President’s Club Spring Celebration

This year’s Spring Celebration was a virtual meeting led by Brittany Brand, associate professor and director of the Hazard & Climate Resilience Institute (HCRI) in the Department of Geosciences focusing on community resilience. It was presented as a benefit to members of the Boise State President’s Club. Watch the following presentation, scroll to explore more about resilience and then provide feedback on future presentations via the form at the end of this page.

Brittany Brand is an Associate Professor in Geosciences and Director of the Hazard and Climate Resilience Institute (HCRI). Her research interests range from volcanic eruption dynamics to natural hazard communication strategies and promoting community resilience.  As director for the HCRI, Dr. Brand fosters community collaboration to proactively build resilience to hazards and the impacts of a changing climate. Her work with the HCRI explores how environmental, social, economic, infrastructure, and leadership factors promote or inhibit resilience. Further, she strives to breakdown disciplinary and cross-jurisdictional silos to foster regional collaborations for a resilient society.