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Advanced Warning and Response Network (AWARN)

• John Lawson, Executive Director, Homepage

AinShams University

• Wesam AbdElhamid Mohamed, Demonstrator at Structural Engineering, Homepage

Alabama Emergency Management Agency

• Kim Bryant, Hazard Mitigation Specialist

Al Jaber Engineering

• Tabenteh Tabe Tabenth, Homepage

Arizona State University 

• Zhiming Zhang, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Homepage

Arcadis, US

• Keren Bolter, Climate Expert, Homepage

Atkins

• Scott Tezak, Vice President DHS Division, Homepage

Auburn University

• David Roueche, Assistant Professor and Associate Director for Data Standards for the NSF NHERI Structural Extreme Events Reconnaissance (StEER) program, Homepage

Blue Sapphire Strategies

• Pamela Berkowsky, President, Homepage

City Of Fernandina Beach

• Stephen Beckman, Building Director/Floodplain Administrator, Homepage

Clarkson University

• Pedro L. Fernández-Cabán, Assistant Professor, Homepage 

Clemson University

• William Chin, Research Assistant, Homepage   

Cleveland State University

• Wei Zhang, Associate Professor, Homepage

CDM Smith 

• Manny Perotin, Senior Project Manager, Homepage

CNN Weather

• Dave Hennen, Senior Meteorologist and Executive Producer, Homepage

Cummins | Cederberg

• Danielle Irwin, Director, Homepage   
• Katie Britt William, Project Manager, Homepage 
• Penny Cutt, Director, Homepage 

Dalhousie University

• Haorui Wu, Assistant Professor, Homepage
• Julia Guimond, Postdoctoral Fellow, Homepage  

Department of environmental protection

• Jorge Lagos, GIS Coordinator, Homepage

Department of Natural Resources

• Jill Andrews, Chief of Coastal Management, Coastal Resources Division, Homepage 

Department of Planning & Natural Resources

• Hilary Lohmann, Coastal Resilience Coordinator, Division of Coastal Zone Management, Homepage 
• Kitty Edwards, Education & Outreach Coordinator, Division of Coastal Zone Management, Homepage

dixie county Emergency services 

• Scott Garner, EM Director, Homepage   

emory university

• Talea Mayo, Assistant Professor, Homepage    

east carolina university

• Rachel Gittman, Assistant Professor, Homepage 

Environmental Defense Fund

• Glenda Chen, Research Fellow, Homepage 

Federal Alliance for Safe Homes (FLASH)

• Leslie Chapman-Henderson, President and CEO, Homepage

Florida A&M University

• Mila Turner, Assistant Professor, Homepage

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

• Christine Hanson, Chief, Operations Integration Branch, Homepage
• Daniel Bass, Architect and Mitigation Assessment Team (MAT) Manager, Building Science Branch, Homepage
• Samuel Moses Wilkins, GIS Team, Homepage
• Warren DeTemple, Emergency Management Program Specialist, Homepage 

Flood Barrier America, Inc.

• Zachary Cutler, CEO, Homepage 

Florida Department of Economic Opportunity

• Melissa Corbett, Community Resilience Planner, Homepage

Florida Department of environmental protection

• Keith Laakkonen, Program Administrator, Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Homepage  
• Ty Amorosano, Coastal Engineer, Homepage   

Florida institute of technology

• Chelakara Subramanian, Professor, Homepage
• Hadley Besing, Ph.D. Student, Homepage
• Jean-Paul Pinelli, Professor, Homepage
• Soundarya Sridhar, Research Assistant, Homepage 
• Steven Lazarus, Professor, Homepage 

Florida International University

• Amal Elawady, Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor and Associate Director of the NSF NHERI Wall of Wind Experimental Facility, Homepage
• Steven Diaz, Site Operations Manager, NSF NHERI NSF NHERI Wall of Wind Experimental Facility, Homepage

Florida State University

• Tarek Abichou, Professor, Homepage 

FOX Weather

• Mike McClain, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Homepage

Fujian University of Technology 

• Yuepeng Cui, Homepage

george mason university

• Celso Ferreira, Associate Professor, Homepage
• Homa Haghighi, Graduate Teaching Assistant, Homepage 

Golestan University

• Ali Biglari, Assistant Professor, Homepage   

HAAG ENGINEERING CO.

• Tim Marshall, Engineer/Meteorologist, Homepage 

hdr inc.

• Hugo Bermudez, Coastal Business Class Director, Homepage  

IEM

• Bryan Koon, Vice President, Homeland Security and Emergency Management, Homepage

International Business Machines (ibm)

• Jonathan Belles, Digital Meteorologist, Homepage   

Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety

• Anne Cope, Chief Engineer, Homepage
• Ian Giammanco, Lead Research Meteorologist, Homepage
• Tanya Brown-Giammanco, Managing Director of Research, Homepage

Iowa State University

• Alice Alipour, Associate Professor, Homepage

ISeeChange Miami

• Claudia Sebastiani, Community Manager, Homepage

 Islamic Azad University of Arak

• Mohammad Ashrafy, Ph.D., Associate Researcher, Homepage

Lee County DNR

• Steve Boutelle, Marine Operations Manager, Homepage

Lehigh University

• Xinyue Wang, Student, Homepage

Louisiana State University

• Aly Mousaad Aly, Homepage
• Jasmine Bekkaye, NSF Graduate Research Fellow, Homepage  
• Navid Jafari, Assistant Professor, Homepage
• Steve C.S. Cai, Professor, Homepage  

MDT and Associates

• Mark Taylor, President, Homepage

Michael Baker International

• Muthu Narayanaswamy, Director of Innovation, Homepage 

Mississippi State University

• Alyssa Rodolfich, Extension Program Assistant, Homepage
• Eric Sparks, Director, Coastal and Marine Extension, Homepage

Monmouth University Urban Coast Institute

• Tom Herrington, Associate Director, Urban Coast Institute, Homepage

MTS systems Corporation

• Shawn You, Staff Engineer, Homepage  

MyRadar

• Leslie Hudson, Chief Meteorologist, Homepage

Nassau County 

• Gregory Foster, Director, Emergency Management, Homepage 
• Naomi Braff, Planner II, CRS Coordinator, Planning Department, Homepage

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (nasa)

• Geoff Bland, Engineer, Homepage 

National Park Service

• Meaghan Johnson, Acting Chief of Resource Management and Science, National Parks of Eastern North Carolina, Homepage 
• Monique LaFrance Bartley, Marine Ecologist, Homepage  
• Nina Loutchko, Natural Resource Management Assistant, Homepage 
• Rebecca Beavers, Coastal Geology and Adaptation Coordinator, Homepage

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

• Marc Levitan, Lead, National Windstorm Impact Reduction Program R&D, Homepage
• Maria Dillard, Acting Director of NIST Disaster and Failure Studies Homepage

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

• Andrew Patrick, Meteorologist-in-Charge, National Weather Service Homepage
• Andy Patrick, Meteorologist in Charge, Lake Charles WFO, National Weather Service Homepage
• Bachir Annane, Researcher, CIMAS/HRD, Homepage  
• Bradford Benggio, Scientific Support Coordinator, Office of Response and Restoration, Homepage
• Brian Zachry, Science Operations Officer, National Hurricane Center, Homepage
• Carl Alderson, Acting Chief, Habitat Ecology Branch NEFSC, NOAA Fisheries, Homepage
• Charles Grisafi, Southeast Regional Preparedness Coordinator, Office of Response and Restoration, NOAA Disaster Preparedness Program, Homepage
• Charlie Henry, Director, GOM Disaster Response Center, Homepage
• Cherraceitta Taylor, Management and Program Analyst – HSPO/SMT, OAR, Homepage
• Chris Maier, National Warning Coordination Meteorologist, National Weather Service, Homepage
• David Wesley, Branch Chief, TSSB/ERD/OR&R, Homepage 
• Ed Rappaport, Deputy Director, National Hurricane Center, Homepage
• Ellen Ku, COOP Support Specialist
• Frank Csulak, NOAA Office of Response and Restoration, Homepage
• George Marino, GIS Analyst, OR&R ARD SBD, Homepage
• Heather M. Holbach, Post-Doctoral Scientist, Hurricane Research Division, Homepage
• Heidi Stiller, South Regional Director, NOAA Office for Coastal Management, Homepage
• James Griffith, Program Manager, Homepage
• James Kirkpatrick, Physical Scientist 3, Homepage
• Jason Dunion, Associate Scientist, Hurricane Research Division, Homepage
• Jessica White, Deputy, Disaster Response Center, Homepage
• John Walker, Uncrewed Systems Atmospheric Scientist, NOAA Uncrewed Systems Research Transition Office, supported by CNSP, Homepage
• Kate Wheelock, Program Chief, Disaster Preparedness, Homepage
• Lewis Gramer, Assistant Scientist, CIMAS @NOAA-HRD, Homepage   
• Lisa DiPinto, Senior Scientist, Homepage
• Lisa Rosman, Environmental Scientist, Homepage
• Matt Chasse, Coastal Management Specialist & Federal Program Officer, Office for Coastal Management, Homepage  
• Michael Brennan, Branch Chief, Hurricane Specialist Unit, National Hurricane Center, Homepage  
• Michael Davidson, Operations Manager – Navigation Response Branch, Office of Coast Survey, Homepage  
• Nicole Kurkowski, Office of Science and Technology Integration, Homepage
• Pablo Santos, Meteorologist in Charge, Miami WFO, National Weather Service, Homepage
• Peter Dodge, Meteorologist, OAR/Aoml, Homepage
• Scott Cordero, Meteorologist in Charge, WFO Jacksonville, National Weather Service, Homepage
• Scott Lundgren, Director, Office of Response & Restoration, Homepage 
• Sean Waugh, National Severe Storms Laboratory Homepage
• Stephan Reissman, Program Analyst, Homepage  
• Trevor Meckley,  Effects of Sea Level Rise Program Manager, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS), Homepage  
• William Whitmore, Scientific Support Coordinator, Homepage 

National Trust for the Cayman Islands

• Catherine Childs, Environmental Programs Manager, Homepage

National Science Foundation

• Joy Pauschke, NHERI Program Director, Homepage

north carolina department of transportation

• Joshua Kellen, Training & Development Engineer, Homepage 

North Carolina Division of Coastal Management

• Ken Richardson, Shoreline Management Specialist, Homepage

North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries

• Jacob Boyd, Habitat and Enhancement Section Chief, Homepage

North Carolina Environmental Quality (NC DEQ)

• Wayne Randolph, DWM ER Coordinator, Homepage  

North Carolina State University

• Elizabeth Sciaudone, Research Assistant Professor, Homepage
• George Elvin, Associate Professor, Homepage
• Katherine Anarde, Assistant Professor, Homepage 

Northeastern University

• Adriana Peyton Lanza, Homepage  
• Jim Chen, Professor, Homepage
• Julia Hopkins, Assistant Professor, Homepage

Ocean STL Consulting

• Tim Gallaudet, CEO, Homepage

Ohio State University

• Abdollah Shafieezadeh, Associate Professor, Homepage

old Dominion University

• Navid Tahvildari, Assistant Professor, Homepage

Oregon State University

• Dan Cox, Professor and Program Director of the Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory (HWRL),  Homepage
• Jaimlyn Sypniewski, Research Assistant, Homepage
• Jennifer Thornhill, Research Program Coordinator, Homepage
• Pedro Lomónaco, Director of the Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory (HWRL), Homepage
• Zeyad Al-Sayhood, Researcher, Homepage 

Pinellas County Emergency Management

• Joe Borries, Operations Manager, Homepage

Princeton University

• Gaoyuan Wu, Ph.D. Student, Homepage

Purdue University

• Julio Ramirez, Professor and Director of the NSF NHERI Network Coordination Office (NCO), Homepage

Putnam County Emergency Management

• Evelyn Choate, Emergency Management Specialist, Homepage

razi university 

• Ali Hassanzadeh

RenaissanceReRisk Sciences

• Eric Williford, Senior Scientist and Manager, Operational Forecasting, Homepage

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

• Richard Little, Visiting Research Scholar, Homepage 

rice university

• Catalina Gonzalez, Graduate Research Assistant, Homepage

Risk Management Solutions

• Mark Powell, Vice President Model Development, Homepage
• Tom Sabbatelli-Goodyer, Director, Event Response, Homepage

SageSure Insurance Managers

• Richard J. Krupar III, Senior Manager, Cat Risk R&D, Homepage

scripps Institute of oceanography 

• Ross Timmerman, Data Analyst, Coastal Data Information Program, Homepage   

seahorse coastal

• Janelle Fleming, Co-founder, Homepage 

Sea Grant 

• Holly Abeels, Florida Sea Grant Extension Agent, Homepage
• Liliana Ramirez, Research Associate, Homepage 
• Mark Risse, Director, Georgia Sea Grant, Homepage
• Morgen Ayers, Natural Resources Specialist, Homepage
• Susan White, Executive Director, North Carolina Sea Grant, Homepage
• Spencer Rogers, Coastal Construction and Erosion Specialist, Homepage
• Victor Blanco, Marine Extension Agent, Florida Sea Grant – UF/IFAS Extension, Homepage

SECOORA

• Debra Hernandez, Executive Director, Homepage

South Florida Defense Alliance

• Steven C Williamson, President, Homepage

Stanford University

• Gitanjali Bhattacharjee, Ph.D. Candidate, Homepage
• Kuanshi Zhong, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Homepage

State of Florida Department of Environmental Protection

• Hanna Tillotson, Environmental Administrator, Beach Management Funding Program, Homepage
• Ralph Clark, Coastal Engineer, Homepage

State of Georgia Department of natural resources

• Fred Hay, Sapelo Island Research Manager, Homepage

State of Maryland, DNR

• Robert Newton, Resource planner, Homepage

Stevens Institute of Technology

• Jon Miller, Research Associate Professor, Homepage
• Laura Kerr, Research Coastal Engineer, Stevens Institute of Technology, Homepage 

tempo Quest, inc

• Gene Pache, Founder / CEO, Homepage  

Terracon

• Tony Pooley, Sustainability & Resiliency Development, Homepage  

Texas a&m University

• James Kaihatu, Professor, Homepage  
• Jens Figlus, Associate Professor, Homepage  

Texas Tech University

• Aaron Dubrow, Marketing manager, Texas Advanced Computing Center, Homepage  
• Abdullahi Salman, Assistant Professor, Homepage   
• Brian Hirth, Research Faculty, Homepage
• John Schroeder, Professor, Homepage

the University of Alabama-Huntsville

• Abdullahi Salman, Assistant Professor, Homepage
• Babak Salarieh, PhD student, Homepage  
• Kevin Knupp, Professor, University of Alabama-Huntsville, Homepage
• Susan Jasko, Associate Director, Homepage

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Katherine Anarde, Assistant Professor, Homepage

The University of Texas at Austin

• Ellen Rathje, Professor and Director of the NSF NHERI DesignSafe, Homepage
• Lance Manuel, Professor, Homepage 

The Weather Channel

• Jim Cantore, Meteorologist, Homepage
• Matthew Sitkowski, Science Editor In Chief, Homepage

UGA-Skidaway Institute of Oceanography

• Clark Alexander, Director, Homepage

University at Buffalo

• Haifeng Wang, Research Assistant, Homepage
• Reda Snaiki, Ph.D. Student, Homepage

University of Colorado Boulder

• Rachel Adams, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Natural Hazards Center, Homepage

University of Delaware

• Anner Paldor, Postdoctoral Researcher, Homepage  
• A.R. Siders, Assistant Professor, Homepage  
• Art Trembanis, Professor, Homepage  
• Holly Michael, Professor, Homepage
• Kaitlyn McPherran, Ph.D. Student, Homepage
• Maria Pontiki, Ph.D. Candidate, Homepage
• Monique Head, Associate Professor, Homepage  

University of Florida

• Brian Phillips, Associate Professor and Associate Director of NSF NHERI Experimental Facility at the Powell Lab, Homepage
• Christine Angelini, Associate Professor, Homepage
• Christopher Ferraro, Assistant Professor, Homepage 
• Corene Matyas, Professor, Homepage
• David Prevatt, Associate Professor and Social Science and Reconnaissance Liaison, NSF NHERI Experimental Facility at the Powell Lab, Homepage
• Elise Morrison, Assistant Professor, Homepage
• Forrest Masters, Professor, Associate Dean for Research and Facilities Associate Director of the NSF NHERI Experimental Facility at the Powell Lab, Homepage
• Gabrielle Quadrado, Ph.D. Student, Homepage 
• Jennifer Bridge, Associate Professor and Director of the  NSF NHERI Experimental Facility at the Powell Lab, Homepage
• Jorge X. Santiago, Graduate Research Assistant, University of Florida, Homepage 
• Katy Serafin, Assistant Professor, Homepage 
• Kurtis Gurley, Professor, Associate Director of the NSF NHERI Experimental Facility at the Powell Lab, and Wind Hazards Specialist for the NHERI RAPID program, Homepage
• Lauren Brisley, Ph.D. Student, Homepage   
• Peter Adams, Associate Professor, Homepage
• Ryan Catarelli, Research Scientist and Wind Engineering Technical Manager, NSF NHERI Experimental Facility at the Powell Lab, Homepage
• Scott Powell, Laboratory Operations Manager and Business Manager, NSF NHERI Experimental Facility at the Powell Lab, Homepage
• Scott Wasman, Research Asstant Professor, Homepage
• Shannon McCloskey, Student, Homepage
• Shelly Krueger, Florida Sea Grant Agent, Homepage
• Stephen Mullens, Lecturer of Meteorology, Homepage
• Susan Triana, Research Coordinator and Business Manager, NSF NHERI Experimental Facility at the Powell Lab, Homepage
• Sydney Williams, Graduate Student, Homepage
• Todd Osborne, Associate Professor, Homepage
• Victor Blanco, Marine Extension Agent, Florida Sea Grant – UF/IFAS Extension, Homepage 
• Vladimir Paramygin, Research Assistant Scientist, Homepage 

University of hawaii

• Harrison Togia, Ph.D. Graduate Research Assistant, Homepage   
• Ian Robertson, Professor and Chair, Homepage
• Oceana Francis, Associate Professor, Homepage

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Frank Lombardo, Assistant Professor, Wind Engineering Research Facility (mSWERF) Homepage
• Jason M. Lopez, Ph.D. Student, Homepage
• Josh Wurman, Adjunct Professor, Homepage
• Justin B Nevill, Doctoral Candidate, Homepage
• Karen Kosiba, Adjunct Professor, Homepage

University of Iowa

• Corey Markfort, Assistant Professor, Homepage

University of Georgia

• Matthew Bilskie, Assistant Professor, Homepage
• Viyaktha Hithaishi Hewageegana, PostDoctoral Research Associate, Homepage

University of Houston – Clear Lake

• Michael LaMontagne, Assistant Professor, Homepage

University of maryland

• Sergio Garcia Mejia, Homepage

University of Massachusetts-Amherst

• Pedro I. Matos Llavona, Ph.D. Student, Homepage    

University of Miami

• David, Nolan, Professor, Homepage 
• James Hlywiak, Ph.D. Candidate, Homepage 
• Kurt Hansen, Student, Homepage 
• Matthew Varkony, Ph.D. Student, Homepage

University of Michigan

• Jeremy Bricker, Associate Professor, Homepage

University of nebraska-lincoln

• Mohammad Ebrahim Mohammadi, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Homepage   
• Richard Wood, Associate Professor, Homepage

university of new Hampshire

• Kathy Mandsager, Program Administrator, Coastal Response Research Center, Homepage
• Nancy Kinner, Professor and Co-Director, Coastal Response Research Center, Homepage

University of North Carolina wilmington

• Mariko Polk, Ph.D. student, Homepage
• Ryan Mieras, Assistant Professor, Homepage

University of Notre Dame

• Andrew Kennedy, Professor, Homepage
• TTracy Kijewski-Correa, Associate Professor and Director, Structural Extreme Events Reconnaissance (StEER) Homepage

University of Oklahoma

• Mike Biggerstaff, Professor, Homepage

University of south alabama

• Bret M Webb, Professor, Homepage

University of southern california

• Maile McCann, Ph.D. Student, Homepage   
• Patrick J Lynett, Professor, Homepage 

University of Texas at Arlington

• Zhen Cong, Associate Professor, Homepage

University of the virgin islands 

• Greg Guannel, Director, Caribbean Green Technology Center, Homepage 

University of washington

• Jeffrey Berman, Professor,  Homepage
• Joseph Wartman, Director, Homepage
• Melissa Moulton, Research Scientist/Engineer, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Homepage
• Michael Motley, Associate Professor, Homepage

US Army Corps of Engineers Engineering Research and Development Center

• Jane Smith, Senior Research Scientist, Homepage

USDA-NRCS

• James F. Kjelgaard, State Conservation Engineer, Homepage

U.s. Environmental Protection Agency

• Rick Durbrow, Sustainability Advisor, Homepage

U.S. Geological survey (USGS)

• Jenna Brown, Research Oceanographer, Homepage
• Robert Mason. Extreme Hydrologic Events Coordinator and Senior Science Advisor for Surface Water, Homepage

Verizon Crisis Response Team

• Calvin Jackson, Response Manager, Homepage  
• Jason Mitchell, Senior Manager, Homepage
• John Szejda, Manager, Homepage

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

• Harrison Jaehn, Undergraduate Researcher, Homepage 
• Jennifer Irish, Professor, Associate Director Center for Coastal Studies, CoPI NHERI RAPID Facility, Homepage 
• Nina Stark, Associate Professor, Homepage   
• William Chilton, Graduate Research Assistant, Homepage

WeatherFlow

• Marty Bell, Director, Research and Modeling, Homepage
• Tony McGee, Meteorologist, Homepage

Western Michigan University

• Bilal Alhawamdeh, Research Associate, Homepage
• Brian Montgomery, Director Construction Research, Homepage
• Hezha Lutfalla Sadraddin, PhD Student, Homepage  

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)

• Britt Raubenheimer, Senior Scientist, Homepage
• Jeffrey Coogan, Postdoctoral Investigator, Homepage
• Rachel Housego, Ph.D. Student, Homepage
• Steve Elgar, Senior Scientist, Homepage

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