Feb 23, 2021
A recent TIME Magazine article notes that, “For scientists, the havoc wreaked by the extreme winter weather that hit Texas in mid-February dropping several inches of snow and leaving millions without power did not come as a surprise.”Indeed, CRGC director Melissa...
Aug 22, 2019
Delivering risk and crisis communication to US Gulf Coast residents poses a unique challenge to individual and organizational responders, explains Elizabeth Petrun Sayers in her latest paper. The Journal of Emergency Management published “Reaching vulnerable...
Jan 14, 2019
In December, Melissa Finucane, Andrew Parker,Vanessa Parks, and Rajeev Ramchand presented an overview of the Consortium for Resilient Gulf Communities (CRGC) at the annual meeting of the Society for Risk Analysis in New Orleans.During a plenary session...
Dec 10, 2018
CRGC director Melissa Finucane participated in the kick-off of a collaborative workshop series, “Regional priority setting for health, social, and economic disruption from spills.” The two-day event took place December 4-5 in Houma, Louisiana. The workshop series is...
Oct 18, 2017
At this year’s Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference, The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI) interviewed Dr. Melissa Finucane— Senior Social and Behavioral Scientist at the RAND Corporation, and the Director of The Consortium for...
Oct 11, 2017
Accessibility to transparent, up to date data has proven to play a critical role in both individual- and community-level capacity to prepare for, respond to, and recover from disaster events, such as a hurricanes— Something that was especially evident following...
