Dr. Joseph B. Harris
Geospatial Intelligence - Risk Management
PhD, Geography - Louisiana State University
MS, Geosciences - East Tennessee State University
BS, Geosciences - Austin Peay State University
Louisiana State University
Louisiana Emerging Technology Center
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Experience
Joseph has served as a Hazard Mitigation Analyst for the Stephenson Disaster Management Institute since 2014. Joseph manages GIS inventory including the creation, maintenance, and support on all GIS maps, tables, databases, and charts pertaining to parish-level hazard mitigation plans. He also creates Hazus flood and tropical cyclone loss estimation models in support of the Louisiana Parish Hazard Mitigation Plan Project and serves as the primary risk assessment technical author and developer. Joseph also serves as an Assistant Professor of Emergency Management at Massachusetts Maritime Academy in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts.
Education
Joseph earned his PhD in Geography with a minor in Disaster Science and Management from Louisiana State University in 2019. His doctoral dissertation focused on the future impacts of subsidence and tropical cyclone storm surge on industrial facilities along the lower Mississippi River industrial corridor. Dr. Harris also earned his MS in Geosciences from East Tennessee State University in 2014 and his BS in Geosciences with a minor in Geographic Information Systems from Austin Peay State University in 2012.