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Earth Science

D-Index
36
Citations
5546
World Ranking
7169
National Ranking
734

Overview

Sarah M. Dunn is affiliated with the James Hutton Institute in the United Kingdom and has contributed to the field of engineering with a focus on topics including evacuation dynamics, disaster management, and infrastructure resilience. Their work spans disciplines such as ocean engineering, global and planetary change, transportation, sociology and political science, and civil and structural engineering.

Dunn's research prominently addresses areas such as evacuation and crowd dynamics, flood risk assessment and management, disaster management and resilience, infrastructure resilience and vulnerability analysis, emergency and acute care studies, transportation planning and optimization, and risk and safety analysis.

Their recent publications reflect a range of topics at the intersection of disaster risk, infrastructure systems, and emergency response. These include:

  • Improving human behaviour in macroscale city evacuation agent-based simulation (2021), International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
  • Consequence forecasting: A rational framework for predicting the consequences of approaching storms (2022), Climate Risk Management
  • The road to recovery: Understanding the challenges affecting school reconstruction in rural Nepal following the 2015 Gorkha earthquake (2021), International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
  • Development of an Adaptive Solution to Increase Infrastructure System Resilience Based upon a Location-Allocation Methodology (2020), Journal of Infrastructure Systems
  • Patient emergency health-care use before hospital admission for COVID-19 and long-term outcomes in Scotland: a national cohort study (2023), The Lancet Digital Health

Dunn has frequently published in venues such as the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction and the Abstracts with programs of the Geological Society of America. Other publication venues include Climate Risk Management, the Journal of Infrastructure Systems, and The Lancet Digital Health.

Their frequent coauthors include Sean Wilkinson, Beth Barnes, Christopher Pearson, Russell Adams, and Nicolas Kirchner-Bossi, with multiple collaborations particularly evident with Sean Wilkinson and Beth Barnes.

Best Publications

  • Moving beyond heterogeneity and process complexity: A new vision for watershed hydrology

    J J McDonnell;J J McDonnell;M Sivapalan;K Vache;S Dunn

  • How old is streamwater? Open questions in catchment transit time conceptualization, modelling and analysis

    J. J. McDonnell;J. J. McDonnell;K. McGuire;P. Aggarwal;K. J. Beven

  • How does landscape structure influence catchment transit time across different geomorphic provinces

    D. Tetzlaff;J. Seibert;K.J. McGuire;H. Laudon

  • Runoff processes, stream water residence times and controlling landscape characteristics in a mesoscale catchment: An initial evaluation

    Christopher Soulsby;Doerthe Tetzlaff;P. Rodgers;S. Dunn

  • Conceptualization of runoff processes using a geographical information system and tracers in a nested mesoscale catchment

    Doerthe Tetzlaff;Christopher Soulsby;S. Waldron;I. A. Malcolm

  • Influence of hydrology and seasonality on DOC exports from three contrasting upland catchments

    J. J. C. Dawson;C. Soulsby;D. Tetzlaff;M. Hrachowitz

  • Using long-term data sets to understand transit times in contrasting headwater catchments

    Markus Hrachowitz;Christopher Soulsby;Doerthe Tetzlaff;Julian James Charles Dawson

  • Identifying and assessing uncertainty in hydrological pathways: a novel approach to end member mixing in a Scottish agricultural catchment

    C. Soulsby;J. Petry;M.J. Brewer;S.M. Dunn

  • Towards a simple dynamic process conceptualization in rainfall–runoff models using multi-criteria calibration and tracers in temperate, upland catchments

    C. Birkel;C. Birkel;D. Tetzlaff;S. M. Dunn;C. Soulsby

  • Conceptualizing catchment processes: simply too complex?

    D. Tetzlaff;J. J. McDonnell;S. Uhlenbrook;K. J. McGuire

  • High‐frequency storm event isotope sampling reveals time‐variant transit time distributions and influence of diurnal cycles

    Christian Birkel;Christian Birkel;Christopher Soulsby;Doerthe Tetzlaff;Sarah Dunn

  • Using time domain and geographic source tracers to conceptualize streamflow generation processes in lumped rainfall-runoff models

    Christian Birkel;Doerthe Tetzlaff;Sarah M. Dunn;Chris Soulsby

  • Using tracers to upscale flow path understanding in mesoscale mountainous catchments: two examples from Scotland

    Christopher Soulsby;P J Rodgers;J Petry;D M Hannah

  • Factors influencing the residence time of catchment waters: A virtual experiment approach

    Sarah M. Dunn;Jeffrey J. McDonnell;Kellie B. Vaché

  • Scaling up and out in runoff process understanding: insights from nested experimental catchment studies

    Christopher Soulsby;Doerthe Tetzlaff;S. M. Dunn;S. Waldron

  • A tracer‐based assessment of hydrological pathways at different spatial scales in a mesoscale Scottish catchment

    Christopher Soulsby;P. Rodgers;R. Smart;Julian James Charles Dawson

  • Groundwater–surface‐water interactions in a braided river: a tracer‐based assessment

    P. Rodgers;C. Soulsby;J. Petry;I. A. Malcolm

  • Relationships between climate, water resources, land use and diffuse pollution and the significance of uncertainty in climate change

    S.M. Dunn;I. Brown;J. Sample;H. Post

  • Conceptualization in catchment modelling : simply learning?

    Sarah Dunn;J. Freer;M. Weiler;M. Weiler;M. J. Kirkby

  • Sequential extraction combined with isotope analysis as a tool for the investigation of lead mobilisation in soils: application to organic-rich soils in an upland catchment in Scotland.

    Jeffrey R. Bacon;John G. Farmer;Sarah M. Dunn;Margaret C. Graham

Frequent Co-Authors

Chris Soulsby
Chris Soulsby University of Aberdeen
Christian Birkel
Christian Birkel University of Costa Rica
Doerthe Tetzlaff
Doerthe Tetzlaff Leibniz Association
Allan Lilly
Allan Lilly James Hutton Institute
Jeffrey J. McDonnell
Jeffrey J. McDonnell University of Saskatchewan
John G. Farmer
John G. Farmer University of Edinburgh
Jan Seibert
Jan Seibert University of Zurich
Markus Weiler
Markus Weiler University of Freiburg
Kevin J. McGuire
Kevin J. McGuire Virginia Tech
Markus Hrachowitz
Markus Hrachowitz Delft University of Technology

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