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-# DEMUS (Demography of Environmental Migration in the United States)
+# Claim to Flame
 
-*Elizabeth Fussell, Jack DeWaard, Katherine Curtis, James Done, and Sara Ronnkvist*
+*Joan Casey, Lauren Wilner, Vivian Do, Heather McBrien, David Coomes, and Karen Chen*
 
-This project plans to integrate IRS county-level migration data with data on tropical cyclones, wildfire events, flood events, wet bulb temperatures and air pollution, county health rankings and roadmaps data, and national neighborhood data archive data, to ask the broad question: How do tropical cyclones affect county-level migration systems, where migration systems are the counties connected through in- and out-migration flows, and do these dynamics differ for age, sex, race/ethnicity, and nativity groups?
+This project plans to integrate data on wildfires and wildfire boundaries, FEMA household claims, and demographics, with CalEnviroScreen data to ask several questions about FEMA assistance for wildfire disasters: What are the population characteristics of those actively applying for FEMA assistance for wildfire disasters? Within this group, what are the individual- (e.g., owner vs. rental status, level of disaster preparedness, reliance on electrical medical equipment) and area-level (e.g., neighborhood poverty) factors associated with successfully receiving FEMA aid or the amount of FEMA aid? Do the factors associated with successfully receiving FEMA aid vary by disaster type (i.e., wildfire disaster vs. wildfire disaster co-occurring with extreme heat)?
 
-> **Working Repository \> [github.com/d4hackweek](https://github.com/d4hackweek)**
+> **Working Repository \> [github.com/d4hackweek/d4-claim-to-flame](https://github.com/d4hackweek/d4-claim-to-flame)**
 
 ## Datasets
 
-- IRS county-level migration data in lieu of a restricted use dataset we have built in the FSRDC
-- Restricted use data set: Master Address File - Migration Flows (MAF-MIF)
-- A suite of historical tropical cyclone wind and rain metrics data set harmonized to county-year level
-- Wildfire events (and smoke)
-- Flood events
-- Wet bulb temperature and air pollution
-- County Health Rankings and Roadmaps data
-- National Neighborhood Data Archive data
+- High resolution wildfire boundaries for all wildfires in California 2017-2023 (e.g., fire boundaries and burn dates)
+- FEMA national household survey claims 2017-2023 by ZIP code
+- CalEnviroScreen 4.0 data by census tract (CalEnviroScreen overall score)
+- Census tract SES indicators by ZIP code (e.g., median income, home ownership, education)
 
-These will be harmonized at the county-year level and joined to the MAF-MIF
+Linkage will be by ZIP code and census tract identifiers, with the aim to identify characteristics of populations likely to get FEMA claims funded.
 
 ## Team Bios
 
-- **Elizabeth Fussell**: Elizabeth Fussell is a sociologist and demographer. She joined Brown University and the PSTC in 2014. Her research focuses on environmental drivers of migration and social inequalities in migration, health, and other post-disaster outcomes. She is also Editor-in-Chief of the Springer journal, Population & Environment. Since 2005, when she was an Assistant Professor at Tulane University and Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, she has investigated the long-term effects of that disaster on the residential mobility, health, and wellbeing of the residents of New Orleans using innovative methods and datasets. She has extended this research agenda to study the effects of hurricanes and other exogenous shocks on migration and internal migration systems in the United States, with a new focus on Puerto Rico. Her research is supported by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Russell Sage Foundation. Fussell is an author on the Fifth National Climate Assessment’s Chapter on Human Social Systems.
-- **Jack DeWaard**: Jack DeWaard provides overall scientific leadership for Social and Behavioral Science Research at the Population Council to tackle pressing social, economic, health, and climate issues worldwide. He oversees research activities, quality, and learning, as well as provides strategic direction for the Council’s Population, Environmental Risks, and the Climate Crisis (PERCC) initiative. DeWaard is also an external affiliate in the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology at the University of Washington. DeWaard holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an MA in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and a BA in sociology and philosophy from Seattle Pacific University.
-- **Katherine Curtis**: Dr. Katherine J. Curtis is Professor of Community & Environmental Sociology and Associate Director of the Center for Demography and Ecology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her work is centered in demography and extends to spatial, environmental, rural, and applied demography, and focuses on two central themes: population-environment interactions, most centrally the relationship between demographic, economic, and environmental forces; and spatial and temporal dimensions of social and economic inequality, most centrally historical and local forces perpetuating racial disparities. In her work, Curtis adopts place-based theoretical frameworks and employs advanced spatial and spatio-temporal statistical approaches to analyze questions about inequality, which has profound and far-reaching impacts on population wellbeing. Recent efforts have integrated qualitative analytical strategies including oral histories, in-depth interviews, and surveys. Current projects focus on spatial differentiation in migration and fertility responses to environmental events (NICHD and NSF), age- and race-specific net migration (NICHD), and rural livelihoods and spatial connectedness (USDA).
-- **James Done**: James Done is a climate scientist at the NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research. He advances process-based understanding of tropical cyclone variability and change across spatial and temporal scales, creating usable understanding for exploring impacts. As a senior academic fellow of the WTW Research Network he connects with risk managers to strengthen the science and ensure outcomes are useful, usable, and used. In recognition of his scientific leadership, he testified before the U.S. Congress on extreme weather in a changing climate. James received a PhD in Meteorology from the University of Reading, UK in 2003.
-- **Sara Ronnkvist**: Sara Ronnkvist is a 5th year Sociology PhD student at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and a predoctoral fellow at the Center for Demography and Ecology. She has a B.S. in Statistics from Iowa State University. Sara broadly studies demographic responses to environmental change, with a focus on migration, fertility, and health. Additionally, her work considers how context may shape the relationship between the environment and demographic phenomena. Sara has experience working with geospatial data and integrating this type of data with demographic data in R. 
+- **Joan Casey**, University of Washington: Joan A. Casey received her doctoral degree from the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2014. Dr. Casey is an environmental epidemiologist who focuses on environmental health, environmental justice, and sustainability. Her research uses large secondary health datasets, such as electronic health records, to study the relationship between emerging environmental exposures and population health across the lifecourse. She also considers vulnerable populations, joint social and environmental exposures, and health disparities, particularly in an era of climate change. Dr. Casey investigates a range of exposures including wildfires, power outages, ambient temperature, the built environment, fossil fuel infrastructure, and concentrated animal feeding operations. From 2014-2016, Dr. Casey was a Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar, and from 2019-2022, she was the co-chair of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology North American chapter. She also serves as an editorial board review member for Environmental Health Perspectives. Dr. Casey also holds a BS in Biological and Environmental Engineering from Cornell University and an MA in Applied Physiology from Teachers College at Columbia University.
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+- **Lauren Wilner**: Lauren Wilner is a 2nd-year Epidemiology PhD student at the University of Washington. Lauren holds a BA and MPH from Tufts University. She previously participated in the Allan Rosenfield Fellowship in Global Health at the CDC in the Center for Global Health. After that, she worked at the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) in Seattle for 5 years as a researcher and Managing Research Scientist on the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study. Lauren recently developed an R package that generated walk bouts from GPS and accelerometry data with Dr. Steve Mooney. She also teaches courses on the use of GitHub for research. Lauren’s dissertation focuses on two FEMA programs: the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) and the Individuals and Households Program (IHP) program in relation to flood mortality. Lauren enjoys backpacking with her two outerspace themed dogs: Sally and Orion.
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+- **Vivian Do**: Vivian Do is a 5th year PhD student. She began her PhD at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences in the Fall of 2020. She was born and raised in San Francisco, CA but moved to Northfield, MN for her BA in Mathematics/Statistics and American Studies at Carleton College. After working as a healthcare policy analyst, Vivian continued her public health training at Columbia where she received an MPH in epidemiology with a certificate in Climate & Health. Up until this point, she did projects on substance use at the San Francisco Department of Public Health, evaluated mental health programs at the NYC Department of Mental Health & Hygiene, and conducted air pollution research with the University of Hong Kong. As a PhD student at Columbia, Vivian is interested in environmental epidemiology, climate change, and the built environment through a health equity lens. Fun fact: She unironically likes discussing the weather and its underlying science.
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+- **Heather McBrien**, Columbia University: \
+    Heather McBrien is a 3rd year PhD student in the Environmental Health Sciences department at the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health. Her research uses large datasets and novel methods to evaluate the impacts of population-level climate-related exposures, including climate-related disasters. Her current projects evaluate the impacts of wildfire smoke and wildfire disaster exposure on perinatal health outcomes, and the impacts of power outage and co-occurring disaster exposure on vulnerable groups. Her interests include environmental and research justice, reproducibility, and research that informs climate policy.
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+- **David Coomes**, University of Washington: \
+    David Coomes is a PhD candidate in the Epidemiology department at the University of Washington. His research interests include the role of migration in shaping population health outcomes, in particular the rural mortality penalty. David also studies health impacts of wildfire smoke, with a focus on mental health outcomes and health disparities. Methodologically, David is particularly interested in social and spatial epidemiology, and the intersection of these two methods.
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+- **Karen Chen**, University of Washington: \
+    Karen Chen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban Design and Planning and the Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences at the University of Washington, where she is also affiliated with the Data Science program. Dr. Chen finds great interest in the synergy of machine learning and satellite imagery analysis. Her recent research primarily focuses on urban environmental change and its implications for public health and health inequality. Currently, Dr. Chen is leading two projects: one exploring the relationship between urban form and mental health, and the other investigating the intersection of urbanization and climate-related hazards, such as flooding, extreme heat, and landslides. Dr. Chen’s expertise includes developing publicly available and innovative frameworks using deep learning to reconstruct high-resolution urban form information across time. Her recognitions include the Leading Women in Machine Learning for Earth Observation in 2022, as well as an Early Career Award from NASA's Earth Science (2024-2027).