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Having used geology as a long-term advisory of earthquakes and tsunamis in the Cascadia
region of western North America, he is now trying to make this strategy helpful to developing
countries. He also seeks to mentor scientists in assessing tsunami hazards on the centennial
and millennial timescales of great-earthquake recurrence. These overeseas efforts now include
a UNESCO project at the Makran subduction zone and a Fulbright in Indonesia. Dr. Atwater is
exploring earthquake geology in the British Virgin Islands to help guide the Nuclear Regula-
tory Commission on tsunami hazards of the U.S. Atlantic coast. Dr. Atwater is a member of the
National Academy of Sciences.
Ann Bostrom is professor and associate dean of research at the Daniel J. Evans School of
Public Affairs of the University of Washington. Dr. Bostrom earned a B.A. from the University
of Washington, an M.B.A. from Western Washington University, and a Ph.D. in policy analysis
from Carnegie Mellon University. She joined the Evans School faculty in 2007. Dr. Bostrom has
research interests in risk perception, communication and management, and environmental
policy and decision making under uncertainty. Her research focuses on mental models of
hazardous processes (how people understand and make decisions about risks). Dr. Bostrom
co-directed the Decision Risk and Management Science Program at National Science Founda-
tion (NSF) from 1999-2001. Dr. Bostrom is risk communication area or associate editor for Risk
Analysis , the Journal of Risk Research , and Human and Ecological Risk Assessment , and she is a
Fellow of the Society for Risk Analysis. She has authored or contributed to numerous publica-
tions, including Risk Communication: A Mental Models Approach and Risk Assessment, Modeling
and Decision Support: Strategic Directions , as well as NRC and EPA Science Advisory Board and
Board of Scientiic Counselor reports.
George Crawford is the former Washington State earthquake program manager and has more
than 16 years of multi-program design and coordination of local, state, national, and interna-
tional seismic and geologic programs in collaboration with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Federal Emergency Management
Agency (FEMA) and state, national, international, and private organizations. Mr. Crawford served
as the Washington State representative to the U.S. National Tsunami Hazard Program, Western
States Seismic Policy Council Tsunami Committee chair, Washington State/Local Tsunami Work-
group chair, a Cascadia Region Earthquake Workgroup director, and the National Emergency
Management Association (NEMA) representative to the ANSS National Steering Committee.
Mr. Crawford co-developed the All-Hazard Alert Broadcasting (AHAB) Radio that is deployed in
U.S. states and internationally, and he advises on tsunami community communication issues
globally. He has worked extensively with coastal Native American tribes to link science to tribal
oral history, and created the “Run to High Ground” video. He has represented the United States
in international forums, and the Washington State Tsunami Program has become a mitigation
model nationally and internationally for at-risk tsunami communities. In retirement, he con-
tinues to support U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and U.N. Development
Programme (UNDP) in Indian Ocean country tsunami missions, collaborate with NOAA/Paciic
Marine Environmental Laboratory (NOAA/PMEL) to develop the Train-the Trainer Program and
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