Geoscientist, Geohazards Manager

Malaika is a geoscientist with the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC). She is the manager of the Natural Hazards and Climate Change Geoscience Program which conducts research across Canada to support resilience to earthquakes, volcanoes, submarine and terrestrial landslides, tsunamis, coastal dynamics, permafrost, and glacier change. Her interests lie at the intersection of science and action. She has worked in South America with geoscience agencies leading strategic planning and supporting the development of standards in hazard mapping. She has undertaken field work in western Canada mapping Holocene volcanics in the Cascadia subduction zone and in the Arctic investigating seafloor geohazards.