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Appendix A: Committee Biographical Information
Appendix A: Committee Biographical Information
Pages 81-90
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Army Corps of Engineers Interagency Performance Evaluation Taskforce that evaluated the social impacts of the New Orleans and Southeast Louisiana Hurricane Protection System in response to Hurricane Katrina. She has authored a Trends and Outlook report for the U.S.
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is a recently retired senior executive at CH2M HILL, where he was an executive leader in the engineering business lines of transportation, environment, water, industrial design, and related infrastructure. During his 18-year career at CH2M HILL, he served as vice chairman of the board with responsibilities for strategic planning, gov ernmental affairs, strategic communications, and leadership development, and also served in several other capacities including Transportation Business Group president, eastern region manager, senior vice president, federal programs direc tor, and principal-in-charge for two major transportation corridor projects in California.
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in civil engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. Patrick Crawford Feeding America Patrick Crawford coordinates disaster preparedness and relief efforts for the Feeding America Network.
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Crawford served as the director of the Midwest region for James Lee Witt Associates (JLWA) , a crisis and consequence management firm, where he led efforts in emergency preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation and provided strategic counsel and government relations advice to mitigate future flood losses near the Mississippi and Missouri rivers.
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He has explored using digital information gathered by remote sensing satellites to create spatial and environmental models of the planet, make maps, and create digital libraries of geographic information that can be widely accessed electronically. He has also developed mathematical models to help quantify the difference between these geographic measurements and the reality of the world outside, so that geographic information can be accurately used.
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Meredith Li-Vollmer Public Health, Seattle and King County Meredith Li-Vollmer is a risk communication specialist for Public Health, Seattle and King County, where she leads planning for communications during emergencies, with a particular focus on strengthening the capacity of public health to reach those most at risk during emergencies. In this role, she conducts audi ence research, directs public engagement projects, and develops strategies and materials for public outreach.
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While dean of the School of Public Health, she led the school in a national role in responding to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Her own interdisciplinary research has focused on gender, race, ethnicity, and culture, and their impact on public health and includes community participatory research methods, addressing health disparities, improving pregnancy outcomes, violence prevention, health literacy, and culturally appropriate delivery of health care.
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Climate Change Science Program. He directed the Future of Land Imaging Interagency Working Group, and served as National Science Technology Council director for the Subcommittee on Disaster Reduction and the Subcommittee on Water
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Earthquake Hazards team in Menlo Park, California, and also as regional coordinator for the USGS Northern California Earthquake Hazards Program. From 2003 to 2006, she was chair of the steering committee for the 1906 Earthquake Centennial Alliance, a nonprofit promoting public outreach on seismic safety and coordinat ing more than 280 groups and organizations that put on events to commemorate the 1906 earthquake.
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90 APPENDIX A Leadership, Innovation, and Outstanding Accomplishments in Earthquake Risk Reduction Award from the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (2006) , and the American Geophysical Union (AGU)
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