Natural Hazards and Disasters

Succeed in your course with Hyndman/Hyndman's NATURAL HAZARDS AND DISASTERS, 6e. The authors provide easy-to-understand coverage of the geological processes that underlie disasters, explore the impacts these processes and humans have on each other and analyze strategies to mitigate physical and financial harm. From timely information on recent natural disasters in the US and around the world, this fascinating book provides the up-to-date information needed to analyze potential hazards and take necessary steps to survive a natural disaster.

Donald Hyndman is an emeritus professor in the Department of Geology at the University of Montana, where he has taught courses in natural hazards, regional geology, igneous and metamorphic petrology, volcanology and advanced igneous petrology. He continues to lecture on natural hazards and study climate change and its effects on the atmosphere surface processes. Donald is co-originator and co-author of six books in the ROADSIDE GEOLOGY series, one on the geology of the Pacific Northwest and he has also written a textbook entitled PETROLOGY OF IGNEOUS METAMORPHIC ROCKS. His B.S. in Geological Engineering is from the University of British Columbia, and his Ph.D. in Geology is from the University of California Berkeley. He has received the Distinguished Teaching Award and the Distinguished Scholar Award, both given by the University of Montana.

David Hyndman, Donald's son, is a young star in the geological sciences. Since 2021, he has been Dean of the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics and an endowed professor of Geosciences at the University of Texas at Dallas. Before that, he was a full professor at Michigan State University after earning his PhD from Stanford University in 1995. In 2002, he received the Darcy Distinguished Lecturer award, a top award for a hydrogeologist. He received teaching awards at Michigan State University and was actively involved in teaching an Integrative Studies Natural Hazards course, one of the largest enrollment earth sciences courses in the country. He continues his long-time research on groundwater, its relationship to surface waters and their responses to climate change.