Student Information

Mathew C. Schmidtlein

• PhD. Student Geography, USC, Columbia, South Carolina
• M.S. Geography, 2005, USC, Columbia, South Carolina
• B.S. Geography, 2003, BYU, Provo, Utah

• Research Associate, Hazards Research Lab, University of South Caroliana
• Project Impact Coordinator, City of Provo, Utah
• GIS Hazard Mapping, City of Provo, Utah

• GIScience - ArcView 3.x, ArcGIS 8.x, ArcGIS 9.x, GeoDa, GWR 3.0, ERDAS Imagine
• Data handling and Statistical Packages- Microsoft Access and Excel, SPSS, SAS
• Programming - Java, C#, VB 6.0, VBA, ArcObjects
• Web - HTML, ASP.NET, XML
• Operating systems - Windows XP, Win 95/98

• Spatio-temporal changes in the social vulnerability of Charleston, SC. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. Chicago, Illinois. March 7-11, 2006.



• An SOM-based sensitivity analysis of the Social Vulnerability Index. Student Honors Competition, Sixtieth Annual Meeting, Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers. West Palm Beach, Florida. 20-22 November 2005.



• Hazard Vulnerability of U.S. Urban Areas. The 2005 Annual Hazards Research and Applications Workshop. Boulder, Colorado. 10-13 July 2005.



• The Spatial Distribution of Biophysical Vulnerability from Natural Hazards in the United States. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. Denver, Colorado.5-9 April 2005.



• Sensitivity of the SHELDUS Database to Changes in NCDC Storm Data Reporting. Meeting of the South Carolina Academy of Science. Charleston, South Carolina. 15-16 April 2004.

• Cutter, Susan L., Christopher T. Emrich, Jerry T. Mitchell, Bryan J. Boruff, Melanie Gall, Mathew C. Schmidtlein, Christopher G. Burton, and Ginni Melton. 2006. The long road home: race, class and recovery from Hurricane Katrina. Environment. 48(2):8-20.



• Mitchell, Jerry T., Andrew S. Edmonds, Susan L. Cutter, Mathew Schmidtlein, Reggie McCarn, Michael E. Hodgson, and Sonya Duhé. 2005. Evacuation behavior in response to the Graniteville, South Carolina, chlorine spill. Quick Response Research Report 178. Boulder, CO: Natural Hazards Center, University of Colorado. http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/qr/qr178/qr178.html.

• Lovingood Graduate Research Award recipient, 2006
• Grace and Allan Davis Scholarship Endowment recipient, 2005
• Community Emergency Response Training; Provo, Utah, 2003
• ATC-20 Post-earthquake Safety Evaluation of Buildings; Provo, Utah, 2003

• Graniteville, South Carolina: evacuation study following fatal train wreck and chlorine spill.
• Coastal Mississippi: post-Katrina and Wilma validation of surge models and image based damage assessments.