The Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware is hiring 2 postdoctoral fellows and 3 doctoral students (fully-funded 5 years) to work on an NSF Coastlines & People project: Coastal Hazards, Equity, Economic prosperity and Resilience (CHEER).
Postdoc - Decision-making for households & government (co-advised Dr. A.R. Siders & Dr. Joe Trainor):
https://careers.udel.edu/en-us/job/499581/post-doctoral-researcher-coastal-hazards-equity-economic-prosperity-and-resilience-cheer
Doctoral candidates can apply directly to the University of Delaware - we recommend the Disaster Science and Management, Energy and Environmental Policy, Sociology, or Geography programs.
Scholars will engage with a diverse team of researchers, postdoctoral scholars, and graduate students from a dozen universities, including the Cornell University, Boston University, University of Florida, University of California Los Angeles, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, East Carolina University, North Carolina State University, University of Oklahoma, Texas A&M, and SUNY Stony Brook. The team includes 25+ faculty and we are hiring 17 graduate students and 8 postdoctoral fellows, who will form a near-peer mentoring cohort and engage faculty as a mentoring team. The University of Delaware scholars will be primarily based in Newark, Delaware, but there are opportunities to spend time at partner universities and the scholars will be expected to spend some time in the field in our case study locations.
For A.R. Siders: The student and scholar will support research to understand government and household decision-making processes, criteria, and outcomes related to hurricanes, floods, and climate adaptation. The ideal candidate will be able to communicate across disciplines; be familiar with research methods including interviews, surveys, and legal analysis; and serve as an independent scholar and mentor within the team. Postdoctoral candidates should have a PhD in sociology, public policy, disaster science, geography, or a related field; doctoral students should have a masters' or equivalent (e.g., JD) with research experience.
About CHEER: https://www.drc.udel.edu/cheer/
Community resilience has become a guiding ideal for how to address escalating impacts of hazards in coastal regions. Nevertheless, it remains challenging to achieve in practice. We hypothesize that this is due, in part, to constraints imposed by the parallel, and sometimes competing, objectives of equity and economic prosperity, particularly in the context of climate change. To address this challenge, the proposed Hub will focus on understanding the tensions among these issues. Specifically, the Hub research goals are to: (1) Identify, explain, and quantify the interactions and tradeoffs among the coastal community goals of equity, economic prosperity, and resilience to hazards; (2) Develop methods to model long-term hurricane hazards in a way that accounts for climate change and integrates multiple hazards-wind, rain, storm surge, waves; and (3) Develop a framework to design and evaluate policy interventions that can achieve sustainable equity, economic prosperity, and coastal resilience in the context of climate change.
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AR Siders
University of Delaware
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