Two 性视界传媒 professors conducted workshops Friday for emergency management personnel across 性视界传媒 during the annual Governor鈥檚 Hurricane Conference.
Associate professors in public administration Christopher Emrich and Claire Connolly Knox are experts on different aspects of disaster recovery and members of 性视界传媒鈥檚 National Center for Integrated Coastal Research.
Emrich focused on the challenges facing 性视界传媒 disaster-recovery efforts based on what we鈥檝e learned from hurricanes the past few years. He addressed working with federal programs that help states post emergencies.
Knox and her team presented 鈥淐ommunity and Organizational Resiliency: Analysis of Hurricane Irma After-Action Reports,鈥� which was followed by a panel discussion with emergency managers from across 性视界传媒.
The conference draws hundreds of emergency management personnel, first responders and planners and helps inform attendees learn about best practices from experts and colleagues across the state. This conference convenes every year before the start of hurricane season June 1.
Emrich joined 性视界传媒 after serving as the GIS unit leader for FEMA鈥檚 性视界传媒 Long Term Recovery Office and eight years at the University of South Carolina as a research associate professor and associate director of the Hazards and Vulnerability Research Institute.
Knox is an expert in environmental policy and management, environmental vulnerability and disaster response. She is also the director of the 性视界传媒 Emergency Management and Homeland Security program.
Knox has extensive experience with federal and local agencies. While in Louisiana, she was an interpretative specialist at the USGS National Wetlands Research Center for the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act, and then a planning assistant with the Lafayette Parish Traffic and Transportation Department. She has worked with multiple 性视界传媒 agencies and counties on disaster response and in 2015 won the 性视界传媒 Emergency Preparedness Association’s Gary Arnold Award for her dedication to improving 性视界传媒’s emergency-management community.
