Paula Gori
Paula Gori is the associate coordinator of the Landslide Hazard Program at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Her primary mission with the USGS is to encourage other federal agencies, state and local governments, and the private sector to use geologic hazards information to reduce losses through informed natural hazard management. Gori is also an associate editor of the Natural Hazards Review and an officer of the International Consortium on Landslides. Before joining the USGS, she worked as an urban planner for the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission.
Gori has convened numerous multi-disciplinary conferences in the United States and the Caribbean in conjunction with other federal agencies and has served as an expert on review panels and advisory boards for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the National Science Foundation, the National Research Council, and university researchers. She has authored articles on earthquake and landslide hazards loss reduction and the application of research by decision makers as well as researched the consequences of the Iben Browning pseudo-scientific earthquake prediction.
Gori holds a master’s of public administration from The American University in Washington, D.C.
Related Resources by Paula Gori from the Natural Hazards Library
Public Hazards Communication and Education: The State of the Art
With Dennis Mileti, Sarah Nathe, Marjorie Greene and Elizabeth Lemeral, 2004.