Instructors
Mr. Leo Bosner is an emergency management expert with 30 years experience in the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), from which he retired in 2008. He had been actively involved in the government's emergency response to numerous disasters such as floods, wildfires, hurricanes, earthquakes, and terrorist bombings. Much of his experience includes analyzing emergency management issues and developing plans to address them. Between 1999 and 2001, Mr. Bosner was a Mansfield Fellow spending one year in Tokyo, Japan, researching and lecturing on emergency management. His research report Emergency Management in Japan (in English) was translated and published in Japanese, and continues to be used as a reference work in Japan.
Mr. James Henderson retired as the Deputy Director of the U.S. National Weather Service (NWS) Aviation Weather Center. Since 2004, Mr. Henderson has been training aviation meteorologists for the Taipei Aeronautical Meteorological Center and leading the training at the NWS Aviation Weather Center and the NWS Weather Forecast Office in Pleasant Hill, Missouri. Mr. Henderson worked with management officials from the Beijing National Meteorological Center and the NWS Storms Prediction Center to develop China’s Storms Prediction Center. Mr. Henderson is knowledgeable with the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) training programs and requirements designed to improve weather forecasting worldwide.
Ms. Lijuan Huang has a MS in Environmental Science from Stony Brook University and has experience as an oceanographer supporting the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Center for Oceanographic Products and Services. Ms Huang specializes in providing tide and tidal current analysis to support hydrographic surveys, ocean modeling, storm tide monitoring and coastal restoration. Since 2008, Ms Huang has been training private and government hydrographic and photogrammetric technicians in the use of tidal and oceanographic information.
Mr. Les Lemon is a Research Associate Meteorologist in Oklahoma University and the Cooperative Institute in Mesoscale Meteorological Studies. He has been a consultant to several companies on Doppler weather radar algorithms and products, design of integrated and modernized weather services internationally, future weather radar design, and as a National Science Foundation principal investigator. He has conducted Doppler radar applications and interpretation research and to develop and present Doppler radar data application and interpretation training seminars nationally and internationally. He has conducted training in the China Meteorological Administration in advanced Doppler radar applications and interpretation since 2001.
Mr. Daniel Martin, with 20 years of experience in geospatial analysis, is the Director of Geospatial Services for IMSG. He currently provides strategic planning and regional coordination for NOAA’s marine spatial planning effort through the Coastal Services Center. He has worked extensively on the design and implementation of the Integrated Ocean Observing System with NOAA. Before joining IMSG, he served as consultant for EPA, NOAA, USGS, DoD, and USDA. He was the lead architect for the USDA Geospatial Data Warehouse. Mr. Martin also worked as Data Manager at the Massachusetts Coastal Zone Management Office, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and at the Marine Biological Laboratory. He received a MS in Marine Affairs from University of Rhode Island and a BS in Geography from University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Dr. Thanh Vo specializes in ecosystem-based climate change adaptation, building community resilience, natural hazard management, coastal and ocean commerce and transportation, and earth observation system issues. He has worked for local government, not-for profit, and international organizations in environmental management and community development. He holds a PhD in Environmental and Natural Resource Policy from the College of Environmental Science and Forestry of the State University of New York at Syracuse, New York. He was a National Sea Grant Fellow in NOAA.