Lori Dengler
Lori Dengler is a professor and chair of the Geology Department at Humboldt State University, Arcata, California, and an expert on tsunami hazards and tsunami mitigation. She was a member of the National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program (NTHMP) Steering Committee from 1996 to 2003 and authored the initial Strategic Implementation for Mitigation Projects for the NTHMP. She was a member of post tsunami survey teams to Papua New Guinea (1998), Southern Peru (2001), Indonesia (2005), Crescent City (2006), Samoa (2009), and Chile (2010). She was a founding member and former chair, and is current scientific advisor, to the Redwood Coast Tsunami Work Group, which promotes tsunami resilient communities on California’s North Coast.
Dengler was the first recipient of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Richard Hagemeyer Tsunami Mitigation Award. She was recognized as Humboldt State University’s Scholar of the Year and received the 2009 Alfred Alquist Medal for earthquake mitigation efforts.
Related Resources from Lori Dengler
Building Tsunami-Resilient Communities in Humboldt County, California
With Troy Nicolini, Dan Larkin and Vicki Ozaki, Solutions to Coastal Disasters Congress 2008: Tsunamis
Proceedings of the Solutions to Coastal Disasters Congress 2008, 2009.