PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Remington, C. L., Witkowski, K., Ganapati, N. E., Headley, A. M., & Contreras, S. L. (2023). First Responders and the COVID-19 Pandemic: How Organizational Strategies Can Promote Workforce Retention. The American Review of Public Administration, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/02750740231192968
Contreras, S., & Niles, S. (2023). Building Resilience through Informal Networks and Community Knowledge Sharing: Post-disaster Health Service Delivery after Hurricane Maria. Environmental Hazards, 21(5), 433-452. https://doi.org/10.1080/17477891.2022.2049191
Cabas, A., Lorenzo-Velazquez, C., Abayo, N., Ji, C., Ramirez, J., Garcia, F., Perodin, J., Hwang, Y., Dashti, S., Ganapati, N., Nicolas, S., Whitwirth, M., Guerrier, K., Saint Fleur, N., Contreras, S., Lagesse, R., Marcelin, L., & Remington, C. (2022). Intersectional Impacts of the 2021 Mw 7.2 Nippes, Haiti Earthquake from Geotechnical and Social Perspectives. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. https://doi.org/10.1785/0120220118
Headley, A., Remington, C., Witkowski, K., Contreras, S., & Ganapati, E. (2022). The Impact of COVID-19 on First Responders in the United States. International Journal of Emergency Services, 12(2), 243-251. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJES-12-2022-0071
Contreras, S., & Roudbari, S. (2021). Who’s learning from whom? Grassroots International NGOs learning from communities in development projects. Development in Practice, 32(5), 569-582. https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2021.1937554
Niles, S., Roudbari, S., & Contreras, S. (2020). Integrating Social Justice and Political Engagement into Engineering. International Journal of Engineering, Social Justice, and Peace, 7(1), 57-69. https://doi.org/10.24908/ijesjp.v7i1.13568
Niles, S., Contreras, S., Roudbari, S., Kaminsky, J., & Harrison, J. (2020). Resisting and Assisting Engagement with Public Welfare in Engineering Education. Journal of Engineering Education, 109, 491-507. https://doi.org/10.1002/jee.20323
Goodrich, K., Sanders, B., Basolo, V., Feldman, D., Matthew, R., Schubert, J., Luke, A., Eguiarte, A., Boudreau, D., Serrano, K., Reyes, A., Contreras, S., Houston, D., Cheung, W., AghaKouchak, A., & Sanders, B. (2020). Addressing Pluvial Flash Flooding through Community-Based Collaborative Research in Tijuana, Mexico. Water, 12, 1257. https://doi.org/10.3390/w12051257
Sanders, B., Schubert, J., Goodrich, K., Houston, D., Feldman, D., Basolo, V., Luke, A. Boudreau, D., Karlin, B., Cheung, W., Contreras, S., Reyes, A., Eguiarte, A., Serrano, K., Allaire, M., Moftakhari, H., AghaKouchak, A., & Matthew, R. (2020). Collaborative Modeling with Fine Resolution Data Enhances Flood Awareness, Minimizes Differences in Flood Perception, and Produces Actionable Flood Maps. Earth’s Future, 7, e2019EF001391. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019EF001391
Contreras, S. (2019). Using Arnstein’s Ladder as an Evaluative Framework for the Assessment of Participatory Work in Post-disaster Haiti. Journal of the American Planning Association, 85(3), 219-235. https://doi.org/10.1080/01944363.2019.1618728
Contreras, S., Niles, S., Roudbari, S., Harrison, J., & Kaminsky, J. (2019). Bridging the Praxis of Hazards and Development with Resilience: A Case Study of an Engineering Education Program. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 42, 101347. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2019.101347
Houston, D., Cheung, W., Basolo, V., Feldman, D., Matthew, R., Sanders, B., Karlin, B., Schubert, J., Goodrich, K., Contreras, S., & Luke, A. (2017). The Influence of Hazard Maps and Trust of Flood Controls on Coastal Flood Spatial Awareness and Risk Perception. Environment and Behavior, 1-29. https://doi.org/10.1177/0013916517748711
Feldman, D., Contreras, S., Karlin, B., Basolo, V., Matthew, R., Sanders, B., Houston, D., Cheung, W., Goodrich, K., Reyes, A., Serrano, K., Schubert, J., & Luke, A. (2016). Communicating Flood Risk: Looking Back and Forward at Traditional and Social Media Outlets. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 15, 43-51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2015.12.004
Cheung, W., Houston, D., Schubert, J., Basolo, V., Feldman, D., Matthew, R., Sanders, B., Karlin, B., Goodrich, K., Contreras, S., & Luke, A. (2016). Integrating Resident Digital Sketch Maps with Expert Knowledge to Assess Spatial Knowledge of Flood Risk: A Case Study of Participatory Mapping in Newport Beach, California. Applied Geography, 74, 56-64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2016.07.006
TECHNICAL REPORTS
Lorenzo Pérez, M., & Contreras, S. (2022). Understanding the Impacts of Managed Retreat and Resettlement on Informal Communities. Natural Hazards Center Mitigation Matters Grant Report Series, 8. Boulder, CO: Natural Hazards Center, University of Colorado Boulder. Available at: https://hazards.colorado.edu/mitigation-matters-report/understanding-the-impacts-of-managed-retreat-and-resettlement-on-informal-communities
Dashti, S., Ganapati, E., Abayo, N., Cabas, A., Calderon, J., Contreras, S., Dessable, J., Garcia, E., Guerrier, K., Hwang, Y., Jeannot, T., Ji, C., Lagesse, R., Logiste, M., Lorenzo-Velazquez, C., Nicolas, S., Remington, C., Perodin, J., Saint Fleur, N., Shirro, M., Vissiere, S., & Whitworth, M. (2022). Reconnaissance Following the August 14, 2021 Haiti Earthquake: Perspectives from Geotechnical Engineering and Social/Political Sciences. Geotechnical Extreme Reconnaissance (GEER) Report No. 073. Available at: https://doi.org/10.18118/G60090
Headley, A., Remington, C., Witkowski, K., Contreras, S., & Ganapati, E. (2021). Reprioritizing Responsibilities: Examining How Colliding Epidemics Impact First Responders. Drug Enforcement and Policy Center, Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University. Available at: https://moritzlaw.osu.edu/sites/default/files/2021-12/Reprioritizing%20Responsibilities_Andrea%20Headly%20et%20all_exec-summary.pdf
Niles, S., & Contreras, S. (2019). Social Vulnerability and the Role of Puerto Rico’s Healthcare Workers after Hurricane Maria. Natural Hazards Center Quick Response Grant Report Series, 288. Boulder, CO: Natural Hazards Center, University of Colorado Boulder. Available at: https://hazards.colorado.edu/quick-response-report/social-vulnerability-and-the-role-of-puerto-ricos-healthcare-workers-after-hurricane-maria