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Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES)

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Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning

# overview
Michelle's research interests include disaster recovery and mitigation, environmental sociology and community sustainability, and the interplay between environmental conditions and social vulnerability. Particularly, Michelle studies inequality and how disaster and environmental settings intersect with structural forces that maintain or transform inequality. She uses the lens of social capital and collective efficacy to theoretically understand how relationships between individuals and between governmental and nongovernmental organizations generate or hinder disaster risk and recovery. Hence, her interests have led her to research expansively on volunteer organizations, volunteerism, and philanthropy in disaster. Michelle's dissertation research focused on the interrelation of individual and community resilience and social vulnerability in hurricane-prone communities. Michelle has worked on various research projects including disaster risk perception, social capital in disaster resilience, nonprofit collaboration for disaster recovery, organizational energy conservation, volunteer training program evaluation, evaluation of disaster response plans for individuals with disabilities, social media use among vulnerable populations, how to increase protective action knowledge in Haiti, citizen science protocols for measuring storm-water condition equity, and environmental attitudes and behaviors. She has conducted research in Florida, Louisiana, Texas, Colorado, New York, California, Sri Lanka, and Haiti. As well as survey research throughout the Gulf and Atlantic coastlines and in Peru, India, and Turkey. She regularly teaches courses on research methods and statistics, sociology of disaster, environmental sociology, environmental justice, and hazard mitigation and recovery. She has worked with over 20 undergraduates on research projects, most of which are from groups that are underrepresented in science.

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35 Commerce, Management, Tourism And Services

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3507 Strategy, Management And Organisational Behaviour

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Geographic Information Science And Systems (gis)

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35 Commerce, Management, Tourism And Services

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3507 Strategy, Management And Organisational Behaviour

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Land Use Management For Disaster Risk Reduction

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Health Disparities And Racial Or Ethnic Minority Health Research

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16 Peace, Justice And Strong Institutions

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35 Commerce, Management, Tourism And Services

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35 Commerce, Management, Tourism And Services

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3507 Strategy, Management And Organisational Behaviour

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Murray State University - (Murray, Kentucky, United States)

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Colorado State University - (Fort Collins, Colorado, United States)

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Colorado State University - (Fort Collins, Colorado, United States)

# publications[].label
A Cognitive-Affective Scale for Hurricane Risk Perception.

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Disaster Social Service Volunteers: Evaluation of a Training Program

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THE FAMILY'S BURDEN: PERCEIVED SOCIAL NETWORK RESOURCES FOR INDIVIDUAL DISASTER ASSISTANCE IN HAZARD-PRONE FLORIDA

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Potential of Citizen Science for Enhancing Infrastructure Monitoring Data and Decision-Support Models for Local Communities.

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9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

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Social and geographical disparities in Twitter use during Hurricane Harvey

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Elderly Perceptions of Social Capital and Age-Related Disaster Vulnerability.

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Social Capital Theory and Quantitative Approaches in Measurements: Disaster Literature Focus.

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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The development of a participatory assessment technique for infrastructure: Neighborhood-level monitoring towards sustainable infrastructure systems.

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9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

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Placemaking Mediating Dilemmas by Addressing the Gaps in Post-Disaster Recovery Process: Long-term Citizen-driven Place-nurturing in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

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GROWTH AND SHRINKAGE PRE AND POST TSUNAMI IN FUKUSHIMA PREFECTURE, JAPAN.

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Resilience in Recovery? Understanding the Extent, Structure, and Operations of Nonprofits Meant to Address Disaster Survivors' Unmet Needs

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?I didn't know what to expect or What to do?: Impacts of a severe winter storm on residents of subsidized housing in Texas

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A reinforcement learning-based routing algorithm for large street networks

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Social media for emergency rescue: An analysis of rescue requests on Twitter during Hurricane Harvey

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Gauging the Relationship between Contextual Growth and Structural Neglect

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Women's experiences across disasters: a study of two towns in Texas, United States.

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The effect of proximity to hurricanes Katrina and Rita on subsequent hurricane outlook and optimistic bias.

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Behavioral Analysis for Southeast Louisiana Hurricane Events

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Stephenson Disaster Management Institute, Dewberry, and the US Army Corps of Engineers

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Integrating interdisciplinary thinking and education in graduate disaster research curricula: Insights from statistical, sentiment, and thematic analysis

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Climate Change, Environment Hazards and Community Sustainability

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Validity and Reliability of Drainage Infrastructure Monitoring Data Obtained from Citizen Scientists

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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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Recovery from a disaster like Hurricane Ian takes years, and nonprofits play many pivotal roles before and after FEMA aid runs out

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Participatory Action Research: Tools for Disaster Resilience Education.

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Disaster Impacts on College Students: Life Trajectories at Stake

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Rationale and processes of residential buyout programs: A review on buyout regulations and consequences in Japan and the U.S.

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Want to help after a disaster? Consider waiting a bit

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Staying above Water: Educational Outcomes of College Students during the 2016 Louisiana Flood

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Underwater: Loss, Flood Insurance, and the Moral Economy of Climate Change in the United States

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Content analysis of state hazard mitigation plans and their ability to address pandemics

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Social Capital and Natural Hazards Governance

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Previous hurricane evacuation decisions and future evacuation intentions among residents of southeast Louisiana

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Green School Building Success: Innovation through a Flat Team Approach

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The Adoption of Hazard Mitigation and Climate Change Adaptation Policies, Programs, and Actions by Local Jurisdictions along the Gulf and Atlantic Coasts

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Internal Environmental Displacement: A Growing Challenge to the United States Welfare State

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Oati International Institute for the Sociology of Law

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Rethinking Disaster Recovery: A Hurricane Katrina Retrospective

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Modeling Long-Term Housing Recovery after Technological Disaster Using a Virtual Audit with Repeated Photography

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Poster for Social Institution Resilience Theory: Implications for Community Resilience Planning Models

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Planning for Disaster Recovery: Planner Perspectives and Experiences

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PLANNING FOR DIVERSITY: EVALUATION OF A VOLUNTEER DISASTER RESPONSE PROGRAM.

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Frame Decoupling for Organizational Change: Building Support Across Divergent Stakeholders

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Volunteer motivations in civilian volunteer search and rescue organizations

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Designing user-centered decision support systems for climate disasters: What information do communities and rescue responders need during floods?

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Social Media for Emergency Rescue: An Analysis of Rescue Requests on Twitter during Hurricane Harvey

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Prisoner Labor Throughout the Life Cycle of Disasters

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Measuring and conveying social vulnerability

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An assessment of change in risk perception and optimistic bias for hurricanes among Gulf Coast residents.

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Hope for a Cause as Cause for Hope: The Need for Hope in Environmental Sociology

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Understanding Disaster Recovery and Adaptation

# publications[].label
Social and geographical disparities in Twitter use during Hurricane Harvey

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Perspectives from nongovernmental organizations on education and training needs for community disaster recovery.

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When Hate Is a Crime: Temporal and Geographic Patterns of Anti-Islamic Hate Crime after 9/11

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Human-centered flood mapping and intelligent routing through augmenting flood gauge data with crowdsourced street photos

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Development of the Contamination Distribution Centered Toxics Mobility Vulnerability Index in the Beaumont-Port Arthur Region of Texas.

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Estimating long-term K-12 student homelessness after a catastrophic flood disaster

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Critical Review of National Flood Policy Outcomes

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Organization-based social capital and inequity in disaster recovery planning

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Improving social media use for disaster resilience: challenges and strategies

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Community Level Social Capital and Resilience1

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Environmental, climatic, and situational factors influencing the probability of fatality or injury occurrence in flash flooding: a rare event logistic regression predictive model.

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The 2016 Unexpected Mid-State Louisiana Flood: With Special Focus on the Different Rescue and Recovery Responses It Engendered

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Internal Environmental Displacement: A Growing Challenge to the U.S. Welfare State

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Using Photography to Assess Housing Damage and Rebuilding Progress for Disaster Recovery Planning

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Interdisciplinary Citizen Science and Design Projects for Hazard and Disaster Education.

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Engaged Research for Community Resilience to Climate Change

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Moving Up the Ladder in Rising Waters: Community Science in Infrastructure and Hazard Mitigation Planning as a Pathway to Community Control and Flood Disaster Resilience

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EAGER - Citizen Science for Infrastructure Monitoring at the Neighborhood Level

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Collaborative Research: Organizational development, operations, and new media among civilian flood-rescue groups

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Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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RAPID: Understanding Integration of Emergent Volunteer Groups into Disaster Response

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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RAPID: Technological versus Natural Disasters: Consequences for Early Recovery Planning and Decision-Making at the Community and Household Level

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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CAREER: Estimating and Addressing Disaster Survivors' Unmet Needs: A Social Vulnerability and Social Infrastructure Approach

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Directorate for Engineering - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Assistive Artificial Intelligence for Diversifying and Reskilling the Disaster Management Workforce of the Future

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Moving Resilience Research to Action in the Gulf Region Workshop

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Reducing the Human Impacts of Flash Floods: Development of Microdata and Causal Model to Inform Mitigation and Preparedness

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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RAPID: The Changing Roles of Social Media in Disaster Resilience: The Case of Hurricane Harvey

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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IBSS-L: Understanding Social and Geographical Disparities in Disaster Resilience through Social Media

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Focused CoPe: Fundamental research to inform holistic decision-making for historically underrepresented communities impacted by coastal hazards

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Southeast Texas Urban IFL: Equitable solutions for communities caught between floods and air pollution

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United States Department of Energy - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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The Center for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning is a NIST-funded Center of Excellence (Rosenheim, Nathanael)

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National Institute of Standards and Technology - (Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States)

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RAPID: Disparities in Business and Nonprofit Impact and Recovery from Hurricane Harvey, COVID-19, and Hurricane Laura

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Directorate for Engineering - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Southern Climate Impacts Planning Program (SCIPP) Phase III: Organizational Recovery from Hurricane Harvey

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University of Oklahoma - (Norman, Oklahoma, United States)

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Land use strategy and redefinition of the landscape for urban hole emerged after coastal disasters

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Japan Science and Technology Agency - (Tokyo, Japan)

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Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Program (CAMP) Continuation

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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Structures of Long-Term Disaster Recovery: Organizational Roles and Collaboration in Six Cities

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Texas A&M University; Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning; 3137 TAMU

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Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning

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Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES)

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Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES)

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Construction Science Professor Develops Unique App To Gauge Flood Levels