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Appendix F-- Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Pages 147-152

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... His research and communications efforts focus on programs and responsibilities for flood and coastal storm risk management, design of payment for ecosystem services programs, and development of evaluation protocols for ecosystem restoration and management projects, especially in the Everglades, coastal Louisiana and Chesapeake Bay. Among the specific topics related to those themes are applied research on permitting under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act, creating market-based incentives for water quality management and provision of ecosystem services, and design of collaborative water management institutions.
From page 148...
... Dr. Brockett is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute and a fellow of the Institute for Risk Management, the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
From page 149...
... He has served on NRC committees on pipeline safety, dam and levee safety, and lessons from Hurricane Katrina. His research interests include federal and state hazard mitigation planning mandates, integration of hazard mitigation plans with local comprehensive plans, and improvements in code enforcement to create disaster resilient communities.
From page 150...
... She has been conducting research on the social–environmental interface of natural and technological hazards, and disaster response, for 25 years. Her work includes studies of residential flood mitigation, hurricane response, coastal land loss effects, coastal fisheries, community risk assessment and risk management for coastal hazards, and evacuation of the vulnerable.
From page 151...
... He has chaired or been a member of ten NRC Committees, including the Committees on FEMA Flood Maps and FEMA Floodplain Mapping Technologies.
From page 152...
... 152 AFFORDABILITY OF NFIP PREMIUMS -- REPORT 1­ Nutrition Programs Using the American Community Survey and was a member of the Panel on the Design of the 2010 Census Program of Evaluations and Experiments, the Panel on Research on Future Census Methods, the Panel on Formula Allocations, and the Panel on Estimates of Poverty for Small Geographic Areas. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and a former chair of its Social Statistics Section.


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