Interactive FIRM map
How Levees Increase Flooding: https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/levees
Wrenching Decision Where Black History and Floods Intertwine: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/09/us/princeville-north-carolina-hurricane-matthew-floods-black-history.html?smid=url-share
Sendai Framework: https://www.undrr.org/implementing-sendai-framework/what-sendai-framework
Princeville Relocation Project
The Belmont Report outlines three principles for ethical research: respect for persons, beneficence, and justice. In addition, reproducibility is increasingly required of scientific studies if they are to be permitted as evidence for creating laws and policies. In this context, reproducibility means that another researcher can independently read a scientific paper, repeat the methods (e.g. the experiment, models, statistical tests, data visualizations, etc.) and confirm the results and findings of the published study. In other words, if a scientific study is to benefit people by informing law and policy (as many studies claim to do), then the study and its data must be sufficiently transparent, detailed, and accessible for someone else to reproduce it.
One-page writing prompt: As you complete your ethics training (see below), please consider the Hurricane Harvey disaster in Texas and the use of social media to get help when the 911 emergency system could not answer all of the calls. In the context of research on natural hazards and using examples from Hurricane Harvey and flooding in Vermont, explain and discuss the tensions between the four principles (respect for persons, beneficence, justice, and reproducibility).
Ethical research training: Please complete the CITI training on ethical research, required of all faculty and students conducting research with human subjects. We are obligated to complete ethical research training for the right to view and analyze the Front Porch Forum post content in our VT Flood Atlas.
Please save a PDF of your ethical research certificate into your individual folder before class on October 28.
Please print out your one-page response to hand in on October 30.
New York Times Teaching Resources and Maps