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Investigating the effect of oil spills
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Amy Lesen

Tulane University

ByWater Institute

6823 St. Charles Avenue
New Orleans, LA  70118  

alesen@tulane.edu

Project List:

Consortium for Resilient Gulf Communities (CRGC)

Year 5-7 Consortia Grants (RFP-IV)Role: Co-Principal Investigator, Research Scientist

Publications & Presentations:

Journal Articles - 5

2020

Finucane, M. L., Blum, M., Ramchand, R., Parker, A. M., Nataraj, S., Clancy, N., et al. (2020). Advancing Community Resilience Research and Practice: Moving from “Me” to “We” to “3D”. Journal of Risk Research, 23(1), 1–10.
Liddell, J. L., Saltzman, L. Y., Ferreira, R. J., & Lesen, A. E. (2020). Cumulative disaster exposure, gender and the protective action decision model. Progress in Disaster Science, 5, 100042.
Lightfoot, E. S., Lesen, A. E., & Ferreira, R. J. (2020). Gender and resilience in Gulf Coast communities: Risk and protective factors following a technological disaster. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 50, 101716.

2019

Lesen, A., Tucker, C., Olson, M., & Ferreira, R. (2019). 'Come Back at Us': Reflections on Researcher-Community Partnerships during a Post-Oil Spill Gulf Coast Resilience Study. Social Sciences, 8(1), 8.

2018

Patel, M., Saltzman, L., Ferreira, R., & Lesen, A. (2018). Resilience: Examining the Impacts of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on the Gulf Coast Vietnamese American Community. Social Sciences, 7(10), 203.

Book Whole - 1

2020

Finucane, M. L., Clark-Ginsberg, A., Parker, A. M., Becerra-Ornelas, A. U., Clancy, N., Ramchand, R., et al. (2020). Building Community Resilience to Large Oil Spills: Findings and Recommendations from a Synthesis of Research on the Mental Health, Economic, and Community Distress Associated with the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation.

Conference Presentations - 9

2020

Finucane, M., Parker, A., Clark-Ginsberg, A., Becerra, A., Slack, T., & Lesen, A. (2020). Building Community Resilience: Recommendations From a Synthesis of Research on the Health, Social, and Economic Impacts of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2020. Tampa, FL : 02/03/20-02/06/20.
Lesen, A., Tucker, C., Black, B., Olson, M., & Ferreira, R. J. (2020). Community-Researcher Partnerships, Dissemination, and Outreach: Gulf Coast Disaster Resilience & Preparedness Survey Project. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2020. Tampa, FL : 02/03/20-02/06/20.

2018

Ferreira, R., Lesen, A., Liddell, J., Patel, M., & Lopez, E. (2018). The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill – Predictors of Individual Resilience. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2018. New Orleans, LA : 02/05/18-02/08/18.
Ferreira, R. J., Lesen, A. E., & Saltzman, L. (2018). The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Predictors of Individual Resilience. In Joint World Conference on Social Work, Education and Social Development (SWSD) 2018. Dublin, Ireland : 07/04/18-07/07/18: Poster.
Liddell, J., Ferreira, R., Lesen, A., Patel, M., & Lopez, E. (2018). Gender Differences in Resilience, Social Support, and Preparedness in Post-Disaster Settings. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2018. New Orleans, LA : 02/05/18-02/08/18.
Liddell, J., Ferreira, R. J., Lesen, A. E., Patel, M., & Lopez, E. A. (2018). Gender Differences in Resiliency, Disaster Preparedness, and Social Support following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. In Joint World Conference on Social Work, Education and Social Development (SWSD) 2018. Dublin, Ireland : 07/04/18-07/07/18: Poster.
Lopez, B., Lesen, A., Ferreira, R., Liddell, J., & Patel, M. (2018). The Role of Perception in Anthropogenic and Natural Disaster Preparedness. In 2018 State of the Coast Conference. New Orleans, LA : 05/30/18-06/01/18: Poster.
Lopez, E., Lesen, A., Ferreira, R., Liddell, J., & Patel, M. (2018). The Role of Perception in Anthropogenic and NaturalDisaster Preparedness. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2018. New Orleans, LA : 02/05/18-02/08/18.
Patel, M., Ferreira, R., Lesen, A., Liddell, J., & Lopez, E. (2018). The Role of Place in Predicting Individual Resilience: Lessons from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. In Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & Ecosystem Science Conference 2018. New Orleans, LA : 02/05/18-02/08/18.