Lori Peek

Lori Peek received a $925,241 award from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation to support the Health and Extreme Weather Research Award Program through the Natural Hazards Center.  Lori Peek received a $1

Lori Peek was featured in a recent video and story written by the Associated Press in advance of this year's Atlantic hurricane season, which began on June 1. https://apnews.com/article/hurricane-season-disaster-weather-doge-fema

Lori Peek was recently featured on National Public Radio regarding Dominica’s bold efforts to become the world’s first “climate resilient nation.” 

  Adams, Rachel M., Candace M. Evans, and Lori Peek. “CONVERGE Training Modules: A Free Online Educational Tool for Hazards and Disaster Researchers and Practitioners.” Frontiers in Built Environment, 9, https://www.frontiersin

Lori Peek served as an invited panelist for the Virtual Book launch for Soaking the Middle Class: Suburban Inequality and Recovery from Disaster. The event was hosted by NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge. 

Lori Peek’s research was featured in a Coloradan article entitled, How Natural Disasters Impact Vulnerable Populations

Colorado Residents Ponder the Road Ahead After Wildfires https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/02/us/colorado-fire-damage.html The New York Times. January 2, 2022 Biden Consoles Residents in Fire-Ravaged Colorado https://www.nytimes

Lori Peek and Mithra Moezzi won the 2021 Best Paper Award for the journal Risk Analysis from the Society for Risk Analysis for their article, “Stories for Interdisciplinary Disaster Research Collaboration.”

Lori Peek’s written testimony as well as a recording of the hearing where she testified as an expert witness before the Homeland Security Committee, U.S. House of Representatives is available here 

She begins her term of service today, September 7, 2021.