Journal of Geography & Natural Disasters
Open Access
ISSN: 2167-0587
ISSN: 2167-0587
TOM COVA
He was Professor of Geography and Director of the Center for Natural & Technological Hazards at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, USA
He completed Ph.D in Geography from University of California Santa Barbara. he did his M.A, in Geography from University of California Santa Barbara.. He complted B.S in Computer and Information Science at University of Oregon.He was Professor of Geography and Director of the Center for Natural & Technological Hazards at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. His research and teaching interests are environmental hazards, coupled natural-human systems, transportation, sustainability, and geographic information science. His primary focus is wildfire evacuation analysis and planning, but he has published on a variety of topics in many leading hazards, transportation and GIScience journals He served as Chair of the GIS Specialty Group and Hazards, Disasters & Risks Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers (AAG). In 2008, he was Program Chair for the International Conference of Geographic Information Science (GIScience '08) held in Park City, Utah. He teaches courses on environmental hazards, human-environmental systems, sustainability, and geographic information systems (GIS).
Environmental hazards
Coupled human-environmental systems
Emergency management
Transportation
Geographic Information Science