Dr. Jen Henderson

Jen Henderson

Texas Tech University

jen.henderson@ttu.edu

EDUCATION
Ph.D. Science and Technology Studies, Virginia Tech, 2016 Interdisciplinary Graduate Education Program in Remote Sensing

Dissertation Title: “To Err on the Side of Caution:” Ethical Dimensions of the National Weather Service Warning Process. Advisors: Dr. Gary Downey and Dr. Saul Halfon

Certificates: The Future Professoriate, Remote Sensing

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2021-Present Assistant Professor, Geosciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

2018-2020       Research Scientist, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder

2017-2018       Postdoctoral Fellow, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder

2011-2016       Interdisciplinary Graduate Education Program Fellow, Virginia Tech

PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Articles

Henderson, J., Nielsen, E. R., Herman, G. R., & Schumacher, R. S. (2020). A Hazard Multiple: Overlapping Tornado and Flash Flood Warnings in a National Weather Service Forecast Office in the Southeastern United States. Weather and Forecasting, 35(4), 1459-1481.

Lazrus, H., Wilhelmi, O., Morss, R., Henderson, J., & Dietrich, A. (2020). Information as Intervention: How Hurricane Risk Communication Interacted with Vulnerability and Capacities in Superstorm Sandy. International Journal of Mass Emergencies & Disasters, 38(1).

Dilling, L., Berggren, J., Henderson, J., & Kenney, D. (2019). Savior of rural landscapes or Solomon’s choice? Colorado’s experiment with alternative transfer methods for water (ATMs). Water Security, 6, 100027.

Henderson, J., & Liboiron, M. (2019). Compromise and Action: Tactics for Doing Ethical Research in Disaster Zones. In Disaster Research and the Second Environmental Crisis (pp. 295-309). Springer, Cham.

Henderson, J. (2018). Weather-Ready Nation or Ready-Weather Agency? Emphatic Accuracy and Sociotechnical Resilience in the National Weather Service. In The Sociotechnical Constitution of Resilience (pp. 93-116). Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore.

Demuth, J. L., Morss, R. E., Palen, L., Anderson, K. M., Anderson, J., Kogan, M., Stowe, M. Bica, H. Lazrus, O. V. Wilhelmi, Henderson, J. (2018). “Sometimes da# beachlife ain't always da wave”: Understanding People’s Evolving Hurricane Risk Communication, Risk

Assessments, and Responses Using Twitter Narratives. Weather, Climate, and Society, 10(3), 537-560.

Morss, R. E., Demuth, J. L., Lazrus, H., Palen, L., Barton, C. M., Davis, C. A., C. Snyder, O. V. Wilhelmi, K. M. Anderson, D. A. Ahijevych, J. Anderson, M. Bica, K. R. Fossell, J. Henderson, M. Kogan, K. Stowe, J. Watts. (2017). Hazardous weather prediction and

communication in the modern information environment. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 98(12), 2653-2674.

Schroeder, A. J., Gourley, J. J., Hardy, J., Henderson, J. J., Parhi, P., Rahmani, V., A. Reed, R. S. Schumacher, B.K. Smith, Taraldsen, M. J. (2016). The development of a flash flood severity index. Journal of Hydrology, 541, 523-532.

A. Goldner, O. Shieh, and J. Henderson (2013). Science Policy: Using Your Voice to Inform and Inspire.” Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 94, 80-81.

Manuscripts in Submission

Bica, M., Henderson, J., Spinney, J., Palen, L., Weinberg, J., and Nielsen, E. The Liminality of Uncertainty: What Happens When Social Media is Employed by Those in Highly Constrained Disaster Situations. Human-Computer Interaction.

Conference Proceedings

J. Anderson, M. Kogan, M. Bica, L. Palen, K. Anderson, R. Morss, J. Demuth, H. Lazrus, O. Wilhelmi, J. Henderson (2016). Social Media Studies. Far Far Away in Far Rockaway: Responses to Risks and Impacts during Hurricane Sandy through First-Person Social Media Narratives. Preprint: International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Management.

K. Droegemeier, L. P. Rothfusz, A. J. Knoedler, J. T. Ferree, J. Henderson, K. L. Nemunaitis-Monroe, D. Nagele, and K. E. Klockow (2016). Living with Extreme Weather Workshop: Summary and Path Forward. Preprint: American Meteorological Society 96th Annual Conference, New Orleans.

White Papers and Reports

National Weather Service. The Historic Derecho of June 29, 2012 (2013). National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Social Science Consultant.

National Weather Service. May 2013 Oklahoma Tornadoes and Flash Flooding (2014). National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Social Science Consultant.

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2018-2020       National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, VORTEX Southeast grant, “Improving Forecaster and Partner Interpretation of Uncertainty and Confidence in Risk Information: Cool and Warm Season Tornado Threats in the Southeastern U.S. Co-PIs Julie Demuth, National Center for Atmospheric Research, and Jennifer Spinney, University of Western Ontario. [$203,278]

2018-2020       National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, VORTEX Southeast grant, “Multi-disciplinary investigation of concurrent tornado and flash flood threats in

landfalling tropical cyclones.” Co-PIs Jennifer Spinney, University of Western Ontario and Russ Schumacher and Erik Nielsen, Colorado State University. [$142,382]

2018-2020       National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Joint Technical Transfer Initiative grant, “Improving Convection-Permitting Ensemble Based Uncertainty Communication for Decision Support using the Weather Archive and Visualization Environment (WAVE). Co-PIs Julie Demuth, National Center for Atmospheric Research and Matt Wandashin, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences. [$220,826]

2018-2020       National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, IRAP grant, “Integrating Seasonal and Sub-Seasonal Climate Information into Public Health Contexts: Co-Producing Decision Support Applications in Puerto Rico and Dominica.” Co-PIs, Benét Duncan, Western Water Assessment, Zack Guido, University of Arizona, and Maureen Tulane University. [$133,434]

2016-18           National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, VORTEX Southeast grant, Improving Risk Communication and Reducing Vulnerabilities for Dynamic Tornado Threats in the Southeastern US.” Co-PI with Julie Demuth, PI, National Center for Atmospheric Research. [$149,813]

2015-16           National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, VORTEX Southeast grant, “Multi-disciplinary investigation of concurrent tornadoes and flash floods in the Southeastern US.” Co-PI with Russ Schumacher, PI, Colorado State University. [$143,000]

AWARDS AND HONORS
2018
Early Career Leadership Academy, American Meteorological Society (competitively selected)
2015
College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences Outstanding Doctoral Student, Virginia
 
Tech, Blacksburg
2015
Warner Internship for Scientific Enrichment. Research Applications Lab, National Center
 
for Atmospheric Research
2014
Center for Advanced Public Safety Fellow, University of Alabama.
2014
Inaugural Future Professoriate Teaching Academy, Virginia Tech
2014
Advanced Study Program Graduate Student Visitor. Mesoscale & Microscale Meteorology,
 
National Center for Atmospheric Research
2014
Summer Workshop on Environmental Sociology, Vanderbilt University with David
 
Hess (competitively selected)
2013
International Higher Education Study Abroad, Virginia Tech (competitively selected)
2013
Interdisciplinary Flood Research Group (SPREAD), Colorado State University with
 
Russ Schumacher (competitively selected)
2012
Summer Policy Colloquium, American Meteorological Society Policy Program, Washington,
 
D.C. (competitively selected)
 

SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2020    J. Henderson, Nielsen, E., Obermeier, H., Mazurek, A., Spinney, J., and Demuth, J. “Overlapping Tornado and Flash Flood Hazards in Hurricane Harvey: Compound Hazards in a Long Duration Events.” American Meteorological Society, Online.

2019    J. Henderson. “Finding Fujita” in author panel “Telling Lives in Meteorology: A Dialogue between Readers and Writers.” American Meteorological Society, Phoenix.

2018    J. Henderson. Dynamics of Vulnerability in Drought Contexts. American Meteorological Society, Austin.

2017    J. Henderson. “Social Sciences and National Weather Service Forecasters.” National Academy of Sciences. (Invited presentation)

2017    J. Henderson. “Tornado and Flash Flood Communication Challenges in the National Weather Service.” American Meteorological Society, Severe and Local Storms Symposium, Seattle. (Invited presentation)

2016    J. Henderson. “Infrastructures of Time and Space in the Weather Warning Process.” Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), Singapore.

2016    N. Doesken, J. Henderson, P. Higgins, and P. A. Newman. “Beyond the Weather: Getting

the Word Out: Science Policy and Communication.” Panelist, Student Conference. American Meteorological Society Annual Conference, New Orleans. (Invited panelist)

2015    J. Henderson. “To Err on the Side of Caution: Ethics in the Weather Warning Process.” Interdisciplinary Hazards Researcher Meeting. Natural Hazards Center, Boulder.

SELECTED TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2021                Geog 4320: Environmental Hazards and Disasters: Designed and taught face-to-face class on human-environmental interactions of weather disasters

2015                Geog 4984: Constructing the Weather: Designed and taught face-to-face class on human-environmental interactions of weather disasters, including sociopolitical & cultural issues in weather forecasting careers (e.g. National Weather Service and broadcasting meteorologists)

2011, 2013      Mtrg 4964: Meteorology Field Studies Course: Co-facilitated summer “Storm Chase” course for meteorology students on the Great Plains, creating mini lectures about the cultural and social geographic and historical issues related to weather disasters.

2013-2014       Grad 5014: Ethics and Academic Integrity: Designed and taught online class for international students related to issues of integrity and ethics in graduate school. Part of a grant from the Council on Graduate Schools to develop an ethics mandate for the university

2007-2011       Interdisciplinary Studies 4114: Senior Research Seminar: Designed online and face-to-face classes on research methods in the social sciences for interdisciplinary students and supervised research proposal project development

SELECTED SERVICE
2020-Present Chair, Board on Societal Impacts, American Meteorological Society

2018-2021       Scientific Planning Committee, Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes EXperiment-Southeast (VORTEX) Southeast

2020-2021       Planning Committee, American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting

2018-2021       Co-Chair, Societal Applications Symposium, American Meteorological Society 2018-2020       Councilor, American Meteorological Society

2018-2019       Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion, American Meteorological Society

2018-2019       Task Force on Early Career Participation in the Society, American Meteorological Society

2018-2019       Drought Social Sciences Synthesis Team, USGS and Colorado State University 2015-2018       Chair, Social Impacts Committee, National Weather Association

2015-2017       Writing Team, The Alliance for Integrative Approaches to Extreme Environmental Events

2014                Organizing Committee, Virginia Tech Academy of Teaching Excellence 2013-2015                Organizing Committee Member, Living with Extreme Weather Workshop 2013                        Social Scientist Consultant on NWS OKC Tornado Service Assessment

2012-2017       Integrated Warning Team Facilitator for the National Weather Service in NC, NY, AL, and SD

2012                Social Scientist Consultant on NWS Mid-Atlantic Derecho Service Assessment