Publications

• Becker, A.; Hippe, A.; McLean, E., (2017), Cost and Materials Required to Retrofit US Seaports in Response to Sea Level Rise: A Thought Exercise for Climate Response. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 5 (3), 44. DOI: 10.3390/jmse5030044.
• Becker, A., (2017), Using Boundary Objects to Stimulate Transformational Thinking: Storm Resilience for the Port of Providence. Sustainability Science. Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 477-501. DOI: 10.1007/s11625-016-0416-y.
• Becker, A., Chase, N., Fischer, M., Schwegler, B., Mosher, K., (2016), A method to estimate climate-critical construction materials applied to seaport protection. Global Environmental Change. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2016.07.008.
• Romelczyk, E.*, Becker, A. (2016), Missing the tide? Workplace cultural differences as a barrier to seafarer mobility in the U.S. workboat and sail training sectors. Maritime Policy and Management. (Nominated for Best Manuscript 2016) DOI: 10.1080/03088839.2016.1185182.
• Becker, Austin, Pamela Matson, Martin Fischer, and Michael D. Mastrandrea, Forthcoming. Towards Seaport Resilience for Climate Change Adaptation: Stakeholder Perceptions of Hurricane Impacts in Gulfport (MS) and Providence (RI) Progress in Planning. DOI: 10.1016/j.progress.2013.11.002.
• Touzinsky, K, Rosati, J., Fox-Lent, C., Becker, A., Luscher, A., 2016. Advancing Coastal Systems Resilience Research: Improving Quantification Tools through Community Feedback. Shore and Beach 84 No. 4 · November 2016.
• Spaulding, M. L., Grilli, A., Damon, C., Crean, T., Fugate, G., Oakley, B., & Stempel, P. (2016). Stormtools: Coastal Environmental Risk Index (CERI). Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 4(3). DOI: 10.3390/jmse4030054.

Conference Papers, Presentations, Theses

• Stempel, P., Becker, A. (2018). Perceptions of risk and legitimacy: how scenario selection and presentation of ocean models undermines disaster risk reduction. Paper presented at the ECM15, Estuarine and Coastal Modeling Conference, Seattle, WA, June 25-27, 2018.
• Witkop, R., Stempel, P., Becker, A. (2018). Incorporating facility manager knowledge into storm impact models: A case study of critical facilities in Westerly, Rhode Island. Oral presentation. 2018 Rhode Island Flood Mitigation Association Annual Conference. Smithfield, RI. Apr. 5, 2018.
• Witkop, R., Stempel, P., Becker, A., (2017). Coupling local scale, high resolution, qualitative data to interface with numerical storm models. Poster Presentation. American Geophysical Union Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA. December 12, 2017.
• Robadue, Donald D. and Dawn Kotowicz (2018). Understanding resistance to resilience in coastal hazards and climate adaptation: three approaches to visualizing structural and process obstacles, opportunities and adaptation responses. Submitted to the 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Disaster Information, Technology, and Resilience Mini-Track of the Digital Government Track, June 16, 2017.
• Becker, A., (2016). Findings from a port vulnerability assessment. Dept. of Homeland Security Center of Excellence for Coastal Resilience and University of North Carolina Maritime Risk Symposium University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Nov. 14-15, 2016.
• Becker, A., (2016). Inspiring leadership for Adaptation. North American Symposium on Climate Adaptation, New York, New York. Aug. 16-18, 2016.
• Becker, A., (2016). Inspiring resilience thinking for seaport systems. Transportation Research Board Conference for Committee on Maritime Transportation System (CMTS), National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, June 21-22, 2016.
• Becker, A., (2016). Inspiring resilience thinking for seaport systems. Green Ports for Blue Waters Conference, University of Rhode Island April 4-5, 2016.
• Green, W., Becker, A., (2016). Built environments and rising seas: Service learning recommendations for the future of the Port of Galilee. A presentation of student work resulting from a course on resilient planning, policy, and design. Keeping History Above Water Conference, Newport, Rhode Island, April 10-13, 2016.
• Becker, A. (2016). Hurricane Resilience and Impacts to Seaport Supply Chains. Invited Speaker for the 2016 Stu Clark Speaker Series at the University of Manitoba. March 4, 2016.
• McIntosh, R.*, Becker, A. (2016). Towards a Comparative Index of Seaport Climate-Risk: Development of Indicators from Open Data. Poster presentation at American Geophysical Union 2016 Ocean Sciences Meeting, New Orleans, LA, Feb. 21-26, 2016.
• Kretsch, E.*, Becker, A. (2016). Leadership and Responsibility for Long-term Hurricane Resilience: Stakeholder Perceptions in the Port of Providence, RI. Social Coast Conference. Charleston, SC, Feb. 11, 2016.
• Becker, A., Burroughs, R. (2016). More holistic planning for long-term coastal resilience?  Port of Providence Demonstration Project. Social Coast Conference. Charleston, SC, Feb. 10, 2016.