMISSION DATE: 05/02/2018
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
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CITATION: Trivedi, Jennifer. 2018. Should I Stay or Should I Go? Planning and Decision Making for Sheltering in Place, Evacuation, and Displacement in American Disasters. Anthropology Department’s Displacement Colloquium, Spring 2018. Newark, DE. March 8.
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Before a disaster strikes, emergency managers begin planning and sharing information with citizens about where to go. But when warnings and disasters begin, many people find themselves making evacuation decisions in the moment. This can lead to a series of displacements, including people sheltering in place, evacuating in advance to locations further away, and evacuating during the disaster to nearby shelters or available locations. Examining these decisions through case studies of American warnings and disasters provides insight into disaster displacement and decision making.
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SUBMISSION DATE: 04/28/2018
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
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CITATION: Trivedi, Jennifer M., and Slotter, Rachel A. “Ethical Disaster Research Using Qualitative Methods: How Do We Recognize Small Communities Who Feel Abandoned?” Presentation for the Third Northern European Conference on Emergency and Disaster Studies, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. March 21, 2018.
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This presentation focused on the use of qualitative methods during disaster research. The presentation used the cases of Biloxi, MS post-Hurricane Katrina and Rockport, TX post-Hurricane Harvey to understand the ethics involved in conducting disaster field research.
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SUBMISSION DATE: 04/23/2018
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
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CITATION: Chiquoine, R. “Initial Insights into the Response to a Biological Public Health Emergency.” Presentation for the Graduate Student Forum. University of Delaware, Newark, DE. April 20, 2018.
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Rachel presented on several key hypotheses from the initial round of dissertation data collection, focus groups with agencies involved in a public health emergency response. The hypotheses include the need for education through communication, how people will behave during this event type, and response capabilities.
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SUBMISSION DATE: 04/07/2018
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
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CITATION: Trivedi, Jennifer M., & Slotter, Rachel A. “Ethical Disaster Research Using Qualitative Methods: How Do We Recognize Small Communities Who Feel Abandoned?” Presentation for the Third Northern European Conference on Emergency and Disaster Studies, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. March 21, 2018.
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This presentation used the cases of Biloxi, MS post-Hurricane Katrina and Rockport, TX post-Hurricane Harvey as an avenue to discuss the nuances of disaster research ethics. Topics addressed included trauma, issues of entree and access, and distrust of outsiders.
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SUBMISSION DATE: 04/07/2018
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
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CITATION: Trivedi, Jennifer M., and Slotter, Rachel A. “We Can’t Be Forgotten: Perceptions of Post-Hurricane Aid in Rockport, TX and Biloxi, MS.” Presentation for the 78th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Philadelphia, PA. April 6, 2018.
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This presentation discussed ongoing work which provides a comparative analysis of the disaster experiences of smaller affected communities compared to their larger affected counterparts. This work uses the cases of Biloxi, MS post-Hurricane Katrina and Rockport, TX post-Hurricane Harvey to discuss how issues of lack of aid, differences in media coverage, and feelings of abandonment shape long-term recovery processes in these communities.
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SUBMISSION DATE: 03/17/2018
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
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CITATION: “Violence, Sugar, and Sustenance: Intimate Partner Violence against Young Women in Less-Developed Countries involved in Sugar Daddy Relationships.” University of Delaware Annual Graduate Student Forum, April 2017, Newark, DE
RELATED URL: http://grad.udel.edu/forum/
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“There is much quantitative and qualitative literature on intimate partner violence (IPV) within relationships between teen women and adult men. Most of this research is based in developed nations, but there is also a growing body of literature focusing on gender-based violence in less-developed countries (LDCs). One topic that warrants further investigation is the risk of IPV against young women , in the context of “sugar daddy” relationships in LDCs. Sugar daddy relationships often involve younger, poorer women and older, more affluent men, where younger women receive gifts or money in exchange for sexual activities. Sugar daddy relationships are on the rise in LDCs, due to a lack of formal employment opportunities arising from restricted access to education, ascribed role as family caretaker, and the emerging Westernized expectation to be a “modern woman” who uses expensive beauty products. Taking place in nations where traditional gender roles and male power are more prevalent, sugar daddy relationships in LDCs may hold a higher risk of IPV for young women. Thus, in this paper, I explore and review extant literature and propose two questions for future research: (1) “Are young women in LDCs in sugar daddy relationships especially vulnerable to IPV?” and (2) “Do nations with a higher prevalence of sugar daddy relationships also have a higher prevalence of IPV against young women?””
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SUBMISSION DATE: 03/17/2018
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
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CITATION: “Complicating and Contextualizing Barriers to Contraceptive Use.” Eastern Sociological Society Annual Conference, Philadelphia, February 2017
RELATED URL: http://www.essnet.org
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“Long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) is the most effective reversible contraception available, and relative to its efficacy, has minimal side effects. Yet, in the U.S., fewer than 10% of reproductive age women use them. There is a wealth of literature identifying barriers to women’s uptake of such methods, including lack of knowledge, side effects, and access. However, beyond the listing and identification of what those barriers are, little is known about how or why they exist. In other words, there is a lack of contextualization around what is hindering women’s use of LARC methods. To provide and interrogate such context, we conducted in-depth interviews with 100 racially and socioeconomically diverse women of reproductive age. Examining women’s contraceptive behaviors sociologically not only situates and reveals the nuances of the barriers, but also demonstrates their variation across sociodemographic lines. We find that barriers are situated within a structure influenced by familial background, doctor-patient communication, and medicalization. For instance, it is not simply knowledge, but the attainment (how we learn about), utilization (whether to present knowledge to physician) and application (focus on effectiveness vs side effects) of that knowledge which differentially shapes contraceptive use across women. Put simply, knowledge is a barrier for women across socioeconomic strata, but how and why it deters utilization of LARCs varies by context. Ultimately, women across the social milieu fall through the cracks in receipt of LARCs. Understanding what those cracks are and how they are constructed allows for improved reproductive health for all.”
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SUBMISSION DATE: 03/09/2018
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
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CITATION: Daimon, H., & Atsumi, T. (2017). “Pay it forward”: extending a post-disaster altruistic support in Japan, The Japan-US Science Forum 2017, Harvard University.
RELATED URL: http://jspsusa.org/wp/11182017_the-japan-us-science-forum-2017-in-boston-cambridge-ma/
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This research reports the altruistic response (i.e. sending supplies) to the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake (henceforth, the 2011 Tohoku EQ), especially focusing on the possibilities of extending “pay it forward” volunteerism following a disaster. Japan has a lot of serious disasters (e.g. Earthquake, Tsunami, Typhoon, eruption, etc.), which not only damage to lives and infrastructure, but also cause the shortage of essential supplies such as foods. As the emergence of volunteerism widely since the 1995 Kobe Earthquake in Japan, many volunteers tried to send the supplies, and recently they created a chain of support among survivors, called the “pay it forward” network. Following the 2011 Tohoku EQ, 2004 Chuetsu EQ survivors-turned-volunteers helped the people in Noda village, which suffered from the 2011 Tohoku EQ and Tsunami. Those who were survivors in Chuetsu were also helped by the survivors in the 1995 Kobe EQ. In this research, firstly we demonstrate the determination of the supporters who sent supplies to the affected areas, comparing with those of the other supporter (e.g. donation and volunteering) by Multi-level analysis using survey data (N=1679). Secondly, to investigate the effect of “pay it forward,” we reveal that the experience that people were helped by others in past disaster before the 2011 Tohoku EQ positively affected to sending supplies; in contrast, the disaster experience without being helped by others did not. On the whole, “pay it forward” would accelerate the supports increasing psychological debt through the past “being helped” experience.
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SUBMISSION DATE: 02/14/2018
PRESENTATION TYPE: Professional
LOCATION:
CITATION: http://eventinfo.speakercall.com/iaem2017/Speaker/Browse
RELATED URL: https://iaemconference.info/2017/
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Navigating Disaster Preparedness in India: Could We Have Anything in Common?
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SUBMISSION DATE: 12/14/2017
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
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CITATION: Zeinab Jasour, Rachel Davidson, Joseph Trainor, Jamie Kruse, Linda Nozick. “Modeling homeowner retrofit behavior for wind and flood”. Society for Risk Analysis Annual Meeting, Arlington, VA Dec. 11-13, 2017.
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SUBMISSION DATE: 12/14/2017
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
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CITATION: Kun Yang, Rachel Davidson, Linda Nozick, Brian Blanton, Brian Colle. “Comparison analysis of robust, adaptive, and repeated official hurricane evacuation order decision-making”. Society for Risk Analysis Annual Meeting, Arlington, VA, Dec. 11-13, 2017.
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The poster analyzed impact of updated hurricane forecast on hurricane evacuation with the Integrated Scenario-based Evacaution framework.
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SUBMISSION DATE: 12/11/2017
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
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CITATION: 2017. Trivedi, Jennifer. Epistemologies of Disasters. Panel Chair. Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting. Santa Fe, NM. March 31.
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Panel chair for the panel on “Epistemologies of Disasters” at the Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting in Santa Fe, NM on March 31, 2017.
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SUBMISSION DATE: 12/07/2017
PRESENTATION TYPE: Professional
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CITATION: Clay, L.A., Papas, M.A., Gill, K.B., Abramson, D.A. (2017) “Food Insecurity during Long-Term Recovery from Hurricane Katrina: A Longitudinal Analysis.” Poster presentation at the American College of Epidemiology Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana.
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This study examines long-term food insecurity in households heavily impacted by Hurricane Katrina. Risk and protective factors for food insecurity during long-term recovery from Hurricane Katrina were identified in sample of 683 households participating in the Gulf Coast Child and Family Health Study. Improved policies and programs to ensure access to food supplies for vulnerable households are needed to reduce adverse health consequences following disaster.
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SUBMISSION DATE: 12/07/2017
PRESENTATION TYPE: Professional
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CITATION: Clay, L.A., Papas, M.A., Gill, K.B., Kendra, J.M., Abramson, D.A. “Post-disaster food environment.” Panelist at the 145th American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA.
RELATED URL: https://apha.confex.com/apha/2017/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/387042
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This presentation reports on results from a longitudinal analysis of food insecurity during long term recovery from Hurricane Katrina and observations about the food environment in the context of our changing environment on a panel focused on feeding cities in an uncertain world.
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SUBMISSION DATE: 12/07/2017
PRESENTATION TYPE: Professional
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CITATION: Clay, L.A., Greer, A., Ventura, D. (2017) “Influence of Resource Loss, Debt, and Health on Disaster Recovery from the Moore, Oklahoma 2013 Tornadoes.” Poster presentation at the Natural Hazards Workshop, Broomfield, CO.
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
Presented on the association observed between resource loss, debt, and health on disaster recovery among household recovering from the Moore, OK 2013 Tornadoes.
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SUBMISSION DATE: 12/04/2017
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
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CITATION: Moderator. The Legacy of Enrico L. (Henry) Quarantelli. Panel Session at the 42nd Annual Natural Hazards Workshop. University of Colorado Boulder, July 2017.
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Moderated panel in honor of E.L Quarantelli
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SUBMISSION DATE: 09/14/2017
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
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CITATION: Davidson, R. Computational framework for modelling earthquake risk to infrastructure systems. University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, September 7, 2017.
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
Civil infrastructure systems, such as water supply networks and electric power systems, are vulnerable to earthquake damage, are critically important for emergency response and community functioning. A great deal of research has been conducted to understand earthquake risk associated with these systems and to determine how best to manage it through improved component design, upgrades, and operations. The problem is challenging for several reasons. First, understanding system performance requires the system be considered as a whole rather than addressing each component separately; the functioning of system components are spatially correlated; there is a great deal of uncertainty in earthquake occurrence, ground motions, component damage, and system functionality; there are many mitigation plans that must be considered; and as a result of these issues, the problem is very computationally demanding. In this seminar, we will present a computational framework to support risk assessment and risk reduction decision-making for infrastructure systems that aims to address these challenges. Results from related research projects, each of which represents a step in the framework, will be discussed. These include a method to develop a small set of probabilistic ground motion maps to represent the seismic hazard for analysis of spatially distributed infrastructure; a method to develop a small set of probabilistic damage maps that can be used to efficiently evaluate system-wide upgrading plans; and statistical models of water supply pipeline damage. The first and last include applications to Christchurch. The seminar will conclude with thoughts on extension of the framework to connect infrastructure and social resilience.
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SUBMISSION DATE: 09/14/2017
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic, Professional
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CITATION: Davidson, R. Tipping points and nonlinearities in earthquake disasters: Challenges and implications for modelling. QuakeCoRE annual meeting, September 6, 2017, Taupo, New Zealand, invited plenary speaker.
RELATED URL: http://www.quakecore.nz/annualmeeting/speakers_programme/
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The goal of earthquake risk analysis is not to predict exactly what will happen in the event of an earthquake but rather to describe the uncertainties involved and support decision-making given those uncertainties. But what if we cannot even adequately characterize the uncertainty? Particularly as we look farther into the recovery period, it can become difficult to even identify the range of possible hazards and consequences, and to describe the probabilities of consequences under different possible actions, all of which are requirements of conventional risk analysis. In August 2010, could anyone have predicted how events of the next seven years would unfold in Christchurch? Should we have anticipated and planned for the complex combination of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear incident in T?hoku, Japan?
In this talk, we first introduce concepts from a wide literature that can help think about the challenge of earthquake events and recoveries in their full complexity. These concepts, which include tipping points, the butterfly effect, self-organization and emergent behavior, feedback loops, black swans, and perfect storms, can help understand the limits of predictability and conventional modeling. We then discuss ideas for how to plan, given those limits. We discuss how we might extend or complement our existing models to support decision-making that acknowledges the inherent unpredictability of city’s trajectory following a major earthquake using, for example, robust or adaptive decision-making. Finally, we conclude with thoughts on the implications of these ideas for New Zealand and possible next steps for the community of earthquake researchers and practitioners.
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SUBMISSION DATE: 08/16/2017
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
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CITATION: Lasher, M., & Richardson, R. (n.d.). Multi-Perspective Evacuation Performance Measurement (J. Trainor & T. Williams, Eds.) [Scholarly project].
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Ryan and Maxwell discussed the Evacuation Performance Measurement Survey and our roles within the DRC during the summer of 2017. We informed the audience on techniques to increase potential respondent rates for survey feedback and how to identify demographics of a zip code’s population using census data aggregation. Ryan discussed his literature review on pet’s role in evacuation while Max talked about the changing concept of the role of gender in evacuation performance.
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SUBMISSION DATE: 08/01/2017
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
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CITATION: Marlowe, V., Martins, V.M., Kendra, J., Wang, Q., and Igusa, T. (2017). The Data Mirage: Challenges and Limitations of the Use of Local Data in Understanding Disaster Impacts. Poster Presentation: 42nd Annual Natural Hazards Workshop. 2017 Jul 9-12; Broomfield, CO.
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Abstract: Resilience has increasingly become a national priority in the public and private sectors of the United States, but efforts by scholars in recent years to better understand what makes communities resilient, and how to build resilience in communities that are not, have been hampered by difficulty accessing and utilizing appropriate and relevant data. In an era of Big Data, where data is unceasingly collected by everything from government agencies to smartphones, data regarding crucial indicators of pre- and post-disaster community functioning are neither accessible, nor tailored to goals of resilience-building, allowing for an idea of resilience that can only be blurry and approximate. In an effort to understand more about the data that local communities collect, and further examine the data landscape in the United States (along with the concomitant possibilities and limitations of data collection to support the development of a model of community recovery), the authors conducted an exercise in data collection. The goal of this exercise was to undertake an organized, qualitative attempt to understand what types of data are collected at the local level, and with what frequencies. This was primarily accomplished through analysis of six disaster case studies, chosen to represent a variety of geographic scales and locations, and impacts of various types of hazard, with differing levels of impact severity. This poster presents the findings of this project, including depiction of data collected for the pre- and post-disaster period in each community.
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SUBMISSION DATE: 07/31/2017
PRESENTATION TYPE: Professional
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CITATION: Penta, Samantha. 2017. “Figuring Out Where to Start: Developing Situational Awareness in Crisis Events.” Poster Presented at the Natural Hazards Workshop, July 9 & 10, Broomfield, CO.
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SUBMISSION DATE: 07/31/2017
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
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CITATION: Poster Title: Adaptive Spatial Management for Fires at the Wildland Urban Interface
Conference: Natural Hazards Workshop
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This project focuses on the problem of fire in the wildland urban interface. Specifically, the automation of fuel mapping using remotely sensed data such as aerial photographs (with Near Infrared) and Lidar, is investigated. The research focuses on a small neighborhood located in Orinda, California. Structures such as buildings, homes, roads, and the variability of land use and the heterogeneity of vegetation are essential items in defining the difference between wildland and wildland urban interface fire. For the purpose of scale and manageability, a small portion of the neighborhood known as Sleepy Hollow is analyzed. The research first defines and identifies the wildland urban interface through the use of aerial imagery and other ancillary spatial information. An automated mapping process is developed to extract vegetation, houses, and other urban structures. The process demonstrates that the automation of fuel identification is possible but that further development is warranted. It is also observed that mapping and modeling fuels in the wildland urban interface is impeded by the heterogeneity of the human designed landscape. Mapping and modeling potential fires in the wildland urban interface is valuable, informs the community regarding potential damage caused by such an event and leads to mitigation strategies and plans that can help reduce risk of a catastrophic firestorm. Experimenting with and automating such a study brings us closer to being able to cost effectively map and model all wildland urban interface regions in California.
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SUBMISSION DATE: 07/31/2017
PRESENTATION TYPE: Professional
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CITATION: Trainor, Joseph, Pamela Murray-Tuite, Praveen Edara, Konstantinos Triantis, Taylor Williams, Tatiana Daychman, Mirla Abi Abad, Yohan Chang, Anthony Cario, Atizaz Ali. (2017). “Multi-Perspective Evacuation Performance.” Poster Presented at 42nd Annual Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop. Broomfield, Colorado.
RELATED URL: https://hazards.colorado.edu/workshop/2017/abstract/index/poster-session
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This poster describes a project that combines sociological, engineering, and economics approaches to explore the question of what makes an evacuation a success or a failure. This question is explored from two perspectives: that of the transportation agencies charged with managing an evacuation, and that of the individual households who participate in the evacuation. Through focus groups, a survey, and simulations, this project is exploring how these two groups experience evacuations, and by what criteria they deem an evacuation “good” or “bad”. The project will attempt to quantify these criteria into measurable variables, which can be used to form models to evaluate how much of a success or failure an evacuation is, according to these two perspectives. These models could be used to evaluate the impact of different evacuation strategies, in order to enable authorities to conduct evacuations that are more successful, both for the agencies that manage them and the households that participate in them.
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SUBMISSION DATE: 07/31/2017
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
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CITATION: Otegui, Diego, 2017 “Post-Disaster Institutional Logics. Understanding its implications for international convergence” Natural Hazards Workshop
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The purpose of this study is to improve our understanding of convergence in the aftermath of an international disaster. The concept of convergence relates to the idea of “movement or inclination and approach toward a particular point by interested and impacted individuals or groups” (Fritz and Mathewson 1957, p.3). Following the institutional logics theory, this research proposes that the convergence of individuals, material and information in a disaster milieu, is the outcome of institutional forces that drive action of those who are involved in the process of making decisions about the deployment of personnel toward a disaster. These logics are important because they influence how people filter and make sense of the situation around them. Further, it is important to explore the effects of institutional logics to understand how they compare, compete, or combine their influences. Better understanding how these logics affect post-disaster decision making will shed light on several important aspects of post-disaster convergence, such as what are the underlying motivations that determine if a person chooses to intervene, the goals of the converging parties and ultimately, the scale, scope and composition of those converging groups. The chosen data gathering methodology is a purposeful sampling of individuals that have been identified as decision makers in past disaster events. A total of approximately 30 decision makers will be interviewed using a semi-structured questionnaire. The interviews will be transcribed in full and analyzed using a directed approach to test for the presence of the different institutional logics.
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SUBMISSION DATE: 07/19/2017
PRESENTATION TYPE: Professional
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CITATION: Wachtendorf, Tricia. 2017. “Findings Presented at the 4ICUDR.” Invited panelist for the International Conference on Urban Disaster Reduction panel, Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop. Broomfield, CO. July 12.
RELATED URL: https://hazards.colorado.edu/workshop/2017/session/international-conference-on-urban-disaster-reduction
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SUBMISSION DATE: 07/19/2017
PRESENTATION TYPE: Professional
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CITATION: Nelan, Mary, Tricia Wachtendorf Samantha Penta. 2017. “The Social Construction of Donations: Agility, Adaptability, and Alignment as Success Determinants in Relief Supply Chains.” Poster presented at the Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop. July 9-12.
RELATED URL: https://hazards.colorado.edu/workshop/2017/abstract/index/poster-session
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The convergence of material donations following disaster events is often dubbed a “second disaster” with non-priority and unnecessary goods causing transportation and storage challenges to the community of survivors. Interviews were conducted following Hurricane Sandy in 2013 and two tornadoes outside of Oklahoma City in May 2013. By utilizing the Triple-A model (agility, adaptability, and alignment), which has previously been applied to commercial and humanitarian supply chains, and the social construction paradigm, we investigated how stakeholders understand donations and the roles of the features of the Triple-A model in the disaster relief supply chain.
Findings illustrate conflicting views about the necessity for agility, adaptability, and alignment. The findings reveal that individuals involved in the supply chain differentially assign value in the donations process, including if they value donor needs over survivor needs, and if cash or material items are of greater value to the donors and survivors. Agility, the timing, flexibility, and reaction time in the supply chain, was viewed as necessary to a healthy supply chain, however, there was not a universal understanding of how to achieve an agile supply chain. Overall, alignment of donor interests and survivor interests was constructed as necessary by stakeholders in the disaster affected community. However, donation drive coordinators lacked a clear understanding of how to align the interests of survivors and donors. Lastly, adaptability to structural changes was constructed as necessary, except in the cases of individuals and organizations that placed a higher value on donor generosity over survivor interests.
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SUBMISSION DATE: 07/19/2017
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
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CITATION: Li, Q.X. (2017). Rebirth and Challenges: the Fieldwork in Ethnic Settlements in the Post-Reconstructed Sichuan. Poster session presented at the 42nd Annual Natural Hazards Workshop, Broomfield, CO.
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Eight years after the massive Sichuan Earthquake in China, the author revisited several quake-affected ethnic settlements, focusing on their reconstruction work and its impacts on local society. The findings indicate that the economic status of these reconstructed sites vary due to differences in geographical location, cultural backgrounds, industrial structure and reconstruction type
( reconstruction on original site, nearby, or relocation)
The newly-emerged tourism in the quake zone, in forms of ethnic tourism and disaster tourism, have played a critical role in local economic recovery. Generally, the places that retained the purest ethnic cultural tradition show great economic vitality after the reconstruction by developing ethnic tourism. Ethnic communities that have assimilated to the dominant Han culture are now undertaking great efforts to rejuvenate their cultural tradition by changing the appearance of their communities and re-inventing new ethnic villages/towns. As the ethnic culture in these communities is misleadingly presented, local economy is depressed, and people are struggling to making a living. Moreover, the findings also suggest that disaster tourism has a decay curve and cannot be a sustainable industry and that there are difficulties in protecting large-scale earthquake ruins. This study provides insight into the post-disaster reconstruction issue, and impacts of the reconstruction on social, cultural and economic aspects.
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SUBMISSION DATE: 07/18/2017
PRESENTATION TYPE: Community/Volunteer
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CITATION: Wachtendorf, Tricia. 2017. Improvising Disaster. Resilient Calgary Symposium. Mount Royal University, Calgary, Canada. May 18.
RELATED URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlGJGfZA9MQ&feature=youtu.be
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SUBMISSION DATE: 07/17/2017
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION:
CITATION: Beste, C. (2017, July). From Pulled Pork to PoBoys: The Impact of Forced Migration on Host Communities. Poster presented at the 42nd Annual Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop, Broomfield, CO.
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Using Houston, Texas as a case study following Hurricane Katrina, the current study applies the lens of acculturation to understand forced migration from the perspective of both the displaced and host community members. To establish acculturation as a core theoretical framework, I will conduct in-person semi-structured interviews to the point of saturation. Information gleaned through interviews will be coded and analyzed according to specific acculturation variables. These variables include language, social groups, daily habits, education, employment, celebrations, general knowledge, and specific cultural habits and customs.
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SUBMISSION DATE: 07/17/2017
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
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CITATION: Shen-Chang Lin, McNeil Sue, and Earl Lee II, “GIS-Based Information Needs of First Responders in Highway Emergencies”, Poster session presented at the 42nd Annual Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop, Broomfield, Colorado, July 2017.
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GIS-Based Information Needs of First Responders in Highway Emergencies—The failure of highway infrastructure, such as a bridge collapse, flooding, hazmat spills, or other disasters, may cause extensive network disruptions in terms of both temporal and spatial scales. In these dynamic and complex traffic conditions, first responders often have to function with little and incomplete information. Access to real time traffic data using geographic information systems (GIS) applications offer an opportunity to improve first responders’ situational awareness and decision making in response operations. To better understand the information needs of first responders in highway emergencies and the usefulness of GIS tools this research gathers the practical perspectives of first responders. Specifically, the research focuses on enhancing police’s situational awareness and understanding related information needs because police take more responsibility of traffic emergency operations compared to other first responders and have many shared responsibilities with transportation authorities ranging from scene management to large-scale traffic control. The research utilizes in-depth semi-standardized qualitative interviews with State Troopers, local police, and emergency managers to understand the role of police, procedures, challenges, and information needs in highway emergency response. In addition, a survey is used to identify the GIS-based information that fits the needs of police and improves situational awareness. Four GIS-based functions, traffic information capturing, navigation assistance, operation planning, and traffic condition monitoring, are evaluated by interviewees. The research findings are intended to guide the development of GIS applications in highway emergency response for improving police’s situational awareness and response performance in the future.
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SUBMISSION DATE: 07/17/2017
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
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CITATION: Poster presentation at the Natural Hazards Workshop, Broomfield, CO. July 8-12, 2017.
RELATED URL: https://hazards.colorado.edu/workshop/2017
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Title: “Disaster Risk Reduction or Disaster Risk Expansion? An assessment of risks associated with the Sao Francisco Inter-Basin Water Transfer in the semiarid of Brazil”
This paper analyzes from a risk studies perspective the Sao Francisco Inter-Basin Water Transfer (SFIWT), which is the main project of the Brazilian Government to mitigate the impacts of drought in the semiarid region of Brazil. If on one hand it is expected that the SFIWT will benefit the poorest population of Brazil with reliable freshwater and increase social-economic development in the semiarid region (Meller, 2011), on the other hand, it is also creating new and potentially more destructive risks than drought for the whole country. Failures on the hydraulic system, unforeseen climatic events, environmental degradation, and man-made actions are considered by many specialists a real threat to the existence of the Sao Francisco river, some of its tributaries, and even other watersheds.
Far from being just a critique, this paper analyzes the SFIWT to better understand the characteristics that make this water transfer project to be considered a high-risk system and an even bigger threat to the country than drought. The analysis relies on an integrated view of main environmental, social, and economic risks created by the SFIWT and asks: “Is the Sao Francisco Inter-basin Water Transfer project reducing or expanding risk of disasters in Brazil?”
Key words: Risk, drought, inter-basin water transfer
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SUBMISSION DATE: 07/13/2017
PRESENTATION TYPE: Professional
LOCATION:
CITATION: Slotter, R. A., Trainor, J. E., Davidson, R., Kruse, J., & Nozick, L. “An Interdisciplinary Approach to Modeling Multiple Stakeholder Decision-making and Reduce Regional Natural Disaster Risk: Homeowner Insurance and Mitigation Decisions.” Poster Presentation for the 42nd Annual Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop, Broomfield, CO. July 2017.
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
Despite private sector and policy interventions, the current system of managing natural disaster risk in the United States remains problematic from the perspectives of government, insurance industry, and homeowners. Prior research has resulted in extensive knowledge about how individuals and organizations make risk-related decisions, as well as the strategic behavior of the industry. However, efforts to understand how stakeholder choices interact as a system have been limited. This poster presents findings from several analyses of homeowner decision-making. These have been created as part of a project to produce an integrated set of mathematical models, in a game theoretic framework, that can be used to better design and evaluate natural disaster risk management policies. This broader framework includes: stochastic optimization models of (1) government regulation and incentive decisions and (2) insurer pricing and risk transfer decisions, (3) a Cournot-Nash model of insurer competition, (4) an empirically-based model of individual homeowner insurance and mitigation purchase decisions, and (5) a component-based regional loss and retrofit simulation model. Ultimately, this framework will provide a structure to allow for the integration of these elements in a way that advances our understanding of how the entire natural disaster risk management system works.
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SUBMISSION DATE: 07/13/2017
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
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CITATION: Chiquoine, R., Liu, Y., Lee, E., and McNeil, S. “Infrastructure Resilience: Measures for Roads and Bridges.” Poster for the 42nd Annual Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop. Broomfield, CO. July 2017.
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Rachel presented a poster on the development and testing of quantifiable resilience measures for transportation infrastructure, specifically bridges and pavement. Several case studies were performed to test resilience measures developed for other areas, such as earthquake engineering.
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SUBMISSION DATE: 06/29/2017
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION:
CITATION: Graduate Student Forum
Panel 4: Natural Disasters: Managing Responses & Assessing Impact
University of Delaware
April 13, 2017
RELATED URL: http://grad.udel.edu/forum/
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Title: “Main contributions of the concept of Resilience to Disaster Risk Management”
This presentation focused on the usefulness of the concept of resilience in disaster science and management. Even though divergent and even conflict definitions of the concept of resilience were found among different scientific perspectives, it is clear that discussions around these themes have brought some useful insights, contributions and changes in the way disasters are understood and managed.
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SUBMISSION DATE: 06/22/2017
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
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CITATION: Chiquoine, R. “Patient Decisions’ Influence on Traffic Impacts at Points of Dispensing for Medical Countermeasures.” Presentation for the Graduate Student Forum. University of Delaware, Newark, DE. April 13, 2017.
RELATED URL: http://sites.udel.edu/gsg/
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Biological events, such as influenza pandemics or bioterrorism attacks, require interagency coordination between public health, emergency management, transportation, and other state and local agencies to formulate and implement response strategies. One such strategy is a Point of Dispensing (POD), a clinic that distributes medical countermeasures during a public health emergency. The majority of POD planning, training, and exercises focus on internal processes (such as site location, layout, and staffing). However, external processes such as traffic management and parking capacity have the potential to affect POD operations, and therefore should also be researched and recognized in POD plans. Using a case study of anthrax attack, I modeled the traffic impacts of multiple POD site operations in Wilmington, Delaware. The model’s underlying behavioral assumptions were very simplistic and did not accurately represent traffic on the transportation network. To understand how patients will respond to biological public health events, I identified five distinct decisions during an event: “if,” the compliance with the requirement to go to a POD; “where,” the POD they will go to; “when,” the time they will depart for the POD; “how,” the mode of transportation they will use to get there; and “route,” the path they will use to get there. These decisions are influenced by socioeconomic factors, past experiences, and understanding of the biological event. Future research will investigate and incorporate these decisions into a behavioral model within the traffic impact model, providing a more realistic representation of traffic behavior on the road network during POD operations.
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SUBMISSION DATE: 05/12/2017
PRESENTATION TYPE: Professional
LOCATION:
CITATION: “When Disaster Strikes: Are You Prepared?” Presented at “Charting New Courses Together” MLA & DLA Joint Library Conference, May 11, 2017, Cambridge, MD.
RELATED URL: http://www.mdlib.org/files/docs/conference/MLAProgram.pdf%20%20%20%20SEE%20PAGE%2011%20FOR%20PRESENTATION
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Every library is at risk for some type of natural or human-caused disaster, whether a burst pipe,
vandalism, hurricane, flood or other event. Will your library be prepared to respond to and recover from whatever happens? Presenters Pat, Sharon and Laura will discuss simple and economical ways that your library can prepare for what might come. The workshop will also include a demonstration of how to properly handle paper-based wet materials including drying techniques to minimize further damage since water is the most common problem faced in disaster situations
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SUBMISSION DATE: 04/27/2017
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
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CITATION: Trivedi, Jennifer. Disaster Response and Long-Term Recovery. Guest Lecture: Dr. Bria Dunham’s SAR HS 345: Global Environmental Public Health Class. Sargent College, Boston University. April 27, 2017.
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Guest lecture on fieldwork and findings from short and long-term recovery from Hurricane Katrina in Biloxi, Mississippi, including the effects of Katrina on the area and the impacts of socioeconomic class status, political and economic inequality, climate change, and other disasters (especially the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill) in disaster preparedness and recovery efforts.
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SUBMISSION DATE: 04/24/2017
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION:
CITATION: Slotter, R. A. “The Role of Emotion on Hurricane Mitigation.” Presentation for University of Delaware 7th Annual Graduate Student Forum, Newark, DE. April 2017.
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This presentation gave an overview of the theorized role emotional responses play long-term on hazard mitigation decision making processes. This work proposes a new application of the Theory of Planned Behavior as a means of better understanding how attitude may impact intention to complete mitigation actions.
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SUBMISSION DATE: 04/13/2017
PRESENTATION TYPE: Community/Volunteer
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CITATION: Kendra, James, and Tricia Wachtendorf. 2017 American Dunkirk: The Waterborne Evacuation of Manhattan on 9/11. Osher Lifeline Learning Institute. Wilmington, DE April 6.
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
On April 6, DRC directors James Kendra and Tricia Wachtendorf discussed their book American Dunkirk with a group of approximately 175 students participating in a Current Issues course at the Wilmington, DE Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.
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SUBMISSION DATE: 04/04/2017
PRESENTATION TYPE: Academic
LOCATION:
CITATION: “We don’t evacuate here” vs “we didn’t know”: Comparing and Contrasting Choices and Knowledge in Flood and Hurricane Evacuation Decisions
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I presented a discussion of American Gulf Coast residents’ ideas about a local culture of non-evacuation and a lack of information and how these issues combined with local knowledge and tradition, personal experiences, and perceptions of disasters affected their decisions in hurricane and flood preparedness and evacuation decision making. This was based initially on my Master’s and dissertation research on post-Katrina recovery in Biloxi, Mississippi in 2006, 2010, and 2011 and with additional examples from DRC research under NSF award #1331269 in Louisiana flooding in 2016.
I also chaired the panel my paper was on, “Epistemologies of Disasters.”
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SUBMISSION DATE: 03/15/2017
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CITATION: The Integrated Scenario-based Evacuation (ISE) Framework
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SUBMISSION DATE: 02/02/2017
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CITATION: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Household Strengthening and Insurance Decisions
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SUBMISSION DATE: 02/02/2017
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CITATION: see comment
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I attended and serve on the Steering Committee for the new RAPID center. I did not make a presentation.
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SUBMISSION DATE: 01/05/2017
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LOCATION:
CITATION: Modeling homeowner hurricane insurance purchasing behavior.
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No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 12/20/2016
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LOCATION:
CITATION: Modeling homeowner hurricane insurance purchasing behavior
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No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 12/19/2016
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LOCATION:
CITATION: An Integrated Scenario-based Evacuation (ISE) Framework for Hurricane Evacuation Modeling
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No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 11/08/2016
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LOCATION:
CITATION: An integrated scenario ensemble-based hurricane evacuation modeling framework
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
Not a conference. It was an invited seminar as part of a seminar series: http://www.ccpo.odu.edu/seminar.html
I attached a photo of myself giving the presentation. Do you need the actual powerpoint too?
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SUBMISSION DATE: 11/01/2016
PRESENTATION TYPE:
LOCATION:
CITATION: “Decisions Beyond Treatment: Creating the Operational Context for Crisis Medical Care”
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
The presentation itself took place in Wellington, NZ
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SUBMISSION DATE: 09/13/2016
PRESENTATION TYPE:
LOCATION:
CITATION: Panelist and Moderator, “I Am A Volunteer”
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No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 09/13/2016
PRESENTATION TYPE:
LOCATION:
CITATION: Before and After: New York City Preparedness and Recovery
Around Hurricane Sandy
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No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 09/01/2016
PRESENTATION TYPE:
LOCATION:
CITATION: Safeguarding the Charters of Freedom from Nuclear Attack in 1975: Agency Convergence and Idea Divergence
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
2016 SAA Research Forum: http://www2.archivists.org/proceedings/research-forum/2016/call
2016 SAA Research Forum Agenda: http://www2.archivists.org/proceedings/research-forum/2016/agenda
2016 SAA Research Forum Posters: http://www2.archivists.org/proceedings/research-forum/2016/agenda#posters
Abstract / Bio: http://www2.archivists.org/sites/all/files/MarloweJohnson-ResearchForumAbstractBio2016.pdf
Poster: http://www2.archivists.org/sites/all/files/JohnsonMarlowe-ResearchForumPoster2016.pdf
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SUBMISSION DATE: 08/30/2016
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CITATION: Statistical Modeling of Christchurch Water Pipeline Damage
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
This was a presentation to the Christchurch City Council. The data I use for my Masters research was supplied by this council. The goal of the presentation was to update the council of my work and to show them the value of their data collection efforts.
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SUBMISSION DATE: 08/30/2016
PRESENTATION TYPE:
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CITATION: A System Disconnected: Perspectives on Post Disaster Housing Recovery Policy and Programs.
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SUBMISSION DATE: 08/30/2016
PRESENTATION TYPE:
LOCATION:
CITATION: Navigating the Future Landscape of Hazards Practice and Research
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
This was already posted to FB but I never filled out the official form
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SUBMISSION DATE: 08/30/2016
PRESENTATION TYPE:
LOCATION:
CITATION: Session#1- Organizer and Moderator- Disasters-Race, Class, and Inequity
Session#2- Organizer and Moderator- Disasters- Migration and Relocation
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I was not able to get a picture for this
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SUBMISSION DATE: 08/29/2016
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LOCATION:
CITATION: The usefulness and practical application of the concept of resilience in disaster management
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
I was one of the presenters in the plenary roundtable of “RÉSILIENCE ET PLURIDISCIPLINARITÉ” (Resilience and Multidisciplinarity).
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SUBMISSION DATE: 08/02/2016
PRESENTATION TYPE:
LOCATION:
CITATION: Disaster Vulnerability Across the Life Course
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No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 08/02/2016
PRESENTATION TYPE:
LOCATION:
CITATION: Hurricane Evacuation Behavioral Aspects: Integrated Findings from two NSF Projects
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No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 07/29/2016
PRESENTATION TYPE:
LOCATION:
CITATION: Differential Experience in Disasters: Is there really too little time to “walk a mile in your shoes”
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 07/29/2016
PRESENTATION TYPE:
LOCATION:
CITATION: The Disaster Research Center: Current Project and Opportunities
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
This was an invited presentation for the agency’s training day
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SUBMISSION DATE: 07/29/2016
PRESENTATION TYPE:
LOCATION:
CITATION: The Disaster Research Center: Current Project and Opportunities
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
This was an invited presentation for the agency’s training day
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 07/29/2016
PRESENTATION TYPE:
LOCATION:
CITATION: Navigating the Future Landscape of Hazards Practice and Research
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 07/29/2016
PRESENTATION TYPE:
LOCATION:
CITATION: Of Earthquakes and Epidemics: Examining the Applicability of All-Hazards in Contemporary Emergency Management
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
Poster Presentation
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SUBMISSION DATE: 07/29/2016
PRESENTATION TYPE:
LOCATION:
CITATION: A Model of Traffic Impacts: Points of Dispensing as a Response to a Biological Outbreak
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
https://hazards.colorado.edu/workshop
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SUBMISSION DATE: 07/29/2016
PRESENTATION TYPE:
LOCATION:
CITATION: Hurricane Evacuation Behavioral Aspects: Integrated Findings from Two NSF Projects
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No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 07/22/2016
PRESENTATION TYPE:
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CITATION: I participated in the Community Participation and Engagement session, presenting my research about adaptation to climate change in small islands like San Andres Island, Colombia.
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Thanks to the Russell Dynes fellowship and the Disaster Research Center from the University of Delaware I could participate actively in these meetings.
https://hazards.colorado.edu/workshop/2016/abstract/ircd-abstract
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SUBMISSION DATE: 06/14/2016
PRESENTATION TYPE:
LOCATION:
CITATION: (not exactly a presentation – see notes below)
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I worked the Delaware Citizen Corps table at the Wilmington Blue Rocks Disaster Preparedness Night baseball game, June 3, 2016. It was also “Star Wars” night, thus the storm trooper that is in the attached picture. L-R: Anne McCann, USDA National Emergency Programs Coordinator and Citizen Corps trainer, our guest storm trooper, and me. Photo by Mei Johnson (who also worked the table with me).
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SUBMISSION DATE: 05/31/2016
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CITATION: A snapshot of The 2016 Drought in San Andres island, Colombian Caribbean.
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The Latin American Council of Social Sciences, the largest Latin American academic network, and The New School University sponsored “The Latin America and The United States Bridges of Understanding Symposium” to share knowledge and advance in networking. The symposium created twenty working groups, one of them was “Environment and Society” where Carolina Velasquez talked.
http://www.clacso.org.ar/difusion/CLACSO_OLA_2016_en/clacso_ola_2016_en.htm
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SUBMISSION DATE: 05/18/2016
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LOCATION:
CITATION: Documenting Disasters: Post-Disaster Memory Making and the Emergence of New Cultural Heritage
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
http://www.conservation-us.org/annual-meeting/meeting-schedule#.VzzAZJErKM8
Attached two photos- take your pick!
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SUBMISSION DATE: 04/29/2016
PRESENTATION TYPE:
LOCATION:
CITATION: Organization Preparedness- Perspectives of Community Based Organizations in Post-Sandy NYC
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
Presented with Sarah Sisco and Hans Louis-Charles on behalf of Nuno Martins
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SUBMISSION DATE: 04/29/2016
PRESENTATION TYPE:
LOCATION:
CITATION: Community Participation to Adapt to Climate Change: San Andres Island, Colombian Caribbean
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
http://www.udel.edu/gradoffice/forum/index.html#
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SUBMISSION DATE: 04/28/2016
PRESENTATION TYPE:
LOCATION:
CITATION: Household Disaster Preparedness in New York City at the time of Superstorm Sandy: Lessons Learned
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
Additional Author V. Nuno Martins. Presentation was part of a panel Session organized by Sarah Sisco called “The Social and Organizational Aspects of Building Community Resilience Through a New York City-Academic Partnership”. Sarah Gregory was also on the panel and presented her piece after mine and may have pics. Attached is one of my presentation
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SUBMISSION DATE: 04/28/2016
PRESENTATION TYPE:
LOCATION:
CITATION: Volunteerism and Emergent Groups Activities Following Superstorm Sandy
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
Additional Authors Joanne Nigg, PhD, Sarah Gregory, Curtira Williams. Sarah Gregory presented during the same session and may have a pic of the presentation
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SUBMISSION DATE: 04/25/2016
PRESENTATION TYPE:
LOCATION:
CITATION: We did not present during this workshop, we were just attendants to this event since we are all BAF fellows.
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
Attendees: Hans Louis-Charles (PhD Candidate In DISA), Cynthia Rivas (PhD candidate in DISA), Asia Dowtin (PhD Candidate in Geography), April Davison (PhD Candidate in UAPP)
This particular workshop was held April 15 – 17, 2016 in Omaha, Nebraska, in collaboration with academic partners: The UNL Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction and The University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Topics for the April workshop include:
-Choosing an Advisor and Building Rapport
-The Mentor Advantage: Making the Best of a Mentor Experience
-Presenting at Technical Conferences
-Internships and Other Opportunities in the Field
-Overview of the BAF Mentor Program
http://www.unomaha.edu/news/events/2016/04/emergency-services-workshop-puts-focus-on-collaboration.php
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SUBMISSION DATE: 04/22/2016
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CITATION: The Role of Community Based Organizations in Disaster: Potential and Actual
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
Presented with Hans Louis-Charles
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SUBMISSION DATE: 03/31/2016
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LOCATION:
CITATION: Organizational Preparedness: Perspectives of Community Based Organizations in Post-Sandy NYC
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
Presented with:
Sarah Sisco, NYC Office of Emergency Management Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Nuno Martins, Disaster Research Center
Hans Louis-Charles, Disaster Research Center
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SUBMISSION DATE: 03/24/2016
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LOCATION:
CITATION: Humanitarian Response and Organized Crime. An exploratory essay on the need for an international regulation to control humanitarian organizations
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No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 03/24/2016
PRESENTATION TYPE:
LOCATION:
CITATION: Urban Field Disaster Response. A Mixed Coordination Model for Operations in Urban Marginal Settings
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No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 01/05/2016
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CITATION: *Meeting* with practitioners and stakeholders for National Science Foundation Project (SEES Type 2): Entitled Dynamic Integration of Natural, Human, and Infrastructure Systems for Hurricane Evacuation and Sheltering
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*Meeting* with practitioners and stakeholders for National Science Foundation Project (SEES Type 2): Entitled Dynamic Integration of Natural, Human, and Infrastructure Systems for Hurricane Evacuation and Sheltering. Included members from North Carolina Emergency Management, Red Cross, FEMA, and all researchers on the NSF project.
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SUBMISSION DATE: 11/19/2015
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CITATION: The Historical Construction of Social Vulnerability to Natural Disasters on Madeira Island (Portugal): a Theoretical and Methodological Proposal
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
http://www4.uma.pt/cierl/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/ProgramaDefinitivo.pdf (Program)
http://www4.uma.pt/cierl/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Livro_de_resumos.pdf (Book of abstracts)
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SUBMISSION DATE: 09/02/2015
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CITATION: NOAA Radios and Neighborhood Networks: An Analysis of Information Sources and Trust for Hurricane Evacuations
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
Co-authors were Tricia Wachtendorf, Ashley Farmer, and Samantha Penta.
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SUBMISSION DATE: 09/01/2015
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LOCATION:
CITATION: Why We Give: Reasons for Contributing to Disaster Relief
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
This was a round table presentation.
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SUBMISSION DATE: 08/14/2015
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CITATION: Achieving Cultural Heritage Preservation Through Professional Partnership
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
Brandon and Megan were summer Service Learning Fellows working on behalf of IAEM@UD and the Delaware Disaster Assistance Team (DDAT).
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SUBMISSION DATE: 07/29/2015
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CITATION: Panel: New Ways forward for Earthquake Insurance and Resilience
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Invitation-only Expert Meeting – Panelist
The event brought together experts to discuss ways that insurance can be a powerful tool to enhance communities’ resilience to floods and earthquakes in combination with other policy options.
http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/ResilientAmerica/PGA_167220
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SUBMISSION DATE: 07/26/2015
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CITATION: Household Disaster Preparedness in New York City Before Superstorm Sandy: Lessons and Possible Future Interventions
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No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 07/23/2015
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CITATION: Going the Extra Staircase: Hurricane Sandy and Aid Delivery in an Urban Environment
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No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 07/15/2015
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CITATION: Infant-feeding after Disasters: Wet-Nursing as Improvised Behavior and Formula Donations as Material Convergence
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
http://breastfeedingandfeminism.org/
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SUBMISSION DATE: 06/25/2015
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LOCATION:
CITATION: This was not a presentation but attendance of a workshop at the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center.
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Roger Kasperson was the keynote speaker (author of the the Social Amplification of Risk).
http://www.sesync.org/
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SUBMISSION DATE: 06/17/2015
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CITATION: The Thought That Counts: Motivations for Giving to Disaster Relief
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No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 05/20/2015
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CITATION: Supply chain outsourcing in response to manmade and natural disasters in Colombia, a humanitarian logistics perspective
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No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 05/05/2015
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CITATION: Disaster Activities in Delaware: Introduction to the Disaster Research Center, the Delaware Disaster Assistance Team, and Individual Preparedness
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SUBMISSION DATE: 04/30/2015
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CITATION: What Exactly IS a Tabletop Exercise?
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No Name Available
SUBMISSION DATE: 03/16/2015
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CITATION: Infant Feeding & Disasters: Wet Nursing Improvisation and Material Convergence of Formula after Hazard Events
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
http://breastfeedingandfeminism.org/conference-2015/
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SUBMISSION DATE: 02/18/2015
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CITATION: The Legacy of Late Colonialism and Disaster Management in the Caribbean
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
February 13th
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SUBMISSION DATE: 02/17/2015
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CITATION: Guest Lecture on Vulnerability to Disasters
PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:
This was an invited guest lecture to a graduate class.
