Andrew J. Kruczkiewicz

Senior Staff Associate II, National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP), Columbia Climate School

Faculty Lecturer, M.A. in Climate and Society

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

475 Riverside Drive
Suite 401
New York, NY 10115
USA

BIOGRAPHY:

Andrew Kruczkiewicz has more than 10 years of experience working with the humanitarian, development and disaster management sectors, including Red Cross, World Food Programme and World Bank, designing early warning systems, impact-based forecasting standard operating procedures and contributing to the design of global climate policy. Andrew conducts research on extreme weather and climate events focusing on both individual hazards, such as cyclones, floods and other hydrometeorological hazards, as well as compound events. He is involved in the application of climate and weather data including forecasting, risk assessment and integration within policy and decision making. Andrew is Principal Investigator of NASA funded research project: Towards A Global Flood & Flash Flood Early Warning Early Action System Driven by NASA Earth Observations, which seeks to increase the ability to forecast various types of floods, including flash floods, and inform early warning and early action standard operating procedures.

He is faculty lecturer in the Columbia Climate School’s Climate and Society graduate program and is Co-Director of the Climate School Network: Sustainable and Resilient Living in an Era of Increasing Disasters. 

Andrew serves on numerous national and international task forces and committees, including the World Meteorological Organization Task Team on ENSO Information, and the UN OCHA IASC Early Warning Analysis Cell. He frequently appears on national and international television, radio, and in print. 

PROJECTS

Only select projects listed below
Name Start Date End Date
Connecting Earth Observations to Decision Makers for Preparedness Actions 8/1/18 7/31/19
Development of Remote Sensing and Early Warning Climate Analysis for Resilience Programmes in Somalia 9/22/17 12/31/17
Technical Review of the Early Warning Chapter 3/1/19 7/31/19
Towards A Global Flood & Flash Flood Early Warning Early Action System Driven by NASA Earth Observatory 12/26/17 12/25/21
Early Warning Early Action Technical Support for the Red Cross/Red Crescent 1/1/20 12/31/20
Supporting short and medium term anticipatory action and policy development in climate security and food systems 1/1/21 12/31/22
GCRP Compound Risk Analytics Seasonal Natural Hazard Risk Metrics 12/22/20 11/1/21
Supporting the Humanitarian Sector With Extreme Event Risk Analysis and Forecasting Globally to the International Red Cross and Red Crescent 2/15/21 12/31/21
Valuation of Applications Benefits Linked with Earth Science (VALUABLES) Consortium 11/15/21 3/18/22
Research for Anticipatory Action in the Humanitarian Sector for the UN System 10/15/21 10/14/22
Mapping Flood Impacts using Multi-Sensor Satellite Data Fusion in Urban Areas 8/1/21 6/14/24
Climate Forecasting to Support Decision-making in the Water Sector Among Water Users 11/21/22 2/29/24
Research on Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Early Warning to Support UNOCHA Climate Policy 10/23/23 12/31/23
Supporting the Humanitarian Sector with Extreme Event Risk Analysis and Forecasting Globally to the International Red Cross Red Crescent 6/15/22 12/31/23
NextGen Training CIAT- AgriLAC Resiliente: Resilient Agrifood Innovation Systems Driving Food Security, Inclusive Growth, and Reduced Out-Migration in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) 11/1/22 12/31/22
Estimating Environmental Mobility in Urban Areas of Latin America and the Caribbean: Implications and Directions for Policy 1/31/22 9/30/22
Collaborative Research: Impact of the Amazon River Plume on Nitrogen Availability and Planktonic Food Web Dynamics in the Western Tropical North Atlantic 10/15/17 12/31/21
Collaborative Proposal: Determining the Vulnerability and Resilience of Boreal Forests and Shrubs across Northwestern North America 9/1/16 8/31/20

20 PUBLICATIONS ON COLUMBIA | ACADEMIC COMMONS

Only select publications listed below
Name Published Date
Integrating Climate Disaster Risk within an Interdisciplinary Urban Agenda: Lessons Drawn from the Brazilian Experience 2024
The Roles Of State And Non-State Actors In Early Warning And Early Action 2024
Unravelling flash flood dynamics of Song watershed, Doon Valley: key insights for floodplain management 2024
Are Underserved Populations Left Out of National Flood Mitigation Efforts and Facing Greater Impact? A Method to Assess Racial Inequality at the Census Tract Level 2023
Climate services for risk informed anticipatory action 2023
Editorial: Climate services for risk informed anticipatory action 2023
Indexing climatic and environmental exposure of refugee camps with a case study in East Africa 2023
Recommendations for improved tropical cyclone formation and position probabilistic Forecast products 2023
Closing Climate and Disaster Data Gaps 2022
Enhanced urban adaptation efforts needed to counter rising extreme rainfall risks 2022
Re-prioritizing climate services for agriculture: Insights from Bangladesh 2022
The impact of flooding on food security across Africa 2022
Applied Earth observations for the disaster management sector 2021
Climate Profiles of Countries in Southern Africa: Eswatini 2021
Compound risks and complex emergencies require new approaches to preparedness 2021
WMO Guidelines on Multi-hazard Impact-based Forecast and Warning Services Part II: Putting Multi-hazard IBFWS into Practice 2021
Report to Securing Water for Food (SWFF) and USAID on Evaluation of Ignitia Daily Rainfall Forecasts for Subscribers in West Africa 2018
Towards A Shock Sensitive Social Protection System For Malawi 2017
DEVELOP Project Uses Satellite Data to Help Control Malaria in Zanzibar 2015
Overstromingen in Malawi en Mozambique 2015