Preliminary Meeting

Today I meet with Dr. Shumway and we discussed potential areas of research that would benefit both of our interests. I was impressed with how accommodating he was for me. He outlined a few activities to get me started

1. Annotated Biliography
Pertaining to articles that I found about natural hazards -- seeking to answer questions like: Where the field is now? What has been done? What are they doing now?
2. Natural Hazards -- Subdiscipline Concept Map
Different parts of the discipline linking them to articles reflecting their ideas. How does it all fit together?
3. Write background paper on Natural Hazards Research
Looking at the current state of the field of Natural Hazard research

Overall Goal: Co-author a paper together relating to both Natural Hazards and Population Geography. Help me narrow down possible thesis questions/topics

Due Date: End of October