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Southern California Wildfires
The University of Maryland has the experts who can help provide the context you need on a wide range of issues related to the continuing wild fires in Southern California - from fire science to politics.
Please feel free to contact our experts directly. Our faculty experts are arranged alphabetically.
Number of experts found: 9
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Vincent M. Brannigan
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Prof
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Fire Protection Engineering
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Expertise Key Words:
Fire safety
fire codes
building safety
building codes
Arson
terrorism
ethics
research ethics
engineering ethics
academic freedom
First Amendment
consumer safety
product liability
tort reform
malpractice
Medical informatics
Privacy
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E-mail(s)
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301 405 6667
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firelaw@umd.edu
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I .M. Destler
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Professor
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School of Public Policy
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Expertise Key Words:
International security and U.S. foreign policy; homeland security agency reorganization; National Security Council; International trade.
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Home phone
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Cell phone
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E-mail(s)
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301 405 6357
202-328-9000
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703 759 0588
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703.408.3447
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mdestler@umd.edu
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Steven T. Edwards
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Director
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MFRI-Administration
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Expertise Key Words:
Incident management systems; fire service strategy and tactics; training and educational systems for terrorism response (the Fire and Rescue Institute trains Maryland first responders, including assessment and handling hazardous materials incidents)
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301 226 9960
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mfridir@umd.edu
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R. Scott Fosler
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Visiting Professor and Roger C. Lipitz Senior Fellow
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Center for Public Policy and Private Enterprise, Maryland School of Public Poilcy
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Expertise Key Words:
Public management and leadership; governance; design, operation, and management of government and public institutions; government best practices; public-private partnerships; federal, state, regional, and local government; international organization; economic development.
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301.656-3796
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301.656-3796
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sfosler@umd.edu
ScottFosler@aol.com
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Eric S. Kasischke
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Prof, Affiliate Prof
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Geography
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Expertise Key Words:
assessing impacts of fire and disturbance on boreal forest ecosystem processes, carbon cycling in boreal forests, monitoring boreal forests with satellite-based remote sensing systems and monitoring terrestrial ecosystems with imaging radar systems, climate change impacts
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301 405 2179
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ekasisch@umd.edu
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James G. Quintiere
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John L. Bryan Professor of Fire Protection Engineering
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Fire Protection Engineering
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Expertise Key Words:
Behavior of fire in buildings and the environment, role of materials in fire spread, participation in the discipline of fire investigation including the Branch Davidian fire near Waco TX, and the WTC investigation.
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301 405 3993
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301 670 1694
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240 472 2016
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jimq@umd.edu
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Peter B. Sunderland
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Assistant Professor
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Fire Protection Engineering
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Expertise Key Words:
fire, combustion, flames, hydrogen, soot, smoke, oxygen-enriched combustion, candles, microgravity, vehicle fires, diagnostics.
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301 405 3095
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301 405 3095
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216 469 3858
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pbs@umd.edu
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Arnaud C. Trouve
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Visiting Associate Professor
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Fire Protection Engineering
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Expertise Key Words:
Physical and computer-based modeling of turbulence, combustion and heat transfer. Physical and computer-based modeling of fire phenomena. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and High-Performance (Parallel) Scientific Computing (HPSC). Fire and explosions.
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(301) 405-8209
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atrouve@eng.umd.edu
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Donald W. Vannoy
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Prof (Emeritus)
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Civil & Environmental Engineering
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Expertise Key Words:
Structural engineering, structural analysis and design, forensic engineering, high performance concrete structures, bridge structures and buildings.
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Contact Information:
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E-mail(s)
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301 405 1955
301 593-1003
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dwvannoy@umd.edu
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