Tara Lambeth, PhD, CFM, Assistant Director at University of New Orleans Center for Hazards Assessment, Response and Technology (UNO-CHART)

Tara Lambeth, PhD, CFM, Assistant Director at University of New Orleans Center for Hazards Assessment, Response and Technology (UNO-CHART)

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Dr. Tara Lambeth is the Assistant Director at UNO’s Center for Hazard Assessment, Response and Technology (UNO-CHART), and a Certified Floodplain Manager. She received a Doctor of Philosophy in Urban Studies from the University of New Orleans in 2016, and a Master of Science in City and Regional Planning from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. She is currently the Principal Investigator for a National Academy of Sciences Gulf Research Program grant, which is a collaboration with Louisiana Sea Grant and two United Houma Nation communities to document how environmental stressors affect the livelihoods of these communities and shape the mitigation strategies they use to protect their coastal lands. She also works on a similar research project in partnership with Louisiana Sea Grant, which explores the effects of sea level rise on coastal communities. Additionally, she served as the project manager for the Repetitive Loss Project, which, in partnership with FEMA Region VI, focuses on working with communities to reduce their number of flood losses. In addition, she managed the Community Education and Outreach projects, including the Community Continuity project, which focuses on enabling communities to be more resilient and able to bounce back from disastrous or hazardous events, the Risk Literacy project, which developed materials to teach storm preparedness and literacy skills simultaneously, and the Community Executives project, which educated public officials about resilience and risk management. Her dissertation addresses issues of community resilience, adaptation and climate change. 

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Education: PhD

Seniority: Manager, Director, Professor

Years of experience: 1 to 5 years

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