Ashley D. Ross is an Associate Professor in the Department of Marine and Coastal Environmental Science at Texas A&M University at Galveston (TAMUG). A political scientist by training, her research explores disaster issues from a sociopolitical perspective. Her book Local Disaster Resilience: Administrative and Political Perspectives (Routledge, 2013) analyzed disaster resilience related to Hurricane Katrina and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill among U.S. Gulf Coast counties. Much of her research examines public perceptions related to natural hazard governance, including issues of climate change, hazard mitigation, and pollution. Some of her most recent research explores the social equity issues that emerge with natural hazard mitigation. She also has a robust line of research that considers how social identities of race, ethnicity, partisanship, and generation influence public attitudes towards climate change and science. Ross is a faculty fellow with the Institute for a Disaster Resilient Texas and serves as the coordinator of the Marine and Coastal Management and Sciences doctoral program at TAMUG. She teaches graduate courses in environmental management, environmental conflict resolution, and research methods in coastal resources.