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Appendix C: Speakers Bios
Appendix C: Speakers Bios
Pages 27-31
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He joined the University of Denver faculty in 1965 after completion of graduate studies at The Ohio State University where he was employed by the Disaster Research Center. He has published nearly 100 journal articles and 25 books including Human System Response to Disaster (1986)
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission and trained as a Hazardous Materials Specialist at the Michigan Hazardous Materials Training Center. He has served as a consultant on chemical and nuclear emergency planning to numerous private companies and government 28
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His posts have included the National Academy of Science's board on natural disasters, the advisory board of the University of Colorado's Natural Hazards Center, the peer review committee of the Yucca Mountain high-level radioactive disposal project, and the Latin American Partnership. Lacy also chaired the Central United States Earthquake Consortium from 1983 to 1994 and was president of the National Emergency Management Association from 1984 to 1985.
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He is the immediate past president of the National Emergency Management Association REMAN. He has served as chairman of the North Carolina Emergency Response Commission, as a member of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Urban Search and Rescue Advisory Committee and the Emergency Management Institute's Board of Visitors.
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Specifically, he has studied such topics as local emergency management capabilities and response, police and fire planning and response to disasters, search and rescue and the delivery of emergency medical services, mass media coverage of disasters, warning systems and public response, factors related to local community recovery success, and disaster beliefs and emergency planning. He undertook the only empirical study of the evacuation of the World Trade Center towers after the first terrorist attack in 1993 and served as the principal investigator for the first project to "Enable the Future Generation of Hazard Researchers." He is the author of numerous books, research monographs, articles and papers.
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