Scott Curti
Biographic Data
| ID | 3759415 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Scott Curti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Scott |
| FAMILY NAME | Curti |
| SIGNATURE | CURTI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | East Carolina University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9065-8639 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Between education and entertainment: Animation, science communication, and the Bell System Science Series
Finding the right balance between education and entertainment in science communication has always been a challenge. This essay argues that this balance has often been framed in terms of the correct proportion and use of animation and live-action footage in popular-science media. Clarifying the assumptions behind a century of concerns about animation and science, this historical case study examines the advisory board’s complaints about animation i…
Buyouts in the Carolinas: Pre & Post buyout perspectives of public officials and community leaders
Mitigating compound coastal water hazards in Eastern North Carolina
Eastern North Carolina (ENC), a predominantly rural region, experiences the intersection of fluvial, pluvial, and tidal flooding, which leads to complex and impactful outcomes. Managing these, often compounding, hazards is challenging, especially as climate change drivers, such as sea-level rise and more intense storms will likely lead to a greater incidence of compound coastal water events (CCWE). Using data from focus group interviews conducted…
Buyout programme experiences and perspectives of local public officials in eastern North Carolina
Eastern North Carolina (ENC) has been buffeted by compound coastal water events (CCWEs) making residential buyouts, that seek to move households and communities out of flood risk areas, an important flood hazard mitigation tool. However, little is known about the experiences of local public officials implementing buyout programmes in rural coastal regions such as ENC in the United States. Using data from focus group interviews conducted with 24 e…
Useful Animation: Iconography, Infrastructure and Impact
This article defines and explores the history of ‘useful animation’. Animation has found frequent application as a powerful practical and conceptual tool in professional fields requiring a versatile instrument for a variety of representational needs, from science and medicine to education and advertising. Today, forms of useful animation populate our television news, social media and urban environments in ways that are no less consequential for t…
Perspectives of local public officials on the health hazards of compound flooding in Eastern North Carolina
The recurrence of compound flooding in Eastern North Carolina (ENC) leads to place-based short- and long-term health effects in a predominantly rural coastal region. Findings from focus groups with planners, emergency managers, and public officials in 2020 (41 participants) and 2022 (24 participants), show that ENC communities experience place-based health effects that fall under three areas including healthcare access for special needs and aging…
Coupled Adaptive Cycles of Shoreline Change and Households in Deltaic Bangladesh: Analysis of a 30-Year Shoreline Change Record and Recent Population Impacts
This research investigates the spatiotemporal dynamics of shoreline change and associated population impacts in deltaic Bangladesh. This region is among the world’s most dynamic deltas due to monsoon precipitation that drives tremendous discharge and sediment volumes from the Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna drainage basin. Theoretically, it draws on the concept of adaptive cycles that theorizes systems transitioning through phases of growth, conservati…
Explaining mobility using the Community Capital Framework and Place Attachment concepts: A case study of riverbank erosion in the Lower Meghna Estuary, Bangladesh
Getting More out of Storm Surge Forecasts: Emergency Support Personnel Needs in North Carolina
Storm surge has been identified as a dangerous and damaging coastal hazard that is expected to be exacerbated by rising sea levels. However, storm surge research and applications are relatively new and poorly understood compared to other storm-related hazards. This survey-based research of emergency support personnel across eastern North Carolina aims to connect ongoing research with the needs of storm surge users. Results indicate that emergency…
Precipitation
Precipitation, or hydrometeors that fall from the Earth's atmosphere to its surface, can take the form of rain, snow, sleet, glaze, or hail. Some of the most disruptive meteorological hazards are a function of too much or too little precipitation, namely freshwater floods and droughts. Current research themes include microphysical properties, quantitative estimation and forecasting, and a vast array of climatological studies. Global precipitation…
Forecast and weather-related information used among coastal tourism businesses
Coastal tourism businesses comprise a large and diverse consumer of climate and weather forecasts information. An online survey of tourism business owners, managers and support specialists was conducted within the eight North Carolina oceanfront counties asking respondents about forecast usage and purposes as well as why certain forecasts are not used. Respondents were also asked about the perceived dependency of their business on climate and wea…
A social justice framing of climate change discourse and policy: Adaptation, resilience and vulnerability in a Jamaican agricultural landscape
Catholicism and Children's Literature in France: The comtesse de Segur (1799-1874)
Sophie Heywood has written a short but wide-ranging book on the life and work of the comtesse de Ségur, whose nineteenth-century books for children—many of which are still in print today—are a staple of French childhood. Heywood’s book is neither a traditional biography of the comtesse de Ségur nor a literary analysis of her output (both of which already exist) but instead an attempt to put Ségur into a historical context of publishing, childhood…
Tangible as Tissue: Arnold Gesell, Infant Behavior, and Film Analysis
ArgumentFrom 1924 to 1948, developmental psychologist Arnold Gesell regularly used photographic and motion picture technologies to collect data on infant behavior. The film camera, he said, records behavior "in such coherent, authentic and measurable detail that . . . the reaction patterns of infant and child become almost as tangible as tissue." This essay places his faith in the fidelity and tangibility of film, as well as his use of film as ev…
Climate Change, Drought, and Jamaican Agriculture: Local Knowledge and the Climate Record
The purpose of this study is to reach a basic understanding of drought and climate change in southwestern Jamaica through an integration of local knowledge and perception of drought and its physical characteristics manifested in remotely sensed precipitation and vegetation data. Local knowledge and perception are investigated through a survey of sixty farmers in St. Elizabeth Parish and physical characteristics of drought are examined through sta…
The El Niño-Southern Oscillation and Global Precipitation
Our understanding of the relationship between the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon and global precipitation is reviewed from the early works of Sir Gilbert Walker to the latest research frontiers. ENSO is defined by large-scale changes in the sea surface temperature and sea-level pressure patterns of the Pacific Ocean. Rainfall follows the low (high) pressure (temperature) anomalies and subsequently impacts the global atmospheric ci…
The Version-2 Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) Monthly Precipitation Analysis (1979–Present)
The Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) Version-2 Monthly Precipitation Analysis is described. This globally complete, monthly analysis of surface precipitation at 2.5 latitude 2.5 longitude resolution is available from January 1979 to the present. It is a merged analysis that incorporates precipitation estimates from low-orbit satellite microwave data, geosynchronous-orbit satellite infrared data, and surface rain gauge observations.…
A social justice framing of climate change discourse and policy: Adaptation, resilience and vulnerability in a Jamaican agricultural landscape
Climate Change, Drought, and Jamaican Agriculture: Local Knowledge and the Climate Record
The purpose of this study is to reach a basic understanding of drought and climate change in southwestern Jamaica through an integration of local knowledge and perception of drought and its physical characteristics manifested in remotely sensed precipitation and vegetation data. Local knowledge and perception are investigated through a survey of sixty farmers in St. Elizabeth Parish and physical characteristics of drought are examined through sta…
Tangible as Tissue: Arnold Gesell, Infant Behavior, and Film Analysis
ArgumentFrom 1924 to 1948, developmental psychologist Arnold Gesell regularly used photographic and motion picture technologies to collect data on infant behavior. The film camera, he said, records behavior "in such coherent, authentic and measurable detail that . . . the reaction patterns of infant and child become almost as tangible as tissue." This essay places his faith in the fidelity and tangibility of film, as well as his use of film as ev…
Forecast and weather-related information used among coastal tourism businesses
Coastal tourism businesses comprise a large and diverse consumer of climate and weather forecasts information. An online survey of tourism business owners, managers and support specialists was conducted within the eight North Carolina oceanfront counties asking respondents about forecast usage and purposes as well as why certain forecasts are not used. Respondents were also asked about the perceived dependency of their business on climate and wea…
The El Niño-Southern Oscillation and Global Precipitation
Our understanding of the relationship between the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon and global precipitation is reviewed from the early works of Sir Gilbert Walker to the latest research frontiers. ENSO is defined by large-scale changes in the sea surface temperature and sea-level pressure patterns of the Pacific Ocean. Rainfall follows the low (high) pressure (temperature) anomalies and subsequently impacts the global atmospheric ci…
Coupled Adaptive Cycles of Shoreline Change and Households in Deltaic Bangladesh: Analysis of a 30-Year Shoreline Change Record and Recent Population Impacts
This research investigates the spatiotemporal dynamics of shoreline change and associated population impacts in deltaic Bangladesh. This region is among the world’s most dynamic deltas due to monsoon precipitation that drives tremendous discharge and sediment volumes from the Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna drainage basin. Theoretically, it draws on the concept of adaptive cycles that theorizes systems transitioning through phases of growth, conservati…
The Version-2 Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) Monthly Precipitation Analysis (1979–Present)
The Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) Version-2 Monthly Precipitation Analysis is described. This globally complete, monthly analysis of surface precipitation at 2.5 latitude 2.5 longitude resolution is available from January 1979 to the present. It is a merged analysis that incorporates precipitation estimates from low-orbit satellite microwave data, geosynchronous-orbit satellite infrared data, and surface rain gauge observations.…
The El Niño-Southern Oscillation and Global Precipitation
Our understanding of the relationship between the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon and global precipitation is reviewed from the early works of Sir Gilbert Walker to the latest research frontiers. ENSO is defined by large-scale changes in the sea surface temperature and sea-level pressure patterns of the Pacific Ocean. Rainfall follows the low (high) pressure (temperature) anomalies and subsequently impacts the global atmospheric ci…
Climate Change, Drought, and Jamaican Agriculture: Local Knowledge and the Climate Record
The purpose of this study is to reach a basic understanding of drought and climate change in southwestern Jamaica through an integration of local knowledge and perception of drought and its physical characteristics manifested in remotely sensed precipitation and vegetation data. Local knowledge and perception are investigated through a survey of sixty farmers in St. Elizabeth Parish and physical characteristics of drought are examined through sta…
Tangible as Tissue: Arnold Gesell, Infant Behavior, and Film Analysis
ArgumentFrom 1924 to 1948, developmental psychologist Arnold Gesell regularly used photographic and motion picture technologies to collect data on infant behavior. The film camera, he said, records behavior "in such coherent, authentic and measurable detail that . . . the reaction patterns of infant and child become almost as tangible as tissue." This essay places his faith in the fidelity and tangibility of film, as well as his use of film as ev…
Catholicism and Children's Literature in France: The comtesse de Segur (1799-1874)
Sophie Heywood has written a short but wide-ranging book on the life and work of the comtesse de Ségur, whose nineteenth-century books for children—many of which are still in print today—are a staple of French childhood. Heywood’s book is neither a traditional biography of the comtesse de Ségur nor a literary analysis of her output (both of which already exist) but instead an attempt to put Ségur into a historical context of publishing, childhood…
A social justice framing of climate change discourse and policy: Adaptation, resilience and vulnerability in a Jamaican agricultural landscape
Forecast and weather-related information used among coastal tourism businesses
Coastal tourism businesses comprise a large and diverse consumer of climate and weather forecasts information. An online survey of tourism business owners, managers and support specialists was conducted within the eight North Carolina oceanfront counties asking respondents about forecast usage and purposes as well as why certain forecasts are not used. Respondents were also asked about the perceived dependency of their business on climate and wea…
Precipitation
Precipitation, or hydrometeors that fall from the Earth's atmosphere to its surface, can take the form of rain, snow, sleet, glaze, or hail. Some of the most disruptive meteorological hazards are a function of too much or too little precipitation, namely freshwater floods and droughts. Current research themes include microphysical properties, quantitative estimation and forecasting, and a vast array of climatological studies. Global precipitation…
Getting More out of Storm Surge Forecasts: Emergency Support Personnel Needs in North Carolina
Storm surge has been identified as a dangerous and damaging coastal hazard that is expected to be exacerbated by rising sea levels. However, storm surge research and applications are relatively new and poorly understood compared to other storm-related hazards. This survey-based research of emergency support personnel across eastern North Carolina aims to connect ongoing research with the needs of storm surge users. Results indicate that emergency…
Explaining mobility using the Community Capital Framework and Place Attachment concepts: A case study of riverbank erosion in the Lower Meghna Estuary, Bangladesh
Coupled Adaptive Cycles of Shoreline Change and Households in Deltaic Bangladesh: Analysis of a 30-Year Shoreline Change Record and Recent Population Impacts
This research investigates the spatiotemporal dynamics of shoreline change and associated population impacts in deltaic Bangladesh. This region is among the world’s most dynamic deltas due to monsoon precipitation that drives tremendous discharge and sediment volumes from the Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna drainage basin. Theoretically, it draws on the concept of adaptive cycles that theorizes systems transitioning through phases of growth, conservati…
Useful Animation: Iconography, Infrastructure and Impact
This article defines and explores the history of ‘useful animation’. Animation has found frequent application as a powerful practical and conceptual tool in professional fields requiring a versatile instrument for a variety of representational needs, from science and medicine to education and advertising. Today, forms of useful animation populate our television news, social media and urban environments in ways that are no less consequential for t…
Perspectives of local public officials on the health hazards of compound flooding in Eastern North Carolina
The recurrence of compound flooding in Eastern North Carolina (ENC) leads to place-based short- and long-term health effects in a predominantly rural coastal region. Findings from focus groups with planners, emergency managers, and public officials in 2020 (41 participants) and 2022 (24 participants), show that ENC communities experience place-based health effects that fall under three areas including healthcare access for special needs and aging…
Buyouts in the Carolinas: Pre & Post buyout perspectives of public officials and community leaders
Mitigating compound coastal water hazards in Eastern North Carolina
Eastern North Carolina (ENC), a predominantly rural region, experiences the intersection of fluvial, pluvial, and tidal flooding, which leads to complex and impactful outcomes. Managing these, often compounding, hazards is challenging, especially as climate change drivers, such as sea-level rise and more intense storms will likely lead to a greater incidence of compound coastal water events (CCWE). Using data from focus group interviews conducted…
Buyout programme experiences and perspectives of local public officials in eastern North Carolina
Eastern North Carolina (ENC) has been buffeted by compound coastal water events (CCWEs) making residential buyouts, that seek to move households and communities out of flood risk areas, an important flood hazard mitigation tool. However, little is known about the experiences of local public officials implementing buyout programmes in rural coastal regions such as ENC in the United States. Using data from focus group interviews conducted with 24 e…
Between education and entertainment: Animation, science communication, and the Bell System Science Series
Finding the right balance between education and entertainment in science communication has always been a challenge. This essay argues that this balance has often been framed in terms of the correct proportion and use of animation and live-action footage in popular-science media. Clarifying the assumptions behind a century of concerns about animation and science, this historical case study examines the advisory board’s complaints about animation i…
Geography (12 works) · Environmental Science (8 works) · Climate change (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Environmental resource management (5 works) · Meteorology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Climate variability and models (4 works) · Climatology (4 works)