Congressional Testimony
Natural Hazards Center director Lori Peek testified before the 117th Congress, Committee on Homeland Security, U.S. House of Representatives in 2021.
October 27, 2021
Testimony: Ensuring Equity in Disaster Preparedness, Response, and Recovery
Presentations
This collection of videos feature keynote addresses, public presentations, and guest lectures by Natural Hazards Center director Lori Peek.
December 10, 2024
Briefing on the Launch of the Third Assessment of Natural Hazards
April 2, 2024
Understanding Diverse Disciplinary Needs and Incentivizing Data Publication and Reuse
July 12, 2023
48th Annual Natural Hazards Workshop Wrap-Up and Call to Action
January 25, 2023
The Power of Convergence
October 22, 2022
What Do You Do When the Earth Shakes? Children, Adults, and Generational Gaps in Protective Action Behavior
July 13, 2022
47th Annual Natural Hazards Workshop Wrap-Up and Call to Action
March 23, 2022
Architects as Anchors and Advocates for Disaster-Affected People
February 7, 2022
CONVERGE: Communicating, Coordinating, and Collaborating to Advance Hazards and Disaster Research
November 28, 2021
What Kids Can Do!
September 1, 2021
Seven Lessons from Seventy Years of Social Science Disaster Research
July 14, 2021
46th Annual Natural Hazards Workshop Wrap-Up and Call to Action
May 12, 2021
Plenary Presentation - Social and Environmental Justice in Managing Flood Risk
April 22, 2021
CONVERGE: Coming Together to Advance Hazards and Disaster Research
January 22, 2021
Social Services Disaster Research: The Missing Link in Serving Vulnerable Populations
January 19, 2021
Keynote - Accelerating Integration of the Social Sciences in the Study of Earth System Interactions
December 7, 2020
Keynote - Just Reconnaissance: A Framework for Ethical, Rigorous, and Coordinated Quick Response Disaster Research
October 20, 2020
Numbers Don’t Lie: Data, Disasters, and Racial Disparities
October 11, 2020
What Kids Can Do! Lessons from Research with Young People in Disasters
July 23, 2020
Plenary Presentation - Exploring the Gaps in Evidence
July 22, 2020
Keynote – Exposure Outliers: Children Coming of Age in an Age of Environmental Extremes
July 15, 2020
45th Annual Natural Hazards Workshop Wrap-Up and Call to Action
May 20, 2020
Rapid Response Disaster Research: NSF-Funded Networks and Resources
April 24, 2020
Understanding the Societal Impacts of COVID-19: Convergence Research in a Pandemic
March 13, 2020
Keynote – Active Hope in an Age of Environmental Extremes
January 14, 2020
Presidential Forum - Bridging the Gulf between Meteorologists and Humanitarian Operations
December 4, 2019
Coping and Recovering from Natural Disasters
April 26, 2019
Coming Together to Reduce Disaster Losses
March 27, 2019
When the Earth Shakes: What Kids Can Do
February 5, 2019
Strength in Numbers: The Social Science Extreme Events Research (SSEER) Network Map and Census
January 21, 2019
Exposure Outliers: Children and Disasters Yet to Come
December 3, 2018
The Human Impacts of Disaster
November 15, 2018
Cross-Disciplinary Insights from Displacement Research
November 15, 2018
Symposium Wrap: Population Migration and Repatriation Following Major Disasters
October 27, 2018
PrepTalk: Children and Disasters - Reducing Vulnerability and Building Capacity
June 27, 2018
When Systems Shatter: Disaster Trend Lines and Increasingly Turbulent Times
January 31, 2018
Keynote – Extreme Events Reconnaissance: The Promise and Possibility of Collaborative Social Science and Engineering Research
November 16, 2016
Keynote - Children in a Changing Climate: The Importance of Childcare Providers in Disasters
September 26, 2016
Immersion Lecture: What is Sociology?
February 18, 2016
Risk, Vulnerability, and Resilience
February 17, 2016
Contemporary Sociological Theory – Micro, Macro, and Integrative
October 1, 2014
Colorado State University President’s Lecture: Children and Disasters
April 15, 2010
Human Behavior in Disaster: What We (Think We) Know
Panels and Trainings
These videos include interactive panels, trainings, and other webinar sessions.
October 14, 2022
Virtual Book Panel | Soaking the Middle Class: Suburban Inequality and Recovery from Disaster
June 10, 2022
National Science Foundation Grant Proposal Writing Workshop
April 29, 2022
CONVERGE Public Health Implications of Hazards and Disaster Research Training Module: A Demonstration Webinar
February 10, 2022
CONVERGE Reciprocity in Hazards and Disaster Research Training Module: A Demonstration Webinar
August 6, 2021
CONVERGE Collecting and Sharing Perishable Data Training Module: A Demonstration Webinar
May 26, 2021
The Mileti Effect: Fifty Years of Risk Communication Research
April 15, 2021
CONVERGE Broader Ethical Considerations for Hazards and Disaster Researchers Training Module: A Demonstration Webinar
March 16, 2021
CONVERGE Understanding and Ending Gender-Based Violence in Fieldwork Training Module: A Demonstration Webinar
January 29, 2021
Publish Your Data! Learn How to Use DesignSafe and Meet the CONVERGE Data Ambassadors
October 8, 2020
CONVERGE Conducting Emotionally Challenging Research Training Module: A Demonstration Webinar
June 1, 2020
Preparing to Conduct Quick Response Disaster Research
September 14, 2020
Centering Social Equity in Resilience-Building Efforts Hosted by the National Academies Resilient America Roundtable
July 24, 2020
Conducting Quick Response Disaster Research
June 25, 2020
CONVERGE Institutional Review Board (IRB) Procedures and Extreme Events Research Training Module: A Demonstration Webinar
April 3, 2020
CONVERGE Cultural Competence Training Module: A Demonstration Webinar
January 17, 2020
CONVERGE Disaster Mental Health Training Module: A Demonstration Webinar
October 4, 2019
CONVERGE Social Vulnerability and Disasters Training Module: A Demonstration Webinar
September 9, 2020
Sharing the Findings from Quick Response Disaster Research
Video Features
These brief videos highlight Dr. Peek's teaching and collaborative research.
November 28, 2024
The Long-Term Effects of Hurricanes and Major Disasters on Children's Mental Health
June 16, 2022
Environmental Sociology on Campus: A Field Trip
June 7, 2022
Sociological Approaches to the Environment
December 12, 2019
Are Federal Disaster Recovery Programs Aligned with Community Needs?
August 8, 2019
Children of The Storm
July 23, 2018
Socio-Environmental Systems Under Stress
August 16, 2015
Children of Katrina
March 10, 2015
Teachers at Colorado State University: Interview with Lori Peek
March 21, 2012
Integrating Disaster Recovery: What Should Long-Term Disaster Recovery Look Like?
Podcasts
The following podcast recordings feature conversations with Natural Hazards Center director Lori Peek.
August 31, 2023
Environmental Sociology
January 31, 2022
Social Science Research and Children in Weather Disasters
October 5, 2021
How You Can Get Involved In Extreme Events Research
September 14, 2021
NHERI CONVERGE Facility at the University of Colorado Boulder
June 10, 2021
Post-Disaster Research: Challenges and Opportunities
September 7, 2021
Natural Hazards Center and CONVERGE, University of Colorado Boulder
July 27, 2021
COVIDCalls 7.27.2021 CONVERGE and Disaster Research
April 29, 2021
Honoring the Life and Work of Dennis Mileti
April 1, 2021
Buff Innovator Insights
December 8, 2020
The 1,000 Letters Project
November 25, 2020
Memorial Episode
September 7, 2020
Active Hope
July 1, 2020
The Children of COVID-19 with Alice Fothergill and Lori Peek
April 9, 2020
Disaster Research in a Time of Crisis with Lori Peek
January 6, 2020
The Power of Stories
November 30, 2018
Interdisciplinary Natural Hazards Research with Lori Peek of CONVERGE
February 8, 2018
Children and Natural Disasters
June 6, 2017
Episode 22: Lori and Alice Find Their Equilibrium