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Melanie Gall is a hazards geographer studying the interaction between natural hazards and society. She co-directs the ASU Center for Emergency Management and Homeland Security and manages the Spatial Hazard Events and Losses Database for the United States (SHELDUS). Her expertise lies in risk metrics (e.g., disaster losses, indices, risk assessments), hazard mitigation and climate change adaptation planning as well as environmental modeling. The applied nature of hazards research allows her to work closely with emergency management agencies from local to federal levels. She has conducted post-disaster field work in Mozambique, Haiti, New Jersey, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina. Her publications appeared in journals such as Nature Climate Change, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, and Natural Hazards Review. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina, M.S. from the University of Salzburg (Austria), and a B.S. from the University of Heidelberg (Germany).
PhD, Geography, University of South Carolina, 2007
MS, Geography and Geoinformatics, University of Salzburg (Austria), 2002
BS, Geography (Biology and Political Sciences), University of Heidelberg (Germany), 1999
Certified Floodplain Manager (CFM), 2012
Societal impacts of natural hazards and extreme events
Loss and damage
Vulnerability and resilience indices
Vulnerable populations
Hazard mitigation planning
Climate Change Adaptation Planning
Environmental justice
Floods
Selected Publications
2015 Cutter, S. L. and M. Gall. Sendai Targets at Risk. Nature Climate Change 5(8): 707-709.
2015 Gall, M., K. H. Nguyen, and S. L. Cutter. Integrated research on disaster risk: Is it really integrated? International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 12 (June): 255-267. DOI:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2015.01.010.
2015 Gall, M. The Suitability of Disaster Loss Databases to Measure Loss and Damage from Climate Change. International Journal of Global Warming 8(2); 170-190.
2013 Gall, M. From Social Vulnerability to Resilience: Measuring Progress towards Disasters Risk Reduction. Intersections No. 13. Bonn: United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS). ISBN: 978-3-944535-00-5, 34 p. Available at http://www.ehs.unu.edu/article/read/intersections
2012 Gall, M. and S. L. Cutter. 2005 Events and Outcomes: Beyond Hurricane Katrina. In: Emergency Management: The American Experience 1900-2010 (2nd ed.), edited by C. B. Rubin. Fairfax, VA: Public Entity Risk Institute (PERI), 191-212. (2008 Book Prize by the American Society for Public Administration, Section on Environment and Natural Resources Administration/SENRA)
2012 Friedland, C. J. and M. Gall. True cost of hurricanes – case for a comprehensive understanding of multihazard building damage. Leadership and Management in Engineering 12(3): 134-146.
2011 Gall, M., K. A. Borden, C. T. Emrich, and S. L. Cutter. The Unsustainable Trend of Natural Hazard Losses in the United States. Sustainability 3(11): 2157-2181 (DOI: 10.3390/su3112157).
2010 Melton, G., M. Gall, J. T. Mitchell, and S. L. Cutter. Hurricane Katrina surge delineation: implications for future storm surge forecasts and warnings. Natural Hazards 54(2): 519-536 (DOI: 10.1007/s11069-009-9483-z).
2009 Gall, M., K. Borden, and S. L. Cutter. When do losses count? Six fallacies of loss data from natural hazards. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 90(6): 1-11.
2007 Gall, M., B. J. Boruff, and S. L. Cutter. Assessing flood hazard zones in the absence of digital floodplain maps: a comparison of alternative approaches. Natural Hazards Review 8(1): 1–21.
2007 Gall, M. “Indices of Social Vulnerability to Natural Hazards: A Comparative Evaluation”. Dissertation. University of South Carolina, Geography.
2006 Cutter, S. L., C. T. Emrich, J. T. Mitchell, B. J. Boruff, M. Gall, M. Schmidtlein, C. Burton, and G. Melton. The long road home: race, class, and recovery from Hurricane Katrina. Environment 48(2): 8-20.
2004 Gall, M. Where to go? Access to emergency shelters in Mozambique. Disasters 28(1): 82-97.
| Fall 2019 | |
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| Course Number | Course Title |
| CPP 510 | Hazards Governance |
| CPP 511 | Hazard Mitigation Planning |
| Summer 2019 | |
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| Course Number | Course Title |
| CPP 570 | GIS for Hazards Analysis |
| Spring 2019 | |
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| Course Number | Course Title |
| CPP 570 | GIS for Hazards Analysis |
| Fall 2018 | |
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| Course Number | Course Title |
| CPP 591 | Seminar |
| Spring 2018 | |
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| Course Number | Course Title |
| CPP 591 | Seminar |
| Fall 2017 | |
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| Course Number | Course Title |
| CRD 590 | Reading and Conference |
| CPP 591 | Seminar |
| Summer 2017 | |
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| Course Number | Course Title |
| PAF 571 | Geographic Info Sys/Analysis |
| Spring 2017 | |
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| Course Number | Course Title |
| PAF 571 | Geographic Info Sys/Analysis |
2017-2018 Member, Committee for Measuring Community Resilience, National Academies of Sciences
2016 Central Midlands Council of Government. An all natural hazard risk assessment and hazard mitigation plan for the Central Midlands Region of South Carolina. For the use by municipalities and jurisdictions of Fairfield, Lexington, Newberry, and Richland Counties. http://centralmidlands.org/publications/free-documents.html
2013 Gall, M., C. Friedland, T. A. Joyner, R. Orgera, C. Fu, and S. Ogea. Disaster Resistant University Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plan. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University System, 970 p. Available at http://dsm.lsu.edu/pr_hazmit.htm.
2017 Development and maintenance of web-based map for Florida VOADs (Hurricane Irma),
2016 SESYNC Pursuit Project: Meta-Analysis of Climate Change Vulnerability Mapping Studies: Improving Methods and Map Outputs; PI: Alex de Sherbinin
2010 Geospatial analysis support for the International Fund for Animal Welfare and Animal Relief Coalition in Haiti
2008 GIS support during Hurricane Gustav for East Baton Rouge Parish EOC, September 1-4.
2007 Beta-tester for HAZUS-MH MR3
CPM 3.1 Risk Management
