Biography

Boise State University - Geology

Associate Professor in Geoscience;
Director for the Boise State Hazard and Climate Resiliency Institute
Brittany
Brand
Boise, Idaho
I am Director for the Boise State Hazard and Climate Resiliency Institute (HCRI):

https://www.boisestate.edu/research-hcri/

We foster whole community collaboration to proactively build resilience to hazards and the impacts of a changing climate. Our vision is to become a nationally recognized research and training center that facilitates the transfer and application of risk and resiliency knowledge amongst stakeholders. We aim to reduce the impacts of future hazards while cultivating social and environmental equity.

Research Interest 1: I work to bridge the gap between science and society by combining research, outreach, and education. My research group and I investigate ways to motivate preparedness actions for natural hazards by engaging individuals in active (experiential). The goals of our efforts are to help residents personalize risk and develop positive attitudes toward the efficacy of taking protective actions. We base our research on the Protective Action Decision Model (PADM), which integrates approaches in social influence, persuasion, behavioral decision making, attitude-behavior relationships, protective action, and innovation to demonstrate the phases though which an individual must typically pass before taking protective action (Lindell and Perry, 2012). We assess our efforts through a combination of surveys and focus groups that measure perceptions and attitudes before and after our communication events, as well as general societal surveys.

Research Interest 2: I am a physical volcanologist-volcanic sedimentologist with research in eruption dynamics, sediment transport in volcanic flows and volcanic hazard assessment. The foundation of my research is field-based observation and measurements, which are used for development and validation of experimental and numerical models. Establishing relationships between depositional characteristics and eruptive processes is a fundamental first step toward answering outstanding questions regarding the controls on eruption dynamics, mechanisms of sediment transport and hazards associated with sediment gravity flows, and the local and global consequences of volcanism on Earth and other planets.

If you're interested in volcanology, here are two videos you might want to check out:

Llaima Volcano, Chile: https://youtu.be/PhTMkZ29tcw

Mt St Helens Volcano, USA: https://youtu.be/VyTXlb_Ur5g

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