Ann Bostrom
· Weyerhaeuser Endowed Professor in Environmental PolicyUniversity of Washington · Public Policy and Management
Active 1990–2026
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About
Ann Bostrom is the Weyerhaeuser Endowed Professor in Environmental Policy at the Evans School of Public Policy & Governance at the University of Washington. She joined the Evans School faculty in 2007 and her research focuses on risk perception, communication, and management; environmental policy; and decision making under uncertainty. Prior to her current position, she served on the faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology from 1992 to 2007, where she was Associate Dean for Research at the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts and a Professor in the School of Public Policy. Bostrom co-directed the Decision Risk and Management Science Program at the National Science Foundation from 1999 to 2001, organizing and participating in national and international meetings on research and science policy. She has authored numerous publications and serves on editorial boards for risk analysis journals. Her work has been funded by agencies such as the NSF, EPA, and NIH. Bostrom holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy Analysis from Carnegie Mellon University, an M.B.A. from Western Washington University, and a B.A. in English from the University of Washington. She has completed postdoctoral studies in Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University and in cognitive survey methodology at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. She is an elected fellow of the AAAS, WSAS, and the Society for Risk Analysis, and has served as past president of the Society for Risk Analysis. Currently, she serves…
Research topics
- Computer Science
- Political Science
- Geography
- Computer Security
- Environmental resource management
- Data science
- Engineering
- Business
- Economics
- World Wide Web
Selected publications
Evidence-based guidelines for protective actions and earthquake early warning systems
Geophysics · 2021 · 96 citations
ABSTRACT Earthquake early warning (EEW) systems are becoming increasingly available or are in development throughout the world. As these systems develop, it is important to provide evidence-based recommendations for protective action so people know how to protect themselves when they receive an alert. However, many factors need to be considered when developing contextually relevant and appropriate recommendations. We have reviewed earthquake injury reports, protective action and communication th…
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction · 2020 · 92 citations
As ShakeAlert, the earthquake early warning system for the West Coast of the U.S., begins its transition to operational public alerting, we explore how post-alert messaging might represent system performance. Planned post-alert messaging can provide timely, crucial information to both emergency managers and ShakeAlert operators as well as calibrate expectations among various publics or public user groups and inform their responses to future alerts. There is a concern among the scientists and eme…
Research Needs, Challenges, and Strategic Approaches for Natural Hazards and Disaster Reconnaissance
Frontiers in Built Environment · 2020 · 74 citations
Natural hazards and disaster reconnaissance investigations have provided many lessons for the research and practice communities and have greatly improved our scientific understanding of extreme events. Yet, many challenges remain for these communities, including improving our ability to model hazards, make decisions in the face of uncertainty, enhance community resilience, and mitigate risk. State-of-the-art instrumentation and mobile data collection applications have significantly advanced the…
Risk Analysis · 2023-11-08 · 50 citations
articleOpen access1st authorCorrespondingDemands to manage the risks of artificial intelligence (AI) are growing. These demands and the government standards arising from them both call for trustworthy AI. In response, we adopt a convergent approach to review, evaluate, and synthesize research on the trust and trustworthiness of AI in the environmental sciences and propose a research agenda. Evidential and conceptual histories of research on trust and trustworthiness reveal persisting ambiguities and measurement shortcomings related to…
Natural Hazards Reconnaissance With the NHERI RAPID Facility
Frontiers in Built Environment · 2020 · 41 citations
In 2016 NSF funded an interdisciplinary multi-institutions team to develop and operate the Natural Hazards Reconnaissance Facility (known as the “RAPID”) as part of the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) program. To enable support of state of the art natural hazard reconnaissance research, the RAPID facility’s instrumentation portfolio and operational plan were developed over the following two years. Input was gathered from the natural hazards engineering community, the…
Recent grants
NSF · $649k · 2020–2024
NSF · $146k · 2008–2012
Frequent coauthors
- 39 shared
Amy McGovern
University of Oklahoma
- 32 shared
David John Gagne
NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
- 32 shared
Baruch Fischhoff
Carnegie Mellon University
- 32 shared
Imme Ebert‐Uphoff
- 29 shared
Andrea Schumacher
- 28 shared
Geoffrey Evans
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
- 27 shared
Randy J. Chase
Colorado State University
- 26 shared
L. Ball
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
Education
- 1990
Ph.D. in Policy Analysis, H. John Heinz III College
Carnegie Mellon University
- 1986
M.B.A., Business School
Western Washington University
Awards & honors
- American Statistical Association/National Science Foundation…
- Fulbright Graduate Research Fellowship (1989-90)
- Lois Roth Endowment Fund grant for studies at the University…
- Patricia Roberts Harris Fellowship at Carnegie Mellon (1988-…
- 2020 Distinguished Educator award from the Society for Risk…
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