Application for 2024 D4 Hack Week: Disasters, Demography, Disparities, and Decisions

Are you applying as an individual or on behalf of a team?

Note: If you are applying on behalf of a team, only one application is required.

Please list the name and institution for all team members, one per line:

Joan Smith, University of Washington
John Stamos, Washington State University

Please upload ONE document with a bio-sketch or resume, inclusive of all team members.

This document should highlight the relevant research and interests and should not exceed 3 pages for individuals or 10 pages for teams.

To help make this a productive workshop, it will help us to know what research question motivates your interest in this workshop, and what kinds of new collaborations might be most productive for you or your team. Describe the research question that you wish most to answer. The research question must require:

1. data integration approaches and/or
2. modeling approaches that either leverage existing data products held by the applicant(s) or accomplish this in concert with data and expertise held by other applicants or the UW/AI2ES

Please provide a brief description of one or more of the following to be co-developed or used during the workshop. Note: that these do not have to be their own/original to you:

• Data product (s) - full description of measures, temporal and spatial resolution, potential linkages, and data size and coverage.

• Models and measures

• Data science tools for linkages

• AI/ML tools

• Data visualization tools

Please provide a detailed description of the kind of additional data or modeling approach you or your team are seeking to integrate via collaboration with another team during the workshop and why these data are crucial for advancing research on the question of most interest to you.

Please describe a product that you would like to come out of this workshop. This could be a proposed data assimilation/visualization tool, research paper, and/or research grant proposal idea by your team, augmented or newly formed at the workshop.

How might analyses that you propose to conduct during the workshop contribute to the three goals for the workshop? 

Workshop Goals:

1. Investigate the human behavior and societal adaptive responses to, and impacts of, severe weather and climate-related events, particularly flooding associated with atmospheric rivers, hurricanes, and severe storms, but also including other extreme events such as heat or fire.
2. Address the research gaps linking mitigation to adaptation and resilience in relation to severe weather. Specifically, this will involve exploring co-benefits for human well-being from climate adaptation strategies that will further contribute to resilience to extreme weather events and climate mitigation (particularly those investments related to land-use, the built environment, energy, transportation, and related policies).
3. Explore pathways to better understand the dynamics of decisions and population disparities in responses to and impacts of past extreme climate/weather events.

Do any of the data you plan to use have secure / confidentiality measures we would need to consider for you to participate in the workshop? If so, briefly name these data and what security measure might be needed.

Would you be interested in attending this workshop in person on September 9-13, 2024? 

This does not affect your chances of selection but helps with workshop planning and logistics.