Publications
Paul, Sandeep, Zhou, Kayee, and Bixler, R. Patrick. 2025. “Assessing extreme heat risk perception: Awareness, worry, preparedness and social capital in Texas.” Environmental Science & Policy 169 :104072 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104072
Preisser, Matthew and Passalacqua, Paola. 2025. “Remote Sensing Improves Multi-Hazard Flooding and Extreme Heat Detection by Fivefold Over Current Estimates.” AGU Advances 6 (2) :e2025AV001667 https://doi.org/10.1029/2025AV001667
Wang, Mark, Passalacqua, Paola, Cai, Shukai, and Dawson, Clint. 2024. “c-HAND: near real-time coastal flood mapping.” Frontiers in Water 6 https://doi.org/10.3389/frwa.2024.1329109
Lewis, Michael, Moftakhari, Hamed, and Passalacqua, Paola. 2024. “Challenges for compound coastal flood risk management in a warming climate: a case study of the Gulf Coast of the United States.” Frontiers in Water 6 https://doi.org/10.3389/frwa.2024.1405603
Ovalle, Joycelyn, Bixler, R. Patrick, and Ma, Ji. 2024. “How Do Nonprofits’ Organizational Characteristics Shape Environmental Philanthropy in Texas? A Network Science Approach.” Nonprofit Policy Forum 15 (4) :371-387 https://doi.org/10.1515/npf-2023-0018
Hwang, Hyunseok, Bixler, R. Patrick, Brown, William A., and Vedlitz, Arnold. 2024. “How to activate nonprofit beneficiaries for community resilience? Examining the role of risk perception and evaluation of nonprofit services on prosocial behavior in the context of natural hazards.” Sociological Spectrum 44 (1) :16-37 https://doi.org/10.1080/02732173.2023.2279968
Hwang, Hyunseok, Anderson, Kathryn Freeman, Vedlitz, Arnold, and Bixler, R. Partick. 2024. “Unveiling health inequities: Exploring the role of social capital and public trust in bridging racial disparities in health-care coverage for Hispanics.” Social Science Quarterly 105 (6) :1938-1952 https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.13452
Ma, Jong Won, Leite, Fernanda, Lieberknecht, Katherine, Stephens, Keri K., and Bixler, R. Patrick. 2024. “Using Q-methodology to discover disaster resilience perspectives from local residents.” International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 104 :104353 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104353
Preisser, Matthew, Passalacqua, Paola, Bixler, R. Patrick, and Boyles, Stephen. 2023. “A network-based analysis of critical resource accessibility during floods.” Frontiers in Water 5 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frwa.2023.1278205
Hwang, Hyunseok, Vedlitz, Arnold, and Bixler, R. Patrick. 2023. “Growing Community Resilience from the Grassroots: Risk Awareness, Confidence in Institutions, and Civic Participation in a Natural Hazards Context.” Natural Hazards Review 24 (3) :04023020 https://doi.org/10.1061/NHREFO.NHENG-1658
Zoll, Deidre, Bixler, R. Patrick, Lieberknecht, Katherine, Belaire, J. Amy, Shariatmadari, Auva, and Jha, Shalene. 2023. “Intersectional climate perceptions: Understanding the impacts of race and gender on climate experiences, future concerns, and planning efforts.” Urban Climate 50 :101576 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2023.101576
Zheng, Xing, D'Angelo, Claudia, Maidment, David R., and Passalacqua, Paola. 2022. “Application of a Large-Scale Terrain-Analysis-Based Flood Mapping System to Hurricane Harvey.” JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association 58 (2) :149–163
D'Angelo, Claudia, Passalacqua, Paola, Fiori, Aldo, and Volpi, Elena. 2022. “Identification of flood-prone areas with GeoFlood: Lessons learned from the Tiber River case study.” Journal of Flood Risk Management 15 (2) :e12795 https://doi.org/10.1111/jfr3.12795
Zhang, Xiaohe, Wright, Kyle, Passalacqua, Paola, Simard, Marc, and Fagherazzi, Sergio. 2022. “Improving Channel Hydrological Connectivity in Coastal Hydrodynamic Models With Remotely Sensed Channel Networks.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 127 (3) :e2021JF006294 https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JF006294
Preisser, Matthew, Passalacqua, Paola, Bixler, R. Patrick, and Hofmann, Julian. 2022. “Intersecting near-real time fluvial and pluvial inundation estimates with sociodemographic vulnerability to quantify a household flood impact index.” Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 26 (15) :3941-3964 https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-3941-2022
Bixler, R. Patrick, Coudert, Marc, Richter, Steven M., Jones, Jessica M., Llanes Pulido, Carmen, Akhavan, Nika, Bartos, Matt, Passalacqua, Paola, and Niyogi, Dev. 2022. “Reflexive co-production for urban resilience: Guiding framework and experiences from Austin, Texas.” Frontiers in Sustainable Cities 4 https://doi.org/10.3389/frsc.2022.1015630
Swartz, John M., Cardenas, Benjamin T., Mohrig, David, and Passalacqua, Paola. 2022. “Tributary channel networks formed by depositional processes.” Nature Geoscience 15 (3) :216-221 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-00900-x
Bixler, R. Patrick, Yang, Euijin, Richter, Steven M., and Coudert, Marc. 2021. “Boundary crossing for urban community resilience: A social vulnerability and multi-hazard approach in Austin, Texas, USA.” International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 66 :102613 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102613
Bixler, R. Patrick, Paul, Sandeep, Jones, Jessica, Preisser, Matthew, and Passalacqua, Paola. 2021. “Unpacking Adaptive Capacity to Flooding in Urban Environments: Social Capital, Social Vulnerability, and Risk Perception.” Frontiers in Water 3 https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frwa.2021.728730
Azizi, Koorosh, Bixler, Richard Patrick, and Passalacqua, Paola. “Gaps and opportunities for collaborative flood governance: Network-analytic insights from the US gulf coast.” https://www.authorea.com/doi/full/10.22541/essoar.172770781.19398056?commit=1b469d47c8a55a85b7022d20c82aaede0b80f7c4