Liberal Arts and Sciences
Climate Risk and Storm Hazards (CRASH) Lab
Led by Kevin Ash · Geography
What we study
The CRASH Lab studies how weather and climate hazards affect people and communities, using geospatial tools like GIS and data analysis to assess risks and improve decision-making. They focus on floods, storms, and sea level rise in Florida.
What working here is like
- Computational
- No organisms (data only)
- Coding helps
- Projects
- 2
- Papers
- 5
Current projects
A Geospatial Awareness Framework for Weather Warning Communication and Decision Support
Developing tools to improve how weather warnings are communicated and used in decision-making.
Composite Red Tide Vulnerability Index (CRTVI)
Assessing how coastal communities in Florida are affected by harmful algal blooms.
Summaries are written by AI in plain language from public symposium abstracts and may be imperfect.
Recent papers, explained
- Characterising climate change, colonisation, conflict & corruption as a vulnerabilising assemblage in the context of infectious disease in Haiti
2026 · Geoforum
- Addressing Epistemic Risk in Actionable Earth System Science
2026 · Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Discusses risks in using scientific data for decision-making.
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- Quantifying uncertainty due to sampling error in a social vulnerability index: A Monte Carlo approach
2026 · PLoS ONE
Uses simulations to measure uncertainty in social vulnerability indices.
- Are high-income countries vulnerable to drought? A review
2026 · Environmental Research Letters
Reviews drought vulnerability in high-income countries.
- Assessing the vulnerability of Cape Coral, Florida, to sea level rise using principal component analysis (2020–2050)
2024 · International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
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