Professor Russell Blong
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Position: | Emeritus Professor |
| Office: | E7A 815 | |
| Telephone: | +612 9850 8397 | |
| Fax: | +612 9850 9394 | |
| Email: | russell.blong@mq.edu.au |
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.