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Strength in Numbers: The Social Science Extreme Events Research (SSEER) Network Map and Census

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Date: February 5, 2019
Time: 11 to 12 pm MT

    Description

    This webinar released the results of the 2018 census of the social science hazards and disaster research community. The census is the first attempt to generate a comprehensive portrait of social science hazards and disaster researchers. The data collected includes each researchers’ disciplinary training, organizational affiliation, types of hazards and disasters they study, and their methodological expertise, among other information. This webinar featured a demo of the Social Science Extreme Events Research (SSEER) interactive map, which includes the names, organizational affiliations, and geographic locations of the 683 researchers who signed up for SSEER in 2018.

    Introduction & Overview

    Robin Dillon-Merrill, Program Director, Humans, Disasters, and the Built Environment (HDBE), National Science Foundation

    Presenters

    Lori Peek, Director, Natural Hazards Center and Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Colorado Boulder; Principal Investigator, CONVERGE, SSEER, and ISEEER

    Mason Mathews, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Natural Hazards Center, University of Colorado Boulder

    Haorui Wu, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Natural Hazards Center, University of Colorado Boulder

    If you have questions about this webinar series or about CONVERGE, please contact us at converge@colorado.edu.

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