Coastal Hazards Program: Coastal modeling, physical processes, coastal hazards, geomorphology, remote sensing, geographic information science
Education and/or Training
M.S. 2021, North Carolina State University, Civil/Coastal Engineering
M.S. 2014, University of Michigan, Ecology
B.S. 2011, University of Michigan, Environmental Science and Mathematics
Projects and/or Research Interests
Autumn Poisson is a coastal geologist with the State of Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Coastal Hazards Program. Autumn assists with coastal mapping and data collection along the 34,000 miles of Alaskan coastline.
Professional Experience
2022-present, Coastal Geologist, Coastal Hazards Program, Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, Anchorage, AK
2021-2022, Physical Oceanographer, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, St. Petersburg, FL
2020, William M. Lapenta Intern, National Centers for Environmental Prediction, National Weather Service, College Park, MD
2018-2021, Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
2016-2018, Project Manager, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
2016, Coral Reef Management Fellow, Bureau of Environmental and Coastal Quality, Rota, CNMI
2014-2016, Environmental Education Coordinator, Michigan Sea Grant, Ann Arbor, MI
Selected Publications
- Horen, K.C., Christian, J.E., Doiron, Nadine, Poisson, A.C., and Siemsen, Z.J., 2023, Single-beam bathymetric data near Chefornak, Alaska, collected August 17, 2022: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Raw Data File 2023-11, 8 p. https://doi.org/10.14509/31009
- Horen, K.C., Poisson, A.C., Siemsen, Z.J., Donohue, J.M., Widmer, K.L., Adams, J.D., and Overbeck, J.R., 2022, Storm impact survey data for selected Alaska coastal communities in response to Extra-Tropical Cyclone Merbok, September 2022: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Raw Data File 2022-14, 10 p. https://doi.org/10.14509/30909
- Cheruvelil, K.S., Wagner, T., Webster, K.E., King, K.B.S., and Poisson, A.C., 2022, Taking a macroscale perspective to improve understanding of shallow lake total phosphorus and chlorophyll a: Hydrobiologia, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-022-04811-1. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-022-04811-1
- Poisson, A.C., McCullough, I.M., Soranno, P.A., Cheruvelil, K.S., Latimore, J.A., and Elliot, K.E., 2019, Quantifying the contribution of citizen science to broad-scale ecological databases: Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, vol. 18, no. 1, p. 19-26, https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2128. https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2128
- Soranno, P.A., Bacon, L.C., and others, including Poisson, A.C., 2017, LAGOS-NE: A multi-scaled geospatial and temporal database of lake ecological context and water quality for thousands of U.S. lakes: GigaScience, vol. 6, no. 12. https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/gix101
Selected Presentations
- Horen, K.C., Nieminski, N.M., Poisson, A.C., and Christian, J.E., 2023, Monitoring event-driven erosion in Wainwright, Alaska (StoryMap): Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys, 20 p. https://doi.org/10.14509/31097
- Poisson, A.C., Siemsen, Z.J., Horen, K.C., Buzard, R.M., and Overbeck, J.R., 2022, Developing flood impact assessments to support Alaska coastal communities (poster): American Geophysical Union meeting, Chicago, Illinois, December 12-15, 2022: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys, 1 sheet. https://doi.org/10.14509/30916
- Poisson, A.C., Abdolali, A., Van der Westhuysen, A.J., Ma, Z., Moghimi, S., and Mehra, A., 2020, Large scale unstructured WAVEWATCH III for hurricane hindcasts: Offshore and nearshore validation: American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Virtual, 16 December 2020. https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/684672
