Kathryn Semmens
Biographic Data
| ID | 5912772 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathryn Semmens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathryn |
| FAMILY NAME | Semmens |
| SIGNATURE | SEMMENS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Nurture Nature Center |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8822-3043 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Moving Towards Transilience
Flood early warning systems (FEWS) are established globally to support communities in building resilience to flooding and in preparing for and responding to disasters. However, amid climatic and technological change, it is unclear how FEWS might evolve to remain effective. We review resilience as the capacity to “bounce back” and introduce transilience as the capacity to “bounce forward” in the context of disaster risk reduction. We argue that FE…
Expanding Efforts to Understand, Connect with, and Educate Flood-Prone Communities about Flood Forecasts
Though flood forecasting has improved over the past decades, flooding impacts are still significant for many flood-prone areas. Challenges in communicating risk relate to dissemination and understanding of the flood forecast information. While the National Weather Service (NWS) is a trusted source of this information, the range of cultural and social dynamics, economic resources, and communication capacities communities have can affect the value …
Introducing the Flooding and Society Survey Dataset
Data inform weather prediction as well as decision-making, and knowing how people use forecast information for different hazards is immensely valuable. While some data on public reception, comprehension, and response exist in the form of repeated cross-sectional surveys related to severe, tropical, and winter weather events, no large-scale data collection effort has thus far focused specifically on flooding. The 2024 Flooding and Society Survey i…
Adapting Visual Thinking Strategies as a Tool for Evaluating the Impact of a Work of Public Art
This article presents the development and application of an approach for evaluating audience response to and meaning-making from large-scale public murals, created as part of an art-science-community engagement project. The project adapted Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) facilitation, a common technique in visual arts education, with a focus group style interview to investigate if the murals generated the intended meaning-making among members of…
What Impact? Communicating Severity Forecast Information through the Winter Storm Severity Index
Communicating the threat of severe winter weather is not simply a matter of the number of inches of snow or degrees of cold; it also considers the potential impacts of the storm. The winter storm severity index (WSSI) is a graphical product from the National Weather Service that presents anticipated impacts from forecast winter weather for a range of winter conditions. To assess the utility of the WSSI and how an impact-based winter weather forec…
Motivating Action under Uncertain Conditions
Coastal flood risk communication is most effective at motivating action when the medium and timing of delivery provide understandable information with clear directives when residents need it most. The U.S. National Weather Service (NWS) has many useful coastal flood forecast tools and products, but how and when this information is delivered are of critical importance. To assess how coastal residents understand and interpret NWS coastal flood prod…
Recent ice cap snowmelt in Russian High Arctic and anti-correlation with late summer sea ice extent
Glacier surface melt dynamics throughout Novaya Zemlya (NovZ) and Severnaya Zemlya (SevZ) serve as a good indicator of ice mass ablation and regional climate change in the Russian High Arctic. Here we report trends of surface melt onset date (MOD) and total melt days (TMD) by combining multiple resolution-enhanced active and passive microwave satellite datasets and analyze the TMD correlations with local temperature and regional sea ice extent. T…
Early snowmelt events
High latitude drainage basins are experiencing higher average temperatures, earlier snowmelt onset in spring, and an increase in rain on snow (ROS) events in winter, trends that climate models project into the future. Snowmelt-dominated basins are most sensitive to winter temperature increases that influence the frequency of ROS events and the timing and duration of snowmelt, resulting in changes to spring runoff. Of specific interest in this stu…
Social and institutional challenges in species and ecosystem conservation
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Social and institutional challenges in species and ecosystem conservation
Early snowmelt events
High latitude drainage basins are experiencing higher average temperatures, earlier snowmelt onset in spring, and an increase in rain on snow (ROS) events in winter, trends that climate models project into the future. Snowmelt-dominated basins are most sensitive to winter temperature increases that influence the frequency of ROS events and the timing and duration of snowmelt, resulting in changes to spring runoff. Of specific interest in this stu…
Recent ice cap snowmelt in Russian High Arctic and anti-correlation with late summer sea ice extent
Glacier surface melt dynamics throughout Novaya Zemlya (NovZ) and Severnaya Zemlya (SevZ) serve as a good indicator of ice mass ablation and regional climate change in the Russian High Arctic. Here we report trends of surface melt onset date (MOD) and total melt days (TMD) by combining multiple resolution-enhanced active and passive microwave satellite datasets and analyze the TMD correlations with local temperature and regional sea ice extent. T…
Motivating Action under Uncertain Conditions
Coastal flood risk communication is most effective at motivating action when the medium and timing of delivery provide understandable information with clear directives when residents need it most. The U.S. National Weather Service (NWS) has many useful coastal flood forecast tools and products, but how and when this information is delivered are of critical importance. To assess how coastal residents understand and interpret NWS coastal flood prod…
What Impact? Communicating Severity Forecast Information through the Winter Storm Severity Index
Communicating the threat of severe winter weather is not simply a matter of the number of inches of snow or degrees of cold; it also considers the potential impacts of the storm. The winter storm severity index (WSSI) is a graphical product from the National Weather Service that presents anticipated impacts from forecast winter weather for a range of winter conditions. To assess the utility of the WSSI and how an impact-based winter weather forec…
Adapting Visual Thinking Strategies as a Tool for Evaluating the Impact of a Work of Public Art
This article presents the development and application of an approach for evaluating audience response to and meaning-making from large-scale public murals, created as part of an art-science-community engagement project. The project adapted Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) facilitation, a common technique in visual arts education, with a focus group style interview to investigate if the murals generated the intended meaning-making among members of…
Introducing the Flooding and Society Survey Dataset
Data inform weather prediction as well as decision-making, and knowing how people use forecast information for different hazards is immensely valuable. While some data on public reception, comprehension, and response exist in the form of repeated cross-sectional surveys related to severe, tropical, and winter weather events, no large-scale data collection effort has thus far focused specifically on flooding. The 2024 Flooding and Society Survey i…
Moving Towards Transilience
Flood early warning systems (FEWS) are established globally to support communities in building resilience to flooding and in preparing for and responding to disasters. However, amid climatic and technological change, it is unclear how FEWS might evolve to remain effective. We review resilience as the capacity to “bounce back” and introduce transilience as the capacity to “bounce forward” in the context of disaster risk reduction. We argue that FE…
Expanding Efforts to Understand, Connect with, and Educate Flood-Prone Communities about Flood Forecasts
Though flood forecasting has improved over the past decades, flooding impacts are still significant for many flood-prone areas. Challenges in communicating risk relate to dissemination and understanding of the flood forecast information. While the National Weather Service (NWS) is a trusted source of this information, the range of cultural and social dynamics, economic resources, and communication capacities communities have can affect the value …
Environmental Science (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Environmental resource management (4 works) · Flood Risk Assessment and Management (4 works) · Climatology (3 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (3 works) · Flood myth (3 works) · Meteorology (3 works) · National weather service (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)