2026

Harden, A., Beckham, A., Rouhana, F., & Shoreman-Ouimet, E. 2026. “We have not much, they have nothing:” Disaster vulnerability in Southern New England. Manuscript submitted for publication to Human Organization.

Gilbert, C., & Lachlan, K.A. (2026). Media effects, emotion, and race: Extending the climate change risk perception model in the United States. Environmental Communication, 20 (2), 296-316.

Spence, P.R., Lachlan, K.A., Lin, X., & Spates, S. (2026). Keeping risk in proportion? How exemplars amplify risk perceptions in low-risk audiences. Southern Communication Journal. In press.

2025

Lachlan, K.A., DiCairano, J., & Shoreman-Ouimet, E. (2025). Not just who, but where: Examining weather risk information dependencies and preparation across geographic space and social vulnerability. Progress in Disaster Science, 28, 100491.

Lachlan, K.A., DiCairano, J., & Gilbert, C. (2025). Dependencies under pressure: Examining the impact of channel reliance on risk perceptions and information seeking during Hurricane Ian. Journal of Emergency Management, 23 (6), 697-711.

2024

Shoreman-Ouimet, E., DiCairano, J., Lachlan. K.A., Burton, C., Walters, A., Barrett, J., & Ouimet, W. (2024). On the brink: Examining preemptive indicators of disaster vulnerability, Connecticut, USA. International Journal of Disaster Risk Research, 101, 104276.

Shoreman-Ouimet, E., A. Harden, and A. Walters (2024). Any volunteers? Climate change, declining volunteerism, and disaster (un)preparedness in Southern New England. Human Organization 83 (3):266–278.

Lachlan, K. A., DiCairano, J., & Gilbert, C. (2024). Examining the links between information sufficiency, news preferences, and protective behavior during Hurricane Ian. Communication Studies, 75(3), 265–282.

Lachlan, K. A., DiCairano, J., & Spence, P. R. (2024). Looking beyond the television: Variability in information seeking patterns and mitigation behaviors during Hurricane Ian. Progress in Disaster Science, 23, Article 100336.

2023

Lachlan, K.A. & Gilbert, C. (2023). Depth but not bias: Developing a scale to measure preferred sources for health news during the COVID pandemic. Risk Analysis, 43 (7), 1329-1338.

Lachlan, K.A., Hutter, E., Gilbert, C. & Spence, P.R. (2023). The impact of rumination on information seeking, depressive symptomatology, and protective actions in response to COVID-19. Journal of Emergency Management, 21(3), 223-232.

2022

Shoreman-Ouimet, E. (2022). A Place for Ethnography in Interdisciplinary Disaster Science: The urgent need for cultural data to address long-term inequities in disaster response, recovery, and resilience. Submitted to Environmental Justice.