Happy to share that my paper “Quantifying the hidden carbon cost of floods: a stochastic and uncertainty-based valuation framework” has been accepted for publication in Environmental Research Letters! Floods cause billions of dollars in damages each year, but current methods to assess the value of flood risk typically only consider the financial cost to replace damaged assets. Making those repairs requires the extraction of raw materials, manufacturing of those materials into final products, and transportation from the extraction site to the manufacturer and the installation location. In this paper, we developed a Monte Carlo analysis framework to simulate flood losses to residential buildings that incorporates life-cycle environmental impact data for each component within a building that may be damaged by a flood. Using this framework we developed depth-emissions curves to estimate the life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions associated with repairing flood damages from a given flood depth, and after applying a social cost of carbon emissions estimate we found that incorporating GHG emissions into flood risk assessments can increase the total value of estimated impacts by over 6%.
Dec 23, 2025
While I was unfortunately not able to travel to New Orleans to be there in person, I was happy to have the opportunity to participate virtually and present two talks on my work to quantify aspects of flood risk beyond financial losses!
Apr 01, 2025
I was honored to receive third place in the 2025 UNH 3-Minute Thesis (3MT) competition for my presentation titled Measuring What Matters for Flood Risk Management. This was a great opportunity not only to share my research and develop my skills as a science communicator, but to hear from so many great researchers working on interesting and important research right here at UNH.
Dec 15, 2023
It was great to be able to attend this year’s AGU conference virtually and present the findings of our research into the socio-economic impacts of future floods!
Jun 23, 2023
I was happy to have the opportunity to present a poster at the AEESP 2023 conference in Boston this week! See the poster here.
