Lucinda Coates

Lucinda Coates Email: lcoates@ocs1.ocs.mq.edu.au Phone: +61 2 9850 9684 Fax: +61 2 9850 9394

Lucinda Coates

Lucinda Coates has recently returned to Risk Frontiers after a few years' stint at Forests NSW. She had been a Risk Scientist with the former Natural Hazards Research Centre since its formation in 1994. Even further back, she was involved in the initial compilation of historical records of Australian natural hazards. This record has now evolved to a complex relational database with Lucinda playing a key role in the transformation. The databases focus on historical spatial and temporal fatality trends for nine natural perils - tropical cyclones, floods, bushfires, wind gusts, hail falls, earthquakes, tornadoes, landslides and tsunamis - and include around 5,000 events from the last 100 years.

Lucinda holds a Graduate Diploma and an MSc in Geosciences, and has a wealth of experience in literature research and data analysis. Recent/current projects include bushfire fatalities and decision analysis; flash flood fatalities, damage and consequences and, of course, the continued updating, maintenance and development of Risk Frontiers' unique databases on the occurrence and consequences of natural hazards in Australia. Lucinda also manages a small reference library.