B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D.
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Dr Emily M Lane is a Principal Scientist in natural hazards and hydrodynamics with a specific focus on inundation due to fluvial and pluvial flooding, tsunamis, and storm surge. She is currently the Flagship Programme Leader in Hazards at NIWA. She is leading an Endeavour Programme to increase Aotearoa’s resilience to flooding by bringing together nationally consistent information on the flood hazard and risk. Following Cyclone Gabrielle, she led an Extreme Weather Response project to map the flooding that occurred in Tairāwhiti and Hawkes Bay during the cyclone and explore future scenarios. She has also led a Marsden project to better understand volcanic tsunamis and been involved in a probabilistic hazard assessment of the submarine-landslide-generated tsunamis in Cook Strait Canyon. She is a member of the Tsunami Expert Panel who provide expert advice to Civil Defence during tsunami alerts. She has been working at NIWA since 2006 and is the programme leader of their Resilience to Hazards programme. Her background is applied mathematics and she has a PhD in applied mathematics with a geoscience minor from the University of Arizona.
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