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Department of Environment and Geography

Russell Blong

Email russell.-blongmq.-edu.-au
Position Emeritus Professor
Room No. E7A 801
Telephone+61-2-9850-8397
Fax +612 9850 9394

Profile

Professor Russell Blong is the former Director of Risk Frontiers (Natural Hazards Research Centre) and a Professorial Fellow in the Division of Environmental & Life Sciences. He holds Masters degrees in Geography (Auckland) and Engineering Science (UNSW) and a PhD in Geomorphology (Sydney).

He has been on the staff of Macquarie University since 1970. Russell has researched a wide range of natural hazards and their consequences but his passions include earthquake, volcanic and landslide hazards in Australia and the South Pacific.

His current interests include probable maximum loss estimates, building damage assessments, risk assessments and integrated risk rating. He has published four books and more than 120 research papers.

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