Jonathan H. Poston, J.D., Historic Charleston Foundation
Jonathan Poston is Director of Museums and Preservation Initiatives at the Historic Charleston Foundation and an adjunct instructor in history and historic preservation at the College of Charleston, S.C. His address will explore the history of Charleston with added emphasis on natural disasters. Among his many accomplishments, he is the author of The Buildings of Charleston: A Guide to the City's Architecture and Hurricane Hugo and Historic Charleston: Damage Recordation and Retrieval. He was awarded the South Carolina Confederation of Historic Societies Honor Award in 1998, the Palmetto Trust Award for Historic Preservation in 1998 and the SE Conference of Society of Architectural Historians' Best Book in Southern Architectural History award in 1998.

Margaret A. Davidson, Director, NOAA Coastal Services Center
Since 1996, Margaret A. Davidson has served as the Director of NOAA's Coastal Services Center, a national enterprise established to accelerate access to the science and technology capabilities of NOAA and its partners to improve coastal and ocean resource management as practiced at state and local levels. From August 2000 to October 2002, Margaret also served as the Acting Assistant Administrator of NOAA for Ocean Services and Coastal Zone Management. Her professional interests include aquaculture and fisheries management, climate and weather variability and its impact on coastal resources, and integrated coastal management.

Eddie Bernard, Ph.D., NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
Eddie Bernard, Ph.D., has served as Director of the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, one of NOAA's Oceanographic Research Laboratories, since 1983. He directs a broad range of oceanographic research programs including ocean climate dynamics, fisheries oceanography, El Niño forecasts, tsunamis and seafloor spreading.

Plenary Session: Post-Tsunami Assessment Surveys and Reports

Tuesday, May 10, 3:30-5:30PM

Characteristics of the December 26, 2004 Tsunami Catastrophe Impacting Northern Sumatera, Simeulue and Nias Islands, Indonesia
Gregar S. Prasetya , M.Sc., Head of Planning Division, Ministry for Marine Affairs and Fisheries, Republic of Indonesia & Terry R.Healy, Ph.D., University of Waikato

Use of Integrated GPS, Imagery, and Remote Sensing Following the Southeast Asian Boxing Day Tsunami and Niigata Ken Chuetsu Earthquake
Charles K. Huyck, P.E., ImageCat, Inc.

ASCE/COPRI Post-Tsunami Assessments

Thailand: Robert A. Dalrymple, Ph.D., P.E., Johns Hopkins University & David L. Kriebel, Ph.D., P.E., United States Naval Academy
India: Martin Eskijian, Ph.D., P.E., California States Land Commission & David Ames, P.E., Han-Padron Associates
Sri Lanka: John R. Headland, P.E., Moffatt & Nichol Engineers & Peter Yin, P.E., Port of Los Angeles

Closing Plenary Session

Wednesday, May 11: 10:30AM-12:00PM

Hurricane Ivan Impact on Gulf Shores, Alabama—Pre-Storm Mitigation, Planning and Preparation; Post-Storm Response, Recovery and Mitigation
Chuck Hamilton, P.E., Director of Public Works, Gulf Shores, AL
Chuck led Gulf Shores public damage recovery efforts for hurricanes Opal, Danny, and Georges and Isidore. Chuck will discuss Hurricane Ivan's impact on the area, including pre-storm mitigation, planning and preparation and poststorm response, recovery and mitigation. A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, he became a member of the Navy Civil Engineer Corps and also earned a BS in Civil Engineering and Master's degree in Public Works Administration. In 2002 he received the Per Bruun Distinguished Service Award from the Florida Shore and Beach Preservation Association for successfully initiating and completing Alabama's first major three-mile beach nourishment project in less than 18 months. He initiated and completed a three-mile FEMA funded emergency beach fill project after Hurricane Isidore and is currently planning an 11-mile nourishment project for the communities of Orange Beach and Gulf Shores.

Vulnerability to Coastal Hazards: Natural Processes and Populations at Risk
Susan L. Cutter, Ph. D., University of South Carolina
Susan Cutter, Ph.D., is a Carolina Distinguished Professor of Geography at the University of South Carolina. She is also the Director of the Hazards Research Lab, a research and training center that integrates geographical information science with hazards analysis and management. Her primary research interests are in the area of vulnerability science—what makes people and the places where they live vulnerable to extreme events and how this is measured, monitored and assessed. Dr. Cutter is the co-founding editor of an interdisciplinary journal, Environmental Hazards. The title of her presentation is "Vulnerability to Coastal Hazards: Natural Processes and Populations at Risk."

Coastal Disasters: State of the Practice
Gary B. Griggs, Ph. D., University of California, Santa Cruz
Gary Griggs is a professor of earth science and Director of the Institute of Marine Sciences, Coastal Processes and Geologic Hazards at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He was a senior Fulbright Scholar in Greece and also has conducted collaborative marine research in Italy and New Zealand. His research on the coastal zone has focused on documenting and understanding shoreline erosion processes, evaluating the effectiveness of coastal protection structures and their impacts on coastal processes and beaches, evaluating the mechanisms that move sediment along high energy rocky coastlines and quantifying littoral cell budgets.