2026 Researchers Meeting Schedule

After the 51th Annual Natural Hazards Workshop adjourns, the Researchers Meeting will begin. A general schedule outline follows, which will be more fully developed based on submissions received from the Call for Absracts. Please check back in the coming months for detailed session listings, including paper titles and presenters.

	Wednesday, June 17, 2026
Wed, June 17 12:45 to 5:45 p.m. MDT	Registration Atrium
Wed, June 17 12:45 to 2:00 p.m. MDT	Lunch in the Outdoor Pavilion
Wed, June 17 2:00 to 2:20 p.m. MDT	Welcome, Recognition, and Opening Remarks Centennial Ballroom
Wed, June 17 2:20 to 2:30 p.m. MDT	Break
	Track 1: Hazard Mitigation and Preparedness Track 2: Housing and Community Health Track 3: Emergency Management Track 4: Equity and Empowerment Track 5: Data-Driven Risk Management Track 6: Disaster Reconstruction, Recovery, and Relief Track 7: Promoting Resilience
Wed, June 17 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. MDT	Social, Spatial, and Systemic Risk in Context Interlocken A Housing, Mobility, and Climate Risk Interlocken B Building Resilience: Infrastructure and Institutions Interlocken C Critical Perspectives on Structured Vulnerability Interlocken D Multi-Level Decision Support Systems: From Analytics to Implementation Ponderosa Community-Centered Strategies for Disaster Resilience and Recovery Centennial Ballroom Translating Complexity: Assessment Models and Markets in a Changing Climate Fir
Wed, June 17 4:00 to 4:15 p.m. MDT	Break
Wed, June 17 4:15 to 5:45 p.m MDT	Information Ecosystems and Disaster Communication Interlocken A Collaboration in Emergency Preparedness and Recovery Interlocken B Institutional Capacity and Resilience in Disaster Response Interlocken C Building Trust and Cultivating Partnerships in Disaster Governance Interlocken D Tools and Frameworks: Data, Mapping, and Negotiation Ponderosa Multi-Stakeholder Pathways to Housing Recovery Centennial Ballroom Multidisciplinary Collaboration in Action Fir
Wed, June 17 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. MDT	Researchers and Practitioners Bingo Happy Hour! The Living Room and Terrace
	Thursday, June 18, 2026
Thur, June 18 7:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. MDT	Registration Atrium
Thur, June 18 7:30 to 8:00 a.m. MDT	Coffee with National Science Foundation Program Directors Interlocken C
Thur, June 18 8:00 to 8:15 a.m. MDT	Break
	Track 1: Hazard Mitigation and Preparedness Track 2: Housing and Community Health Track 3: Emergency Management Track 4: Equity and Empowerment Track 5: Data-Driven Risk Management Track 6: Disaster Reconstruction, Recovery, and Relief Track 7: Promoting Resilience
Thur, June 18 8:15 to 9:45 a.m. MDT	Evaluation and Assessment Across the Disaster Cycle Interlocken B Understanding Health Impacts Across Cascading Hazards Interlocken C The Human Infrastructure of Emergency Management Interlocken D Decisions, Disruptions, and Differential Vulnerabilities Centennial E Data, Models, and Decision-Making, Methodological Frontiers in Disaster Research Centennial F Compounding Crises and Uneven Exposure Ponderosa Resilience at the Margins: Governance, Agriculture, and Rural Futures Fir
Thur, June 18 9:45 to 10:15 a.m. MDT	Break
Thur, June 18 10:15 to 11:45 a.m. MDT	Roundtable: Ethics of Engaged Research: Developing Principles, Commitments and Accountability Interlocken B Roundtable: Reciprocal Mapping: Storytelling, Science, and the Co-Production of Geoscientific Knowledge Interlocken C Roundtable: Complexities of Urban Wildfire Evacuations Interlocken D Roundtable: Building Your News Go Bag Centennial E Roundtable: Building Interdisciplinary Partnerships to Strengthen Food Systems Resilience Centennial F Roundtable: Formalizing Justice-Centered Epistemologies in Disaster Research Ponderosa Roundtable: Politicized and Miscategorized Populations Fir
Thur, June 18 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. MDT	Lunch in the Outdoor Pavilion
	Track 1: Hazard Mitigation and Preparedness Track 2: Housing and Community Health Track 3: Emergency Management Track 4: Equity and Empowerment Track 5: Data-Driven Risk Management Track 6: Disaster Reconstruction, Recovery, and Relief Track 7: Promoting Resilience
Thur, June 18 1:15 to 2:45 p.m. MDT	Mediating Disaster: Stories, Images, and Information Interlocken B Housing Adaptation and Residential Mobility Interlocken C Complex Systems and Compound Risk Interlocken D Inherited Impacts: Disaster As Legacy Centennial E Advances in Disaster Risk Analysis and Resilience Assessment Centennial F Everyday Mobility As Disaster Infrastructure Ponderosa Disaster Intermediaries and Interventions Fir
Thur, June 18 2:45 to 3:15 p.m. MDT	Break
Thur, June 18 3:15 to 4:45 p.m. MDT	Valuing Resilience: From Risk Awareness to Investment Interlocken B Deciding Under Risk: Modeling Uncertainty and Response Interlocken C Evacuation Beyond Egress: Decision, Care, and Long-Term Displacement Interlocken D Global Dimensions and International Disaster Case Studies Centennial E Qualitative and Mixed-Methods Approaches to Organization and Capacity Centennial F Science With Society: Community-Centered Co-Production Ponderosa Toward Meaningful Measures for Disaster Preparedness Fir
Thur, June 18 4:45 to 5:00 p.m. MDT	Break
Thur, June 18 5:00 to 5:30 p.m.	Closing Discussion and Agenda Setting Centennial Ballroom
Thur, June 18 5:30 p.m.	Researchers Meeting Adjourns