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Simplified Volcano Hazard Maps: Two Groups User-Experience (Ux) Study Results, Rachel Volentine Jul 2021

Simplified Volcano Hazard Maps: Two Groups User-Experience (Ux) Study Results, Rachel Volentine

User eXperience Lab

The purpose of this research is to identify any usability issues and opportunities to improve the design for superb communication of volcanic hazards and risks. From this research, insights into the intuitiveness and risk-communication deficiencies of these hazard maps will help create a new methodology for evaluation map-based communication products implemented by USGS and its partners/stakeholders, Risk COP members, and practitioners around the world to alleviate volcanic risk and hazards.


Simplified Volcano Hazard Maps User-Experience (Ux) Study Results, Rachel Volentine Jun 2021

Simplified Volcano Hazard Maps User-Experience (Ux) Study Results, Rachel Volentine

User eXperience Lab

The purpose of this research is to identify any usability issues and opportunities to improve the design for superb communication of volcanic hazards and risks. From this research, insights into the intuitiveness and risk-communication deficiencies of these hazard maps will help create a new methodology for evaluation map-based communication products implemented by USGS and its partners/stakeholders, Risk COP members, and practitioners around the world to alleviate volcanic risk and hazards.


Hazardous Weather And Human Response In The Southeastern United States, Daniel Burow May 2021

Hazardous Weather And Human Response In The Southeastern United States, Daniel Burow

Doctoral Dissertations

Effectively mitigating the human costs of future hazardous weather events requires examining meteorological threats, their long-term patterns, and human response to these events. The southeastern United States is a region that has both a high climatological risk and a high societal vulnerability to many different meteorological hazards. In this dissertation, I study hazardous weather and human response in the Southeast through three different lenses: identifying uniquely simultaneous hazards posed by tropical cyclones, assessing precipitation and synoptic weather patterns on hazardous weather days, and examining patterns in intended response to tornado watches. I find that simultaneous and collocated tornado and flash …