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.


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


July 28, 2016
The State of Resilience: A Community Workshop, Discussion to Action Panel Hosted by the National Academies Resilient America Roundtable


Video Features

These brief videos highlight Dr. Peek's teaching and collaborative research.


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