Jonah Stinson, RI

Jonah Stinson

Jonah Stinson is a physical geographer with an affinity for linking an understanding of landscape patterns and processes with improved sustainability and community resilience. In recent years, Jonah has focused on natural hazards and the use of geoinformatics in disaster risk management and ecological risk analysis. Jonah received his masters in Geography from WWU in 2009 and currently works as a Research Associate with The Resilience Institute and The Institute of Environmental Toxicology. In addition, he holds an adjunct faculty position in the Department of Environmental Studies where he teaches Physical Geography.

Jonah has collaborative working experience in both public and private sectors and has worked on projects across the globe, ranging from disaster risk reduction projects in Guatemala and Taiwan (where he assessed earthquake-induced landslide hazard) to New Zealand and Mongolia (where he examined eolian geomorphology and desertification). While pursuing his Master’s degree in Geography, he developed a new hazard mitigation tool for the U.S. forest Service in the form of a GIS-based model for predicting landslide susceptibility. During this time, he also assisted in studying flood impacts and business recovery in the Chehalis basin and worked on Whirling Disease risk assessments throughout the southwestern U.S. Prior to coming to Western, Jonah worked as a geotechnical and environmental consulting geologist, as well as an environmental planning liaison with the U.S. Forest Service. Jonah is currently working on several integrated GIS-based ecological risk analysis projects, as well as examining earthquake-related hazards in Turkey.

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