Student Paper Competition Winners
2024 Winners
Gardiner Brown, University of California, Berkeley
Graduate Student
Vulnerable Populations/Responsible Individuals: Disability and Hurricane Harvey
Gabriella Bellows, Tulane University
Undergraduate Student
Perceptions and Realities
2023 Winners
Nahuel Arenas, University of Birmingham
Graduate Student
Slow Action as a Moral Wrong: The Abolition of Slavery and the Fight Against
Climate Change
Nyla Howell, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Undergraduate Student
The Impact of Corporeal Markers on Natural Hazard Preparedness During
Hurricane Katrina
2022 Winners
Hannah O'Reilly, University of Colorado Boulder
Graduate Student
Messaging the Threat: Forecaster Difficulties Prioritizing Compound Hazards During Hurricane Florence
Nathan Schunk, East Carolina University
Undergraduate Student
Information Flows Associated with the 2021 Inland Flooding in Western Europe: Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands
2021 Winner
Felicia A. Henry, University of Delaware
Graduate Student
“Yo Bro, What Imma Do Now?”: Understanding the Impact of Disasters on Populations Under Community Supervision
2020 Winners
Qiuxi Li, University of Delaware
Graduate Student
Cultural Preservation Dilemmas Under Disaster Risk and Modernization –
A case study of Chinese traditional villages
Sydney Dyck, Mount Royal University
Undergraduate Student
Only a Matter of Time: The Impacts of the Cascadia Subduction Zone and Colonialism on Indigenous Communities in Vancouver Island
2019 Winners
Olumide Abioye, Florida A&M University
Graduate Student
A Novel Model for Emergency Evacuation Planning
Tabitha Payne, Brown University
Undergraduate Student
Anti-Poor State Practices in Disaster Preparedness: Contextualizing the Eviction of Vitas Tenement Housing Project in Metro Manila
2018 Winners
Virginia Berndt, University of Delaware
Graduate Student
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
Sydney Eiss, University of Colorado Boulder
Undergraduate Student
Measuring Exposure for a Better Tomorrow: An Analysis of Hazard Mapping and Survey Data as Methods to Measure Risk
2017 Winners
Deepal Doshi, United Nations University
Graduate Student
Tropical Cyclones: From an Integrated ‘DNA’ Perspective
Nicole Taylor Mattson, University of Colorado Boulder
Undergraduate Student
Considering Different Experiences of Trauma in the Development of Effective Psychosocial Interventions
2016 Winners
Scott Kaiser, Colorado State University
Graduate Student
Colorado School Safety: An Examination of Web Availability of Emergency Management Information
Katie Murphy, Colorado State University
Undergraduate Student
Assessing Children's Disaster Relief Programs: Health Effects and the Role of Organizational Assistance in Disaster Recovery
2015 Winners
Hannah Rebecca Zulch, Griffith University
Graduate Student
Psychological Preparedness for Natural Disasters—Improving Disaster Management Theory and Practice
Yin-Hsuen Chen, University of Florida
Graduate Student
Multi-Scale Vulnerability Assessment of Surge and Wind Hazards In Coastal Communities—Venice Island, Florida
2014 Winners
Autumn Lotze, University of British Columbia
Graduate Student
Connecting Research and Practice: Business Earthquake Vulnerability in North Vancouver
Melanie Putic, Mount Royal University
Undergraduate Student
Canada's Love Canal: An Analysis of Social Class, Race, and Gender in Nova Scotia's Steel Industry
2013 Winners
Stacia Sydoriak, Colorado State University
Graduate Student
Women, Men, and the Face of a Colorado Frack Disaster: From Gender-Specific Risks to Gender-Inclusive Solutions
Alison McIntosh, University of Alberta
Undergraduate Student
Vulnerability of Older Adult Populations to Climate-Related Heat Events
2012 Winners
Eric Best, University of Delaware
Graduate Student
Collective Models of Disaster: Making a Case for Using Collective Mobile Phone Location Data in Disaster Science
Audrey Matusich, Colorado State University
Undergraduate Student
Vulnerable Victims: Media Constructions of Children After the BP Oil Spill
2011 Winners
Jennifer Tobin, Colorado State University
Graduate Student
Downward Mobility: Displaced Single Mothers in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
Julie Broderick, Mount Royal University
Undergraduate Student
The Biopolitics of Desire: Exploring the Axis of Sexuality during the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami in Thailand
2010 Winners
Melissa Kelley, University of California, Los Angeles
Graduate Student
Predictors of Household Disaster Preparedness in California: Findings from a Statewide-Telephone Survey
Ysaye Zamore, Colorado State University
Undergraduate Student
Being Black: Examining the Relationship between Sociodemographic Characteristics, Racial Residential Segregation, and Evacuation Behavior in Hurricane Katrina
2009 Winners
Xiaoli Lu, Leiden University
Graduate Student
Mass Evacuation in Typhoon Response in Wenzhou, China: A Preliminary Analysis of Progress and Challenges
Krista Richardson, Colorado State University
Undergraduate Student
Katrina’s Children: An Analysis of Educational Outcomes Among Displaced Children in Colorado
2009 Runner up
Megan Reid, University of Texas at Austin
Graduate Student
Survivors’ Perceptions of Federal and Non-Governmental Responses to Hurricane Katrina
Charles Jacob Huxford, Alexis Blue, and Hope Rietzen, Western Washington University
Undergraduate Students
Reversing Rural Abandonment in the Mediterranean: A Capacity and Vulnerability Assessment of Communities on the Ionian Island of Kefalonia, Greece
2008 Winners
No Awards Granted
2007 Winners
Brett Heeger, Brown University
Disasters and CNN: The importance of TV news coverage for provoking private donations for disaster relief
Alex Mitchell, Colorado State University
Undergraduate Student
Impact of Fear: An examination of the 2002 Washington, DC sniper shootings
2006 Winners
Lindsey Barnes, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Public Perceptions of Flash Flood False Alarms: A Denver, Colorado Case Study
Brooke Fisher Liu, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2005 Winners
Sheridan Wimmer, Kansas State University
Can Biotechnology Help Slow Global Warming?
Hannah Brenkert, University of Colorado
Graduate Student
The Place of Fire
2004 Winners
Tristan L. Emery, Purdue University
Untitled (Disaster Communications)
Walker S. Ashley, University of Georgia
Derecho Hazards in the United States