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Biographical Summary:
Melanie Gall is a hazards geographer with expertise in geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensing. Her work and research experience include quantification of social vulnerability, spatial and temporal modeling of populations at risk, flood and hurricane impact assessments, and the analysis of federal emergency management policies. She has conducted post-Katrina surveys along the Mississippi Gulf Coast and has also spent seven months assessing the impacts of the devastating floods of 2000 in Central Mozambique. Her publications are focused on the integration of GIS and remote sensing into emergency management and have been published in journals such Natural Hazards Review, Disasters, and Environment. More recently, she has contributed to "Emergency Management: The American Experience1900-2005 ," edited by Claire B. Rubin as well as to the Synthesis and Assessment Report 3.3 on weather and climate extremes by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program.
Education:
Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 2007
M.S., Paris-Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria, 2002
B.S., Karl-Ruprechts University of Heidelberg, Germany, 1999
Interests:
Environmental Hazards & Society
Geospatial Technologies in Emergency Management
Hazard and Vulnerability Assessments
Hazard Mitigation
Environmental Justice
Human Dimensions of Environmental Change
Classes Taught:
Hazards, Disasters & the Environment (DSM 2000)
Environmental Hazards Analysis (ENVS 4262)
Research:
- Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plan for the LSU System
- Socio-economic Impacts of DFIRMs on Coastal Louisiana Parishes
- Managing Evacuee Ingress – Network Interactions and Community Hosting Performance
Selected Publications:
Gall, M., K. Borden, and S.L. Cutter, 2009. When do losses count? Six fallacies of loss data from natural hazards. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 90(6): 1-11.
Cutter, S.L., M. Gall, and C. T. Emrich, 2008. Toward a comprehensive loss inventory of weather and climate hazards. In Climate Extremes and Society, edited by H. F. Díaz and R. J. Murnane. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 279-295.
Gall, M., B. J. Boruff, and S. L. Cutter, 2007. Assessing flood hazard zones in the absence of digital floodplain maps: a comparison of alternative approaches. Natural Hazards Review 8(1): 1–21.
Gall, M., and S. L. Cutter, 2007. 2005 Events and Outcomes: Beyond Hurricane Katrina. In: Emergency Management: The American Experience 1900-2005, edited by C. B. Rubin. Fairfax, VA: Public Entity Risk Institute (PERI), 185-205. ( 2008 Book Prize by the American Society for Public Administration, Section on Environment and Natural Resources Administration/SENRA)
Cutter, S. L. and M. Gall, 2007. Hurricane Katrina: a failure of planning or planned failure? [in German] In Naturrisiken und Sozialkatrastrophen, edited by C. Felgentreff and T. Glade. Heidelberg: Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, 353-366.
Cutter, S. L., C. T. Emrich, J. T. Mitchell, B. J. Boruff, M. Gall, M. Schmidtlein, C. Burton, and G. Melton, 2006. The long road home: race, class, and recovery from Hurricane Katrina. Environment 48(2): 8-20.
Gall, M., 2004. Where to go? Access to emergency shelters in Mozambique. Disasters 28(1): 82-97.
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