Dr. Carson MacPherson-Krutsky

Research Associate

Location: Remote
Email: carsonmacpherson@u.boisestate.edu
Personal Webpage:
Carson’s website

• Effective Hazard and Risk Communication Strategies
• Risk Perception
• Science Communication

Carson MacPherson-Krutsky is a research associate at the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado Boulder. She uses social science methods to investigate what motivates people to take protective actions and which risk communication styles are most effective. MacPherson-Krutsky is also interested in creating multimedia products (e.g., infographics, websites, videos, workshops) that convey technical information in user-friendly ways. She is passionate about making connections across disciplines, sectors, and with community members to ensure that research can help support real world decision-making in communities of all shapes, sizes, and backgrounds.

Carson is the co-founder of the Boise State Hazard and Climate Resilience Institute and is interested in collaborating across disciplines to create inventive solutions to science policy issues, specifically natural disasters and public preparedness. Topics of interest include stakeholder engagement, storytelling and science, disaster preparedness, qualitative and quantitative research methods.

• Natural Hazards Center
• USACE
• Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

• Hazard Ready, LLC
• University of Montana