The HRRC includes several Staff Members and a network of Core Faculty members who contribute to the leadership and operation of the Center in various capacities. HRRC also serves to connect faculty across Texas A&M who conduct research related to hazard and disasters through our Faculty Fellow program. We also have HRRC Faculty and Research Affiliates across many institutions who support the mission of the Center and collaborate with us on various projects. See our team and students below. If you are interested in becoming a Fellow or Affiliate, contact us.
Staff
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Director, 2019-Present Research Interest: Disaster Research, Environmental Justice and Equity, Volunteering/Emergent Groups, Research Methods, Social Stratification |
Senior Fellows Research Interest: Urban Planning, Sustainability & Resiliency Issues, Natural Hazards, Hazards Mitigation & Adaptation, Long-term Disaster Recovery, Quantitative Methods |
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Senior Fellows Research Interest: Coastal Resilience, Social Vulnerability to Disasters, Low-income Housing, Environmental Equity |
Senior Fellows Research Interest: Sustainability, Risk Analysis & Planning, Technology & Society, Quantitative Methods |
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Director of Research Research Interest: Spatial Modeling, Data Science, Community Development, Food System Planning |
Liaison with IfSC
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Mapping Lead Research Interest: Scocial Impacts due to Interactions of Demoraphics, Satially Explicit Policies & Laws.
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Director of Transportation Research Interest: Hazardous Materials Transportation Analysis, Port Infrastructure, Operations and Environmental Issues, Emergency Response Equipment Test & Evaluation |
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Director of Outreach Research Interest: Civic Engagement, Community Development, Disaster Planning/Policy |
Liasion with TTC Research Interest: Community Engagement, Plan Evaluation, Government & Public Policy, Research Communication, Environmental Justice |
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Liaison with CHUD Research Interest: Urban Regeneration, Land Use Science, Spatial Analytics, Urban Flood Resilience |
Director of Equity and Inclusion Research Interest: Enviromental Justice, Community Engagement, Public Policy and Land Use |
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Andrew Rumbach Director of Education |
Liaison with RESI
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Engagement Specialist
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Core Faculty
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Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning Research Interest: Civic Engagement, Community Development, Disaster Planning/Policy |
Sociology Research Interest: Racial & Ethnic Relations, Social Inequality, Social Demography, Urban Sociology, Statistical Methods, Quantitative Techniques |
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Civil & Environmental Engineering Research Interest: Infrastructure Condition Assessment & Deterioration Modeling, Participatory Methods for Infrastructure Management, Pavement Design, Preservation & Management, Infrastructure Life-cycle Analysis |
Geography Research Interest: GIS, GeoComputation, CyberGIS, Spatial Databases, Spatial Uncertainty, Environmental Exposure Assessment, HealthGIS |
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Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning Research Interest: Land Use Law, Growth Management, On Premise Signage, Relocation Grief, Climate Change, Historic Preservation, Intergenerational Planning |
Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning Research Interest: Community Engagement, Plan Evaluation, Local Government and Public Policy, Research Communication, Environemtal Justice |
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Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning Research Interest: Disaster Research, Environmental Justice and Equity, Volunteering/Emergent Groups, Research Methods, Social Stratification |
Civil & Environmental Engineering Research Interest: Complex System-of-system Modeling, Resilience of Interdependent Infrastructure, Disaster Resilience & Climate Change Adaptation, Network Dynamics in Project Systems, Water-Energy Nexus in Civil Systems |
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Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning Research Interest: Urban Regeneration, Land Use Science, Spatial Analytics, Urban Flood Resilience |
Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning Research Interest: Urban Planning, Sustainability & Resiliency Issues, Natural Hazards, Hazards Mitigation & Adaptation, Long-term Disaster Recovery, Quantitative Methods |
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Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning Research Interest: Sustainability, Risk Analysis & Planning, Technology & Society, Quantitative Methods |
Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning Research Interest: Spatial Modeling, Data Science, Community Development, Food System Planning |
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Education & Humane Development Research Interest: Developmental Disabilities, Disaster Psychology, Learning Sciences, Disaster Recovery, Qualitative methods, Natural Hazards |
Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning Research Interest: Coastal Resilience, Social Vulnerability to Disasters, Low-income Housing, Environmental Equity |
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Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning Research Interest: Scocial Impacts due to Interactions of Demoraphics, Satially Explicit Policies & Laws |
Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning Research Interest: Geographic Infomation System, Big Data, Urban Computing, Data Science |
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Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning Research Interest: Community Resilience,Plan Integration, Land Use & Environmental planning, Social Vulnerability, Hazard Mitigation |
Post-doctoral Researchers
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Research Interest: Sociology of Disaster, Environmental Sociology, Rural Sociology, Emergency Management, Social Vulnerability, Community Recovery, Incarceration |
Research Interest: Economic Development, Disaster Recovery, Survey Methods, Small Business, Community Resilience, Disaster Finance & Policy |
Faculty Fellows
• Amir Behzadan, Department of Construction Science
• Ann Bowman, The Bush School of Government & Public Service
• Heng Cai, Department of Geography
• Shanka Chellam, Civil & Environmental Engineering
• John Patrick Casellas Connors, Department of Geography
• Benika Dixon, Texas A&M Health Science Center
• Rebekka Dudensing, TAMU Agricultural Economics
• Cecilia Giusti, College of Architecture
• Youngjib Ham, Department of Construction Science
• Maria Koliou, Civil & Environmental Engineering
• Matthew Malecha, Department of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning
• Zenon Medina-Cetina, Civil & Environmental Engineering
• Jason Moats, The Bush School of Government & Public Service
• Forster Ndubisi, Department of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning
• Xiaofeng Nie, Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution
• Andrea Roberts, Department of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning
• Garett Sansom, TAMU Public Health
• Douglass Shaw, TAMU Agricultural Economics
• Courtney Thompson, Department of Geography
• Qingsheng Wang, Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering
• Zhe Zhang, Department of Geography
• Lei Zou, Department of Geography
Faculty & Research Affilliates
• Kayode Atoba, TAMU at Galveston, The Center for Texas Beaches & Shores
• Phil Berke, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of City and Regional Planning
• Samuel Brody, TAMU at Galveston, The Center for Texas Beaches & Shores
• Noel M. Estwick, Prairie View A&M University, College of Agriculture & Humane Sciences
• Himanshu Grover, University of Washington, Department of Urban Design & Planning
• Sara Hamideh, Stony Brook University, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences
• Bryce Hannibal , RDC Administator, Wasatch Front Research Data Center, U.S. Census Bureau
• Marccus Hendricks, University of Maryland, College Park, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
• Wesley E. Highfield, TAMU at Galveston, Department of Marine Science
• Jen Horney, University of Delaware, Disaster Research Center
• Shih-Kai (Sky) Huang, Jacksonville State University, Department of Emergency Management
• Fayola Jacobs, University of Minnesota, Humphrey School of Public Affairs
• Navid Jafari, Louisiana State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Laurie Johnson, Consulting & Research
• Brant Mitchell, Louisiana State University, Stephenson Disaster Management Institute
• Louis Ngamassi, Prairie View A&M University, MIS
• Jody Rosenblatt Naderi, Ball State University, Department of Landscape Architecture
• Lori Peek, University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Sociology
• Ronald W. Perry, Arizona State University, School of Public Affairs
• Steven Quring, The Ohio State University, Department of Geography
• Ashley Ross, TAMU-Galveston, Department of Marine Science
• Andy Rumbach, University of Colorado-Denver, Department of Urban and Regional Planning
• Jesse Saginor, Florida Atlantic University, School of Urban & Regional Planning
• Keri Stephens, University of Texas-Austin, Department of Communications Studies
• Elaina Sutley, University of Kanas, Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering
• Jennifer Tobin, University of Colorado Boulder, Natural Hazards Center
• Sierra Woodruff, AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow Office of Global Change U.S. Department of State
• Hung Lung Wei, John Jay School of Criminal Justice (NY)
• Tristan Wu, University of North Texas, Emergency Administration and Planning
• Yu Xiao, Portland State University, Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning
• Yue Ge, University of Central Florida, Department of Public Administration
• Yang Zhang, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Department of Urban Affairs and Planning
Students
PhDs
• Haider Anwar
• Zhenhang Cai
• Jiaxin Du
• Erika Koeniger
• Jessica Lee
• Judanne Lennox
• Kin Long Lei
• Melina Da Silva Matos Sharifan
• Mastura Safayet
• Michelle Stanley
• Zhihan Tao
• Kai Wu
Master Student
• Arthur Chambers
• Romel Fernandez
• Carlo Chunga Pizarro
• Shin Tu
• Yuzhu Wang
Undergrads
• Jackson Pierce
• Ada Sofia Sierra
• Haley Yelle
