Logan Gerber-Chavez

Title
Assistant Professor, College of Arts & Sciences
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Department
Dept of Emgy, Disaster & Global Security Studies
College
College of Arts & Sciences

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Tuesdays 1-3 pm ET
Logan Gerber-Chavez

Dr. Gerber-Chavez is an assistant professor of Disaster Science in the Department of Emergency, Disaster, and Global Security Studies. She is currently the program chair of the Associate of Science in Emergency Management and the Certificate of Emergency Management Leadership.

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.

  • 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
  • EMGY 430: Emergency Mgmt & Conting Plan
  • MHSR 540: Foundations of Resilience
  • EMGY 310: Fundamentals of Emergency Mgmt

ESVS 301 - Community Risk Reduction for Fire and Emergency Services

HLSD 290 - Environmental Security

MHSR 510 - Introduction to Human Security

MHSR 530 - Environmental Security

MHSR 540 - Foundations of Resilience

SSES 401 - Applied Research Methods

  • Current Research Opportunities (Darryl Chamberlain, Dr. Robert Deters, Robert Deters, Brent Terwilliger, Brent A. Terwilliger, Emily Faulconer, Cihan Aydiner, Elliott Bryner, Burak Cankaya, Mehmet Burak Cankaya, Logan Gerber-Chavez, Meghan Velez) Bridge to Research (2023)

Gerber-Chavez, L. (2024) “Certej dam disaster (Romania).” In D.A. Gill, L.A. Ritchie, N. Campbell, Encyclopedia of Technological Hazards and Disasters in the Social Sciences. ISBN: 978 1 80088 219 5.

Gerber-Chavez, L. (2024) “Prestige oil spill (Portugal & Spain).” In D.A. Gill, L.A. Ritchie, N. Campbell, Encyclopedia of Technological Hazards and Disasters in the Social Sciences. ISBN: 978 1 80088 219 5.

Aydiner, C.; Corbin, T.B.; Hoban, I.; Gerber-Chavez, L. (2024) “Migrant Displacement in Conflicts: Comparing Emergency Management Response to Ukrainian and Turkish Forced Migrants in Germany.” In D. McEntire, L. Phipps, Current and Emerging Issues in International Disaster Management. https://uta.pressbooks.pub/trendsininternationaldisastermanagement/

Siders, A.R.; Niemann, J.; Hino, M.; Shields, E.; Pecharroman, L.C.; Doeffinger, T.; Gerber-Chavez, L.; Huang, J-C.; Lafferty, A.; Tamima, S.; Williams, C.; Agopian, A.; Samoray, C.; Mach, K.J. (2024) “How Local Governments Avoid Floodplain Development Through Consistent Implementation of Routine Ordinances, Plans, and Programs.” Oxford Open Climate Change, Volume 4, Issue 1. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfclm/kgae017

DeYoung, S.; Trivedi, T.; Wachtendorf, T.; Davidson, R.; Anyidoho, P.; Porada, M.; Mongold, E.; Nozick, L.; Elliott, J.; Stock, A.; Fraser, R.; Gerber-Chavez, L.; Dyck, S.; Richards, C. (2024) “Survey Instrument for Decision-Making and Evacuation for Hurricane Ida with Variations Used for Hurricanes Florence, Michael, Barry, Dorian, Ian, and Idalia.” DesignSafe-CI. DOI: 10.17603/ds2-8ywr-y655 v.1

Gerber-Chavez, L.; Savitt, A.; Montano, S.; Corbin, T.; Downey, D. C. (2023) “Emergency Management Performance Grant (EMPG) Funding Allocations and Relevance for U.S. Disaster Policy.” Risks, Hazards, and Crisis in Public Policy. DOI: 10.1002/rhc3.12269

Savitt, A.; Gerber-Chavez, L.; Montano, S.; Corbin, T. (2023) “Emergency Management Pandemic Planning: An Analysis of State Emergency Plans.” Journal of Emergency Management. 21(7). DOI: 10.5055/jem.0667

Fraser, R.; DeYoung, S. E.; Gerber-Chavez, L. (2022) “Maternal and Infant Health in Disasters: Texas’s High-Risk Landscape.” Women’s Health, Volume 18. DOI: 10.1177/17455057221112289

Siders, A. R., & Gerber-Chavez, L. (2021). “Resilience for Whom? Insights from COVID-19 for Social Equity in Resilience.” In I. Linkov, B.D. Trump, & J.M. Keenan, COVID-19: Systemic Risk and Resilience, pp. 373–88. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-71587-8_21.

Siders, A.R.; Gerber-Chavez, L. (2021) “Floodplain Buyouts: Challenges, Practices, and Lessons Learned” The Nature Conservancy. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.29559.96164/1

Siders, A.R.; Gerber-Chavez, L.; Adams, S.; Richardson, D.; Reece, K. (2021) “Local Wetlands and Watercourse Regulations: Potential Tools for Floodplain Management -- Lessons from Three New York Towns.” The Nature Conservancy. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.22849.07527

Lakhina, S.J.; Lebeda, B.; Kocher, S.; Kwok, A.; Gerber-Chavez, L.; Pozzi, T.; Stannard, D.; Kuligowski, E. (2021). Wildfire Preparedness and Evacuations in a Pandemic: Case Studies from California and Colorado. CONVERGE COVID-19 Working Group for Public Health and Social Science Research. Wonder Labs, California. https://wildfirepandemic.wixsite.com/workinggroup

McBride, S. K.; Kurtz, E.; Hondula, D.; Shah, P.; de Groot, R.; Bostrom, A.; Vickery, J.; Richards, A.; Eosco, G.;………. Gerber-Chavez, L.; ……Peek, L.; Sellnow, T. (2020). “Extreme Weather and Geohazards in the time of COVID-19: A social science research agenda.” DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.30569.72806

Corbin, T.; Montano, S.; Savitt, A.; Gerber-Chavez, L.; Belligoni, S.; Downey, D.; Ganapati, N.; Goodin, A.S.; Miao, Q.; Rivera, F.; Gookool, S.S.; Tan, C.; Travis, C.; Yeo, J. (2020). “Emergency Management and Policy Analysis in a Pandemic: A research agenda.”

Lakhina, S. J.; Kwok, A. H.; Lebeda, B.; Stannard, D.; Kuligowski, E.; Gerber-Chavez, L.; & Kocher, S. (2020). “Wildfire Preparedness and Evacuation Planning in a Pandemic: A research agenda.” 

Gerber-Chavez, L. (2020) “Effective Disasters: 2013 European Flood Damage as a Policy Driver.” New Visions in Public Administration, Volume 12.