{"id":2,"date":"2012-09-04T13:39:49","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T17:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/template\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:56:08","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/kserafin\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container px-0 pt-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-start\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Katherine (Katy) Serafin<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/kserafin\/files\/Serafin_headshot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/kserafin\/files\/Serafin_headshot-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-176\" style=\"width:206px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/kserafin\/files\/Serafin_headshot-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/kserafin\/files\/Serafin_headshot-200x254.jpg 200w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/kserafin\/files\/Serafin_headshot-300x381.jpg 300w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/kserafin\/files\/Serafin_headshot.jpg 579w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Assistant Professor<br>\nDepartment of Geography<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Areas of Interest\/Research<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>multivariate hazards; total water levels; climate change impacts; coastal hazards; extreme value theory<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Background<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Degrees<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>PhD Ocean, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, 2017<br>\nM.S. Ocean, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, 2013<br>\nB.A. Environmental Studies, Connecticut College, 2008<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Appointments<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Stanford University 2018 &#8211; 2019<br>\nAssistant Professor, University of Florida 2019 &#8211; present<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/kserafin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/kserafin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/kserafin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/kserafin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/kserafin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/kserafin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/kserafin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/kserafin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}