Adam specializes in comprehensive all-hazards preparedness, planning, response, mitigation, and risk management. His expertise extends to severe weather and climate change risk, the strategic use of GIS in emergency management, urban search and rescue, and homeland security. He has a strong focus on climate change, black sky consequence management, CBRNE planning, bio and agroterrorism, viral hemorrhagic fevers, maximum containment laboratory emergencies, and disruptions to electric transmission and distribution utilities.