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Sara HarrisonHazard and Risk Management Scientist
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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- Exploring the data needs and sources for severe weather impact forecasts and warnings
- 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.
- 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.
- '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.