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| Name | Sebastian Rowan |
| Contact | sebastian.rowan@unh.edu |
| About | I am postdoctoral research fellow studying the impacts of flood events and climate change on people and communities. The goal of my research is to develop a more comprehensive understanding of the risks posed by floods to enable the development of mitigation efforts that prioritize long-term sustainability and community well-being. |
Education
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Durham, NH, USA
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Durham, NH, USA
PhD
University of New Hampshire
Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Dissertation Title: Quantifying Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Mental Health Impacts as Co-Benefits of Flood Risk Mitigation
- Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Weiwei Mo
Work
- 2026 - Present
- 2020 - 2026
- 2018 - 2020
- 2016 - 2018
Awards
- 2025
Projects
- Active
sviBuildr
An R package that allows users to download or construct the Social Vulnerability Index as a tidyverse dataframe or as simple features dataframe for spatial analyses.
- Active
NSI Data QGIS Plugin
A basic plugin for QGIS that downloads data from the National Structures Inventory and adds it to a map.
Volunteer
- 2022 - 2024
Snowboard Instructor
Chill Foundation/YMCA of Downtown Manchester
Volunteer snowboard instructor for Chill Foundation's Boston/Manchester snowboard program, representing the YMCA of Downtown Manchester
Publications
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2026 Doubling of flood-induced bridge asset failure loss in Mozambique under 2050 climate
Global Environmental Change
Qiao, Y., Guo, Y., Rowan, S., Medina, R., Espinet, X., Cullen, J., Meng, F., Cao, Z.
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2026 Quantifying the hidden carbon cost of floods: a stochastic and uncertainty-based valuation framework
Environmental Research Letters
Rowan, S., Bell, E., Mo, W.
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2024 Enhancing resilience: Integrating future flood modeling and socio-economic analysis in the face of climate change impacts
Science of the Total Environment
Memarsadeghi, N. P., Rowan, S., Sisco, A. W., & Tavakoly, A. A.
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2023 Operationalizing equity for integrated water resources management
JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association
Seigerman, C. K., McKay, S. K., Basilio, R., Biesel, S. A., Hallemeier, J., Mansur, A. V., Piercy, C., Rowan, S., Ubiali, B., Yeates, E., & Nelson, D. R.
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2022 New York—New Jersey Harbor and Tributaries Coastal Storm Risk Management Feasibility Study—Tier 1 Other Social Effects/Environmental Justice Analysis
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers New York District
Galaitsi, S., Kurth, M., Rowan, S., Yeates, E., & Kalaidjian, E.
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2020 Assessing the Relationship Between Social Vulnerability, Social Capital, and Housing Resilience
Sustainability
Rowan, S., & Kwiatkowski, K.
Skills
| Programming Languages | |
| Python | |
| R | |
| SQL | |
| Go |
Languages
| English | |
| Native speaker |
Interests
| Research | |
| Flood Risk | |
| Life-cycle Analysis | |
| Community Resilience | |
| Urban Planning | |
| Transit/Transportation |
| Hobbies | |
| Cooking | |
| Baking | |
| Snowboarding | |
| Reading |