Photograph by Larry Harwood, University of Colorado at Boulder.

Sylvia Dane
Sylvia Dane is editor of the award-winning Natural Hazards Observer, published by the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado. The Observer is a national forum for current issues in hazards, new research, important legislation, upcoming conferences, and new resources. Dane is currently a member of the Boulder Emergency Preparedness Council as well as a member of the University of Colorado Emergency Management Operations Group.

In addition to editing the Observer, Dane has edited numerous books and research papers on natural hazards, including Household and Community Recovery from Earthquakes; The Army Corps of Engineers and the Evolution of Federal Flood Plain Management Policy; Coastal Erosion: Has Retreat Sounded?; Drought and Natural Resources Management in the United States: Impacts and Implications of the 1987-89 Drought; and When the River Rises: Flood Control on the Boise River 1943-1985.

Prior to coming to the Natural Hazards Center, Dane worked as a research assistant and editor in the Division of Research and Evaluation at the Department of Community Planning and Development for the City of Boulder. She researched and wrote about numerous land use and public policy issues, including growth-control management, housing affordability, the provision and use of city services, homelessness, the needs of the elderly, and the needs of terminally ill patients and their families.

Dane holds a master’s degree in public administration from the Graduate School of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado at Denver (1997), and a B.S. in journalism from the University of Colorado at Boulder (1980).

Dane lives in the foothills west of Boulder, Colorado, with her husband, Mark, and their daughters, Ruth and Rachel.