Mitchell Meads

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Department: School of the Environment
Email: mitchellmeads@boisestate.edu

• Community Resilience
• Socio-ecological Systems
• Environmental Management & Economics
• Risk Reduction Policy Evaluation
• Geospatial Modeling & Analysis

Mitchell Meads is an environmental management scientist who studies how natural and nature-based solutions can be embedded into communities through policy and project implementation to enhance community resilience. His research quantifies drivers of resilience within socio-ecological systems to evaluate the effectiveness of public policies and risk reduction strategies through geospatial models and cost-benefit analyses.

At the Hazard and Climate Resilience Institute (HCRI), Mitchell is collaborating with the Characterization and Modeling teams for the Treasure Valley under the Idaho Community-engaged Resilience for Energy-Water Systems (I-CREWS) project. His research will capture indicators of resilience in the Treasure Valley’s energy-water systems and inform alternative futures models to better prepare for climate-driven, population, and technological changes in the community. Additionally, Mitchell works with HCRI scholars on the development and implementation of the Idaho Resilience Tool. In his capacity at the HCRI, Mitchell leverages his research expertise to co-develop resilience and sustainability advancement strategies for the state of Idaho using an applied interdisciplinary approach.

While Mitchell is new to the state of Idaho, he is very excited to seize any opportunity to meet and collaborate with local scholars, communities, and decision-makers. The primary theme of his work is actionable research, and he refers to his role as a “pracademic” who believes bridging scholarly research to community issues and objectives is critical under changing social, environmental, and economic conditions. Please feel free email him if there are any shared interests and he looks forward to engaging with the diverse communities of Idaho!