Malaika Ulmi
A/Director, GSC Pacific, Public Safety Geoscience Program Manager & GSC Sidney Subdivision Head at Geological Survey of Canada
Malaika Ulmi is a geoscientist with the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) who has worked for twenty years on the science-policy interface through natural hazard research and its applications. She started her career at the GSC as part of an international development project working with the national geoscience agencies of Argentina, Bolivia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela to better connect the geological survey organizations with civil defense and land use planning. She has seen geoscience-informed risk reduction in action through the Geological Survey of Canada’s Public Safety Geoscience Program as part of a project working to adapt FEMA’s Hazus tool for Canada, applying earthquake risk assessments at the municipal scale, communicating risk to practitioners, scaling up earthquake risk assessment to the national level, and now as the program manager connecting the program with stakeholders. Malaika lives on northern Vancouver Island and enjoys spending time on mountain trails with her family.
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