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Earthquake and Nuclear Disaster in Japan

The University of Maryland has a number of experts who can help you with your coverage of the ongoing earthquake/tsunami/nuclear disaster in Japan. Geophysicist Laurent Montesi calls it a mega-quake: "I am struck by the frequency of the large events we have been having since the 2004 Sumatra event."

Please feel free to contact our experts directly. Experts are listed alphabetically.


Number of experts found: 19

 
Linda Aldoory

Endowed Chair & Director and Associate Professor

Behavioral and Community Health

Expertise Key Words:
Health communication, risk communication, health literacy, health campaigns, media effects, food safety, public health, women and media.

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301 405 0388

laldoory@umd.edu

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Kenneth A. Gabriel

Director, Advanced Concepts - Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

Clark School of Engineering; Adjunct Faculty member - R.H. Smith School of Business

Expertise Key Words:
Port security technology; integrated security logistics for defense and homeland security (including port and border security, rapid response and recovery operations in natural and man-made disasters); integrated weapon system supply chain optimization to improve military readiness and reduce costs

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301 405 9702

egabriel@umd.edu

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Gerald E. Galloway

Glenn L. Martin Institute Prof of Engr and and Affiliate Prof of Public Policy; Research Professor

Civil & Environmental Engineering; School of Public Policy

Expertise Key Words:
Water Resources Policy; Water Resources Management and Engineering; Integrated Water Resource Management; Floods; Flood Damage Reduction (Levees, Dams, Floodwalls); Flood Insurance; Infrastructure Security; impacts of climate change on flooding, drought and other water resource issues

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301 405 1341

703-979-5253

571-334-2103

gegallo@umd.edu
river57@comcast.net

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Nathan E. Hultman

Director, Environmental Policy Program, School of Public Policy

School of Public Policy

Expertise Key Words:
Climate change, carbon markets, international climate policy, energy policy, low-carbon energy, nuclear power, renewable energy, climate risk, energy technology innovation, risk & decisionmaking under scientific uncertainty, science and society.

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301 405 3429

hultman@umd.edu

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Hiroyuki Iseki

Asst Prof

Center for Smart Growth Research & Education

Expertise Key Words:
* Transportation Planning
* Transportation Policy
* Transportation Economics and Finance
* Public Transit Planning and Management
* Travel Behavior Analysis and Modeling
* Regional Transportation and Land Use Planning
* Applications of GISs to planning and policy analysis

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301 405 4403

hiseki@umd.edu

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Michael S. Kearney

Professor

Geography

Expertise Key Words:
Sea level rise; coastal marshes in the Chesapeake Bay; shore erosion; disappearing islands and land loss; sedimentation in the Bay; remote sensing; impacts of storms on storm surge processes; hurricanes; Rita and Galveston; climate change, commonly called global warming, and sea level rise.

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301 405 4057

mkearne2@umd.edu

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Elinda F. Kiss

Teaching Professor

Finance

Expertise Key Words:
Accounting; Economics; Careers; Futures Options; Investing, Mergers & Acquisitions; Personal Finance; Investing; Deregulation; Securities Regulation; Risk Management; Securities; Banking; Bonds; Credit; Federal Reserve; Resolution Trust Corporation; Interest Rate Derivatives;

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301 405 7538

215-938-8860

215-962-9071

ekiss@umd.edu
EFKiss@aol.com

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Lewis E. Link

Sr Res Eng

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Expertise Key Words:

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301 405 6100

elink@umd.edu

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Marlene J. Mayo

Associate Professor

History

Expertise Key Words:
Modern Japanese History, East Asian History

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301 405 4309

mmayo@umd.edu

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Mohammad Modarres

Prof

Mechanical Engineering

Expertise Key Words:
Probabilistic risk aseesment, Energy Systems, Advanced nuclear plants, risk associated with gas powered vehicles, food safety risk assessment.

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301 405 5226

modarres@umd.edu

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Susan Moeller

Professor

Philip Merrill College of Journalism and School of Public Policy

Expertise Key Words:
Media coverage of international affairs; media coverage of war, violence, conflict and disasters; media coverage of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction (WMD); how photographic images shape attitudes toward war; compassion fatigue; human/civil rights and the media.

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301 405 2419

301 565 9510

240 472 4166

smoeller@jmail.umd.edu

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Laurent G. Montesi

Asst Prof

Geology

Expertise Key Words:
earthquakes
plate boundaries
magma dynamics
mid-ocean ridges
subduction zones
geology of Venus
geology of Mars
geology of icy satellites

Contact Information:

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301 405 7534

montesi@umd.edu

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Peter G. Morici

Professor

Logistics, Business & Public Policy

Expertise Key Words:
Macroeconomics, International Economics And International Business, And Government Regulation; Steel; Autos; Telecommunications; Airlines; Manufacturing; Retailing; Financial And Foreign Exchange Markets; Import And Export Issues

Contact Information:

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301 405 2136

703-549-4338

pmorici@umd.edu

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Ali Mosleh

Prof

Mechanical Engineering

Expertise Key Words:
Risk and safety analysis of complex systems and processes; product reliability and safety analysis; predictive models of human error and organizational failures; methodology for assessment of uncertainties in scientific models; methods of inference with limited knowledge and partial evidence

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301 405 5215

mosleh@umd.edu

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William M. Rand

Asst Prof

Marketing, Decision, Operations & Information Technology, and Computer Science

Expertise Key Words:
marketing, information systems, agent-based modeling, computational modeling, computer science, social networks, machine learning, genetic algorithms, geographic information systems, GIS, diffusion of innovations, diffusion of information, social modeling, social media, Web 2.0, electronic marketing

Contact Information:

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301 405 7229

wrand@umd.edu

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Matthias Ruth

Weston Professor of Natural Economics; Co-Director, Engineering and Public Policy

School of Public Policy

Expertise Key Words:
Environmental economics, policy, planning and engineering issues on a regional, national and international scale; renewable and non renewable resources; dynamic modeling techniques as applied to environmental resources and conditions

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301 405 6075

240 899 5793

mruth1@umd.edu

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Ben A. Shneiderman

Professor

Computer Science

Expertise Key Words:
Human-computer interaction; user interface design.

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301 405 2680

bshneide@umd.edu

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Jeffrey F. Werling

Executive Director

Inforum Forecasting/Department of Economics

Expertise Key Words:
Economic forecasting (Macroeconomic accounting and modeling); Input-output accounts and modeling; International finance and trade; Economics of developing nations; U.S. Industrial Structure; Manufacturing operations;

Contact Information:

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301 405 4607

jwerling@umd.edu

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Yunfeng Zhang

Assoc Professor

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Expertise Key Words:
earthquake engineering, structural collapse, steel structures, sensor, fatigue crack, acoustic emission, vibration, bridge testing, structural health monitoring, building integrated photovoltaic panel use in building structures

Expertise Credentials:
Prof. Zhang has been conducting cross-disciplinary research on earthquake engineering, sensor technology, structural health monitoring and progressive collapse of latticed space frame structures. His research was supported with grants from NSF (CMMI-0726820, CMS-0546963, CMS-0442076) and other sources. His recent work includes developing flexible piezoelectric paint for ultrasonic signal sensing and data transmission in infrastructure monitoring. Other area he has been actively involved is seismic behavior of steel frame structures with or without dampers and low-cost seismic retrofit approach for reinforced concrete structures. His group is currently conducting research on progressive collapse of steel lightweight structures due to strong wind gust.

Web Site(s):
http://www.eng.umd.edu/~zyf/

Contact Information:

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301 405 1955

zyf@umd.edu

Address:
1178 Martin Hall
College Park, MD  20742

Degrees:
Ph.D., Applied Mechanics (earthquake engineering and strucural dynamics), California Institute of Technology

Publication(s):
http://www.eng.umd.edu/~zyf/

Language(s):
Chinese





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