Andrea Schumacher has been a Research Associate at CIRA since 2006. Her primary research areas are tropical cyclones, next-generation satellites, forecaster training, and societal impacts of weather.
She is an experienced atmospheric science researcher who has been developing forecast guidance products for over 15 years. Several of the products she has co-developed are used regularly by operational forecasters around the world. She has a solid record of obtaining competitive funding for applied research and development, having served as PI on over a dozen grants. She’s led numerous research teams and have ample experience managing budgets, staffing, and accounting for performance.
She has worked directly with NWS forecasters as a product developer and liaison, which has helped me develop trusting working relationships with operational partners. She thrives working with interdisciplinary teams to solve real-world problems! Her most recent interdisciplinary collaborations include working on hurricane health impacts, risk communication, and assessing forecaster perceptions of AI.
REFEREED PUBLICATIONS (LAST 5 YEARS):
Anderson, G. B., Schumacher, and J. M. Done: Exposure assessment for tropical cyclone epidemiology. Current Environmental Health Reports, In Review.
Anderson, G. B., Schumacher, J. M. Done, and J. Hurrell: Projecting the impacts of a changing climate: Tropical cyclones & flooding. Current Environmental Health Reports, In Review.
Nethery, R. C., N. Katz-Christy, M. Kioumourtzoglou, R. M. Parks, Schumacher, and G. B. Anderson, 2021: Integrated causal-predictive machine learning models for tropical cyclone epidemiology, Biostatistics, https://doi.org/10.1093/biostatistics/kxab047.
Anderson G. B., J. Ferreri, M. Al-Hamdan, W. Crosson, Schumacher, S. Guikema, S. Quiring, D. Eddelbuettel, M. Yan, and R. D. Peng, 2020: Assessing United States county-level exposure for research on tropical cyclones and human health. Environmental Health Perspectives. 128(10), https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP6976.
Yan, M., A. Wilson, S. Magzamen, F. Dominici, Y. Yang, M. Al-Hamdan, W. Crosson, Schumacher, S. Guikema, R. Peng, and G. B. Anderson, 2020: Tropical cyclone exposures and risks of emergency Medicare hospital admission for cardiorespiratory diseases in 175 United States counties, 1999–2010. Epidemiology. 32(3), 315-326, https://doi.org/10.1097/EDE.0000000000001337.
Bhatia, K. T., D. S. Nolan, M. DeMaria, and B. Schumacher, 2017: Improving Tropical Cyclone Intensity Forecasts with PRIME, Wea. Forecasting, 32(4), 1353-1377.