Logan Gerber-Chavez

Biography

Dr. Logan Gerber-Chavez is an emergency management planning expert specializing in compound hazard planning and work on climate justice and environmental justice in emergency management. She holds a Ph.D. in disaster science and management from the University of Delaware’s Biden School of Public Policy and Administration and M.S. and B.S. degrees in geography from the University of Oklahoma and Texas A&M University, respectively.

She has worked as an advisor to the U.S. Geological Survey on emergency planning for the national parks system. She has conducted research on projects over a variety of topics, including international climate policy, green roofing technology, climatology and micrometeorology, business recovery in disasters, hurricane evacuation decision-making, maternal health and infant feeding in disasters, international natech disaster management, wetlands regulations for floodplain management, flood buyout programs, and various COVID-19 related projects. Dr. Gerber-Chavez has taught courses in human and physical geography and GIS and has an award-winning collection of disaster and climate-related fiction and nonfiction books. She is currently working on research projects on equity in government funding for emergency management, all-hazard planning for remote locations, floodplain development, and climate justice.

Education

• Ph.D. - Doctor of Philosophy in Disaster Science and Management, University of Delaware
• M.S. - Master of Science in Geography, University of Oklahoma
• B.S. - Bachelor of Science in Geography: Meteorology, The Texas A&M University
• A.S. - Associate of Science in General Studies, Weber State University