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Meet the Steering Committee and Sponsor
Story behind the Logo
General Agenda
Presentation Sessions
Poster Presentations
Pecha Kucha Inspired Presentations
Accommodation
Steering Committee
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Director, Hazard Reduction & Recovery Center Assistant Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning |
Director, Texas Target Communitites Director of Outreach, Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center Associate Professor of Practice, Department of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning
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Associate Director, Institute for Sustainable Communities |
Assistant Professor, Zachry Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering |
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Instructional Assistant Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning |
Associate Professor, Zachry Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
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Health & Environment Lead, Institute for Sustainable Communities
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Research Assistant Professor, Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center |
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Administrative Coordinator, Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center |
Sponsors
Thanks for the following sposors to help make this event happen!
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Story behind the Logo
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Evelyn Adams (middle), M.S. Educational Technology, 2020 Holding the winning design piece with her wonderful Aggie kids at the Hazard Reduction & Recovery Center
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Message from Evelyn:
"When I was searching for a design inspiration for the Disaster Recovery and Hazard Research Symposium, I wanted to represent the strength, humanity, ingenuity, and resourcefulness that Texas A&M and Texas represent in our country and around the world. The Texas A&M Century Tree is behind the logo inspiration due to its resilience and strength. The tree is in the heart of Aggieland and it was one of the first trees planted on our campus over a century ago. I felt that the Century Tree would be the perfect representation of how Texas A&M is an active part of our constant search for big solutions for all types of world problems. The Century Tree, with its deep roots and long history of survival, represents the true spirit of all Aggies as we strive to help our fellow man through times of trouble and also to inspire a brighter future after a crisis."
Meeting Agenda
Thursday, September 5th, 2019
Location: Rudder Tower 601
| 1:00 p.m. | Opening Ceremony by Dr. Michelle Meyer |
| 1:30 - 3:00 p.m. | Presentation Session 1 |
| 3:00 - 3:15 p.m. | Break |
| 3:15 - 4:45 p.m. | Presentation Session 2 |
| 4:45 - 5:00 p.m. ` | Break |
| 5:00 - 6:30 p.m. | Reception & Poster Presentation |
| 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. | Pecha Kucha Inspired Presentation |
Friday, September 6th, 2019
Location: Rudder Tower 601 & 301
| 7:30 - 8:00 a.m. | Breakfast |
| 8:00 - 9:30 a.m. | Presentation Session 3 |
| 9:30 - 9:45 a.m. | Break |
| 9:45 - 11:15 a.m. | Concurrent Presentation Session 4 (Rudder Tower 601) |
| 9:45 - 11:15 a.m. | Concurrent Presentation Session 5 (Rudder Tower 301) |
| 11:15 - 12:15 p.m. | Lunch & Poster Presentation |
| 12:15 - 1:45 p.m. | Concurrent Presentation Session 6 (Rudder Tower 601) |
| 12:15 - 1:45 p.m. | Concurrent Presentation Session 7 (Rudder Tower 301) |
| 1:45 - 2:00 p.m. | Break |
| 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. | Presentation Session 8 |
| 3:30 - 4:00 p.m. | Closing |
Presentations Sessions
Session 1: September 5, Thursday 1:30-3:00 p.m., Rudder Tower 601
To see detailed abstracts for presentations, please click here.
- Ramalingam Saravanan, Large-scale Environmental Influences on Atlantic Tropical Cyclones
- Wesley Highfield, Measuring, Mapping, & Managing Flood Risk: A Pilot Program in Southeast Texas
- Ali Mostafavi, Interdisciplinary Disaster Research in the Digital Age: Uncovering Human Network Dynamics during Built Environment Disruptions
- Louis Ngamassi, Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Management: A Research and Education Agenda
- Jaimie Masterson, Integrating Resilience into Networks of Plans
Session 2: September 5, Thursday 3:15-4:45 p.m., Rudder Tower 601
To see detailed abstracts for presentations, please click here.
- Galen Newman, Resilience through Regeneration: Enhancing Resiliency with Engagement-based Green Infrastructure Provisions
- Victoria Chraibi, Paleolimnology: Providing a More Comprehensive Assessment of Resilience and the Long-term Hierarchy of Environmental Controls on Aquatic Ecosystems
- Kyeong Park, Response of Galveston Bay to Hurricane Harvey: Observation and Modelling
- Paula Lorente, Urban Flood Resilience: Modeling, Planning and Implementation
- Andrea Roberts, Curating Freedom: Co-Researching with Descendants of Texas’ Historic Black Settlements
Session 3: September 6, Friday 8:00-9:30 a.m., Rudder Tower 601
To see detailed abstracts for presentations, please click here.
- Jim Lee, The Economic Aftermath of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma
- Nathanael Rosenheim, Food Security and its relation to Critical Infrastructure after Hurricane Harvey
- J. Carlee Purdum, Long-term Recovery Committees and Post-disaster Unmet Needs
- Charriss York, Exploration Green: A case study of green infrastructure during Hurricane Harvey
- Qian Wang, Reading natural disasters in bones – A project on monkeys with hurricane experience
Concurrent Session 4: September 6, Friday 9:45-11:15 a.m., Rudder Tower 601
To see detailed abstracts for presentations, please click here.
- Jukrin Moon, Five Functions that Made an Incident Management Team Resilient during Hurricane Harvey
- David Bierling, Texas' New Guide for Hazardous Materials Emergency Planning
- Laura Stough, Resources for Disasters and Disability (REDDy) Directory Providing Independence and Resilience Post Hurricane Harvey
- W. Timothy Coombs, The Discourse of Resilience: The Value of Instructing and Adjusting Information
Concurrent Session 5: September 6, Friday 9:45-11:15 a.m., Rudder Tower 301
To see detailed abstracts for presentations, please click here.
- Robert Hetland, Hurricane Harvey Caused Unprecedented Freshwater Inflow to Galveston Bay
- Hui Liu, Resilience of Estuarine Pelagic Communities to Extreme Flooding after a Catastrophic Hurricane in Galveston Bay
- Gerardo Gold Bouchot, Effect of Hurricane Harvey on the Biogeochemistry of Chromophoric Dissolved Organic Matter (CDOM) in Galveston Bay, Texas
- Abheek Chatterjee, Investigating Ecosystems' Mimicry towards Design of Resilient Resource and Infrastructure Networks
Concurrent Session 6: September 6, Friday 12:15-1:45 p.m., Rudder Tower 601
To see detailed abstracts for presentations, please click here.
- Ranjana Mehta, Human-Robotic Interactions (HRI) during Natural Disasters: Operator States Assessments and Improvements for Effective HRI (Cancelled due to Hurricane Dorian)
- Anjin Chang, Building Damage and Recovery Monitoring from the Harvey using Unmanned Aerial System (UAS)
- Xiaofeng Nie, A Stochastic Programming Model for Emergency Supply Planning Considering Traffic Congestion
- Yalong Pi, Artificial Intelligence for Fast Disaster Impact Information Retrieval and Mapping from Aerial Footage
Concurrent Session 7: September 6, Friday 12:15-1:45 p.m., Rudder Tower 301
To see detailed abstracts for presentations, please click here.
- Youngjib Ham, Disaster Data Science and Data-driven Disaster Management for Risk-informed Decision-Making
- Ruihong Huang, Weakly-supervised Fine-grained Event Recognition on Social Media for Disaster Management
- Lei Zou, Mining Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) for Disaster Resilience and Management
- Michelle Meyer, Civilian Rescuing in Disaster: Organizational Emergence, Development, and Institutionalization
Session 8: September 6, Friday 2:00-3:30 p.m., Rudder Tower 601
To see detailed abstracts for presentations, please click here.
- Rusty Feagin, Coastal Erosion: Nature-based Solutions
- Monty C. Dozier, Extension Network's at Work in Times of Need
- Ashley Ross, Rural Resilience
- Thomas Chappell, Predicting and Monitoring Biotic Sequelae to Environmental Injuries
- Sierra Woodruff, Resilience Policies and Programs in 101 U.S. Cities
Poster Presentations
To see detailed abstracts for posters, please click here.
- Jennifer Blanks, A Cyber GIS-enabled Spatial Decision Support System: A Case Study on Flood Emergency Management
- Natalie Coleman, Societal Impacts of Hurricane Harvey Measured through Risk Inequalities from Infrastructure Service Disruptions
- Nicholas Diaz, Deriving First Floor Elevations within Residential Communities Located in Galveston Using UAS-based Data
- Daniella Edey, Online Local Environment Hazards Education for Young Adults Using a Social Media Platform
- Amir Esmalian, Agent-based Modelling Framework for Simulating Societal Impacts of Infrastructure Service Disruptions during Disasters
- Nasir Gharaibeh, Assessing the Validity and Reliability of Drainage Infrastructure Monitoring Data Obtained from Citizen Scientists
- Donghwan Gu, Post-disaster Household Dislocation after Hurricane Andrew, Ike, and Matthew
- Christena Hoelscher, Mapping the Migration Pattern of the Hurricane Harvey Flood Deposit on the Brazos Subaqueous Delta
- Mirsalar Kamari, Construction Site Hurricane Preparedness using Large-scale Aerial Visual Data
- Asim Bashir Khajwal, A Probabilistic Hurricane Loss Model for Risk Assessment at Regional Scale
- Jessica Lee, Inequity in Stormwater Infrastructure: Findings from Houston
- Blanca Olivia Macareno, Disaster Planning, Preparedness, & Response for Rural Long-Term Care Providers
- Robert Martin, Hurricane Harvey, Distress, and Academic Success
- Anastasia Muliana, Complex Freeform Shapes with Potential Hazard Mitigation Strategy
- Trent Parker, Application of Safety Triad in Preparation for Climate Extremes Affecting the Process Industries
- Daniel Pilgreen, Adapting to Climate Change: The Influence of Community Attachment on Migration Intention
- Joy Semien, Voiceless and Invisible: From the Mouth of Babes
- Kijin Seong, Homeowners' Long-term Residential Mobility Decisions following Recurrent Hurricanes
- Brianne Taylor, Immersion Foot Syndrome in Six Equids Exposed to Hurricane Floodwaters
- Jordan Walker, Microbial Communities and Ecosystem Recovery of Galveston Bay Post-Hurricane Harvey
- Meichen Wang, Broad-acting Enterosorbents for Mitigation of Toxin Mixtures during Emergencies and Natural Disasters
- Chandler Wilkins, A Cyber GIS-enabled Spatial Decision Support System: A Case Study on Flood Emergency Management
- Abrina Williams, Are You Ready for Recovery? An Evidence-based Disater Recovery Handbook for Planners
- Siyu Yu, Examining Factors Influencing Plan Integration for Community Resilience at the District Scale in Six US Coastal Cities Using Hierarchical Linear Modeling
- Zhe Zhang, A Cyber GIS-enabled Spatial Decision Support System: A Case Study on Flood Emergency Management
Pecha Kucha Inspired Presentations
To see detailed abstracts for Pecha Kucha Inspired Presentations, please click here.
- Jeewasmi Thapa, Rockport Strong: Planning for Resilience
- Barbara Bellows, The Role of Soil in Disaster Resilience
- John Nielsen-Gammon, The Worst Case Scenario
- Timothy Dellapenna, Cyclone Driven Sediment Flux within an Urbanized Estuary: Impact of Hurricane Harvey on Galveston Bay
- Nishita Sinha, Decision to Donate for Disaster Relief: Insights from Preferences Measured in Lab Experiment
- Kai Wu, Community Businesses as Social Units in Post-Disaster Recovery
- Michael Machen, Rebuild and Protect Texas: Helping Plan For, Respond To, and Recover from Contamination during Catastrophic Flood Events
Accommodation
Meals and Dining:
There will be a reception on September 5, Thursday night. Light appetizers will be provided.
Breakfast and lunch will be provided on September 6, Friday. We will also provide coffee throughout the conference.
Parking Information:
Directions: The Rudder Tower is at the corner of Houston Street and Joe Routt Boulevard. The two closest parking garages are Cain Garage and University Center Garage.
Please see map here.