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Patrick "Shane" Crawford (Fed)
Dr. Patrick Shane Crawford is a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Structural Engineer in the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Community Resilience Group and Disaster and Failure Studies Program.
Crawford’s research focuses on advancing field study techniques by synthesizing new technologies in remote sensing, GIS, and machine learning, and using field data to develop methods for measurement and modeling of community impacts, recovery, and resilience to hazards. The research aims to standardize new methods of spatiotemporal data collection pre- and post-event that can be leveraged for validation and verification of community resilience modeling approaches. Field-collected data such as performance of buildings and distributed infrastructure, key social and economic variables, and aspects of the natural environment allow understanding of the interdependent nature of these systems and must all be considered in field studies. Results of these field studies inform decisions regarding building codes and standards as well as impact engineering practice.
Before starting at NIST, Crawford was a member of the NIST-funded Center of Excellence for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning headquartered at Colorado State University and made up of researchers, post-docs and students from over 10 universities. Crawford has a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from the University of Alabama. While in graduate school, Crawford conducted research in community resilience as well as transportation engineering, including using Geographic Information Systems to map crash locations and model the infrastructure influences causing safety hazards. Crawford has served as a member of various field deployments following tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes where he has developed an understanding of the multi-disciplinary nature of community resilience research and a strong commitment to the mitigation of the adverse effects caused by these events. Crawford maintains professional involvement, including memberships to the American Society of Civil Engineers and Association of Transportation Safety Information Professionals.