Staff profile

Since 1 March 2023, I have been the Wilson Chair of Hazard and Risk, and the Executive Director of the Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience (IHRR), Durham University, where I am also affiliated with the Geography Department.

My research focuses on multi-hazard interrelationships along with single hazard research in landslides, earthquakes, floods and wildfires. Research subthemes include anthropogenic processes, invasive species, time-series analyses, mathematical models, visualization, complexity, confronting models with data, and communicating science.

Previous to coming to Durham University, I received a BA in physics from Reed College (1986), spent two years in the US Peace Corps (1986-1988) as a high-school teacher of chemistry/physics in Niger, West Africa, and three years at Stanford Linear Accelerator (1988-1991) as an accelerator operation and operations engineer. I then received a PhD in geophysics/stratigraphy from Cornell University (1998) working with Terry Jordan and Don Turcotte, after which I was a Fulbright Fellow (1998-1999) studying natural hazards at IANIGLA in Mendoza, Argentina. Most recently (9/2000−2/2023), and the majority of my academic career, I spent a very enjoyable 22.5 years as Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader and then Professor of Natural & Environmental Hazards in the Geography Department, King’s College London.

I was President for four years (2007−2011) of the Natural Hazards Division of the European Geosciences Union (EGU), Programme Committee Chair for the EGU General Assembly (2010-2011) and Programme Co-Chair of the AOGS–EGU Conference Series on New Dimensions for Natural Hazards in Asia (2018−2022).

From 2015-2022, I was PI on 6 research grants (£1.9M to KCL, NERC/EC/FCDO/DFID/ESA) and Co-I on 5 research grants (£2.8M to KCL, NERC/EC/ESRC/GCRF), particularly acting as workpackage or theme leader on multi-hazard interrelationships.

I am also executive editor of Natural Hazards & Earth System Sciences (NHESS) and have authorship on >80 peer-review publications with >10,000 citations (Google Scholar) to my publications.

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Chapter in book

• Malamud, BD & Turcotte, DL (1999). Self-affine time series: I. Generation and analyses. In ADVANCES IN GEOPHYSICS, VOL 40: LONG-RANGE PERSISTENCE IN GEOPHYSICAL TIME SERIES. Dmowska, R & Saltzman, B 525 B STREET, SUITE 1900, SAN DIEGO, CA 92101-4495 USA: ELSEVIER ACADEMIC PRESS INC. 40: 1-90.

Conference Paper

• Moreno, V. M., Malamud, B. D. & Chuvieco, E. (2011), Wildfire Frequency-Area Statistics in Spain, in Stein, A, Pebesma, E & Heuvelink, G eds, Procedia Environmental Sciences 7: SPATIAL STATISTICS 2011: MAPPING GLOBAL CHANGE Twente Univ, Fac Geoinformat Sci \& Earth Observat (ITC); Wageningen Univ; Univ Muenster. SARA BURGERHARTSTRAAT 25, PO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS, ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, 182-187.
• Malamud, Bruce D. & Turcotte, Donald L. (2006), An inverse cascade explanation for the power-law frequency - area statistics of earthquakes, landslides and wildfires, in Cello, G & Malamud, BD eds, Geological Society Special Publication 261: FRACTAL ANALYSIS FOR NATURAL HAZARDS. UNIT 7, BRASSMILL ENTERPRISE CTR, BRASSMILL LANE, BATH BA1 3JN, AVON, ENGLAND, GEOLOGICAL SOC PUBLISHING HOUSE, 1+.
• Millington, James D. A., Perry, George L. W. & Malamud, Bruce D. (2006), Models, data and mechanisms: qQuantifying wildfire regimes, in Cello, G & Malamud, BD eds, Geological Society Special Publication 261: FRACTAL ANALYSIS FOR NATURAL HAZARDS. UNIT 7, BRASSMILL ENTERPRISE CTR, BRASSMILL LANE, BATH BA1 3JN, AVON, ENGLAND, GEOLOGICAL SOC PUBLISHING HOUSE, 155+.
• Turcotte, Donald L., Malamud, Bruce D., Guzzetti, Fausto & Reichenbach, Paola (2006), A general landslide distribution applied to a small inventory in Todi, Italy, in Cello, G & Malamud, BD eds, Geological Society Special Publication 261: FRACTAL ANALYSIS FOR NATURAL HAZARDS. UNIT 7, BRASSMILL ENTERPRISE CTR, BRASSMILL LANE, BATH BA1 3JN, AVON, ENGLAND, GEOLOGICAL SOC PUBLISHING HOUSE, 105+.
• McSharry, PE & Malamud, BD (2005), Quantifying self-similarity in cardiac inter-beat interval time series, Computers in Cardiology Series 32: COMPUTERS IN CARDIOLOGY 2005, VOL 32 INSERM; INSA; HCL; UCBL; IEEE; European Soc Cardiol; Reg Council Rhone Alpes; French Minist Hlth \& Res; French Minist Sante Solidarites; French Minist Delegue Rech. 345 E 47TH ST, NEW YORK, NY 10017 USA, IEEE, 459-462.

Journal Article

• Kreibich, Heidi, de Ruiter, Marleen C., Goda, Katsuichiro, Keiler, Margreth, Suppasri, Anawat & Malamud, Bruce D. (2022). Critical research in the water-related multi-hazard field. NATURE SUSTAINABILITY 5(2): 90-91.
• De Angeli, Silvia, Malamud, Bruce D., Rossi, Lauro, Taylor, Faith E., Trasforini, Eva & Rudari, Roberto (2022). A multi-hazard framework for spatial-temporal impact analysis. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISASTER RISK REDUCTION 73: 102829.
• Tilloy, Alois, Malamud, Bruce D. & Joly-Laugel, Amelie (2022). A methodology for the spatiotemporal identification of compound hazards: wind and precipitation extremes in Great Britain (1979-2019). EARTH SYSTEM DYNAMICS 13(2): 993-1020.
• Trogrlic, Robert Sakic, Donovan, Amy & Malamud, Bruce D. (2022). Invited perspectives: Views of 350 natural hazard community members on key challenges in natural hazards research and the Sustainable Development Goals. NATURAL HAZARDS AND EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES 22(8): 2771-2790.
• Gill, Joel C., Malamud, Bruce D., Barillas, Edy Manolo & Noriega, Alex Guerra (2020). Construction of regional multi-hazard interaction frameworks, with an application to Guatemala. NATURAL HAZARDS AND EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES 20(1): 149-180.
• Taylor, Faith E., Millington, James D. A., Jacob, Ezekiel, Malamud, Bruce D. & Pelling, Mark (2020). Messy maps: Qualitative GIS representations of resilience. LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING 198: 103771.
• Tilloy, Alois, Malamud, Bruce D., Winter, Hugo & Joly-Laugel, Amelie (2020). Evaluating the efficacy of bivariate extreme modelling approaches for multi-hazard scenarios. NATURAL HAZARDS AND EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES 20(8): 2091-2117.
• Taylor, Faith E., Tarolli, Paolo & Malamud, Bruce D. (2020). Preface: Landslide-transport network interactions. NATURAL HAZARDS AND EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES 20(10): 2585-2590.
• Sperling, Samuel, Wooster, Martin J. & Malamud, Bruce D. (2020). Influence of Satellite Sensor Pixel Size and Overpass Time on Undercounting of Cerrado/Savannah Landscape-Scale Fire Radiative Power (FRP): An Assessment Using the MODIS Airborne Simulator. FIRE-SWITZERLAND 3(2): 11.
• Tilloy, Alois, Malamud, Bruce D., Winter, Hugo & Joly-Laugel, Amelie (2019). A review of quantification methodologies for multi-hazard interrelationships. EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS 196.
• Taylor, Faith E., Malamud, Bruce D., Witt, Annette & Guzzetti, Fausto (2018). Landslide shape, ellipticity and length-to-width ratios. EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS 43(15): 3164-3189.
• Reichenbach, Paola, Rossi, Mauro, Malamud, Bruce D., Mihir, Monika & Guzzetti, Fausto (2018). A review of statistically-based landslide susceptibility models. EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS 180: 60-91.
• Turbelin, Anna J., Malamud, Bruce D. & Francis, Robert A. (2017). Mapping the global state of invasive alien species: patterns of invasion and policy responses. GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY 26(1): 78-92.
• Witt, Annette, Malamud, Bruce D., Mangili, Clara & Brauer, Achim (2017). Analysis and modelling of a 9.3 kyr palaeoflood record: correlations, clustering, and cycles. HYDROLOGY AND EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES 21(11): 5547-5581.
• Gill, Joel C. & Malamud, Bruce D. (2017). Anthropogenic processes, natural hazards, and interactions in a multi-hazard framework. EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS 166: 246-269.
• Malamud, Bruce D., Turcotte, Donald L. & Brooks, Harold E. (2016). Spatial-temporal clustering of tornadoes. NATURAL HAZARDS AND EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES 16(12): 2823-2834.
• Gill, Joel C. & Malamud, Bruce D. (2016). Hazard interactions and interaction networks (cascades) within multi-hazard methodologies. EARTH SYSTEM DYNAMICS 7(3): 659-679.
• Taylor, Faith E., Malamud, Bruce D., Freeborough, Katy & Demeritt, David (2015). Enriching Great Britain's National Landslide Database by searching newspaper archives. GEOMORPHOLOGY 249(SI): 52-68.
• Bjorkegren, A. B., Grimmond, C. S. B., Kotthaus, S. & Malamud, B. D. (2015). CO2 emission estimation in the urban environment: Measurement of the CO2 storage term. ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT 122: 775-790.
• Gill, Joel C. & Malamud, Bruce D. (2014). Reviewing and visualizing the interactions of natural hazards. REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS 52(4): 680-722.
• Parkes, B. L., Wetterhall, F., Pappenberger, F., He, Y., Malamud, B. D. & Cloke, H. L. (2013). Assessment of a 1-hour gridded precipitation dataset to drive a hydrological model: a case study of the summer 2007 floods in the Upper Severn, UK. HYDROLOGY RESEARCH 44(1): 89-105.
• Witt, Annette & Malamud, Bruce D. (2013). Quantification of Long-Range Persistence in Geophysical Time Series: Conventional and Benchmark-Based Improvement Techniques. SURVEYS IN GEOPHYSICS 34(5): 541-651.
• Malamud, B. D. & Turcotte, D. L. (2012). Statistics of severe tornadoes and severe tornado outbreaks. ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS 12(18): 8459-8473.
• Newman, William I., Turcotte, Donald L. & Malamud, Bruce D. (2012). Emergence of patterns in random processes. PHYSICAL REVIEW E 86(2, 2): 026103.
• Sachs, M. K., Yoder, M. R., Turcotte, D. L., Rundle, J. B. & Malamud, B. D. (2012). Black swans, power laws, and dragon-kings: Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides, wildfires, floods, and SOC models. EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL-SPECIAL TOPICS 205(1): 167-182.
• Blackett, Matthew, Wooster, Martin J. & Malamud, Bruce D. (2011). Exploring land surface temperature earthquake precursors: A focus on the Gujarat (India) earthquake of 2001. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 38: L15303.
• Pereira, M. G., Malamud, B. D., Trigo, R. M. & Alves, P. I. (2011). The history and characteristics of the 1980-2005 Portuguese rural fire database. NATURAL HAZARDS AND EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES 11(12): 3343-3358.
• Malamud, B. D., Turcotte, D. L. & Grimmond, C. S. B. (2011). Temperature trends at the Mauna Loa observatory, Hawaii. CLIMATE OF THE PAST 7(3): 975-983.
• Yiou, P., Malamud, B. D. & Rust, H. W. (2011). ``Extreme Events: Nonlinear Dynamics and Time Series Analysis'' Preface. NONLINEAR PROCESSES IN GEOPHYSICS 18(6): 895-897.
• Ghil, M., Yiou, P., Hallegatte, S., Malamud, B. D., Naveau, P., Soloviev, A., Friederichs, P., Keilis-Borok, V., Kondrashov, D., Kossobokov, V., Mestre, O., Nicolis, C., Rust, H. W., Shebalin, P., Vrac, M., Witt, A. & Zaliapin, I. (2011). Extreme events: dynamics, statistics and prediction. NONLINEAR PROCESSES IN GEOPHYSICS 18(3): 295-350.
• Blackett, Matthew, Wooster, Martin J. & Malamud, Bruce D. (2011). Exploring land surface temperature earthquake precursors: A focus on the Gujarat (India) earthquake of 2001 (vol 38, L15303, 2011). GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 38.
• Newman, William I., Malamud, Bruce D. & Turcotte, Donald L. (2010). Statistical properties of record-breaking temperatures. PHYSICAL REVIEW E 82(6, 2): 066111.
• Rossi, Mauro, Witt, Annette, Guzzetti, Fausto, Malamud, Bruce D. & Peruccacci, Silvia (2010). Analysis of historical landslide time series in the Emilia-Romagna region, northern Italy. EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS 35(10): 1123-1137.
• Witt, Annette, Malamud, Bruce D., Rossi, Mauro, Guzzetti, Fausto & Peruccacci, Silvia (2010). Temporal correlations and clustering of landslides. EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS 35(10): 1138-1156.
• Millington, James D. A., Wainwright, John, Perry, George L. W., Romero-Calcerrada, Raul & Malamud, Bruce D. (2009). Modelling Mediterranean landscape succession-disturbance dynamics: A landscape fire-succession model. ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING \& SOFTWARE 24(10): 1196-1208.
• Gosling, Simon N., Lowe, Jason A., McGregor, Glenn R., Pelling, Mark & Malamud, Bruce D. (2009). Associations between elevated atmospheric temperature and human mortality: a critical review of the literature. CLIMATIC CHANGE 92(3-4): 299-341.
• Freeborn, Patrick H., Wooster, Martin J., Roberts, Gareth, Malamud, Bruce D. & Xu, Weidong (2009). Development of a virtual active fire product for Africa through a synthesis of geostationary and polar orbiting satellite data. REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT 113(8): 1700-1711.
• Malamud, Bruce D. & Turcotte, Donald L. (2006). The applicability of power-law frequency statistics to floods. JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY 322(1-4): 168-180.
• Main, Ian, Malamud, Bruce, Bean, Chris & McCloskey, John (2006). Scale in structure and dynamics. ASTRONOMY \& GEOPHYSICS 47(6): 24-25.
• Rundle, JB, Rundle, PB, Donnellan, A, Turcotte, DL, Shcherbakov, R, Li, P, Malamud, BD, Grant, LB, Fox, GC, McLeod, D, Yakovlev, G, Parker, J, Klein, W & Tiampo, KF (2005). A simulation-based approach to forecasting the next great San Francisco earthquake. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 102(43): 15363-15367.
• Malamud, BD, Turcotte, DL, Guzzetti, F & Reichenbach, P (2005). Landslides, earthquakes, and erosion (vol 229, pg 45, 2004). EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS 231(1-2): 161-162.
• Malamud, BD, Morein, G & Turcotte, DL (2005). Log-periodic behavior in a forest-fire model. NONLINEAR PROCESSES IN GEOPHYSICS 12(5): 575-585.
• Malamud, BD, Millington, JDA & Perry, GLW (2005). Characterizing wildfire regimes in the United States. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 102(13): 4694-4699.
• Malamud, BD, Turcotte, DL, Guzzetti, F & Reichenbach, P (2004). Landslides, earthquakes, and erosion. EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS 229(1-2): 45-59.
• Malamud, BD (2004). Tails of natural hazards. PHYSICS WORLD 17(8): 31-35.
• Malamud, BD, Turcotte, DL, Guzzetti, F & Reichenbach, P (2004). Landslide inventories and their statistical properties. EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS 29(6): 687-711.
• Turcotte, DL & Malamud, BD (2004). Landslides, forest fires, and earthquakes: examples of self-organized critical behavior. PHYSICA A-STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS 340(4): 580-589.
• Malamud, BD & Turcotte, DL (2003). Shelf record of climatic changes in flood magnitude and frequency, north-coastal California: Comment. GEOLOGY 31(3): 288.
• Turcotte, DL, Malamud, BD, Guzzetti, F & Reichenbach, P (2002). Self-organization, the cascade model, and natural hazards. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 99(1): 2530-2537.
• Guzzetti, F, Malamud, BD, Turcotte, DL & Reichenbach, P (2002). Power-law correlations of landslide areas in central Italy. EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS 195(3-4): PII S0012-821X(01)00589-1, 169-183.
• Turcotte, DL, Shcherbakov, R, Malamud, BD & Kucinskas, AB (2002). Is the Martian crust also the Martian elastic lithosphere? JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS 107(E11): 5091.
• Malamud, BD & Turcotte, DL (2001). Wavelet analyses of Mars polar topography. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS 106(E8): 17497-17504.
• Kossobokov, VG, Keilis-Borok, VI, Turcotte, DL & Malamud, BD (2000). Implications of a statistical physics approach for earthquake hazard assessment and forecasting. PURE AND APPLIED GEOPHYSICS 157(11-12): 2323-2349.
• Malamud, BD & Turcotte, DL (2000). Cellular-automata models applied to natural hazards. COMPUTING IN SCIENCE \& ENGINEERING 2(3): 42-51.
• Rundle, J, Klein, W, Turcotte, DL & Malamud, BD (2000). Precursory seismic activation and critical-point phenomena. PURE AND APPLIED GEOPHYSICS 157(11-12): 2165-2182.
• Malamud, BD & Turcotte, DL (1999). Self-organized criticality applied to natural hazards. NATURAL HAZARDS 20(2-3): 93-116.
• Turcotte, D, Malamud, BD, Morein, G & Newman, WI (1999). An inverse-cascade model for self-organized critical behavior. PHYSICA A 268(3-4): 629-643.
• Malamud, BD & Turcotte, DL (1999). How many plumes are there? EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS 174(1-2): 113-124.
• Malamud, BD & Turcotte, DL (1999). Self-affine time series: measures of weak and strong persistence. JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL PLANNING AND INFERENCE 80(1-2): 173-196.
• Turcotte, DL, Morein, G, Roberts, D & Malamud, BD (1999). Catastrophic resurfacing and episodic subduction on Venus. ICARUS 139(1): 49-54.
• Malamud, BD, Morein, G & Turcotte, DL (1998). Forest fires: An example of self-organized critical behavior. SCIENCE 281(5384): 1840-1842.
• Pelletier, JD, Malamud, BD, Blodgett, T & Turcotte, DL (1997). Scale-invariance of soil moisture variability and its implications for the frequency-size distribution of landslides. ENGINEERING GEOLOGY 48(3-4): 255-268.
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