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Member Since 2011
Lauren N. Schaefer
Research Engineer, USGS Geologic Hazards Science Center
Professional Experience
USGS Geologic Hazards Science Center
Research Engineer
2020 - Present
Education
Doctorate
2016
Current Roles
Member
Natural Hazards Executive Committee
Honors & Awards
Natural Hazards Section Award for Graduate Research
Received 2017
Lauren N. Schaefer received a B.S. in environmental geoscience from DePauw University in 2009, an M.S. in geology from Michigan Technological University in 2012, and a Ph.D. in engineering geology from Michigan Technological University in 2016. Her g...
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Publications
Kinematic Evolution of a Large Paraglacial Landslide in the Barry Arm Fjord of Alaska
Our warming climate is adversely affecting cryospheric landscapes via glacial retreat, permafrost degradation, and associated slope destabilization...
November 09, 2023
Hydrothermal Alteration on Composite Volcanoes: Mineralogy, ...
September 05, 2020
Three-Dimensional Mapping of Mt. Ruapehu Volcano, New Zealan...
February 15, 2020
Three-dimensional displacements of a large volcano flank mov...
January 09, 2017
AGU Abstracts
Application of a decision analysis framework to determine failure velocity of a large paraglacial landslide, Barry Arm, Prince William Sound, Alaska
THE LANDSLIDE LIFE CYCLE: FROM HAZARD ANALYSIS TO RISK ASSESSMENTS II POSTER
natural hazards | 11 december 2023
Kelli Baxstrom, Dennis M. Staley, Brian D. Collins...
The Barry Arm landslide in Prince William Sound, Alaska, poses a potential tsunamigenic threat to communities, infrastructure, marine traffic, and oth...
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Landslide Susceptibility Mapping Combining Geomechanical Classification and Reflectance Spectroscopy in Prince William Sound, Alaska
THE LANDSLIDE LIFE CYCLE: FROM HAZARD ANALYSIS TO RISK ASSESSMENTS VI POSTER
natural hazards | 13 december 2022
Lauren N. Schaefer, Sean LaHusen, Nikita N. Avdiev...
Recent deglaciation of fjords in Prince William Sound, Alaska, has left behind damaged, de-buttressed, and over-steepened valley walls, leading to doz...
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Tsunamigenic landslide hazards in the steep maritime Arctic and subarctic: The case of Barry Arm landslides
PHYSICAL LANDSCAPE SIGNATURES OF CONTEMPORARY CLIMATE CHANGE I ORAL
earth and planetary surface processes | 17 december 2021
Katherine R. Barnhart, Ryan P Jones, David L. Geor...
Landslides can generate a tsunami by rapidly entering adjacent waterbodies and displacing water. This poses a hazard to nearby populations, infrastruc...
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Volunteer History
2024 - 2026
Member
Natural Hazards Executive Committee
2021 - 2022
Member
Natural Hazards Section Awards Committee
2022 - 2022
Member
Natural Hazards Award for Graduate Research Award Committee
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