Since 2012 I have served as a Visiting Professor with the Program in Risk Management and Emergency Response within the Central American School of Geology, Department of Seismology, Volcanology and Geophysical Research at the University of Costa Rica. At the University of Costa Rica I was hosted by Dr. Gabriela Marin Raventos, the Dean of Graduate Studies, Dr. Mauricio Mora Fernandez, the Coordinator for the National Seismology Network and the Chair of the School of Geology, Department of Seismology, Volcanology and Geophysical Research, and by Dr. Elena Badilla Coto, the Director of the Graduate Program in Risk Management and Emergency Response.
At the University of Costa Rica, with support of the Costa Rican National Emergency Commission, a new interdisciplinary Master’s degree has been created, which is focused on Risk Management and Emergency Response. This Master’s degree is the only one of its kind in Costa Rica and has the goal of producing a cadre of professional risk and emergency managers for the country. I taught a graduate course in this new interdisciplinary Master’s Program at the University of Costa Rica. The course was entitled “Information Technologies and Risk Management and Emergency Response.”
Julio Ortiz, PhD. May 2008, Title, “The Perceived Impact Of Municipal Wireless Broadband Networks On The Digital Divide: A Tale Of Five Cities
Nicolai Pogrebnyakov, PhD, 2008, “Internationalization of Mobile Network Operators: Institutional Distance, Regional Effects and Country Factors”
Annemijn Van Gorp, PhD, 2008, “Increasing Regulatory Capacity: The Role of the Region in Shaping National ICT Policy in Southern Africa”
Ankur Tarnacha, PhD, 2008, “The Impact of Platform Certification on a Platform-Based Product Market: The Case of Mobile Applications”
Michael Tyworth, PhD. May 2010,Title, “Policing–Reflections Of Identity: How Information Systems Reflect The Organization As A Social Actor,”
Kartikeya Bajpai, MS August 2011, Title, “Investigating Collective Action Events Through Twitter Usage: The Case Of The Thai Protests Of 2010,”
Louis-Marie Ngamassi Tchouakeu, PhD, 2011, “Humanitarian Information Management Network Effectiveness: An Analysis at the Organizational and Network Levels”
Matthew Lesnieweski, MS May 2014, Title, “Monitoring Human Trafficking in Displaced Populations,” Current Position, National Security Administration.
Kathleen Moore, PhD. August 2014, Title, “Scrutiny On The Bounty: Extending Situational Crisis Communication Theory,” Current Position, Assistant Professor Mercyhurst University.
Edward Ruiz, MS. May 2015, Title, Collaborative Risk Management between Government, Schools and Community Using Information Systems, University of Costa Rica. Position PREVENTEC.
Nicolas LaLone, PhD. August 2017, Title, “ Simulating Reality: The Translation Process form the Real to the Virtual,”
Shane Halse, PhD. May 2018, Title. “ Enabling Event Detection in Social Media for Crisis Response.”
Rob Grace, PhD. August 2018, Title, “Coproducing Risk: Engaging Citizens And Social Media In Community Emergency Management.”
Mark Campbell, PhD. August 2018, Title, “Military aided Refinement and Display of Crowdsourced Data on a Crisis Management COP,”
Eric Obeysekare, PhD, 2018, “Entrepreneurship in Developing Economices: The Case of Rwanda”
Dan Hellman, PhD, 2019, “Collaborative Analytics in Humanitarian Action and Response”
Ying Xu, PhD, 2019, “Mobile ICT use by Refugees”
Prassana Umar, PhD. May 2020 “Mobile Technologies and Crisis Response in Developing Countries.”
Richard Caneba, PhD, 2020, “Mobile Technology and Mobility: Comparison of Mobile ICT use between Displacement and Nomadic Societies”
Jessika Turner, PhD, May 2021. “Social Media and Crisis Response for Man-made Events.”
Title: CHS: Small: Collaborative Research: Automating Relevance and Trust Detection in Social Media Data for Emergency Response, Funding Source: National Science Foundation, Cyber-Human Systems, 1526542 and 1526678, $250,000.00, Andrea Tapia with Anna Squicciarini and Cornelia Caragea, Date: September 2015 to August 2018
Title: CRISP Type 2/Collaborative Research: Resilience Analytics: A Data-Driven Approach for Enhanced Interdependent Network Resilience, Funding Source: National Science Foundation, CRISP (Critical Resilient Interdependent Infrastructure Systems and Processes), 1541155, $827,171.00, Andrea Tapia with Jessica Kropczynski, Kash Barker, James H Lambert, Laura McLay, Charles D Nicholson, Jose Emmanuel Ramirez-Marquez, Cornelia Caragea and Chris Zobel, Date: October 2015 to August 2018
Title: Scaling 911 Texting for Large-Scale Disasters: Developing Practical Technical Innovations for Emergency Management at Public Universities, Funding Source: College of IST—Seed Funding $10,000, Andrea Tapia with Nikolas Giacobe, Date: January 2015 to June 2015
Title: RAPID: Socio-technical systems and Big Data Analytics in the Ebola Response, Funding Source: National Science Foundation, Cyber-Human Systems (CHS), 1519023, $99,000.00, Andrea Tapia with Carleen Maitland and Vasant Honavar, Date: December 2014 to December 2015
Title: AURORASAURUS Citizen Scientists Experiencing the Extremes of Space Weather, Funding Source: National Science Foundation Space Weather Research, Div Atmospheric & Geospace Sciences, INSPIRE, 1344296, $998,957 Andrea Tapia with Liz MacDonald and Michelle Hall, Date: November 2013 to November 2015
Title: EAGER: Collaborative Research: Establishing Trustworthy-Citizen-Created Data for Disaster Response and Humanitarian Action, Funding Source: National Science Foundation. Cyber-Human Systems (CHS), 1353400, $140.00, Andrea Tapia with Anna Squicciarini and Cornelia Caragea, Date: August 2013 to August 2014
Title: Improving Emergency Preparedness and Response in Costa Rica through Law, Coordination and Technologies, Funding Source: The J. William Fulbright Scholarship Board and the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, $40,000, Andrea Tapia, Date: January 2012 to July 2012
Title: RAPID: Text Message-based Infrastructure for Emergency Response, Funding Source: National Science Foundation, Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS), 1026763, $75,000, Andrea Tapia with John Yen, Jim Jansen, Prasenjit Mitra and Lee Giles Date: March 2010 to March 2011
Title: DRU: Inter-organizational Decision Making and Organization Design for Improved ICT Coordination in Disaster Relief, Funding Source: National Science Foundation, Civil, Mechnical, and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI), 0624219, $748,881.00, Andrea Tapia with Carleen Maitland, Benita Beamon and John Yen Date: January 2007 to January 2010
Title: NeTS: Medium: Collaborative Research: TribalNet: Expanding Internet Accessibility and Participation on Native American Reservations, Funding Source: National Science Foundation, Computer and Network Systems (CNS), 1562443, $108,333.00, Carleen Maitland, Date: July 2016 to June 2019
Title: Workshop on Robust Socio-technical Architectures in Support of Displaced Persons, Funding Source: National Science Foundation, Computer and Network Systems (CNS), 1343520, $49,453.00, Carleen Maitland with Elizabeth Belding, Date: September 2013 to August 2016
Title: Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Development of a National Broadband Research Agenda, Funding Source: National Science Foundation, Computer and Network Systems (CNS), 1637540, $76,145.00, Carleen Maitland with Krishna Jayakar, Date: May 2016 to April 2018
Title: US-Jordan planning visit: Integrated wireless and geographic information infrastructure for security in a multi-organizational context, Funding Source: National Science Foundation, Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE), 1427873, $26,763.00, Carleen Maitland with Elizabeth Belding and Brian Tomaszewski, Date: October 2014 to September 2016