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Hazards, Risks, and Disasters Specialty Group
Gilbert F. White Award
The HRDSG encourages graduate students who have completed a hazards-related master’s thesis or PhD dissertation within the last two years to apply for the Gilbert F. White Thesis/Dissertation Award. The award is given to a graduate student whose recent thesis or dissertation is considered, by an appointed review committee, to be an outstanding example of hazards geography research. Graduate students must submit one complete copy of their thesis or dissertation in digital (PDF) format to the HRDSG Chair by the posted deadlines. Recipients of the Gilbert F. White Thesis/Dissertation Award receive a copy of the two-volume collection of White's papers (Geography, Resources, and Environment: Themes from the Work of Gilbert F. White, Univ. of Chicago Press), an invitation to the Hazards Workshop in Boulder, a certificate or plaque, and a $500 award. Winners are also invited to participate in the Gilbert F. White Award Symposium organized for the annual meeting the following year. The student’s research is showcased and discussion is invited from panelists and audience members.
2013: The Hazards, Risks & Disasters Specialty Group (HRDSG) encourages graduate students who have completed a hazards-related master's thesis or Ph.D. dissertation within the last two years to apply for the Gilbert F. White Thesis/Dissertation Award. The award is given to a graduate student whose recent thesis or dissertation is considered, by an appointed review committee, to be an outstanding example of hazards geography research. Graduate students must submit one complete copy of their thesis or dissertation in digital (PDF) format to Tom Cova, the HRDSG Chair (cova@geog.utah.edu) by March 8, 2013, and the winner(s) will be announced in Los Angeles at the Annual AAG Meeting in April.
White Award
Submission Information Past Winners
1994 Maurie Cohen,
University of Pennsylvania
"Economic Aspects of Technological Accidents: An
Evaluation of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill on Southcentral Alaska."
1995 No Award
1996 No Award
1997 Daanish
Mustafa, University of Hawaii
“Policy Implications of Flood Hazard in Pakistan”
1998 No Award
1999 Jerry Mitchell, University
of South Carolina
“Hazards, Religion, and Place: Prayer and Peril in South
Carolina”
2000 Barbara Hammer,
Kent State University
“Vehicle-Occupant Death Caused by Tornadoes in the
United States, 1900-1998”
2000 Michael Bonte,
Freie Universitat Berlin
“Conditions for Triggering Debris Flow in Pleistocene Substates of the Lainbach Valley”
2001 No Award
2002 Ronald R. Hagelman III, Texas State
University-San Marcos
"Spatial Evaluation of Urban Flood Hazard in San Antonio, Texas”
2003 No Award
2004 Tarek Rashed, San Diego State
University/University of California-Santa Barbara
"Measuring the Environmental Context of Social Vulnerability to
Urban Earthquake Hazards: An Integrative Remote Sensing and GIS Approach"
2005 David Call, Syracuse University
"Urban Snow
Events in Upstate New York: An Integrated Human and Physical Geographic
Analysis"
2006 Timothy Collins, Arizona State University
"The Production of Hazard Vulnerability: The Case of People,
Forests, and Fire in Arizona's White Mountains"
2007 Sara Grineski, Arizona State University
"Social Vulnerability, Environmental Inequity, and Childhood Asthma in
Phoenix, Arizona"
2008 No Award
2009 Erin P. Hughey, University of South Florida
Dissertation Award Winner:
"Longitudinal Study: The Impact of a Comprehensive Emergency Management System on Disaster Response in the Commonwealth of The Bahamas"
Anna J. Versluis, Clark University
Dissertation Award Honorable Mention:
"We All Live Downstream: Disaster, Land Change, and Reciprocity in a Haitian Watershed"
Giselle C. Perez, King's College London
Thesis Award Winner:
"Vulnerability in the Shadows: A Case Study on the San Diego Migrant Hazardscape in a 'War on Terror' Climate"
A. Case Watkins, Texas State University
Thesis Award Honorable Mention:
"Through the Lens of Katrina: A Historical Geography of the Social Patterns of Flood Exposure in New Orleans, 1970-2005"
2010 Monica Zappa, Northern Illinois University
"Assessing Human Vulnerability to Hurricanes: A Case Study of Bluefields, Nicaragua"
2011 Monalisa Chatterjee, Rutgers University
Dissertation Award Winner:
"Resilient Flood Loss Response Systems for Vulnerable Populations in Mumbai: A Neglected Alternative"
Tim Frazier, Penn State University
Dissertation Award Honorable Mention:
"Increasing Resilience to Contemporary and Future Hurricane Storm Surge through Adaptation Planning: A Case Study from Sarasota, Florida"
Dan Morath, University of South Carolina
Thesis Award Winner:
"Social Vulnerability and Public Health: Developing a Metric for Medical Emergency Management in Florida"
Peter Howe, Penn State University
Thesis Award Honorable Mention:
"Hurricane Risk Perceptions and Preparedness among Florida Business Owners"
2012 Eric Tate, University of South Carolina
Dissertation Award Winner:
"Indices of social vulnerability to hazards: uncertainty and sensitivity"
James Jeffers, Rutgers University
Dissertation Award Honorable Mention:
"Confronting climate: linking knowledge, values, and decision-making to vulnerability and adaptation in Ireland's coastal cities"
Anneliese Poetz, McMaster University
Dissertation Award Honorable Mention:
"Risk is a social thing, not just a mathematical thing: a model for the management of risk in institutional decision-making"
Chongming Wang, Penn State University
Thesis Award Winner:
"Trapped in place: the vulnerability of the elderly to hurricane hazards in Sarasota, Florida"