Background

This project is a collaboration between Dr. Charis Boke, Dr. Sarah Kelly, and me from Dartmouth College, Dr. Elizabeth Reddy from Colorado School of Mines, community members, formal responders, and mutual aid volunteers in the Black River Valley and White River Valley to gather ethnographic and geographic data on flooding impacts and responses. This research will inform decision-making for local and state organizations.

The project has been supported by the 3-year NSF Cultural Anthropology Program Senior Award, Dartmouth College CompX award, Natural Hazards Center Weather Ready Research award, and the Natural Hazards Center Weather Ready Research to Operations award.

Participatory Mapping

As a research team, we held community mapping events to collect flood-related data, which was digitized into an interactive web map (see below). We are working with Dartmouth's ITC team to develop an open-source app to monitor culvert health based on community input and feedback.

For more information on the project and full research team, please visit our website: https://sites.dartmouth.edu/mappingforresilience/