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Melanie Gall
- Melanie.Gall@asu.edu
- 602/496-0178
- Downtown Campus UCENT 422H 411 N Central Ave Phoenix
Co-Director, Clinical Professor
Faculty, DTPHX Campus, Mailcode 3720
Affiliate Faculty
Faculty w/Admin Appointment, DTPHX Campus, Mailcode 3720
Senior Global Futures Scientist
Faculty w/Admin Appointment, DTPHX Campus, Mailcode 3720
Co-Director, Clinical Professor
Faculty w/Admin Appointment, DTPHX Campus, Mailcode 3720
Biography:
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).
Education:
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
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Research Interests:
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
Publications:
Selected Publications
Hu, M. D., K. G. Lawrence, M. Gall, C. T. Emrich, M. R. Bodkin, W. B. Jackson, N. MacNell, R. K. Kwok, L. S. Engel, and D. P. Sandler. 2021. Natural Hazards and Mental Health among US Gulf Coast Residents. Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41370-021-00301-z
Gall, M. and Carol J. Friedland. 2020. If Mitigation Saves $6 Per Every $1 Spent, Then Why Are We Not Investing More? A Louisiana Perspective on a National Issue. Natural Hazards Review 21(1). https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)NH.1527-6996.0000342
de Sherbinin, A., A. Bukvic, G. Rohat, M. Gall, B. McCusker, B. Preston, A. Apotsos, C. Fish, S. Kienberger, P. Muhonda, O. Wilhelmi, D. Macharia, W. Shubert, R. Sliuzas, B. Tomaszewski, and S. Zhang. 2019. Climate change vulnerability mapping: a systematic review and recommendations for the future. WIREs Climate Change. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.600
Gall, M. 2019. Loss reduction and sustainability. In: From Disaster to Catastrophe: U.S. Emergency Management in the 21st Century, edited by C. Rubin and S.L. Cutter. Routledge.
Gall, M. and S. L. Cutter. 2019. 2005 Events and Outcomes: Beyond Hurricane Katrina. In: Emergency Management: The American Experience 1900-2010 (3rd ed.), edited by C. B. Rubin. Fairfax, VA: CRC, 191-217.
Cutter, S.L., Emrich, C.T., M. Gall, and R. Reeves. 2018. Flash flood risk and the paradox of urban development. Natural Hazards Review 19(1): online.
Gall, M. 2017. Direct and Insured Flood Damage in the United States. In: Flood Damage Survey and Assessment: New Insights from Research and Practice, edited by D. Molinari, S. Menoni, and F. Ballio. American Geophysical Union and Wiley: Washington, DC: 53-64.
| Spring 2022 | |
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| Course Number | Course Title |
| CPP 510 | Hazards Governance |
| CPP 570 | GIS for Hazards Analysis |
| Fall 2021 | |
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| Course Number | Course Title |
| CPP 510 | Hazards Governance |
| CPP 511 | Hazard Mitigation Planning |
| Spring 2021 | |
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| Course Number | Course Title |
| CPP 510 | Hazards Governance |
| CPP 570 | GIS for Hazards Analysis |
| Fall 2020 | |
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| Course Number | Course Title |
| CPP 510 | Hazards Governance |
| CPP 511 | Hazard Mitigation Planning |
| Spring 2020 | |
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| Course Number | Course Title |
| CPP 510 | Hazards Governance |
| CPP 570 | GIS for Hazards Analysis |
| 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 |
Service:
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.
Pro Bono:
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
Executive Education Courses:
CPM 3.1 Risk Management