New app warns Sitkans of landslide risk
Seven years (to the day) after a swarm of landslides struck Sitka -- one of which was fatal -- an interdisciplinary team has developed a web-based tool to alert residents to landslide danger.
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Sitka’s pandemic response: A lesson in getting it (more) right
While Sitka -- like many places -- is struggling right now with the delta variant and an unexpected surge in coronavirus infections, over most of the last year it got the pandemic right: low infection rate, high support for vulnerable parts of the community. Around 80 policy researchers and government entities convened on Wednesday (7-28-21) to listen as three Sitkans explained how it was done.
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Social science survey will guide development Sitka’s landslide warning ‘dashboard’
Sitka Sound Geoscience coordinator Cora Siebert is joined by social scientists Max Izenberg and Ryan Brown to discuss the landslide resilience survey which will be available through February 14 in Sitka. The information will help researchers develop a landslide warning "dashboard" for Sitka -- the first of its kind in the country.
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Creators of landslide warning system seek input from Sitkans
A number of organizations--including the Sitka Sound Science Center and the RAND Corporation--have been working on a landslide warning system for Sitka. They recently received funding to create a dashboard for Sitkans to access all kinds of data and are asking residents to fill out a survey to help determine the best way to disseminate information during periods of high landslide risk.
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Survey: Researchers ask how Sitkans assess, respond to pandemic risk
The longer that relatively isolated communities like Sitka go with few or no cases of the coronavirus, the less threatened they feel by the infection -- or not. Social scientists want to learn what factors inform our perception of risk over the course of a pandemic, and -- ultimately -- how our perception of risk informs policy decisions for the community. Researchers want to know what you think.
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