Assistant Professor
Cat Edgeley is a natural resource sociologist researching how human communities interact with wildfire risk and impacts. She has several foci under this topic, including public support or opposition for fuels treatments, evacuation planning and behavior, community recovery after wildfire, community experiences with post-fire flooding, policy design and implementation, and health impacts associated with wildfire. Collectively, these efforts seek to support community wildfire adaptation across varied social and ecological contexts and leverage partnerships with land management agencies, non-government organizations, and local leaders to co-produce pathways forward. Cat earned a Ph.D. in Natural Resources from the University of Idaho, and an MSc in Environmental Hazards and Risk and a BSc Geography from Durham University, UK.