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Appendix B: Biographical Information, Committee on Levees and the National Flood Insurance Program: Improving Policies and Practices
Appendix B: Biographical Information, Committee on Levees and the National Flood Insurance Program: Improving Policies and Practices
Pages 161-164
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He has served on several national and state committees that have reviewed levee and dam safety issues and concerns, including some panels supported by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. He received his B.S.
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on risk-based analysis for flood risk management studies, the EM on hydrologic engineering requirements for flood risk studies, and the EM on hydrologic analysis of interior areas. He also has prior National Research Council committee experience, most recently with the Water Science and Technology Board Committee on Hydrologic Science.
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Bush to provide leadership for some of the nation's leading multihazard risk reduction programs. In this role, he was the federal insurance administrator charged with the overall management of FEMA's National Flood Insurance Program.
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Dr. Rogers has served on numerous panels, including the Mississippi Delta Science & Engineering Special Team, the Coastal Louisiana Recovery Panel, the NSF Independent Levee Investigation Team and USGS Investigation Teams evaluating the impacts of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the NSF team evaluating the 2008 and 2011 Mississippi River floods, and the Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructure Networks team funded by NSF to make a 5-year examination of the California Bay Delta flood protection systems.
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