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Appendix A: Committee Member Biographies
Appendix A: Committee Member Biographies
Pages 95-108
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government's response and recovery operations in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita throughout the Gulf Coast region. Other Coast Guard assignments included commander, Atlantic Area, where in 2001 he led the Coast Guard's Atlantic Area forces following the September 11 attacks.
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Martin Institute Professor of Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland; a faculty fellow of the Texas A&M University Institute for Advanced Study; and a visiting professor at the Galveston campus. His 38-year career in the military included positions such as commander of the Army Corps of Engineers District in Vicksburg, MS; member of the Mississippi River Commission; and professor and founding head of the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering and dean of the Academic Board at the U.S.
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His main areas of work include coastal hazards mitigation and climate adaptation in the United States, Caribbean, and Micronesia; habitat restoration and oyster reefs at risk; marine spatial planning in the United States and internationally; restoration investments following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill; and the nursery role of near-shore habitats such as kelp forests and on marine conservation agreements, including the lease and ownership of submerged lands.
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Army Corps of Engineers Interagency Performance Evaluation Task Force evaluating the social impacts of the New Orleans and Southeast Louisiana Hurricane Protection System in response to Hurricane Katrina, and was a juror for the Rebuild by Design competition for Hurricane Sandy reconstruction. Her policy-relevant work focuses on emergency management and disaster recovery
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Geological Survey, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security, South Carolina's Emergency Management Division and State Law Enforcement Division, and Florida's Department of Health.
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From 2005 to 2010, he held leadership roles at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; first, he was director of the National Center for Environmental Health and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, where he created programs in climate change and in healthy community design; launched training programs for college students, doctoral students, and postdocs; expanded its Biomonitoring and Environmental Public Health Tracking programs; and launched its National Conversation on Public Health and Chemical Exposures. Subsequently, he was special assistant to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director for climate change and health.
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has 35 years of experience in environmental public health and is professor and chair of the Department of Global Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University. Beginning in 1987, she served as one of the highest ranking environmental health scientists with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry designing research tools and protocols to guide national environmental health studies in communities located near hazardous waste sites, as well as sciencedriven policies, often accompanied by congressional testimonies.
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Recent work includes evaluations of the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Rebuild by Design formation following Hurricane Sandy; the National Disaster Resilience Competition's Resilience Academies; home rebuilding rates with Community Development Block Grants for Disaster Recovery; and the Rockefeller Foundation's 100 Resilient Cities. Publications
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He received the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute's Alquist Award in 2006 and the Housner Medal in 2017. He is a fellow of the American Council of Engineering Companies and the ASCE Structural Engineering Institute, and an honorary member of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute and the Structural Engineers Association of
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During her career, Dr. Ritchie has studied a range of disaster events, including the Exxon Valdez and BP Deepwater Horizon oil spills, the Tennessee Valley Authority coal ash release, Hurricane Katrina, and earthquakes in Haiti and New Zealand.
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STAFF BIOGRAPHIES Lauren Alexander Augustine is the director of Policy and Global Affairs's Program on Risk, Resilience, and Extreme Events at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The marquis program is the Resilient America Roundtable, a set of activities that uses science, analysis, and technology in combination with community engagement to build resilience to disasters and other disruptions in four U.S.
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Charlene Milliken is a senior program officer in Policy and Global Affairs's Resilient America Program at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine where she manages programs and projects focused on building community resilience to disasters; flood risk, resilience, preparedness, and mitigation; and community resilience measurement. Before joining the National Academies in 2015, she worked for 7 years in the Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate, where she was involved in programs and activities related to community resilience, terrorism, improvised explosive devices, technology transition, risk communication, and social media use during disasters.
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in environmental science and ecology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with a focus on hydrological processes and groundwater input in a tidal salt marsh along the Gulf coast of Florida.
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