Peer-Reviewed Publications

*Please email me directly at kathryn.mcconnell@ubc.ca if you would like to access a copy of any paywalled papers.

Ortiz, Luis, Christian Braneon, Radley Horton, Daniel Bader, Philip Orton, Vivien Gornitz, Bernice Rosenzweig et al. “NPCC4: Tail risk, climate drivers of extreme heat, and new methods for extreme event projections.” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (2024). Link.

McConnell, K., Fussell, E., DeWaard, J., Whitaker, S., Curtis, K.J., St. Denis, L., Balch, J., and Price, K. "Rare and highly destructive wildfires drive human migration in the U.S." Nature Communications (2024). Link.

DeWaard, J., Din, A., McConnell, K., and Fussell, E. “Population Change in Wildfire-Affected Areas in the United States: Evidence from U.S. Postal Service Residential Address Data.” Population Research and Policy Review (2024). Link.

McConnell, K. and Koslov, L. “Critically assessing the idea of wildfire managed retreat.” Environmental Research Letters (2024). Link.

McConnell, K. and Braneon, C.V. “Post-wildfire neighborhood change: evidence from the 2018 Camp Fire.” Landscape and Urban Planning (2024). Link.

McConnell, K., Mueller, J.T., Merdjanoff, A., Burow, P., and Farrell, J. “Informal Modes of Social Support among Residents of the Rural American West during the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Rural Sociology (2023). Link.

St. Denis, L.A., Short, K.C., McConnell, K., Cook, M.C., Mietkiewicz, N., Buckland, M., and Balch, J.K. “All-hazards dataset mined from the US National Incident Management System 1999–2020.” Scientific Data (2023). Link.

DeWaard, J., Fussell, E., Curtis, K.J, Whitaker, S.D., McConnell, K., Price, K., Soto, M., Castro, C.A. “Migration as a Vector of Economic Losses From Disaster-Affected Areas in the United States.” Demography (2023). Link.

Hyland, C., McConnell, K., DeYoung, E., and Curl, C. “Evaluating the accuracy of satellite-based methods to estimate residential proximity to agricultural crops.” Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology (2022). Link.

McConnell, K. “‘The Green New Deal’ as partisan cue: Evidence from a survey experiment in the rural U.S.” Environmental Politics (2022). Link.

Mueller, J.T., Merdjanoff, A., McConnell, K., Burow, P., and Farrell, J. “Elevated serious mental distress, economic disruption, and the COVID-19 pandemic in the rural American West.” Preventive Medicine 155 (2022). Link.

McConnell, K., Braneon, C., Glenn, E., Stamler, S., Mallen, E., Johnson, D.P., Pandya, R., Abramowitz, J., Fernandez, G. and Rosenzweig, C. “A quasi-experimental approach for evaluating the heat mitigation effects of green roofs in Chicago, Illinois.” Sustainable Cities and Society 76 (2022). Link.

Farrell, J., Burow, P.*, McConnell, K.*, Bayham, J., Whyte, K., and Koss, G. “Effects of land dispossession and forced migration on Indigenous peoples in North America.” Science 374, no. 6567 (2021). *Equal authorship contribution. Link.

Braneon, C., Field, R., Seto, E., Chen, K., McConnell, K., Robinson, L., and Richardson, S. “Towards Disentangling Lockdown-Driven Air Quality Changes in the Northeastern U.S.” Journal of Extreme Events (2021). Link.

DeWaard, J., Hauer, M., Fussell, E., Curtis, K.J., Whitaker, S., McConnell, K., Price, K., and Egan-Robertson. D. “User Beware: Concerning Findings from the post 2011-2012 U.S. Internal Revenue Service Migration Data.” Population Research and Policy Review (2021). Link.

Mueller, J. T., McConnell, K., Burow, P. B., Pofahl, K., Merdjanoff, A. A., and Farrell, J. “Impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on rural America.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2021). Link.

Li, Z.R., Xie, E., Crawford, F.W., Warren, J.L., McConnell, K., Copple, T., Johnson, T., and Gonsalves, G. “Suspected heroin-related overdose incidents in Cincinnati, Ohio: a spatiotemporal analysis.” PLoS Medicine 16, no. 11 (2019). Link.

Burow, P.B., McConnell, K., and Farrell, J. “Social Scientific Research on the American West: Current Debates, Novel Methods, and New Directions.” Environmental Research Letters 14, no. 12 (2019): 125012. Link.

Farrell, J., McConnell, K., and Brulle, R. “Evidence-based strategies to combat scientific misinformation.” Nature Climate Change (2019): 1. Link.