Community Involvement
Past Teaching/Research Assistants and Internships
STUDENT: Maximilian Dixon, Graduated, Department of Urban Design and Planning
SPONSORING AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
DESCRIPTION: Whole Community Resilience: An Asset-Based Approach to Enhancing Adaptive Capacity before a Disruption (Project Lead)
STUDENT: Jonathan Olds, Graduated, Department of Urban Design and Planning
SPONSORING AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
DESCRIPTION: Whole Community Resilience: An Asset-Based Approach to Enhancing Adaptive Capacity before a Disruption
STUDENT: Timothy Lehman, Graduate Student, Landscape Architecture and Department of Urban Design and Planning
SPONSORING AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
DESCRIPTION: Whole Community Resilience: An Asset-Based Approach to Enhancing Adaptive Capacity before a Disruption
STUDENT: Jesse Reynolds, Graduated, Department of Urban Design and Planning
SPONSORING AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
DESCRIPTION: Whole Community Resilience: An Asset-Based Approach to Enhancing Adaptive Capacity before a Disruption
STUDENT: J Chungho Kim (Teaching Assistant), Graduate Student PhD, Department of Urban Design and Planning
SPONSORING AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
DESCRIPTION: Whole Community Resilience: An Asset-Based Approach to Enhancing Adaptive Capacity before a Disruption
STUDENT: Jeana Wiser Graduated, Department of Urban Design and Planning
SPONSORING AGENCY: Washington EMD and NOAA.
DESCRIPTION: Project Safe Haven.(Project Lead)
STUDENT: Meg Olson Graduated, Department of Urban Design and Planning
SPONSORING AGENCY: Washington EMD and NOAA.
DESCRIPTION: Project Safe Haven.
STUDENT: Chasya Hoagland, graduated PhD, Department of Economics.
SPONSORING AGENCY: Everett Washington and Washington EMD
DESCRIPTION: Research leading to development of Everett Hazards Mitigation Plan Update
STUDENT: Kirk Hochstatter, graduated student within the Department of Construction Management.
SPONSORING AGENCY: Washington EMD and NOAA.
DESCRIPTION: Research leading to development of Project Safe Haven.
STUDENT: Josh Vitulli graduated, Department of Urban Design and Planning
SPONSORING AGENCY: Washington EMD and NOAA.
DESCRIPTION: Research leading to development of Project Safe Haven.
STUDENT: Tricia, DeMarco, graduated, Department of Urban Design and Planning
SPONSORING AGENCY: Washington EMD and NOAA.
DESCRIPTION: Research leading to development of Project Safe Haven.
STUDENT: Christopher Scott, graduate student within the Department of Urban Design and Planning
SPONSORING AGENCY: Washington EMD and NOAA.
DESCRIPTION: Research leading to development of Project Safe Haven.
STUDENT: Kathine Killebrew, graduated, Department of Urban Design and Planning
SPONSORING AGENCY: Washington EMD and NOAA.
DESCRIPTION: Research leading to development of Project Safe Haven.
STUDENT: Derrick Hiebert-Flamm, graduated, Department of Urban Design and Planning
SPONSORING AGENCY: Everett Washington
DESCRIPTION: Research leading to development of Everett Hazards Mitigation Plan Update.
STUDENT: Amanda Engstfeld, graduated, Department of Urban Design and Planning
SPONSORING AGENCY: Redmond City, Washington
DESCRIPTION: Internship with City. Developed Emergency Response Plan. Supported Project Safe Haven.
STUDENT: Wendy Buffett graduated, Department of Urban Design and Planning
SPONSORING AGENCY: Tulalip Tribe
DESCRIPTION: Contract with Tribe. Preparing Hazards Mitigation Plan Update.
STUDENT: Dana Spindler, graduated, Department of Urban Design and Planning Program
SPONSORING AGENCY: Redmond City, Washington
DESCRIPTION: Under contract with City. Completed the Final Redmond City Washington Hazards Mitigation Plan Update.
STUDENT: Daniel Kastoryano, graduated, Department of Urban Design and Planning
SPONSORING AGENCY: Pierce County Washington
DESCRIPTION: Internship with County. Assessed Hazards Mitigation Projects.
STUDENT: Kelly Clark, graduated, Department of Civil Engineering
SPONSORING AGENCY: City of Seattle
DESCRIPTION: Internship with City. Drafted a Damage Assessment Plan for the Fleets and Facilities Department to use in deploying damage assessment teams to perform post-disaster building and building system evaluations. Created the methodology to produce a Critical FFD Facility List.
STUDENT: Marion Gonzales, Undergraduate student within the University of Washington, interested in applying to Department of Urban Design and Planning
SPONSORING AGENCY: French Wetmore and Associates
DESCRIPTION: Supported Community Rating System delivery.
STUDENT: Kristen Meyers graduated, Department of Urban Design and Planning
SPONSORING AGENCY: Everett, Snohomish County, Washington
DESCRIPTION: Completed and updated Everett Hazards Mitigation Plan as directed by Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 (DMA2K) requirements.
STUDENT: Nicolas Arcos graduated,Department of Urban Design and Planning
SPONSORING AGENCY: University of Washington and COPECO (the Honduras version of FEMA)
DESCRIPTION: As Teaching Assistant Nick supported an undergraduate course in emergency management and during the summer quarter worked with COPECO (the Honduras version of FEMA) and assisting several municipalities reduce risks from flooding and landslides
STUDENTS: Heidi A Kandathil (project lead) , Rebecca Spinks, Peter Drakos, Aubin Phillips and Glenn Coil graduated Department of Urban Design and Planning
SPONSORING AGENCY: Snohomish County, Washington
DESCRIPTION: These students make up the project team responsible for writing the Hazard Identification and Vulnerability Analysis (HIVA) for Snohomish County as directed by Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 (DMA2K) requirements.
STUDENT: Glenn Coil graduated, Department of Urban Design and Planning
SPONSORING AGENCY: Whitman County, Washington
DESCRIPTION: Mr. Coil is developing a Hazard Identification and Vulnerability Analysis (HIVA) for Whitman County.
STUDENTS: Theo Chargualaf and Joshua Miller graduated Department of Urban Design and Planning
SPONSORING AGENCY: Everett, Washington
DESCRIPTION: These students developed a hazards mitigation plan for the City of Everett Washington. will meet or exceed the Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 (DMA2K) requirements.
STUDENTS: Rebecca Spinks, MUP graduate, Department of Urban Design and Planning.
SPONSORING AGENCY: Shoreline,Washington
DESCRIPTION: Ms. Spinks developed a hazards mitigation plan for the City of Shoreline, Washington that exceeded the Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 (DMA2K) requirements.
STUDENT: Ingrid Lundin graduate, Department Urban Design and Planning
SPONSORING AGENCY: City of Snoqualmie, Washington
DESCRIPTION: Ingrid Lundin was the Teaching Assistant of a “Studio” Course leading the development of the Kimble Creek planning document.
STUDENT: Sarah Hawkins, graduate, Department Urban Design and Planning, helped write element of what became a DMA 2000 compliant Hazard Mitigation Plan for the City. Sarah Hawkins is currently employed by the FEMA/DHS.
SPONSORING AGENCY: City of Redmond Washington
DESCRIPTION: Ms. Hawkins was the Teaching Assistant to a course that lead to the development of a Hazards Mitigation planning document for the City of Redmond.
STUDENT: Andy Bohlander, graduate, School of Marine Affairs.
SPONSORING AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency
DESCRIPTION: Andy Bohlander was contracted by FEMA to produce 3 separate hazards mitigation planning documents: (1) an annotated bibliography of hazard mitigation planning resources, (2) hazard mitigation plan ‘cliff notes’, and (3) a fictitious multi-hazard mitigation plan for a Washington community (e.g., Hazardville, WA).
STUDENT: Elenka Jarolimek, Graduate, Department Urban Design and Planning
SPONSORING AGENCY: Federal Emergency Management Agency
DESCRIPTION: Elenka Jarolimek is an intern with FEMA under the direction of Sharon Loper. Jarolimek will be polling risk prone communities and determining whether or not they have current hazards mitigation plan. She along with Bohlander will be developing corrective strategies. (Summer 2002)
STUDENT: Patty Julio, Graduated, Department Urban Design and Planning
SPONSORING AGENCY: Cascadia Region Earthquake Workgroup (<a href=”http://www.crew.org/”>CREW)
DESCRIPTION: The internship supported the work of CREW and the Seattle Business Disaster Mitigation Program. Primary responsibilities will be to guide the development of materials for CREW and the Seattle Disaster Mitigation Program (BDM), provide staff support to the Business Disaster and Mitigation Program Steering Committee, conduct research on Seattle’s business sector, develop information packets, locate funding sources and deliver a write-up that will provide a snapshot of Seattle’s Business Assistance Sector.