I am a human-environment geographer specializing in the human dimensions of climate change and environmental hazards. My lab’s research focuses on the intersection of human perception and decision-making with societal vulnerability and adaptation to climate change and environmental hazards. In my work, I investigate how spatial relationships and environmental context influence risk perceptions, communication, and behavior.
I am a Professor of Geography in the Department of Environment & Society in the S.J. and Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources at Utah State University, where I direct the Human-Environment Spatial Analysis Lab.
I am also an associate of the USU Ecology Center, and I serve on the leadership team for the Climate Adaptation Science graduate program. I am an affiliate researcher with the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.
USU Logan Land Acknowledgement: We recognize that Utah State University in Logan resides on the ancestral, traditional, and contemporary lands in the Sihivigoi (Willow Valley) of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation. The university resides on land ceded in the 1863 Treaty at Fort Bridger and other lands within our state. Today we recognize Utah’s eight federally recognized Native nations, historic Indigenous communities in Utah, Indigenous individuals and communities past and present. In offering this land acknowledgment, we affirm Indigenous sovereignty, history, and experiences.
