Dr. Hubbard is a research scientist at the Space Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. His research in disaster science focuses on geospatial modeling approaches that improve decision making that leads to minimizing the impacts of severe storms, hurricanes, and flooding. He helped construct a building evacuations model for the University of Iowa campus that is used during flooding events to assist their efforts in evacuating campus buildings vulnerable to floodwaters. Dr. Hubbard has also been working in Puerto Rico since 2010 on various projects that help to build their capacity to model the impacts of hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes for preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation actions.