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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Pages 109-112

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From page 109...
... Lifetime Achieve- ance Program administrator for the city as well as the ment Award for his contributions to the application qualified local program administrator for delegation of GIS in water resources in 2003. He is a fellow of of National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System the International Water Resources Association and a Authority for the State of South Carolina.
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From page 110...
... Follow­ on water resource availability and hydrologic responses of ing Hurricane Floyd in 1999, North Carolina became both urban and natural watersheds, (2) representation of the first state in the nation to be designated a cooperating spatial variability of hydrologic properties and processes technical state under FEMA's Cooperating Technical in hydrologic models, (3)
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From page 111...
... He was Katrina Mitigation Assessment Team, North Carolina's the principal author of National Height Modernization floodplain mapping Cooperating Technical State comStudy -- Report to Congress, published by the National mittee (for which he reviews the coastal maps) , and Geodetic Survey in 1998, and editor and principal the National Institute of Building Sciences HAZUS author of both the first and the second editions of (Hazards, U.S.)
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From page 112...
... Schuckman the Department of Civil Engineering and Engineerfor EarthData include lidar acquisition for the North ing Mechanics and a professor in the Department of Carolina Floodplain Mapping Program, numerous Hydrology and Water Resources at the University of transportation mapping projects for state transportation Arizona. He joined the faculty in 1997 after serving departments, and technology demonstration projects for on the faculty of Texas A&M University and Simon NOAA, the National Aeronautics and Space Adminis- B ­ olivar University in Caracas, Venezuela.
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Key Terms

  • water resources
  • mapping program
  • oceanographic engineering
  • lidar data
  • mapping technologies

  • coastal ocean
  • storm surge
  • flood insurance
  • national floodplain
  • including floodplain

  • floodplain management
  • land surveyor
  • ocean observing
  • civil engineering
  • usgs national

  • carolina floodplain
  • technical state
  • cooperating technical
  • coastal management
  • program administrator

  • natural hazards
  • carolina coastal
  • marine science
  • professional land
  • continuing education

  • state transportation
  • including geospatial
  • grid hydrodynamics
  • research consulting
  • urban hazards


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