Brody, Samuel, Highfield, W., *Blessing, R., *Makino, T., Shepard, C. (2017). Evaluating the Effects of Open Space Configurations in Reducing Flood Damage along the Gulf of Mexico Coast. Landscape and Urban Planning 167: 225-231.

Brody, S.D., *Wilson, M., Lindell M., +Highfield, W., *Blessing, R. (2016). Understanding the motivation of residents to voluntarily purchase federal flood insurance. Journal of Risk Research. DOI: 10.1080/13669877.2015.1119179.

Brody, S.D., *Lee, Yoonjeong, +Highfield, Wesley E. (2016). Household adjustment to flood risk: A survey of coastal residents in Texas and Florida. Disasters 41 (3), 566-586.

Brody, S.D., *Sebastian, A., *Blessing, R., Bedient, P. (2015). Case study results from southeast Houston, Texas: identifying the impacts of residential location on flood risk and loss. Journal of Flood Risk Management. DOI:10.1111/jfr3.12184.

Brody, S.D., +Highfield, W., *Blessing, R. (2015). An Empirical Analysis of the Effects of Land Use/Land Cover on Flood Losses along the Gulf of Mexico Coast from 1999 to 2009. J. of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA) 51(6): 1556-1567, DOI: 10.1111/1752-1688.12331.

Brody, S.D., +Blessing, R., *Sebastian, A., Bedient, P. (2014). Examining the impact of land use/land cover characteristics on flood losses. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 57(9): 1252-1265.

Brody, S.D. (2013). The Characteristics, Causes, and Consequences of Sprawling Development Patterns in the United States. Nature Education Knowledge 4(5): 2.

Brody, S.D., +Blessing, R., *Sebastian, A., Bedient, P. (2013). Delineating the Reality of Flood Risk and Loss in Southeast, Texas. Natural Hazards Review 14:89-97.

Brody, S.D., +Highfield, W. (2013). Open Space Protection and Flood Losses: A National Study. Land Use Policy 32:89-95.

Brody, S.D., +Highfield, W.E., +Kang, J.E. (2011). Rising Waters: Causes and consequences of flooding in the United States. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

* Denotes Student
+ Denotes Former Student

Presentations

2018: Untargeted characterization of halogenated contaminants and their degradation products in Puget Sound sediments using Fourier Transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry (FTICR MS). Liu, Y., L.-J. Kuo, N. Tolić, L. Paša-Tolić, T. Wade, A. Knap, J. Brandenberger, and P. Louchouarn (2017), Poster Presentation (ME14A-0921), Ocean Science Meeting, Portland, OR.

Feb 2, 2018: Flood Risk Reduction and the Built Environment. Conference on Urban Flooding and Infrastructure: Moving forward from Harvey. Rice University, Houston TX.

July 6, 2017: Urban Flooding: A growing national challenge. National Academies of Sciences. Study on Urban Flooding. Houston, TX.

June 28, 2017: Urban Flooding: How do we deal with a National Challenge. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FLOOD & STORMWATER MANAGEMENT AGENCIES (NAFSMA) Annual Meeting, Charleston, SC.

March 2, 2016: Spatial Analytical Approaches to identifying flood risk mitigation techniques in Galveston Bay. University of Amsterdam, Institute for Environmental Studies. Amsterdam, Netherlands.

December 12, 2016: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Implication of Flooding in the U.S. JSPS-NOW Joint Seminar- Challenges in Coastal Flood Risk Reduction. Tokyo Institute of Technology. Tokyo, Japan.

September 24, 2015: Flooding and Coastal Urban Resilience: The Houston-Galveston Region. Clemson University, Department of Planning, Development, and Preservation. Urban Resilience Speaker Series. Clemson, SC.

August 17, 2015: What Works: the cost savings of flood mitigation techniques. Preparing for Change: Building Resilient Coastal Communities workshop. The Nature Conservancy. Aransas Pass, TX.

May 20, 2015.: Examining Flood Risk, Loss, and Policy in the Clear Creek Watershed. With Russell Blessing. World Environmental and Water Resources Congress. Austin, TX.

October 1, 2014: Reducing Flood Risk in the Houston-Galveston Region. Delft University, Netherlands.

May 28, 2014: Floodplain Management in TX: Pointing the Way to More Effective Mitigation in the Future. TX Floodplain Managers Association Annual Conference, Mike Howard Lectureship. Irving, TX.

Grants and Fellowships

2015 to 2020: Principal Investigator. National Science Foundation, $3,598,502.
Coastal Flood Risk Reduction Program: Integrated, multi-scale approaches for understanding how to reduce vulnerability to damaging events. NSF Program for International Research and Education.

2014 to 2016: Co-Principal Investigator. National Science Foundation, $349,725. PI: Deborah Thomas; Co-PI: Brian Gerber.
Enabling the Next Generation of Hazards and Disasters Researchers:An Education and Training Proposal.

2014 to 2016: Principal Investigator. TX Commission on Environmental Quality, $173,228.
Galveston Bay Estuary Program Status and Trends Maintenance Project.

2011 to 2013: Principal Investigator. National Science Foundation, $345,891. Co-PIs: Wesley Highfield, Michael Lindell.
Examining the 100-year Floodplain as a Metric of Risk, Loss, and Household Adjustment.

Professional Appointments

2017-2018: Urban Flood Study Committee. National Academy of Sciences

2016-2018: Department of Homeland Security Flood Apex Research Board

2003-present: Faculty Fellow. Hazards Reduction and Recovery Center (HRRC), Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.

2016-present: Fellow. Kinder Institute, Rice University, Houston, TX.

2008-present: Fellow. Institute for Science, Technology, and Public Policy (ISTPP), Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.

2006-present: Founding Fellow. Severe Storm Prediction, Education and Evacuation from Disaster (SSPEED) Center Conference, Rice University, Houston, TX.

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