Colin Polsky

Florida Atlantic University — United States

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

29h-index8.7kcitations81works0.02yr avg
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Research Topics

Land Use and Ecosystem Services(17), Urban Green Space and Health(16), Climate change impacts on agriculture(15), Disaster Management and Resilience(12), Urban Heat Island Mitigation(8)

Publications81 total

Challenging the Concept of Rational Flood Risk Decision-Making: Cultural Influences on Homeownership in the Gulf of Mexico Coastal Zone
Weather Climate and Society·2026
Predicting flood severity of repetitive-loss properties in southeastern Florida
Shore & Beach·2025
Scalability of CASCADE2001: Gis-Based Flood Risk Screening Tool to Support Watershed Master Planning
Applied sciences research periodicals.·2024Open Access
Hydro-bio-geo-socio-chemical interactions and the sustainability of residential landscapes
PNAS Nexus·2023· 5 citedOpen Access
Modeling multi-scale influences on household lawncare decisions: Formal and informal neighborhood conforming effects on fertilizer use
Landscape and Urban Planning·2023· 4 cited
Homeowner Survey Responses and Yard Soil Biogeochemistry within the Long Island Sound Watershed
2023Open Access
Establishing a framework of a watershed-wide screening tool to support the development of watershed-based flood protection plans for low-lying coastal communities
Journal of Infrastructure Policy and Development·2021· 3 citedOpen Access
A Framework for a Subwatershed-Scale Screening Tool to Support Development of Resiliency Solutions and Flood Protection Priority Areas in a Low-Lying Coastal Community
Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection·2021· 1 citedOpen Access
Aligning Climate Models With Stakeholder Needs: Advances in Communicating Future Rainfall Uncertainties for South Florida Decision Makers
Earth and Space Science·2020· 5 citedOpen Access
Residential household yard care practices along urban-exurban gradients in six climatically-diverse U.S. metropolitan areas
PLoS ONE·2019· 29 citedOpen Access
Assessment of uncertainty in multi‐model means of downscaled South Florida precipitation for projected (2019–2099) climate
International Journal of Climatology·2019· 4 citedOpen Access
Shrinking suburbs in a time of crisis
2018
A multi-city comparison of front and backyard differences in plant species diversity and nitrogen cycling in residential landscapes
Landscape and Urban Planning·2018· 26 cited
Ecological homogenization of residential macrosystems
Nature Ecology & Evolution·2017· 95 citedOpen Access
Continental-scale homogenization of residential lawn plant communities
Landscape and Urban Planning·2017· 121 citedOpen Access
Climate and Societal Impacts
International Encyclopedia of Geography·2017
Revealing the different Evapotranspiration of vegetated land in shadow and in sunlight by an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)
AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts·2016
Assessing Potential Impacts of Sea Level Rise on Public Health and Vulnerable Populations in Southeast Florida and Providing a Framework to Improve Outcomes
Sustainability·2016· 26 citedOpen Access
Policy Frameworks Influencing Outdoor Water‐use Restrictions
JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association·2016· 24 citedOpen Access
Lawn enforcement: How municipal policies and neighborhood norms influence homeowner residential landscape management
Landscape and Urban Planning·2016· 78 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Kelli L. Larson(14), J. Morgan Grove(12), Laura A. Ogden(12), Rinku Roy Chowdhury(12), Peter M. Groffman(11), Jarlath O’Neil‐Dunne(11), Jeannine Cavender‐Bares(10), Neil D. Bettez(10), Sharon J. Hall(10), James B. Heffernan(10), Sarah E. Hobbie(10), Christopher Neill(10), Kristen C. Nelson(10), Jennifer Morse(9), Diane E. Pataki(9), Meredith Steele(6), Tara L. E. Trammell(5), Dexter H. Locke(5), Brent Yarnal(3), William E. Easterling(3)