The National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program at Twenty-Five Years Accomplishments and Challenges -- Summary of a Workshop, February 20, 2003, Washington, DC (2003) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix C: Speaker Bios
Appendix C: Speaker Bios
Pages 17-21
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National Committee for the Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, and as a member of the Board on Earth Sciences. He also served as a member of numerous NRC committees, including the Committee on Assessing the Costs of Natural Disasters, the Subcommittee on Earthquake Research, and the Committee on Earthquake Engineering Research.
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Before coming Georgia Tech, he held previous faculty positions at George Mason University and the University of California at Irvine. He has served on numerous national panels and advisory committees, is a fellow of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Association for Computing Machinery and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association since 1988.
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, assuming the leadership of some of the nation's leading multi-hazard risk reduction programs. He oversees seven national hazard reduction programs, among them the National Flood Insurance Program, the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program, the National Dam Safety Program, and the National Hurricane program, just four of the seven national hazard reduction programs he oversees.
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Mr. Poland has also participated in numerous research projects, which contributed among others, to the development of federal standards for seismic evaluations and mitigation (a NIST study: and numerous guidelines related to earthquake hazard reduction activities such as the National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Series Program Handbooks for seismic evaluation of existing buildings (FEMA 178, etch.
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He received a bachelor of technology degree in civil engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, a master's degree in civil engineering and a doctorate in structural engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he also held a succession of faculty and staff positions until joining NIST in 1994. Richard Sylves is a professor of political science and international relations, as well as senior policy fellow in environmental policy, at the University of Delaware.
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