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Community-based Education Program in Washington State, assist in the University of Wash-
ington Certiicate Program in “Tsunami Science & Preparedness,” and he is lead contractor in
developing a national Tsunami Awareness Course for the National Disaster Preparedness Train-
ing Centre at the University of Hawaii. He has written papers on tsunami communication and
dissemination, preparedness, and mitigation and continues to collaborate in tsunami research.
Richard Eisner is visiting professor at the Research Center for Disaster Reduction Systems
(DRS), Disaster Prevention Research Institute at Kyoto University. Prior to joining DRS, he
worked for 23 years as the coastal regional administrator for the California Governor's Ofice
of Emergency Services, where he was responsible for the state's disaster response in the San
Francisco Bay Region and north coast counties. He also served as manager for the California
Integrated Seismic Network's and the state's Tsunami and Earthquake Programs. Prior to that
appointment, Mr. Eisner served as the founding director of the Bay Area Regional Earthquake
Preparedness Project, providing planning and technical assistance to promote and sup-
port earthquake preparedness and hazard mitigation by local governments and businesses
throughout the San Francisco Bay Region. In 2007, he received the Lifetime Achievement
Award by the Western States Seismic Policy Council. Mr. Eisner recently served on the NRC
Panel on Solid-Earth Hazards, Resources, and Dynamics.
Jian Lin is a senior scientist and Henry Bryant Bigelow Chair for Excellence in Oceanography
at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He earned his Ph.D. in geophysics from Brown
University. His research focuses on earth's lithosphere processes that lead to catastrophic events
of earthquakes, underwater volcanism, and tsunamis. Dr. Lin has conducted extensive research
on earthquake stress interaction and triggering in California and elsewhere in the world. He has
led and participated in numerous oceanographic expeditions to the Paciic, Atlantic, and Indian
Oceans to investigate mid-ocean ridge volcanism, deep-sea hydrothermal vents, underwater
earthquakes, and tsunamis. He is recently conducting two areas of tsunami research: paleo-
seismological dating of tsunamis and mega-earthquakes and modeling tsunami sources in the
Atlantic. Dr. Lin is a past chairman of the InterRidge International Science Program. He is a fellow
of the Geological Society of America and American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Douglas S. Luther is a professor in the Department of Oceanography at the University of
Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii. Dr. Luther received his B.S. in geophysics and electrical
engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in oceanography from
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Pro-
gram. His expertise is in circulation variability and dynamics; mesoscale luctuations; waves in
the ocean; and low-topography interactions. He is a senior fellow, Joint Institute for Marine and
Atmospheric Research, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the University of
Hawaii at Manoa. Dr. Luther is also an associate editor for the Journal of Physical Oceanography .
Hugh B. Milburn is retired from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and is
now an independent consultant. Mr. Milburn worked at NOAA's Paciic Marine Environmental