Hurricane Helene: IU experts available to comment

Douglas Edmonds is an associate professor of earth and atmospheric sciences and the Malcolm and Sylvia Boyce Chair in Geological Sciences. He studies how sediment movement, fluid flow and bed topography interact to create rivers, deltas and coastlines. He is interested in the physical interaction of these processes and how they create these environments.

Gabriel Filippelli is executive director of the Environmental Resilience Institute. He can discuss climate change science, the role of climate change on increased severity of hurricane impacts, and resilience-building approaches to reduce climate-enhanced impacts on communities.

Professor Beth Gazley specializes in U.S. nonprofit management and civil society policy. She has published more than 85 research articles, books, and commentary addressing intersectoral collaboration, volunteerism, nonprofit governance, public service coproduction, association management, disaster response, and other topics. Gazley’s current work on climate change preparedness in the nonprofit sector can be found here: Indiana Natural Disaster Preparedness Study,“Nonprofit Disaster Response and Climate Change: Who Responds? Who Plans?” in Nonprofit Policy Forum, and the working paper “Are Community Philanthropic Organizations Planning for Climate Change?”

Chanh Kieu is an associate professor in earth and atmospheric sciences in The College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington. His research currently focuses on the application of machine learning to understand hurricane intensity and prediction, trying to answer the question: How far in advance can you predict hurricane intensity?

Travis O’Brien is a professor in the IU Bloomington Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. Research in his group focuses on understanding what controls weather and climate phenomena that impact human and natural systems. O’Brien researches extreme weather and climate change, and he can talk about how climate change might have impacted Hurricane Helene, as well as what changes in hurricanes we might expect in the future.

Bill Stanczykiewicz serves as the senior assistant dean for external relations and clinical associate professor in the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. His responsibilities include serving as director of The Fund Raising School as well as on the school’s academic faculty. In this role, he teaches fundraising skills to nonprofits around the U.S. and around the world. He can speak about finding legitimate charities to donate to in the aftermath of an environmental disaster.

Brian Yanites has been an assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at IU Bloomington since 2016. He is part of the Geomorphology and Landscape Evolution group, which studies how climate, tectonics and rock type influence the processes and landforms that shape the Earth’s surface. Yanites is currently part of a group of scientists developing a scientific rapid response to Hurricane Helene.

Brian Yanites has been an assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at IU Bloomington since 2016. He is part of the Geomorphology and Landscape Evolution group, which studies how climate, tectonics and rock type influence the processes and landforms that shape the Earth’s surface. Yanites is currently part of a group of scientists developing a scientific rapid response to Hurricane Helene.