Wanyun Shao

Experience

• 2023–present
  Associate Professor, University of Alabama
• 2018–2023
  Assistant Professor, University of Alabama
• 2015–2018
  Assistant Professor, Auburn University at Montgomery
• 2013–2014
  Coastal Resources Scientist, Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority

Education

• 2012 
  Louisiana State University, Ph.D in Geography

Publications

• 2024
  Natural Hazards, Urban flood susceptibility mapping using frequency ratio and machine learning algorithms
• 2024
  . Journal of Geovisualization and Spatial Analysis, Enhancing Flood Risk Analysis in Harris County: Integrating Flood Susceptibility and Social Vulnerability Mapping
• 2024
  Frontier in Water, "You turn the tap on, the water's there, and you just think everything's fine": A mixed methods approach to understanding public perceptions of groundwater management in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
• 2024
  Energy and Climate Change , Understanding the Relationships among Experience with Extreme Weather Events, Perceptions of Climate Change, Carbon Dependency, and Public Support for Renewable Energies in the United States
• 2024
  Transactions in GIS , Geographic Analysis of the Boundaries of National Park Units
• 2024
  Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, The spatiotemporal patterns of community vulnerability in the U.S. Mobile Bay from 2000 - 2020
• 2023
  Applied Geography, Participatory GIS for measuring accessibility of movement challenged persons during earthquake evacuation
• 2023
  International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Identifying trends in interpretation and responses to hurricane and climate change communication tools
• 2023
  Journal of Geovisualization and Spatial Analysis, Exploring the relationship between land use land cover and land surface temperature: A case study in Bangladesh and the policy implications for the global south
• 2023
  Society & Natural Resources, A study of American response to climate change and the influence of carbon dependency, social capital, and political orientation
• 2023
  Vaccine, Social Network, Political Climate, Income Inequality, and Americans Uptake of Monovalent COVID-19 Booster
• 2023
  NPJ Clean Water , Monitoring the impact of climate extremes and COVID-19 on statewise sentiment alterations in water pollution complaints
• 2023
  Climate Risk Management, Toward reduction of detrimental effects of hurricanes using a social media data analytic approach: How climate change is perceived?
• 2022
  Risk, Hazards, & Crisis in Public Policy, Public awareness and perceptions of drought: A case study of two cities of Alabama
• 2022
  Findings, Social-geographical pattern of rescue requests under Hurricane Harvey (2017)
• 2022
  Sustainable Cities and Society, Hazard risk awareness and disaster management: Extracting the information content of Twitter data
• 2022
  International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Perceptions of earthquake risks and knowledge about earthquake response among movement challenged persons in Dhaka city of Bangladesh
• 2022
  Cities, Being green in a green capital: Assessing drivers of pro-environmental behaviors in Copenhagen
• 2022
  International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Comparing public expectations with local planning efforts to mitigate coastal hazards
• 2022
  Vaccine, Understanding the influence of political orientation, social network, and economic recovery on COVID-19 vaccine uptake among Americans
• 2021
  Health & Place, Understanding the influence of contextual factors and individual social capital on American public mask wearing in response to COVID–19
• 2021
  International Journal of Public Health, Understanding American Public Support for COVID-19 Risk Mitigation: The Role of Political Orientation, Socio-Demographic characteristics, Personal Concern, and Experience, the United States, 2020
• 2021
  Humanities and Social Science Communication, Data-driven modeling reveals the Western dominance of global pubic interest in earthquakes
• 2021
  American Journal of Health Promotion, Understanding the effects of individual and state-level factors on American public response to COVID-19
• 2020
  Geographic Review, Understanding evangelical protestant identity, religiosity, extreme weather, and American public perceptions of global warming, 2006-2016
• 2020
  Social Science & Medicine, Confidence in political leaders can slant risk perceptions of COVID–19 in a highly polarized environment
• 2020
  Science of the Total Environment, Retrospective and prospective evaluations of drought and flood
• 2020
  Scientific Reports, A Place-based assessment of flash flood hazard and vulnerability in the contiguous United States
• 2020
  Climate Policy, Polycentric governance with a focus on non-financial capital can enable incremental adaptation in disadvantaged communities
• 2020
  Climatic Change, Comparing public perceptions of sea level rise with scientific projections across five states of the U.S. Gulf Coast region
• 2020
  Energy Research and Social Science, What really drives the deployment of renewable energy? A global assessment of 118 countries
• 2019
  Climatic Change, Approval of political leaders can slant evaluation of political issues: Evidence from public concern for climate change in the U.S.
• 2019
  International Journal Of Environmental Health Research , A spatial epidemiology case study of mentally unhealthy days (MUDs): air pollution, community resilience, and sunlight perspectives
• 2019
  Palgrave Communications , Spatiotemporal patterns of US drought awareness
• 2019
  Disasters, Assessing community vulnerability to floods and hurricanes in the U.S. Gulf Coast
• 2019
  Environmental Research Letters, Predicting support for flood mitigation based on flood insurance purchase behavior
• 2018
  Annals of American Association of Geographers, Examining the effects of objective hurricane risks and community resilience on risk perceptions of hurricanes at the county level in the US Gulf Coast: an innovative approach
• 2018
  Journal of Hydrology, Flood hazards and perceptions-a comparative study in two cities of Alabama
• 2017
  China’s Urbanization and Socioeconomic Impact, Understanding Chinese environmental risk perceptions from 1995 - 2015
• 2017
  Environmental Politics, Weather, climate, politics, or God? – determinants of American public opinions toward global warming
• 2017
  Water Research, Understanding the effects of past flood events, perceived and estimated flood risks on individuals' voluntary flood insurance purchase behaviors
• 2017
  International Journal of Climatology, Understanding perceptions of changing hurricane strength along the U.S. Gulf Coast
• 2017
  Water Research , A sequential model to link contextual risk, perception and public support for flood adaptation policy
• 2016
  Journal of Risk Research, Are actual weather and perceived weather the same?
• 2016
  Risk Analysis, Seeing is believing? - An examination of perceptions of local weather conditions and climate change among residents in the U.S. Gulf Coast
• 2016
  Social Science Quarterly, Science, scientists, and local weather: understanding mass attitudes toward global warming
• 2014
  Weather, Climate, and Society, Weather, climate, and the economy: explaining risk perceptions of global warming, 2001-2010

Grants and Contracts

• 2017
  Early-Career Research Fellow

  Role:

  PI

  Funding Source:

  National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Gulf Research Program

Professional Memberships

• American Association of Geographers
• American Geophysical Union
• Society for Risk Analysis

Honours

National Science Foundation Enabling Next Generation Hazards Fellow; National Academies of Sciences Gulf Research Program Early-Career Research Fellow