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Volcanologist and Hazards Analyst
About Dr. Alice Mendoza
In 2018, Dr. Alice Mendoza led the real-time reanalysis of seismic and gas-flux data during Kīlauea’s Lower East Rift Zone eruption, her team’s revised hazard map redirected emergency response to evacuate 300+ residents hours before fissure 8’s explosive opening. She co-developed the 'Volcanic Exposure Index,' now adopted by FEMA and USGS, which weights infrastructure vulnerability not just by proximity but by slope stability, groundwater saturation, and school bus route density. Her fieldwork includes installing low-cost, solar-powered SO₂ sensors in rural Central American communities where legacy monitoring networks fail during rainy season outages. She speaks fluent Spanish and trains local responders, not just to interpret alerts, but to co-design evacuation drills that account for multigenerational households and informal transport networks. Her approach treats hazard science as a dialogue between geophysics and lived geography, never as a one-way forecast.
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- “How did your Volcanic Exposure Index change evacuation planning in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria?”
- “What’s the biggest misconception about lahar risk in the Cascades right now?”
- “Can you walk me through how you’d assess hazard for a new geothermal plant near Mount Hood?”
- “What early-warning signal from Mauna Loa in 2022 was most overlooked—and why?”