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Dr. Frankenberg’s research focuses on individual and family response to change across the life course and the role of community in individual behaviors and outcomes while also working toward understanding how survival and physical and psychosocial health evolve after exposure to large-scale shocks.
“We try to stay on the cutting edge of data collection technologies and expand the ways we collect data to tap into some of those technologies,” she said.
Frankenberg is working to design a survey to analyze data from flooded areas in eastern North Carolina. Over the past five years, North Carolina has had several major hurricanes that involved significant property damage and long-term recovery. More information about where the water goes will provide a deeper understanding of the impacts of the hurricanes, according to Frankenberg.
“Our goal is to combine the techniques of survey methods, demography and economics, with geo-physical models of storm, surge, and flooding, and with remote sensing efforts,” said Frankenberg. “All to understand where water goes, in order to try to develop a more in-depth understanding of the impacts of hurricanes and also how people recover from them over time.”
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