Eric Tate
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of South Carolina
"My research focus is at the confluence of natural hazards and society, primarily through the development of geospatial models of flood hazards, vulnerability, and resilience. The current organization of hazards research and practice, being largely either physical or social, is artificial. Natural disasters are the result of interactions and feedbacks between the two -- hazards modeling research should reflect this dynamic."
Specifically, my research interests in hazards fall into three general areas:
- Development of social vulnerability and resilience indicators
- Assessment of uncertainty and sensitivity in geospatial models
- GIS modeling in support of local and regional flood hazard mitigation
Courses:
044:111 Water Resources: Tools and concepts underlying the management of water resources. Topics include water resources history, hydrology, water quality, allocation, management, treatment, and water conflicts.
044:175 Hazards and Vulnerability: Societal responses to natural and technological hazards. Topics include risk perception and communication, disaster management, risk assessment, social vulnerability, and disaster resilience.
044:177 Environmental Justice: This course examines the distributive, procedural, structural, and geographical relationships between environmental hazards and amenities, and marginalized groups and communities.
044:297 Sustainability Indicators: Graduate seminar focused on sustainability indicators and indices: the constructs they measure, methods for their construction, approaches for validation, and use in decision-making.
Publications:
Tate, E. (forthcoming). "Uncertainty Analysis for a Social Vulnerability Index." Annals of the Association of American Geographers.
Tate, E. (2012). "Social vulnerability indices: a comparative assessment using uncertainty and sensitivity analysis." Natural Hazards, DOI: 10.1007/s11069-012-0152-2.
Tate, E., C.G. Burton, M. Berry, C.T. Emrich, and S.L. Cutter (2011). "Integrated Hazards Mapping Tool." Transactions in GIS, 15(5): 689-706.
Coles, A., G. Eosco, T. Norton, J. Ruiz, E. Tate, and M. Weathers (2011). "Mapping local knowledge of climate change and hazards to inform research, practice, and policy in the Americas." Gestión y Ambiente, 14(2): 45-58.
Solis, P. et al. (2011). Climate Change and Hazards in the Americas: International Interdisciplinary Research Directions and Opportunities. Washington, DC: Association of American Geographers.
Tate, E., S. L. Cutter, and M. Berry (2010). "Integrated multihazard mapping." Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 37(4): 646–663.
Cutter, S. L., L. Barnes, M. Berry, C. Burton, E. Evans, E. Tate, and J. Webb (2008). "A place-based model for understanding community resilience to natural disasters." Global Environmental Change, 18(4): 598-606.
Cutter, S. L., L. Barnes, M. Berry, C. Burton, E. Evans, E. Tate, and J. Webb, 2008. "Community and regional resilience: Perspectives from hazards, disasters, and emergency management." CARRI Research Report 1. Oak Ridge National Lab: Community and Regional Resilience Initiative.
Scawthorn, C., N. Blais, H. Seligson, E. Tate, E. Mifflin, W. Thomas, J. Murphy, and C. Jones (2006). "HAZUS-MH Flood Loss Estimation Methodology I: Overview and Flood Hazard Characterization." Natural Hazards Review, 7(2): 60-71.
Scawthorn, C., P. Flores, N. Blais, H. Seligson, E. Tate, S. Chang, E. Mifflin, W. Thomas, J. Murphy, C. Jones, and M. Lawrence (2006). "HAZUS-MH Flood Loss Estimation Methodology II. Damage and Loss Assessment." Natural Hazards Review, 7(2): 72-81.
Tate, E., D. Maidment, F. Olivera and D. Anderson (2002). "Creating a Terrain Model for Floodplain Mapping." Journal of Hydrologic Engineering 7(2): 100-108.
Other Information:
Office:
302 Jessup Hall
Phone: (319) 335-0259Fax: (319) 335-2725
E-mail: eric-tate@uiowa.edu
Mailing Address:
Department of Geography
316 Jessup Hall
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242
