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2021 USGS Risk Research Projects

By Office of Risk and Resilience

The 2021 USGS Risk Research Projects highlight interdisciplinary research to improve hazard preparedness, strengthen risk communication, support community resilience, and develop science-based tools to help decision-makers reduce risks to people, property, and natural resources.

  • Co-production of lahar hazard products with Mount Shasta emergency managers and communities
    Jessica Ball, Volcano Science Center
     
  • User needs assessment of southern California emergency managers to improve post-fire debris flow inundation hazard products
    Katherine Barnhart, Geologic Hazards Science Center
     
  • Difficult disease decisions: how to reduce risk when dealing with multiple competing objectives and opposing risk tolerances
    Graziella DiRenzo, Massachusetts Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
     
  • Wind erosion risk on Navajo Nation lands of the Colorado Plateau
    Seth Munson, Southwest Biological Science Center
     
  • Coastal Vulnerability Assessments in Puerto Rico: focused stakeholder engagement to foster equity and inclusion
    Legna Torres-Garcia, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center
     
  • Predicting risk of plant invasion following wildfires in the United States
    Janet Prevey, Fort Collins Science Center
     
  • Perceived and realized risks to vegetation communities on lands managed along the U.S.-Mexico border: identifying restoration needs in human-altered drylands
    Daniel Winkler, Southwest Biological Science Center

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