Funded Projects
Joyner, T.A. (PI), Beer, M. (Co-I), Tollefson, W. (Co-I). Understanding State Agency Climate Data and Services Needs through the Development of a Community Resilience Academy. NOAA-AASC. Two years; $237,000. 12/01/2024 – 11/30/2026.
Publications
Harris, J.B., Joyner, T.A., Tollefson, W.C., Luffman, I., Afriyie, E., Beer, M., Holmes, T., Olawuyi, F., Ernenwein, E., Nandi, A., Quinn, M. Tennessee State Hazard Mitigation Plan 2023 Update – Risk and Vulnerability Assessments, pp. 934. Submitted August 2023 (Reviewed by TEMA & FEMA), Approved October 2023. SPHERE responsible for the Communicable Disease section.
Schultz, J., Scheuerman, P., Quinn, M., Brooks, B., Beer, M., Joyner, A. (2023). Species distribution modeling (Maxent) of Asian longhorned (Haemaphysalis longicornis) Tick Ranges in Northeast Tennessee. Ecological Informatics, 102264. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2023.102264
Weierbach, F. M., Adkins Fletcher, R., Luffman, I. E., Meyer, C., Keener, J. M., Ahuja, M., & Mamudu, H. M. (2023). Factors Associated with COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in South Central Appalachia. Journal of Appalachian health, 5(3), 71–84. https://doi.org/10.13023/jah.0503.06
Mann, A. K., Joyner, T. A., Luffman, I., Quinn, M., Tollefson, W., & Frazier, A. D. (2021). Emergence of COVID-19 and Patterns of Early Transmission in an Appalachian Sub-Region. Journal of Appalachian health, 3(3), 7–21. https://doi.org/10.13023/jah.0303.02
Luffman, I., Joyner, T.A., Tollefson, W., Mann, A., Quinn, M., & Pienkowski, S. (2021). Rurality and COVID-19 in Tennessee: Assessing and Communicating Pandemic Emergence and Transmission. Southeastern Geographer 61(3), 203-221. https://doi.org/10.1353/sgo.2021.0016