Columbia Climate School's Office of Faculty Affairs is pleased to announce that Daniel Osgood will deliver our December research seminar, “Disaster Coordination and Communication with Large Numbers of Decisionmakers: Practice to Research,” on Thursday, December 10, from 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM in Hogan Hall A-level Conference Room, at 2910 Broadway.
If joining on Zoom, RSVP here. You will receive the Zoom link the day before the event. If you cannot access this link, please email [email protected] to be added to the Zoom list. Light refreshments will be served.
Abstract: As disasters become more severe and frequent, vulnerable communities require advances in disaster preparedness and response communication systems. Current systems are not yet strong enough to truly build community input into disaster coordination, preventing adequate co-design of infrastructure and coordination systems needed for vulnerable or marginalized populations. This seminar will present both research and practice in quantitative co-generation for Disaster preparedness and financing in insurance, use of forecasts to trigger preparedness funds, and disaster communications in Tribal Nations and New York City.
Bio: Daniel Osgood leads the Financial Instruments in the National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP) at Columbia University. He has a UC Berkeley agricultural economics PhD and previously held an agricultural extension position at University of Arizona, serving constituencies that include Tribal Nations. His team supports innovative disaster communication activities for Tribal Nations, disaster preparedness in nearly a dozen countries and dozens of international disaster insurance projects for millions of smallholder farmers and herders around the world, built with science-based digitalized cogeneration.
