Harman Singh

Harman Singh is a postdoctoral scholar in Geography at Penn State, where she studies disasters and crises, particularly focusing on community resilience and spatial vulnerability challenges, using mixed methods. Her postdoctoral position is supported by an NSF-NIH grant, "Measuring Human Behavior and Ecological Dimensions of Pathogen Transmission for Outbreak Control and Prevention." She holds a dual-title PhD in Geography and Climate Science from Penn State, and her research has been published in journals such as the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Environmental Research: Climate, Environmental Education Research, and Children's Geographies. Her cartographic work spans several community-engaged projects, including Penn State's Community Impact Map, a kiosk map for the Centre County Disc Golf Association, and a land-cover dashboard built with ClearWater Conservancy. She co-designed Penn State Geography's first Community Mapping Day and received the 2026 Myers Award for Excellence in Cartographic Design. Harman is president emerita of the NSF Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) Graduate Student Council, serves on the policy advocacy committee of the North American Alliance of Hazards and Disasters Research Institutes, and is a student editorial assistant for Cartographic Perspectives. She has supported teaching in cartography, visualization, and spatial analysis (GEOG 361, 364, 464, and 486). Within the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, Harman leads the Postdocs of Earth and Mineral Sciences (PoEMS) society.