The Life Scientific: Bruce Malamud
Discovery
BBC
4.3 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
From landslides and wildfires to floods and tornadoes, Bruce Malamud has spent his career travelling the world and studying natural hazards.
Today, he is Wilson Chair of Hazard and Risk and executive director of the Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience at Durham University - but as he tells Jim al-Khalili, a lifelong passion for discovery has taken Bruce from volunteering with the Peace Corps in West Africa and a Fulbright Fellowship in Argentina, to fieldwork in India; not only studying hazards themselves, but also the people they affect - and building up the character and resilience to overcome personal tragedy along the way.
Over the years, his work in the field has opened up new ways of understanding such events: from statistical modelling to show how groups of hazards occur, to examining the cascading relationships between multiple hazards. And today, his focus is on projects that can bring tangible benefits to people at serious risk from environmental hazards - finding innovative ways to help them to better manage that threat.
(Photo: Bruce Malamud. Credit: Bruce Malamud)
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| 0:57.8 | This is the world that has captivated today's guest over the course of a career that's |
| 1:01.8 | taken him all over the globe, studying natural hazards. |
| 1:05.5 | Bruce Malamard is Wilson Chair of Hazard and Risk and Executive Director of the Institute |
| 1:10.6 | of Hazard Risk and Resilience at Durham University. |
| 1:13.8 | His work in natural hazards has opened up new ways of understanding these events, from |
| 1:18.3 | statistical models to show how groups of hazards occur to examining the cascading relationship |
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