Experts by Expertise: Natural Disasters

Negar Elhami-Khorasani

Assistant Professor of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering

Expertise: structural fire engineering, wildfires in wildland-urban interface communities, fire following earthquake, multi-hazard engineering, disaster resilience

Phone: 716-645-3019

Email: negarkho@buffalo.edu

Joana Gaia

Clinical Assistant Professor of Management Science and Systems

Expertise: health information systems; business intelligence; digital security and privacy; data analytics; emergency management; girls and STEM careers

Contact: Joana Gaia can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.

Tracy K. P. Gregg

Associate Professor of Geology

Expertise: volcanology, volcanoes on Mars and Venus, the search for water on Mars, volcanism on the moon, deep-sea eruptions, basaltic lava flows

Phone: 716-645-4328

Email: tgregg@buffalo.edu

Howard Lasker

Chair of Environment and Sustainability

Expertise: coral reefs; coral bleaching; climate change and oceans

Phone: 716-645-4870

Email: hlasker@buffalo.edu

E. Brooke Lerner

Professor of Emergency Medicine

Expertise: emergency medicine, emergency care for children, mass shootings, mass casualty incidents

Phone: 716-645-9726

Email: lerner@buffalo.edu

Sayanti Mukherjee

Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Expertise: resilient sociotechnical systems, predictive analytics, risk-informed decision-making, public health and health care, electrical grid and energy, climate change impact assessment

Phone: 716-645-4699

Email: sayantim@buffalo.edu

Chris S. Renschler

Professor of Geography

Expertise: flooding, soil erosion, watersheds, hurricanes, radioactive fallout, disaster preparedness and response, natural resources management, GIS

Phone: 716-645-0480

Email: rensch@buffalo.edu

Joann Sands

Clinical Assistant Professor of Nursing

Expertise: disaster response education and training; emergency preparedness and management; the role of nurses in disasters

Phone: 716-829-2342

Email: jsnyder2@buffalo.edu

Natalie Simpson

Chair of Operations Management and Strategy

Expertise: emergency services and disaster response; supply chain risk and resilience; creative and temporary operations; complex networks

Contact: Natalie Simpson can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.

Greg A. Valentine

Director of the Center for Geohazards Studies

Expertise: volcanoes, volcanic eruptions, disaster preparedness, supervolcanoes

Phone: 716-645-4295

Email: gav4@buffalo.edu

Andrew Whittaker

SUNY Distinguished Professor of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering

Expertise: earthquake engineering; seismic protective systems; blast engineering; bridge engineering; infrastructure; design and assessment of nuclear power plants; performance-based engineering; risk engineering

Phone: 716-645-4364

Email: awhittak@buffalo.edu

Janet Yang

Associate Professor of Communication

Expertise: science, health, environmental and risk communication

Phone: 716-645-1169

Email: zyang5@buffalo.edu