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Vanessa Parks

Associate Sociologist
RAND Corporation
vparks@rand.org

Consortium for Resilient Gulf Communities (CRGC)

RFP-IV
Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI)

Panacea or Pandora’s Box: Coastal Restoration and Recreational Fishing Livelihoods in Salt Marshes of Coastal Louisiana

Louisiana salt marshes provide nearly 1.2 billion pounds of seafood each year, and they remain a popular destination for sport fishing. The distribution and abundance of fish are typically synchronized with freshwater inflow patterns to the marshes. However, it remains unclear whether human activities and natural processes may affect those patterns – and the predictability of fishing forecasts. This project seeks to understand the effects of freshwater inputs into salt marsh ecosystems; and how those activities affect behaviors and livelihoods of the recreational fishing industry. To date, studies focusing on recreational fishing in salt marshes have only considered the effects of human activities on salt marshes. By contrast, this project will assess how human activities and natural processes interact, by combining empirical knowledge, fish distribution and abundance data, and environmental parameters. Model outputs from this project will help predict how ecological and socioeconomic changes affect livelihoods of recreational fishing communities.

Healthy Ecosystems 4
National Academies of Science, Engineering, Medicine: Gulf Research Program
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Literature review of carbon and nitrogen stable isotope values from taxa collected within and around Barataria Bay, Louisiana

Authors:
Identified On: Mar 03 2022 18:18 UTC
DOI: 10.7266/TE8TATHR
UDI: H4.x956.000:0001
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Survey of Recreational Fishers (SuRF)

Authors:
Identified On: Mar 04 2022 18:26 UTC
DOI: 10.7266/646NFN3Y
UDI: H4.x956.000:0002
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Socioeconomic Indicators in the LA Coastal Zone

Authors:
Identified On: Apr 07 2022 19:06 UTC
DOI: 10.7266/DPWGSMJB
UDI: H4.x956.000:0003
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Water parameters, catch per unit effort (CPUE), gut contents, and carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur stable isotope values of spotted seatrout (Cynoscion nebulosus) from Barataria Bay, Louisiana, 2003-05-20 to 2004-05-18

Authors: MacRae, Pamela S.D., Micah Russell, James H. Cowan Jr., Brian Fry, Sydney Moyo, and Michael J. Polito
Published On: Mar 06 2024 22:14 UTC
File Format: xlsx
DOI: 10.7266/jcdnhpf6
UDI: H4.x956.000:0004
File Size: 55.89 KB
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Louisiana seafood production data, 2002-2014

Authors: Craig Bond, Shanti Nataraj, Jaqueline Fiore
Published On: Mar 20 2017 21:46 UTC
File Format: csv
DOI: 10.7266/N70V8B6W
UDI: R4.x266.000:0001
File Size: 32.03 KB
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2016 Community Health Worker Client Interaction Forms, Alabama and Louisiana

Authors: J. Steven Picou, Ph.D; Keith Nicholls, Ph.D; Selena C. McCord, MPH; Bria Means, BA; Alyssa Wood, BA
Published On: Jun 30 2017 14:20 UTC
File Format: csv, txt
DOI: 10.7266/N7TM78HR
UDI: R4.x266.000:0002
File Size: 585.26 KB
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2016 Community Health Worker Group Interaction Forms, Alabama and Louisiana

Authors: J. Steven Picou, Ph.D; Keith Nicholls, Ph.D; Selena C. McCord, MPH; Bria Means, BA; Alyssa Wood, BA
Published On: Jun 30 2017 14:45 UTC
File Format: csv, txt
DOI: 10.7266/N7HQ3X86
UDI: R4.x266.000:0003
File Size: 125.97 KB
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2016 Community Health Workers' Quarterly Activity and Evaluation Forms, Alabama and Louisiana

Authors: J. Steven Picou, Ph.D; Keith Nicholls, Ph.D; Selena C. McCord, MPH; Bria Means, BA; Alyssa Wood, BA
Published On: Jul 17 2017 20:07 UTC
File Format: csv, txt
DOI: 10.7266/N7ZS2TVX
UDI: R4.x266.000:0004
File Size: 185.66 KB
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2016 Community Health Worker Supervisor Quarterly Evaluation Forms, Alabama and Louisiana

Authors: J. Steven Picou, Ph.D; Keith Nicholls, Ph.D; Selena C. McCord, MPH; Bria Means, BA; Alyssa Wood, BA
Published On: Jul 17 2017 20:35 UTC
File Format: csv, txt
DOI: 10.7266/N7959FXT
UDI: R4.x266.000:0005
File Size: 72.73 KB
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2017 Community Health Worker Client Interaction Forms, Alabama and Louisiana

Authors: J. Steven Picou, Ph.D; Keith Nicholls, Ph.D; Selena C. McCord, MPH; Bria Means, BA; Alyssa Wood, BA
Published On: Dec 04 2017 17:33 UTC
File Format: csv, txt
DOI: 10.7266/N7SN07DC
UDI: R4.x266.000:0006
File Size: 419.41 KB
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2017 Community Health Worker Group Interaction Forms, Alabama and Louisiana

Authors: J. Steven Picou, Ph.D; Keith Nicholls, Ph.D; Selena C. McCord, MPH; Bria Means, BA; Alyssa Wood, BA
Published On: Dec 05 2017 21:13 UTC
File Format: csv, txt
DOI: 10.7266/N7NV9GP3
UDI: R4.x266.000:0007
File Size: 91.61 KB
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2017 Community Health Workers' Quarterly Activity and Evaluation Forms, Alabama and Louisiana

Authors: J. Steven Picou, Ph.D; Keith Nicholls, Ph.D; Selena C. McCord, MPH; Bria Means, BA; Alyssa Wood, BA
Published On: Feb 16 2018 15:56 UTC
File Format: csv, txt
DOI: 10.7266/N7J38R0J
UDI: R4.x266.000:0008
File Size: 152.95 KB
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2017 Community Health Worker Supervisor Quarterly Evaluation Forms, Alabama and Louisiana

Authors: J. Steven Picou, Ph.D; Keith Nicholls, Ph.D; Selena C. McCord, MPH; Bria Means, BA; Alyssa Wood, BA
Published On: Feb 16 2018 16:17 UTC
File Format: csv, txt
DOI: 10.7266/N7DB809N
UDI: R4.x266.000:0009
File Size: 61.51 KB
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2017 Community Health Worker Evaluation Retreat

Authors: J. Steven Picou, Ph.D; Keith Nicholls, Ph.D; Selena C. McCord, MPH; Bria Means, BA
Published On: Dec 21 2017 15:31 UTC
File Format: csv, txt
DOI: 10.7266/N7WW7G4P
UDI: R4.x266.000:0010
File Size: 644.05 KB
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In-person disaster preparedness and resilience survey in three Gulf Coast communities

Authors: Amy Lesen
Published On: Feb 25 2019 20:21 UTC
File Format: txt, docx
DOI: 10.7266/n7-h9ty-ce44
UDI: R4.x266.000:0011
File Size: 417.46 KB
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Louisiana Commercial Landings, Value and Trips Data from 1999 to 2015

Authors: Shanthi Nataraj
Published On: Aug 19 2019 16:44 UTC
File Format: csv, txt
DOI: 10.7266/n7-7r5k-vh77
UDI: R4.x266.000:0012
File Size: 874.53 KB
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Survey of Trauma, Resilience, and Opportunity among Neighborhoods in the Gulf (STRONG) II, Texas

Authors: Melissa Finucane
Published On: Mar 17 2020 18:43 UTC
File Format: csv, txt
DOI: 10.7266/1D4HS43N
UDI: R4.x266.000:0013
File Size: 135.53 KB
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Survey of Trauma, Resilience, and Opportunity among Neighborhoods in the Gulf (STRONG) II: Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi

Authors: Melissa Finucane
Published On: Mar 17 2020 16:09 UTC
File Format: csv, txt
DOI: 10.7266/6QDWMGMK
UDI: R4.x266.000:0014
File Size: 312.99 KB
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Consortium for Resilient Gulf Communities (CRGC) collaboration perceptions survey data from 2015 to 2019

Authors: Melissa Finucane
Published On: Jul 02 2020 21:49 UTC
File Format: csv, txt
DOI: 10.7266/8HT54M0V
UDI: R4.x266.000:0015
File Size: 24.66 KB
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Survey of Trauma, Resilience, and Opportunity among Neighborhoods in the Gulf (STRONG) III

Authors:
Identified On: Dec 22 2024 03:16 UTC
DOI:
UDI: R4.x266.000:0016
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Survey of Trauma, Resilience, and Opportunity among Neighborhoods in the Gulf (STRONG)

Authors: Finucane, Melissa, Matthew R. Lee, and Rajeev Ramchand
Published On: Aug 10 2018 16:23 UTC
File Format: txt, csv
DOI: 10.7266/N76971Z0
UDI: R4.x266.199:0001
File Size: 2.82 MB
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NOAA Commercial Fisheries Landings 1990-2014

Authors: Craig Bond, Shanti Nataraj, Jaqueline Fiore
Published On: May 03 2017 14:18 UTC
File Format: csv
DOI: 10.7266/N7JM2813
UDI: R4.x266.200:0001
File Size: 16.71 MB
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Survey data on risk communication, Alabama and Louisiana

Authors: Melissa Finucane, Brent Venable
Published On: Jul 02 2020 20:42 UTC
File Format: csv, txt
DOI: 10.7266/n7-ma74-qj28
UDI: R4.x266.202:0001
File Size: 52.16 KB

Ayer, L., Engel, C., Parker, A., Seelam, R., & Ramchand, R. (2018). Behavioral Health of Gulf Coast Residents 6 Years After the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: The Role of Trauma History. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, 1–7. doi:10.1017/dmp.2018.84

Drakeford, L., Parks, V., Slack, T., Ramchand, R., Finucane, M., & Lee, M. R. (2019). Oil Spill Disruption and Problem Drinking: Assessing the Impact of Religious Context among Gulf Coast Residents. Population Research and Policy Review. doi:10.1007/s11113-019-09520-7

Finucane, M., Clark-Ginsberg, A., Parker, A., Becerra-Ornelas, A., Clancy, N., Ramchand, R., … Black, A. B. (2020). Building Community Resilience to Large Oil Spills: Findings and Recommendations from a Synthesis of Research on the Mental Health, Economic, and Community Distress Associated with the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. doi:10.7249/rra409-1

Lesen, A., Tucker, C., Olson, M., & Ferreira, R. (2019). “Come Back at Us”: Reflections on Researcher-Community Partnerships during a Post-Oil Spill Gulf Coast Resilience Study. Social Sciences, 8(1), 8. doi:10.3390/socsci8010008

Liddell, J. L., Saltzman, L. Y., Ferreira, R. J., & Lesen, A. E. (2020). Cumulative disaster exposure, gender and the protective action decision model. Progress in Disaster Science, 5, 100042. doi:10.1016/j.pdisas.2019.100042

Lightfoot, E. S., Lesen, A. E., & Ferreira, R. J. (2020). Gender and resilience in Gulf Coast communities: Risk and protective factors following a technological disaster. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 50, 101716. doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101716

Parker, A. M., Edelman, A. F., Carman, K. G., & Finucane, M. L. (2019). On the Need for Prospective Disaster Survey Panels. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, 1–3. doi:10.1017/dmp.2019.94

Parker, A. M., Finucane, M. L., Ayer, L., Ramchand, R., Parks, V., & Clancy, N. (2019). Persistent Risk‐Related Worry as a Function of Recalled Exposure to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Prior Trauma. Risk Analysis. doi:10.1111/risa.13437

Parks, V., Slack, T., Ramchand, R., Drakeford, L., Finucane, M. L., & Lee, M. R. (2019). Fishing Households, Social Support, and Depression after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. Rural Sociology. doi:10.1111/ruso.12297

Patel, M., Saltzman, L., Ferreira, R., & Lesen, A. (2018). Resilience: Examining the Impacts of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on the Gulf Coast Vietnamese American Community. Social Sciences, 7(10), 203. doi:10.3390/socsci7100203

Petrun Sayers, PhD, E. L., Parker, PhD, A. M., Ramchand, PhD, R., Finucane, PhD, M. L., Parks, MA, V., & Seelam, MPH, R. (2019). Reaching vulnerable populations in the disaster-prone US Gulf Coast: Communicating across the crisis lifecycle. Journal of Emergency Management, 17(4), 271–286. doi:10.5055/jem.2019.0426

Ramchand, R., Seelam, R., Parks, V., Ghosh-Dastidar, B., Lee, M. R., & Finucane, M. (2019). Exposure to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Associated Resource Loss, and Long-Term Mental and Behavioral Outcomes. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, 1–9. doi:10.1017/dmp.2019.3

Slack, T., Parks, V., Ayer, L., Parker, A. M., Finucane, M. L., & Ramchand, R. (2020). Natech or natural? An analysis of hazard perceptions, institutional trust, and future storm worry following Hurricane Harvey. Natural Hazards. doi:10.1007/s11069-020-03953-6