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2021 Awards

2021 Risk Awards

2021 Risk Research Projects and Lead Principal Investigators 

  • 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 Research Unit

  • Wind erosion risk on Navajo Nation lands of the Colorado PlateauSeth 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 StatesJanet Prevey, Fort Collins Science Center 

  • Perceived and realized risks to vegetation communities on lands managed along the US-Mexico border: identifying restoration needs in human-altered drylands

    Daniel Winkler, Southwest Biological Science Center