Laura Norman 2022

Laura Norman 2022 image. Dr. Laura M. Norman is a research scientist and principal

investigator in the Land Change Science Program at the

Western Geographic Science Center of the U.S. Geological

Survey. She has conducted international research for

decades, exploring proactive management solutions,

advantageous to shared environments via complex

models that describe sediment transport and

geomorphology, land use change and urban sprawl,

watershed restoration, hydrologic response, hydraulics,

and two-dimensional flow. Her research is focused on

transboundary watersheds of the US-Mexico border and

Tribal lands, where environmental and socioeconomic

stressors disproportionately affect human health, wellbeing,

and quality of life. In September 2021, she was

selected by the U.S. Department of State as a Climate

Embassy Science Fellow to work with partners from the

Mexican Consulate and Municipal to reduce vulnerability

and increase local capacity to respond to flooding and

drought.