Education: Ph.D., University of Colorado, 1980
Teaching specialties:
- Natural Hazards
- Water Resources Management
- Environmental Impact Analysis
Research interests:
- Hazard Policy
- Weather and Society
- Vulnerability of people and places
- E.I.S.
Recent Projects/Research Undertaken:
- Determining the vulnerability to hazards by using GIS
- Comparing warning and mitigation strategies in Slovenia and the U.S.
Recent Publications:
- Montz, B.E. Client-driven education? Issues for an applied geography curriculum. In Bailly, A., L.J. Gibson and K.H. Haynes. New Directions in Applied Geography. Forthcoming.
- Tobin, G.A. and Montz, B.E. 2008. Risk and Uncertainty: Geophysical Processes in Natural Hazards. In S. Holloway, S.P. Rice, G. Valentine and N. Clifford (Ed.) Key Concepts in Geography. Sage Publications: London . Forthcoming.
- Montz, B.E. and G.A. Tobin. 2008. From false sense of security to residual risk: communicating the need for new floodplain development models. Geograficky Casopis (Geographical Journal) of the Slovak Academy of Sciences 60 (1): 3-14.
- Montz, B.E. and G.A. Tobin. 2008. Livin' large with levees: lessons learned and lost. Natural Hazards Review . Forthcoming.
- Montz, B.E. 2007. Experience, serendipity, and direction for an applied geographer. Research in Geographic Education 9(1): 79-85.