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Appendix E Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Appendix E Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Pages 177-184
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Remote Sensing/GIS Center and has served as the program manager for the Corps' civil works geospatial research and development program since its inception in 1998. Since 1991, he has conducted research on the application of geospatial technologies to disaster preparedness, planning, and response, and since 1999, he has been integrating these technologies into the USACE emergency management processes.
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Susan L Cutter is the director of the Hazards Research Lab, a research and training center that integrates geographical information processing techniques with hazards analysis and management, as well as a Carolina Distinguished Professor of Geography at the University of South Carolina.
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Campbell Public Affairs Institute at Syracuse University. She also has 20 years of training and field experience in an array of emergency services-related fields, including managing a 911 communications center and working as a firefighter and emergency medical technician in Fairbanks, Alaska, and upstate New York.
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funded PERSIVAL medical digital library, the NSF and Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) supported Digital Government Research Center joint with University of Southern California-ISI, the TIDES (Translingual Information Detection, Extraction, and Summarization)
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Dr. Monmonier has received numerous awards, including the Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography, and awards from the Canadian Cartographic Association, the American Geographical Society, the Pennsylvania Geographical Society, and the Association of American Geographers.
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He has directed emergency management programs around the United States for 25 years and has also served as a county fire marshal, fire and rescue commissioner, and county safety officer.
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Stanley served as the discipline expert for major sporting events (Olympics, Special Olympics, World Cup, Super Bowls, World Series, National Basketball Association Championships) , national political conventions, and the Papal and World Youth Conference in Denver in 1994.
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Before coming to the National Academies, he interned at Human Rights Watch's Arms Division, working on the 2004 edition of the Landmine Monitor Report. Jared received his A.B.
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