Nick Humphrey is a doctoral candidate in emergency management at North Dakota State University. He is also a meteorologist, having attained a master’s degree in geosciences with a concentration in applied meteorology from Mississippi State University in 2016. Humphrey is a member of the International Association of Emergency Managers and American Meteorological Society (AMS). He is a member of the AMS Board on Societal Impacts, which organizes conferences and symposia for the AMS Annual Meeting, as well as the biannual Weather Warnings and Communication Conference. Humphrey was an intern for the U.S. National Weather Service office in Grand Forks, North Dakota helping meteorologists analyze social vulnerability and risk for the office's county warning area. He is also a William Averette Anderson Fund fellow, promoting diversity in the emergency management research community and practice and drawing attention to challenges faced by minorities in disasters.
Humphrey’s research interests are in individual & household response to warnings. His dissertation research is on the knowledge of household response to warnings by U.S. government meteorologists and how what they know informs their warning communication approach. Humphrey has participated in a team researching state Voluntary Agencies Active in Disaster (VOADs) to understand how current and past presidents of state VOADs conceptualized VOAD organizational effectiveness. He was also on an advisory team assisting a small business in Fargo, North Dakota in developing a business continuity plan. Humphrey has been interviewed by the media on issues related to weather, climate change, and disasters.