Building Flood Resilience through Community-Engaged Research
February 23, 2026
Dr. Jamie Shinn (SUNY ESF) and Dr. Aaron Maxwell, Dr. Behrang Bidadian, and Annie Mahmoudi (WVU / WVGISTC) reflect on a mixed-methods, community-engaged research project— the first systematic investigation of lessons learned from the 2016 floods in Greenbrier County, WV — using surveys, focus groups, and participatory GIS to produce community-informed flood-risk mapping and locally identified recommendations for strengthening resilience in rural, high-risk flood contexts.
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