Mentees:
PhD student, Caroline Beckman Postdocs, Dani Grant and Meg Czerwinski
Mentoring Team:
Alexandra "Paige" Fischer (University of Michigan)
Francisca "Kika" Santana (University of Washington)
Heidi Huber-Stearns (University of Oregon)
Sue Anne Bell (University of Michigan)
Nancy French (Michigan Technological Research Institute)
We are still collecting survey responses for this project. We will post more on this project in the coming months!
Purpose
Wildfire smoke is affecting communities across the northwestern United States and is likely to affect many more in the future. This study aims to better understand how people think about and respond to wildfire smoke in their daily lives.
If you live in a household that received our postcard in the mail (below), we invite you to share your views on and experiences with wildfire smoke. Even if your community has not yet been affected by wildfire smoke, your perspectives are extremely valuable to our research.
By learning about people's experiences, perceptions, and responses, this research will help inform local organizations and agencies and implement policies to better support your community and communities in similar situations.
Research Objectives
Stay tuned! We will post our research objectives once we conclude survey data collection.
Hypotheses
Stay tuned! We will post our hypotheses once we conclude survey data collection.
Method
We will collect and analyzed social data on the experiences, perceptions, and behaviors of households and other actors in communities that have experienced wildfire smoke. We will begin with exploratory interviews in communities with different types of smoke experiences (Task 2.1), then use the qualitative analysis of these interviews to inform a quantitative survey (Task 2.2). We have completed qualitative data collection, and are currently conducting our quantitative survey.
Results
Stay tuned! We will post our results once we are finished analyzing our survey data.
Have questions or comments? Contact us!
Paige Fischer, Project Director
(734) 763-3830 (direct line)
wildfire-smoke-survey@umich.edu