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Natural Hazards and Resilient Communities: Q&A with Team Rubicon’s Jake Wood

Former Marine Jake Wood didn’t stop serving when he returned from deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan. Today, he serves fellow veterans and communities in crises across the globe. Wood is the co-founder and CEO Team Rubicon, a nonprofit that works with military veterans to respond in the immediate aftermath of natural hazards—before conventional aid organizations arrive. A CEO, author, and former U.S. 

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Natural Hazards and Resilient Communities Lecture Recap: Journalist Jed Horne

Four days after Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast.

On Tuesday, October 20, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Jed Horne took the stage to discuss lessons learned and unlearned ten years after Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana. Part of the Surviving Disasters: Natural Hazards & Resilient Communities series from UW College of the Environment, UW Alumni Association, and UW Graduate School, Horne focused on life in a post-apocalyptic environment. 

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Natural Hazards and Resilient Communities: Q&A with UW’s Kate Starbird

From city to city and across continents, barriers to communication are fewer than ever before. In an increasingly connected world, where the 24-hour news cycle reigns and a billion people are on Facebook, people have grown accustomed to instant, accessible information that spans the globe. Kate Starbird, assistant professor at the UW’s College of Engineering, is exploring a new type of “digital volunteerism” that leverages social media as an online meeting place during crises. 

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Natural Hazards and Resilient Communities Lecture Recap: UW's David Montgomery

The Oso Landslide

On Tuesday, October 13, the Department of Earth and Space Sciences‘ David Montgomery presented on disasters fast and slow as part of the Surviving Disasters: Natural Hazards & Resilient Communities speaker series. Co-sponsored by the College of the Environment, UW Alumni Association, and UW Graduate School, Montgomery highlighted the types of mega-hazards that leave entire communities in shambles and garner attention around the globe. 

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