Three articles appear in June

HVRI alum Tracy Whelen (M.S. 2020) published “A GIS-based risk assessment of the Columbia-Richland (SC) Fire Department," an article based on her thesis, in the May 2022 issue of Fire Engineering.

Sahar Derakhshan (Ph.D. 2020) and current HVRI team members (Leah Blackwood, Margot Habets, Julia F. Effgen, and Susan Cutter) published their work titled "Prisoners of scale: downscaling community resilience measurements for enhanced use," in Sustainability (volume 14, issue 11).

In collaboration with a team from the University of Arizona, HVRI alum Rachel R. McCaster (M.S. 2015) and Susan Cutter co-authored a paper, "Adjusting statistical benchmark risk analysis to account for non-spatial autocorrelation, with application to natural hazard risk assessment," in the recent issue (volume 49, issue 9) of Journal of Applied Statistics. 

Climate Ready Columbia

The State reported on the Climate Ready Columbia conference, including Kirstin Dow's remarks on the importance of maintaining the city's tree canopy to combat the hotter temperatures climate change will bring (April 2, 2022) 

Mock on climate records

The Hamilton Spectator spoke with Cary Mock spoke about the importance of historical climatology.

Dow on UN climate report

Kirstin Dow was featured in the Post & Courier story "UN report underlines a climate change reality: SC has ‘a lot to do’ to adapt" (March 5, 2022) 

SPARC award to Jackson

Ph.D. student Sarah Jackson was awarded a UofSC SPARC award from the UofSC Office of the Vice President for Research to support her dissertation research  on the role of geographic context in tornado risk perception and response (January 2022) 

Dow elected AAAS fellow

HVRI Co-Director Dr. Kirstin Dow was just elected as a fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for her work on climate impacts, vulnerability and adaptation. (January 2022)

HVRI team publishes COVID-19 paper

The HVRI team, led by Ph.D. student Sarah Jackson, has published a COVID-19 paper, "Spatial Disparities of COVID-19 Cases and Fatalities in United States Counties," in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. The other authors include Sahar Derakhshan, Leah Blackwood, Logan Lee, Qian Huang, Margot Habets, and Susan L. Cutter. (August 16, 2021)

SC's Office of Resilience

HVRI Director Dr. Susan Cutter comments on the newly established state Office of Resilience and its role in future disaster recovery in the Charleston Post & Courier.  (July 12, 2021)

Charleston weather extremes and climate

Dr. Greg Carbone describes changes in weather extremes  — heat, rainfall, tropical systems, and tidal flooding and what this means for Charleston in the Post & Courier.  (June 29, 2021)

New Orleans 1812 hurricane history features Cary Mock's research

A new study in a Historical New Orleans Collection corroborates Cary Mock's research that the 1812 hurricane was the worst storm to hit the city,  not Hurricane Katrina. (June 11, 2021) 

Haz-Dash updated

HVRI just released an updated version of the Socioeconomic Impacts of Natural Hazards web-based dashboard called Haz-Dash. It provides mapped data for the U.S. on hazard losses from 2000–2019 using the SHELDUS database. (June 7, 2021)