Jeannette Sutton
Jeannette Sutton conducts research related to community resilience and disaster mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery. Her primary focus is on the evolving role of information and communication technology, specifically the uses of social media in crisis and disaster situations.
Sutton is the principal investigator on three National Science Foundation grants, each having an emphasis on networked online communications. She recently directed a conference on Humanitarian Aid and Disaster Relief Technologies for the Office of Naval Research.
Additional research interests include the socio-behavioral aspects of disaster warning systems, outreach and service provision to vulnerable populations via online communications, and volunteer technical communities in disaster. Sutton was a member of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute team deployed to study the Christchurch, New Zealand, earthquake in March 2011. She will return to New Zealand later this year to complete her research. She is now a senior research scientist at the Trauma, Health, and Hazards Center at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.
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Workshop Abstracts
Informal Online Communication in the Deepwater Horizon Disaster
Changing Channels: Communicating Tsunami Warning Information in Hawaii
