2024 Emergency Management Association of Tennessee Spring Conference & Workshop (Murfreesboro, TN):

Co-Presenter: The 2023 Tennessee Hazard Mitigation Plan Update: An Overview of the Risk and Vulnerability Assessments for Climatological Hazards

2022 Appalachian Student Research Forum (East Tennessee State University):
Faculty Advisor: Emergency management service(s) endorsement for first generational students: Understanding, validating, and promoting vulnerable population inclusivity on university campuses (Tisinger, Ward, & Harris)

24th Undergraduate Research Exposition – Research and Scholarship Conference:
Faculty Advisor: Enhanced Priority Risk Index comparison with the Priority Risk Index in emergency and disaster management (Miller & Harris)

24th Undergraduate Research Exposition – Research and Scholarship Conference:
Faculty Advisor: Emergency management service(s) endorsement for first generational students: Understanding, validating, and promoting vulnerable population inclusivity on university campuses (Tisinger, Ward, & Harris)

2022 American Association of Geographers (AAG) Conference (New York, NY – Virtual):
Co-Presenter: Comparison of the Enhanced Priority Risk Index with the Priority Risk Index in hazard mitigation planning (Harris, Miller, & Rohli)

2021 American Association of Geographers (AAG) Conference (Seattle, WA – Virtual):
Co-Presenter: Tropical cyclone induced storm surge and relative sea level rise modeling in the Lower Mississippi River Industrial Corridor (Harris, Joyner, & Rohli)

2018 SouthEastern Division of the American Association of Geographers (SEDAAG) Conference (Johnson City, TN):
Co-Presenter: Fusing advanced geospatial technologies with data-driven hazard mitigation planning: An emerging framework for developing improved risk and vulnerability assessments (Harris, Tollefson, Joyner, & Worley)

2018 American Association of Geographers (AAG) Conference (New Orleans, LA):
Co-Presenter: Modification of the priority risk index: Adapting to Emergency Management Accreditation Program standards for institutes of higher learning hazard mitigation plans (Joyner, Tollefson, Bartlett, Hart, & Harris)

2018 Appalachian Student Research Forum (East Tennessee State University):
Presenter: The impact of subsidence on industrial complexes in the Lower Mississippi River Industrial Corridor (Harris, Joyner, & Rohli)

*First Place, Doctoral Natural Sciences Oral Presentation

2017 SouthEastern Division of the American Association of Geographers (SEDAAG) Conference (Starksville, MS):
Co-Presenter: Risk assessments and mapping for universities: Hazard mitigation in higher education (Joyner, Tollefson, Harris, & Worley)

2017 American Association of Geographers (AAG) Conference (Boston, MA):
Co-Presenter: Effects of subsidence and sea level rise on coastal storm surge inundation, extent, and economic loss along the United States Gulf Coast (Reeves, Deegan, Harris, & Joyner)

2017 American Association of Geographers (AAG) Conference (Boston, MA):
Co-Presenter: GIS in hazard mitigation planning: The synergistic intersection of interdisciplinary research (Tollefson, Joyner, Harris, Archer, Deegan, Jones, Rose, O’Brien, & Worley)

2017 American Association of Geographers (AAG) Conference (Boston, MA):
Co-Presenter: Comparison of inverse distance weighted interpolation and kriging methods in estimating subsidence rates in the Lower Mississippi River Industrial Corridor (Harris, Joyner, & Rohli)

2016 SouthEastern Division of the American Association of Geographers (SEDAAG) Conference (Columbia, SC):
Co-Presenter: Extreme rainfall climatology for the Tri-Cities region of Tennessee (Tollefson, Joyner, & Harris)

2016 SouthEastern Division of the American Association of Geographers (SEDAAG) Conference (Columbia, SC):
Co-Presenter: Climate research, education, and extension: Developing a state climate office in Tennessee (Joyner, Tollefson, & Harris)

2016 SouthEastern Division of the American Association of Geographers (SEDAAG) Conference (Columbia, SC):
Co-Presenter: Hazard mitigation planning meets higher education (Harris, Joyner, Tollefson, Worley, Archer, Deegan, Jones, & Rose)

2016 American Association of Geographers (AAG) Conference (San Francisco, CA):
Co-Presenter: Applications of Hazus-MH risk assessment tools for parish hazard mitigation plans (Harris & Mitchell)

2015 SouthEastern Division of the American Association of Geographers (SEDAAG) Conference (Pensacola, FL):
Co-Presenter: Point-pattern analysis of Nashville, Tennessee robberies: It’s all about that kernel (Luffman, Joyner, & Harris)

2015 American Association of Geographers (AAG) Conference (Chicago, IL):
Presenter: Preparing a small town for a hazardous materials incident: An examination of evacuation routing algorithms and plume models (Harris, Gregg, Joyner, & Luffman)

2014 Appalachian Student Research Forum (East Tennessee State University):
Co-Presenter: Evacuation and shelter in place modeling for a release of uranium hexafluoride (Harris, Gregg, & Joyner)

*First Place, Group B (Natural Sciences) Graduate Students, Master’s Candidates

2013 Appalachian Student Research Forum (East Tennessee State University):
Co-Presenter: A statistical and GIS approach to analyzing a museum’s customer base (Harris & Chen)