Dengler is an international authority on tsunami and earthquake hazards and mitigation and a dinner in her honor will follow the lecture at 6:30 p.m. in the Kate Buchanan Room, University Center.
Director of the Humboldt Earthquake Education Center since 1986, Dengler joined HSU in 1979. She is the featured tsunami expert on NOVA’s “Wave That Shook the World” web site and a top leader of Redwood Coast initiatives to improve earthquake and tsunami preparedness. The University’s Department of Geology sits astride the Cascadia subduction zone, which the faculty uses as a natural laboratory for student field research and exercises.
A member of the team that developed the United States National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program in 1995, Dengler was the co-convener of a 2007 meeting sponsored by the National Science Foundation to examine future directions for tsunami research in the United States.
The author or co-author of more than 50 journal articles and technical papers, Dengler has also written a number of publications for the general public, including three editions of the North Coast earthquake and tsunami preparedness magazine, “Living on Shaky Ground.” She is currently at work on the fourth edition.
Details and dinner reservations are available from the Office of Research and Graduate Studies at 707-826-5194 or download the flyer (PDF). Dinner prices range from $37.00 to $45.00 for a variety of entrees.