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Sara HarrisonHazard and Risk Management Scientist

Harrison Sara 4469

Pronouns

she/her

Department

Hazard and Risk Social Science

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Biography

Sara is a Hazard and Risk Management Scientist within the Social and Behavioural Science Team. Her particular research interests are in designing and implementing people-centered early warning systems; partnerships and collaboration for disaster risk reduction; and social media, crowdsourcing, citizen science, volunteered geographic information for disaster risk reduction. Through her work, Sara hopes to improve the design and implementation of, and response to, people-centered early warning systems by finding better ways to increase the accessibility of key data sets and the adoption of new technologies and resulting data to support the decision-making behind these systems. Sara loves bouldering, traveling, and taking care of her plant family in her free time.

Qualifications

  • Master of Environmental Studies, Geography
  • PhD, Emergency Management
  • Bachelor of Environmental Studies, Geography

Areas of expertise

  • Business Development: Emergency Management
  • Business Development: Natural Hazards Research
  • Social Science: Survey design
  • Social Science: Interviewing
  • Social Science: Natural Hazards Research
  • Social Science: Emergency Management
  • Business Development: Stakeholder engagement
  • Business Development: Project management
  • Business Development: Disaster risk management
  • Social Science: Disaster risk management
  • Social Science: Risk Communication
  • Social Science: Social Media
  • Business Development: Hazards Impact on Society
  • Social Science: Focus Groups
  • Business Development: Hazards Warning Systems
  • Business Development: Community Resilience
  • Business Development: Tsunami Early Warning
  • Business Development: GIS
  • Business Development: Risk Communication
  • Business Development: Social Science Research Methods
  • Business Development: Impact-based warnings
  • Social Science: Grounded theory

Major Publications

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  • Harrison, S.E. 2022. Exploring the data needs and sources for severe weather impact forecasts and warnings 461 p.
  • Harrison, S.E.; Potter, S.H.; Prasanna, R.; Doyle, E.E.H.; Johnston, D.M. 2022. ‘Sharing is caring’ : a socio-technical analysis of the sharing and governing of hydrometeorological impact data in Aotearoa New Zealand, Progress in Disaster Science 13: article 100213. DOI: 10.1016/j.pdisas.2021.100213. article 100213
  • Harrison, S.E.; Potter, S.H.; Prasanna, R.; Doyle, E.E.H.; Johnston, D.M. 2022. Identifying the impact-related data uses and gaps for hydrometeorological impact forecasts and warnings, Weather, Climate, and Society 14(1): p. 155-176. DOI: 10.1175/WCAS-D-21-0093.1. p. 155-176
  • Harrison, S.E.; Potter, S.H.; Prasanna, R.; Doyle, E.E.H.; Johnston, D.M. 2021. 'Where oh where is the data?' : identifying data sources for hydrometeorological impact forecasts and warnings in Aotearoa New Zealand, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 66: article 102619. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102619. article 102619

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