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Poster Session Abstracts
Archibald, Erik and Sue McNeil
Learning about Hurricane Evacuation through Traffic Data
Best, Eric, Etornam Banini, Michael Lopez, Adam Orescan, Shawn Reynolds, Benigno Aguirre, and Sherif El-Tawil
Introducing SocEvac: Open-source Building Evacuation Software with Advanced Group and Crowd Behavior Elements
Bevc, Christine, Matthew Simon, Milissa Markiewicz, Jennifer Horney, and Julie Casani
Public Health Preparedness Planning for Vulnerable and At-Risk Populations
Box, Pamela
Two Years of Unprecedented Weather—Insights from Australia’s Record-Breaking Floods
Budimir, Mirianna, Pete Atkinson, and Hugh Lewis
Global Cascading Hazard Casualty Modelling: Earthquake-Triggered Landslides
Carby, Barbara and Christopher Burgess
Vulnerability of Jamaica’s Infrastructure to the Impact of Climate Change
Clay, Lauren, James Goetschius, James Kendra, and Mia Papas
Mental Health as an Influence on Disaster Preparedness: Findings from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey
Coles, John and Jun Zhuang
Modeling the Dynamics of Agency—Agency Partnerships Before and Following Extreme Events
Cova, Thomas, Philip Dennison, and Frank Drews
Protective-Action Triggers in Wildfires
Deepak K.C.
Climate Change and Communty-Based Climate Risk Management Initiatives Downstream of Glacial Lakes in Nepal
Ellington, Monyett, Debra Kreisberg, and Greg Stasinos
Resiliency, Resources, and Regionalization: Addressing Challenges of Home Rule Through a Collaborative Regionalization Process
Engel, Karen
Technological Culture: An Opportunity to Reduce Vulnerability to Earthquakes and Tsunamis?
Faber, Fenn
Organizational Adaptation to Climate Change Impacts: Problem-Solving Practices of State Forest Administrations in Germany
Farris, Monica, Pam Jenkins, John Kiefer, Earthea Nance, Maggie Olivier, and Kristina Peterson
Hazard Mitigation Education and Outreach: A Comprehensive Approach
Fothergill, Alice and Lori Peek
Children of Katrina
Gin, June, Tamar Wyte, and Maria Claver
Bringing Disaster Preparedness Home for Veterans: Assessing Needs, Addressing Gaps
Glik, Deborah, David Eisenman, Michael Prelip, Andrea Martel, Michael Stajura, Jitka Sammartinova, and Ian Donatello
Measuring Partnerships for Community Disaster Resilience Between Community-Based Organizations and Public Health Departments
Goodman, Shuli
The Role of Innovation in Organizational and Community Transformations After a Catastrophic Event
Greer, Alex, Rochelle Brittingham, Yvonne Rademacher, James Kendra, Joanne Nigg, Deborah Auger, Tomohide Atsumi, and Takumi Miyamoto RAPID: The Tohoku Catastrophe: Volunteers and Non-Profit Organizations in Post-Kobe, Japan
Hamideh, Sara, Shannon Van Zandt, and Walter Gillis Peacock
Tracking Housing Recovery in Galveston after Hurricane Ike
Hastings, David
Perceiving Relationships Between Hazards, Disasters, and Well-Being: The Human Security Index
Heslin, Kevin, Judith Stein, Aram Dobalian, Barbara Simon, Andrew Lanto, Elizabeth Yano, and Lisa Rubenstein
Alcohol Problems as a Risk Factor for Post-Disaster Depression among U.S. Veterans
Holdaway, Britton
Improving Radioactive Emergency Preparedness through Training and Exercising
Huang, Shih-Kai, Michael Lindell, Hideyuki Shiroshita, Hao-Che Wu, and Carla Prater
Immediate Behavioral Response to Earthquake in Fukushima Japan
Ishikawa, Eiko
The Process of Drawing Up Reconstruction Plans in Extensive Disaster-Hit Areas (Including Community Relocation and Challenges in the Implementation of Plans)
King, Suzanne and David Laplante
Water and Ice: Using Natural Disasters to Study Prenatal Maternal Stress
Klima, Kelly and Steve Winkelman
Best Practices for Weathering Climate Risks
Kulemeka, Owen
A Hurricane Preparedness Campaign and the Vehicle-less in New Orleans
Kousky, Carolyn
When Does Forgoing Gray Infrastructure Make Sense? The Benefits and Costs of a Nature-Based Approach to Flood Mitigation
League, Cedar, Brenda Philips, Ellen Bass, and Walter Diaz
Emergency Management Tornado Warning Policies: There’s No One-Size-Fits-All
Lin, Yi-Sz and Hung-Lung Wei
An Environmental Justice Analysis: Examining the Disadvantaged Population Distributions Near the Superfund Site, Toxic Release Inventory Sites, and Major Air Pollutant Facilities in Cook County, Illinois
Liu, Zhang, Medhi Jalalpour, Caitlin Jacques, Stefan Szyniszewski, James Guest, Takeru Igusa, Benjamin Schafer, and Judith Mitrani-Reiser
Modeling Human Evacuation in Earthquake-Damaged Structures
Lovekamp, Bill and Elaine Enarson
U.S. Gender and Disaster Resilience Alliance
Lueck, Michelle Meyer and Calvin A. Whitman
Hurricanes and the Elderly: The Role of Social Networks in Age-Related Vulnerability
Lyles, Ward, Philip Berke, and Gavin Smith
Social Network Analysis of Hazard Mitigation Planning
Mackie, Brenda
Reconceptualizing Disaster Warnings: Warning Fatigue and LLT Disasters
Masterson, Jaimie Hicks
Perceived Safety: An Analysis of Development Encroachment Inside Houston MSA Floodplains
McGowan, Sean and Nicolas Luco
Will My Building be Damaged by an Earthquake? USGS Risk Mapping Web Application for Assessing Earthquake Damage Likelihoods
Nagele, Danielle and Joseph Trainor
Geographic Specificity, Tornadoes, and Protective Action
O’Brien, Marita
Everyday Technologies after a Disaster: Examining Consumer Usage During an Extended Power Outage
Parker, Stephan
TRB Cooperative Research Programs Key Hazards and Security Guides
Pearce, Larry and Laurie Pearce
Canadian Risk and Hazards Network
Peek, Lori, Michelle Meyer Lueck, and Jennifer Tobin-Gurley
Center for Disaster and Risk Analysis
Raucher, Karen and Joel Smith
Being Prepared: The Keys to Communication Strategies that Build Support for Extreme Weather Events and Community Water Utilities
Rose, Dale, Stephanie Rubel, Miriam Cho, and John Zimmerman
Results from a Systematic Accountability Evaluation: CDC Public Health Emergency Response Grant Program Was Effective in Achieving Its Objectives
Sandler, Dylan
Development of Adaptation Strategies for the North Carolina Sea Level Rise Impact Study
Sell, Tara Kirk
Rad Resilient City: A Preparedness Checklist for Cities to Diminish Lives Lost from Radiation after a Nuclear Terrorist Attack
Senkbeil, Jason
Multi-Ethnic Tornado Hazard Perception and Preparedness in Tuscaloosa
Siebeneck, Laura and Sudha Arlikatti
Research at University of North Texas Emergency Administration and Planning Program, Department of Public Administration
Smilowitz, Ben
Disaster Accountability Project in 2012: Disaster Policy Wiki and Other Programs and Investigations
Su, Guiwu, Qing Tian, and Zongjin Ma
Research on the Earthquake Disaster Awareness and Response Abilities of Chinese Mainland People: From Case-Event Study to Cross-Region Comparisons
Sutton, Jeannette
When Online Is Off: Public Communications Following the February 2011 Christchurch, New Zealand Earthquake
Sutton, Jeannette and Charles Benight
Disaster Resilient Rural Communities: Access to Online Information and Perceptions of Collective Efficacy
Sutton, Jeannette, Carter Butts, Emma Spiro, Shawn Fitzhugh, and Britta Johnson
HEROIC: Hazards, Emergency Response, and Online Informal Communications
Tagliacozzo, Serena and Jeannette Sutton
The Use of ICTs in the Stage of Recovery in L’Aquila
Trumbo, Craig, Lori Peek, Brian McNoldy, Wayne Schubert, Eve Gruntfest,
Holly Marlatt, and Michelle Meyer Lueck
A Multidimensional Examination of Hurricane Preparedness and Evacuation Intention
Wygant, Melissa
Spatial Distribution of Tornadoes in Tornado Alley (1980-2011)
Yang, Saini
A Comparative Study of Post-Disaster Rehabilitation Processes Between China and the United States—Case Study of Greensburg and Wenchuan
Zamore, Ysaye, C. J. Picard, Laura Poole, and Andrea Varner
Integrating Behavioral Health During the Recovery Phase of a Disaster
Zhuang, Jun, John Coles, Peiqiu Guan, Fei He, and Xiaojun Shan
Strategic Interactions in Disaster Preparedness and Relief in the Face of Man-Made and Natural Disasters
Workshop Abstracts
Abramson, David, Virginia Rauh, Robin Whyatt, and Lori Peek
Child Impact Study: A Research Project of the Women and Their Children’s Health (WATCH) Consortium
Apatu, Emma, Chris Gregg, Dan Aga, and Kasie Richards
Strengthening Public Health and Disaster Resilience in American Samoa: The use of the Precede-Proceed Model
Arlikatti, Sudha
Assessing Resiliency Among Rural, Suburban, and Urban Communities Following the 2011 Thailand Floods
Baker, Stacey Menzel
Negotiating Material Well-Being in Disaster Recovery
Belblidia, Miriam
Hazard Mitigation Strategies in a Post-Disaster Environment
Best, Eric
Collective Models of Disaster: Making a Case for Using Collective Mobile Phone Location Data in Disaster Science
Brown, Lisa and Lori Peek
Hurricane Preparedness and Sheltering Preferences of Muslims Living in Florida
Céré, Valérie
The Role of Anthropology in Disaster Preparedness
Chan, Christian
Disaster Severity and Mental Health: The Case of Hurricane Katrina
Cox, Robin and Lori Peek
Youth-Centered Disaster Recovery: A Participatory Action Research Project
Davis, Kamer
A Look at Encouraging Public and Business Engagement
Downswell, Marsha and Barbara Carby
The Impact of the Failure of Gully Walls on Two Communities in Kingston, Jamaica
Enarson, Elaine
Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation: Will Women Lead?
Eriksen, Christine
Gender and Wildfire at the Wildland-Urban Interface
Greer, Alex
Oil Spill Events: Prominent Frames and Policy Implications
Henly-Shepard, Sarah, Cheryl Anderson, Linda Cox, Steven Gray, Maka'ala Ka'aumoana, and Antya Miller
Climate Change, Disasters and Human Rights—Community-Based Socio-Ecological Resilience Research and Planning in Hawaii
Hodge, Stephanie
Education and Learning for Sustainable Development
Jang, Li-ju
Disaster Prevention: A Developmental Perspective
Jiarui, Han
The Study of Interactive User-Oriented Forecasting System
Jordan, Elizabeth, Amy Javernick-Will, and Bernard Amadei
Pathways to Community Recovery and Resilience
Johnson, Alicia and Kristin Hogan
Using Social Communications and Gamification to Promote an Ethos of Preparedness and Resilience
Kachali, Hlekiwe, Erica Seville, and John Vargo
Recovery of Industry and Geographic Sectors after the 2010 and 2011 Canterbury Earthquakes
Kasthurba, A.K. and Sudha Arlikatti
Retrofitting Historic Structures Against Natural Hazards in India
Kim, Younhee and Youngju Kim
Developing Appropriate Disaster Preparedness Materials for Foreigners in Korea
Liu, Sophia, Paul Earle, and Barbara Poore
A New Age of Crowdsourcing and Crisis Mapping
Lyles, Ward, Philip Berke, and Gavin Smith
Who's at the Table? Examining Factors Driving Incorporation of Land Use Approaches in Hazard Mitigation Plans
Lynott, Kevin and Christopher Jones
Encouraging and Recognizing Community Wildfire Preparedness
Martini, Amy and Sudha Arlikatt
The Past, Present, and Future of Women as Emergency Managers
Matusich, Audrey
Vulnerable Victims: Media Constructions of Children After the BP Oil Spill
Miller, Brian
Coping with Natural Hazards in a Conservation Context: Resource Use Decisions of Maasai Households During Recent and Historical Droughts
Nicholson, William and Nancy Schweda Nicholson
Language Services to Ensure “Whole of Community” Evacuation: Legal Issues and Interpreting and Translation Assistance for Limited English Proficient (LEP) Populations
Olonilua, Ponmile
Involving Minorities in Issues of Emergency Management—A Public Enlightenment Program
Peek, Lori and Sara Gill
Childcare Centers and Disaster Preparedness in Colorado
Peek, Lori, Bridget Morrissey, and Holly Marlatt
Disaster Hits Home: A Model of Displaced Family Adjustment After Hurricane Katrina
Robinson, Bill
Training for Success in Implementing Green Codes and Standards
Rovins, Jane
Integrated Research on Disaster Risk: Bridging Research, Policy, and Practice
Schoch-Spana, Monica
Rad Resilient City: A Preparedness Checklist to Diminish Lives Lost from Radiation after a Nuclear Detonation
Silver, Amber and Jean Andrey
The Influence of Previous Disaster Experience on Protective Action Decision-Making: The Case Study of the Goderich, Ontario, Tornado
Skalak, Jerry
Green Island Levee and Drainage District, Jackson County, Iowa: An Interagency Approach to Implementing a Non-Structural Alternative Project
Špitalar, Maruša, Mitja Brilly, and Drago Kos
Sociological Perspective of Understanding an Interrelation Between Loss of Life in Flood Events and Cultural Components
Stajura, Michael and Gracie Huerta
Listos: A Grassroots, Culturally Relevant Community Disaster Preparedness Program for Socioeconomically Marginalized Latinos
Stern, Eric, Gregory Saathoff, and Brad Kieserman
Advice in Crisis: Leaders, Lawyers, and the Challenge of Disaster Management
Stevenson, Joanne
Context and Networks in Organizational Resilience: Lessons from the Canterbury, New Zealand, Earthquake Series
Stewart, Kevin
When Flood Threat is Imminent—in the Aftermath of the Fourmile Canyon Fire
Tyshchuk, Yulia and William Wallace
Tracing Human Behavior on Twitter During Naturally Occurring Emergency Events
Uddin, Mohammed Salim and C. Emad Haque
Vulnerability Reduction Through Better Preparedness and Adaptation: Lessons Learnt from Cyclone Sidr by Coastal Plain Residents of Bangladesh
Vieux, Baxter, Mark Meo, P. Carter, Scott Greene, and Yang Hong
Watershed Modeling and Visualization for Climate Planning and Adaptation: An Analysis of Five Cities
Weber, Lynn and Lori Peek
Displaced: Life in the Katrina Diaspora
Wiener, John
It All Comes Back to Land Use
Winningham, R. Samuel
Urban Risks and Disaster Planning: A Different Perspective
IRCD Researchers Meeting Abstracts
Adams, Terri and Mila Turner
The Experience of Role Strain Among Police Officers During a Disaster
Aguirre, Benigno and Eric Best
How Not to Learn: Resilience in the Study of Disaster
Baker, Earl, Jeffrey Czajkowski, and Robert Meyer
Modeling the Real-Time Decision to Evacuate from a Hurricane
Baker, Natalie
Preparedness for Catastrophes: The Constitutive Dynamism of Plans and Improvisation
Barsky, Lauren and Paul Hewett
Developing a Registry to Assist Special Needs Populations: Lessons Learned from Anniston, Alabama
Best, Eric and Alex Greer
All Oil Spills are Local: Severity, Framing, Legislation, and GDP Change in States and the Nation
Brittingham, Rochelle and Tricia Wachtendorf
Hidden in the Numbers: Anticipated Disaster Shelter Use for People with Health and Access Concerns
Chandrasekhar, Divya
A Managerial Perspective on Long-Term Housing of Disaster IDPs: The Experience of Houston, Texas, after Hurricane Katrina
Chang, Hsien-Ho
Managing Personnel and Resources in Disaster Scenes
Chen, Liang-Chun
Investigation Analysis on Local Level Administration Personnel's Cognition to Hydro-Meteorological Disaster Adaptation Strategies
Coles, John and Jun Zhuang
Modeling the Dynamics of Agency-Agency Partnerships Before and Following Extreme Events
Cox, Robin
Community Disaster Resilience Planning
Engel, Karen, Georg Frerks, Lucia Velotti, Jeroen Warner, and Bart Weijs
Disaster Cultures in the Netherlands: Borgharen and Itteren
Faber, Fenn
From Natural Hazards to Gradual Environmental Change: Climate Change Adaptation in Forestry
Gin, June, Angela Cohen, Diana Naranjo
A Safety Net for Homeless Veterans: Disaster Preparedness in Homeless Housing Providers
Goodman, Shuli
Organizational and Community Transformations after a Catastrophic Event
Greene, Dana
¿Se Habla Español? High Impact Weather Warnings and the Hispanic/Latino Population in the United States: A Neglected but Important Vulnerable Population
Hamideh, Sara, Shannon Van Zandt, and Walter Gillis Peacock
Tracking Housing Recovery in Galveston after Hurricane Ike
Heslin, Kevin and Brinda Venkatesh
Using Disasters to Help Veterans: Team Rubicon Reports from the Field
Highfield, Wesley, Walter Gillis Peacock, and Shannon Van Zandt
Determinants and Characteristics of Damage in Single-Family Island Households from Hurricane Ike
Hung, Hung-Chih and Yu-Ting Lu
Adaptive Capacity to Climate Hazards on the Southwest Coast of Taiwan: The Potential Role of Social Capital and Participation
Jennings, Eliot
User Acceptance of Technology: An Empirical Examination of Factors Leading to Adoption of Decision Support Technologies for Disaster Management
Kamel, Nabil
Federal Assistance and Post-Disaster Housing Recovery: Limitations and Opportunities for Large-Scale Disasters in Metropolitan Areas
King, Suzanne and David Laplante
Water and Ice: Using Natural Disasters to Study Prenatal Maternal Stress
Kondo, Tamiyo
The Neighborhood Housing Recovery Gap after Natural Disasters
Liu, Sophia
Challenges with Integrating Official and Crowdsourced Crisis Information
Lueck, Michelle Meyer and Calvin Whitman
Hurricanes and the Elderly: The Role of Social Networks in Age-Related Vulnerability
Lyles, Ward, Philip Berke, and Gavin Smith
Who's at the Table? Examining Factors Driving Incorporation of Land Use Approaches in Hazard Mitigation Plans
Maly, Liz
Applying the Concept of People-Centered Housing Recovery: Focus on Transition
Nelan, Maggie and Tricia Wachtendorf
Aging Populations and Anticipated Compliance with Hurricane Evacuation Warnings
Nohrstedt, Daniel
Performance Measurement and Collaborative Responses to Natural Disasters
Pearce, Laurie
Simulation Training and Exercise Collaboratory (SIMTEC): Enhancing CBRNE Psychosocial Capacity and Capability Management
Rennhack, Joan and Carl H. Simmons
Where Did Federal Pre-Disaster Natural Hazard Mitigation Go? An Analysis of Changes in Hazard Mitigation Since September 11, 2001, from a Local Government Perspective
Sah, Jy-Pyng
The Effects of Flood Warning in Household Adoption of Protective Actions—A Southern Taiwan Case Study
Saito, Yoko
Gender Perspective and Evacuation Center Management after the Great East Japan Earthquake
Scanlon, Joe
A Countrywide Local Emergency: Canadian Communities Tackle the Spanish Flu
Shao, Pei-Chun
States and Issues for Post-Disaster Relocating Reconstruction: The Case of the Morakot Typhoon in 2009
Siebeneck, Laura, Sudha Arlikatti, Simon Andrew, and Kraiwuth Jaikampan
Assessing Resilience Among Rural, Suburban, and Urban Communities Following the Thailand Floods
Tate, Eric
Social Vulnerability Indices: A Comparative Assessment Using Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analysis
Trumbo, Craig, Lori Peek, Brian McNoldy, Wayne Schubert, Eve Gruntfest, Holly Marlatt, and Michelle Meyer Lueck
A Multidimensional Examination of Hurricane Preparedness and Evacuation Intention
Van Zandt, Shannon, Walter Gillis Peacock, Dustin Henry, Wesley Highfield, and Himanshu Grover
Mapping Social Vulnerability to Enhance Housing and Neighborhood Resilience
Van Zandt, Shannon, Walter Gillis Peacock, Dustin Henry, and Sonja Willems
Post-Disaster Population Estimates
Velotti, Lucia, Andrea Fendt, and Joseph Trainor
Understanding Tornado Warning and Watch
Wu, Hao-Che, Michael Lindell, Carla Prater, and Charles Samuelso
Effects of Hurricane Track and Threat Information on Judgments of Strike Probability
Xiao, Yu and Shannon Van Zandt
Building Community Resiliency: Spatial Links between Households and Businesses in Post-Disaster Recovery
Zelewicz, Lee, Richard Stansfield, and Tricia Wachtendorf
When There is Fear of the Shelter from the Storm: Gender, Fear of Crime, and Hurricane Shelter Decision Making
Zhuang, Jun, John Coles, Peiqiu Guan, Fei He, and Xiaojun Shan
Strategic Interactions in Disaster Preparedness and Relief in the Face of Man-Made and Natural Disasters