Natural hazard mitigation and disaster planning, land use planning, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), hazard assessment.

Ph.D.	Regional Planning, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA, 1995. Dissertation: Implications of Geographic Information System Technology for Planning Education
M.S.	Agronomy and Soils, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, PR, 1992. Honor Society of Agriculture:  Gamma, Sigma, Delta Thesis: A Solar Radiation Estimator for Use in Crop Simulation Models
B.S.	Agricultural Engineering, University of the West Indies, Trinidad, 1990. Thesis: Expert System for Sprinkler Irrigation Design

2005- Present	Associate Professor & Director of Visual Planning Technology Lab, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Florida Atlantic University
2003- 2005	Associate Professor & Director of GEDDeS Computer Lab, Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University
1997- 2003	Assistant Professor & Director of GEDDeS Computer Lab, Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University
1/1997- 7/1997	Research Associate/Instructor (Institute of Transportation Research and Education, North Carolina State University)
1995- 1/1997	PostDoc, Dept. of City and Regional Planning, UNC-Chapel Hill
1992- 1995	Research and Teaching Assistant (Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, UMASS-Amherst)
1991- 1992	Research Assistant, Department of Agronomy and Soils, UPR-Mayaguez

2007	Nominee for the College of Architecture, Urban and Public Affairs Distinguished Teacher of the Year Award, Florida Atlantic University
2005	ESRI Special Achievement in GIS (with Lincoln Institute of Land Policy)
2004	Outstanding Educator Award (for having most influenced Cornell University Undergraduate University Merrill Scholar).
2001	American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) President’s Award
2001	Co-instructor with Rolf Pendall (2001 AICP Student Project award & Upstate New York Chapter of the American Planning Association outstanding student project award for “Land Use Framework Plan for the Town of Dryden, NY”)
2000	Outstanding Educator Award (for having most influenced Cornell University Undergraduate Merrill Scholar)
2000	Faculty Fellows In Service Symposium Award, Cornell University
1990	Agricultural Engineering Faculty Prize, University of the West Indies

2001	National Science Foundation (NSF) Civil and Mechanical Systems Division. Invitational Workshop for the Advancement and Retention of Underrepresented and Minority Engineering Educators (10/21-24, 2001).
7/1995- 1/1997	Carolina Minority Postdoctoral Fellowship.  Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Research, and Department of City and Regional Planning, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
1992- 1995	Three-year Research Assistantship [program P-1-157] to pursue doctoral studies in regional planning in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
1991	Research Assistantship under CBAG-42 project [Grant No. 89-34135-1992   4662] Computer Systems for Enhancing Agricultural Decision Making in      the Caribbean, University of Puerto Rico.
1987- 1990	Three-year European Development Fund (E.D.F.) Scholarship for study toward B.S. Degree in Agricultural Engineering at the University of the West Indies.

Florida Atlantic University- GIS/spatial analysis, vulnerability assessment, disaster planning

2007- 2010	Principal Investigator. National Science Foundation,  Displacement Due to Catastrophic Hurricanes: Assessing Potential Magnitude and Policy   Implications for Housing and Land Development [with J. Levine and A. Sapat, $301,643]
2006- 2007	Principal Investigator. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Institutional Barriers to GeoSpatial Technologies for Planning by Community Based Organizations ( $28,000)
2006- 2007	Researcher. NOAA Hurricane Alliance via FAU Center for Environment and Urban Solutions sub-contract, Implications of Redefining Florida’s Coastal High Hazard Area ($24,005)

Cornell University - Applications of GIS for land use and environmental planning
and decision making, appropriate hazard assessment and risk methodologies for resource-constrained communities; quality of life considerations during the post-disaster period; urban growth modeling.

2002	Principal Investigator. Cornell University Provost’s Social Science Seed Grant Initiative, Decision Tools for Post-Disaster Planning: Quality of Life as an Overarching Framework ($39,808).
2000	Principal Investigator. Cornell University Building Clarence S. Stein Institute for Urban and Landscape Studies, Capacity of Community Based Organizations fighting for environmental and social justice ($8,589)
1999- 2000	Co-Principal Investigator. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, The Thinning Metropolis: Land Use, Land Values and Population Decline in Mid-sized Cities in the U.S. Heartland (with W. Goldsmith and R. Pendall, $35,000).
1999	Principal Investigator. New York State Emergency Management Office Mapping natural hazards and vulnerability for eleven counties in New York State ($4,500)
1999	Researcher/Collaborator. Regional Plan Association (New York) and U.S. Geological Survey, National Mapping Division, Digital Temporal Views of New York City Metropolitan Area. Joint Project between Cornell University
1998- 1999	Principal Investigator. Cornell University Faculty Fellow in Service Grant. GIS-based Mapping and Analysis for Emergency Response, Disaster Planning and Mitigation – a project with the Tompkins County American Red Cross (Fall 1999- $2,000; Fall 1998-$1640).

NCSU - Institute for Transportation Research and Education

1/1997- 7/1997

Researcher. Design and development of procedures and software for accessing North Carolina’s GIS data base for preparation of environmental reviews and permits. Funded by Center for Transportation and the Environment; North Carolina Department of Transportation; North Carolina Division of Coastal Management; and North Carolina Division of Environment, Health and Natural Resources.

UNC-Chapel Hill-  Department of City and Regional Planning

1996- 1997	Researcher. Conceptualization and implementation of a GIS – based methodology for hurricane vulnerability analysis and risk assessment of Nags Head coastal properties. Funded by the Town of Nags Head.
1997	Co-Principal Investigator. Chancellor’s Task Force on Instructional Technology, UNC-Chapel Hill. Integrating Spatial Information Technologies in Planning and Policy Instruction. (with E. Kaiser, D. Godschalk and A. Khattak).

UMASS- Amherst, Department of Regional Planning

1992- 1995

Research Assistant. Collaborative research between Regional Plan Association (New York) and the University of Massachusetts Funded by Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection (Grant 269R).Population growth modeling and impacts on land use for Southwestern Connecticut.

University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez

1991- 1992

Research Assistant. Funded by USDA/CSRS Special Research Grants in Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture (PL 89-106) and managed by the Caribbean Basin Administrative Group (CBAG)- (i) contributed to the development of a prototype version of AEGIS (Agricultural and Environmental Geographic Information System) and DSSAT (Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer) for Western Puerto Rico; (ii)  developed a solar radiation estimator (SOLGEN) for use in crop simulation models (master’s thesis).

Books, Book Chapters & Manuals:

Esnard, A-M and A. Puszkin-Chevlin. Coastal Property Analysis through a Hazard Exposure Lens. In Visual Valuation: Practical GIS Applications in Property Analysis and Valuation (The Appraisal Institute, forthcoming 2008)

Esnard, A-M. 2007. The Nexus of Hazard Assessment, GeoSpatial Technologies, and Holistic Community Planning Strategies (Chapter 5). In “Losing Ground: Nation on Edge” Environmental Law Institute.

Esnard, A-M, P. R. Berke, D. R. Godschalk, and E. J. Kaiser. 2006. Hypothetical City Workbook III: Exercises and GIS Data to Accompany Urban Land Use Planning, Fifth Edition. University of Illinois Press.

American Planning Association. 2006. Planning and Urban Design Standards. New York: John Wiley and Sons. Contributing author to:

• Mapping Data Overview (A-M Esnard, pp. 527-528)
• Aerial Photographs and Digital Orthophoto Quadrangles (A-M Esnard, p. 529)
• Property Maps in Modern Cadastre (M.M. Thompson & A-M Esnard, pp. 535)
• Census Data and Demographic Mapping (A-M Esnard, pp. 536-537)
• Geographic Information Systems (A-M Esnard, pp. 540-542)

Eadie, C., B. Phillips, R. Emmer, A-M. Esnard, S. Michaels, J. Monday, C. Philipsborn, B. Phillips and D. Salveson. 2001. Holistic Disaster Recovery: Ideas for Building Local Sustainability after a Natural Disaster.University of Colorado: Natural Hazards Research and Application Center.

Beinroth F.H., P.A. Hernandez, A-M. Esnard, G. Acevedo and C. Dubee.  1992. Organic Carbon Content of the Soils of Puerto Rico.  In F.H. Beinroth (ed.).  Organic Carbon Sequestration in the Soils of Puerto Rico:  A Case Study of the Tropical Environment. USDA Soil Conservation Service, World Soil Resources and University of Puerto Rico.

 

Articles:

Rosenberg J.L., and A-M. Esnard. Applying a Hybrid Scoring Methodology to Transit Site Selection. (Forthcoming Journal of Urban Planning and Development)

Iuchi, K., and A-M Esnard. Earthquake Impact Mitigation in Poor Urban Areas: The Case of Metropolitan Manila. (Forthcoming, Journal of Disaster Prevention and Management)

Esnard, A-M. 2007. Institutional and Organizational Barriers to Effective Use of GIS by Community-Based Organizations. URISA Journal 19(2):14-21.

Levine, J., A-M Esnard and A. Sapat. 2007. Population Displacement and Housing Dilemmas due to Catastrophic Hurricanes. Journal of Planning Literature 22(1):3-15.

Esnard, A-M, A. Abbate, A. Temkin and J. Vos. 2007. Interoperable 3D-GIS: Urban modeling with ArcGIS 3D Analyst and Sketchup. ESRI ArcUser Magazine (January-March 2007, 2007)

Esnard, A-M, M. Gelobter and X. Morales. 2004. Environmental justice, GIS and pedagogy. Cartographica 38(3&4): 53-61.

Esnard, A-M. 2003. Beyond semantics and the immediate post-disaster period: community quality of life as an overarching theme for sustaining collective action. Natural Hazards Review 4(3):159-165.

Esnard, A-M. and Y. Yang. 2002. Descriptive and comparative studies of 1990 urban extent data for the New York metropolitan region. URISA Journal, 14(1):57-62.

Esnard, A-M. 2002. Pre-disaster partnerships for post-disaster planning and implementation. American Institute of Certified Planners Casebook No. 42.

Esnard, A-M., D. Brower and B. Bortz. 2001. Coastal hazards and the built environment on barrier islands: a retrospective view of Nags Head in the late 1990s. Coastal Management Journal 29(1):53-72.

Esnard, A-M. 2001. Taking stock of quality of life during the post-disaster recovery period. Natural Hazards Observer xxv(6):10-11

Esnard, A-M. 1999. Planners, landscape architects and designers’ use of GIS technology: sample images from Cornell students. Landscape Design Japan 16:38-41.

Esnard, A-M. 1998. Cities, GIS and Ethics. Journal of Urban Technology 5(3):33-46

Esnard, A-M. and E.B. MacDougall. 1997. Integrating Planning Theory with GIS Courses.  Journal of Planning Education and Research 17:55-62

Esnard, A-M., L.R. Perez-Alegria, F.H. Beinroth and R. Goenaga.  1994.  Generation of Solar Radiation Values for Use in the Weather Files of Crop Simulation Models.  Journal of Agriculture.  78:33-44. University of Puerto Rico.

 

Under Review

Puszkin-Chevlin A., and A-M Esnard. Incremental Evolution and Devolution of Florida’s Coastal High Hazard Area Policy (Journal of Environmental Planning and Management).

 

Book and Product Reviews:

Co-Reviewer of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program’s Synthesis and Assessment Product 5.2, “Best Practice Approaches for Characterizing, Communicating, and Incorporating Scientific Uncertainty in Climate Decision Making. 2007. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.

Law, Science and Disaster: Summary of the October 18, 2005 Workshop of the Disasters Roundtable. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.

Practical Ecology [Journal of Planning Literature, 2006, 20 (4):375-376]

Acts of God: the unnatural history of natural disaster in America [Journal of the American Planning Association, Winter 2003, 69(1):102-103]

Monitoring Land Supply with Geographic Information Systems: Theory, Practice and Parcel-Based Approaches [Journal of Planning Education and Research, 2002, 21(3):345-346]. 

 

Magazines, Monographs and reports:

Pendall, R., W. Goldsmith and A-M. Esnard. 2001. Thinning Rochester: Yesterday’s Solutions, Today’s Urban Sprawl. Working Paper prepared for the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy (85 pages).

Frantz, G. and A-M. Esnard. 2001. Valley Communities Hazard Mitigation Plan. Prepared and submitted to the Waverly Project Impact Committee (85 pages).

Esnard, A-M. 2000. Working with the local American Red Cross to respond to natural hazards and disasters in our backyards. Working Papers Series on Service-Learning. Public Outreach Center: Cornell University (pp. 13-18).

Co-Presenter	Puszkin-Chevlin, A. and A-M Esnard. Hold the Line: Delineating Appropriate Boundaries for Coastal Development. 2007 Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Presenter	Esnard, A-M. GIS Application Modules for Disaster Planning and Emergency Management. 2006 Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference, Fort Worth, Texas  (November 9-12, 2006)
Panelist	South Florida GIS Expo HAZUS Panel (October 5, 2006)
Invited Speaker	Pace Law School. The Nexus of Disaster Planning, GeoSpatial Technologies and Local Land Use Planning Strategies. White Plains, New York (April 18, 2005)
Invited Speaker	SUNY-ESF. Environmental Justice.  Women in Science and Environmental Professions Seminar   (Syracuse, New York, March 22-23, 2005)
Invited Speaker	Florida State University (Doctoral Colloquium Series, Department Urban and Regional Planning). Evaluating Historical Urban Extent Data for Land Use Change Projects. (October 2004, Tallahassee, Florida)
Invited Speaker	Rensselear Polytechnic Institute, Technologies for Communities Workshop. Partnering and Environmental Justice in Regional and Virtual Communities. (April 5-6, 2002).
Invited Lecturer	State University of New York-Environmental Science and Forestry. Whose Quality of Life?: Environmental Justice or Injustice. Urban Ecology class (November 2001).
Presenter	Esnard, A-M. Environmental Justice Discourse in today’s digital cities and cyber-communities: lessons for planning educators, students and practitioners. 2001 Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference, Cleveland, Ohio (November 7-11, 2001)
Presenter	Esnard, A-M. Bridging the Digital Divide: data gathering and GIS analysis for your Environmental Justice Struggles. 2001 Planners Network Conference, Rochester, New York (June 2001)
Presenter	Esnard A-M (with C.A. Hallam, R. Pirani and D.R. Sechrist). Urban Growth in the New York Metropolitan Region. Panel Presentation for the 2001 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers in New York City (February 27- March 3, 2001)
Presenter	Esnard, A-M. Community-University partnerships as real opportunities for bridging digital divides in Project Impact communities. 2000 Project Impact Summit, Washington, D.C. (November 12-16, 2000).
Co-Presenter	Pendall, R. W. Goldsmith and A-M. Esnard. Thinning Rochester: Yesterday’s Solutions, Today’s Urban Sprawl. Conference on the Thinning Metropolis, September 8-9, 2000, Cornell University.
Presenter	Esnard, A-M. 2000. Providing technical assistance and educational outreach: disaster and hazard mitigation planning in Tompkins County. Faculty Fellows in Service Symposium, Cornell University.
Attendee	UNC-Wilmington. Project Impact Higher Education Conference (July 25-26, 2000).
Discussant	Panel on Measuring Mitigation Success: Some New Approaches. 2000 Annual Hazards Research and Applications Workshop (July 2000).
Presenter	Barlow, R., D. Sechrist, J. Tilley, R. Pirani, A-M. Esnard, Y.Yang. Decadal Snapshots from the NY-NJ-CT Metropolitan Area Urbanization Project. Poster presented at the 1999 NYS GIS Conference, Rochester, NY.
Invited Speaker	Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Air Act Advisory Sub-Committee on Land Use, Transportation and Air Quality. Washington, DC, October 1999.
Presenter	Esnard, A-M. and H. Chang. 1999. Creating a Map Inventory for Emergency Response in Tompkins County, NY. In: Proceedings of the 1999 Conference on the Applications of Remote Sensing and GIS for Disaster Management.
Presenter	Esnard, A-M. and H. Chang. Appropriate GIS databases and models for hazard assessment and mitigation in rural communities. Presented at the 1999 ACSP Conference. Chicago, Illinois.
Co-Presenter	Esnard, A-M., Barbara Lynch and K. Guild. Urban Gardens in New York City Neighborhoods: assessing constituency, environmental services and alternative uses. Presented at the 1998 ACSP Conference. Pasadena, California.
Co-Presenter	Kaiser, E.J., D.R. Godschalk, R.E. Klosterman and A-M .Esnard. 1997. A Planning Support System for Teaching Land Use Planning. Presented at the 1997 ACSP Conference. Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
Presenter	Esnard, A-M.  1996.  Professional Ethics in the GIS Era.  Presented at the 1996 Joint International ACSP-AESOP Conference.  Toronto, Canada:  Ryerson Polytechnic University, July 25-28.
Presenter	Esnard, A-M. 1996.  GIS Education Versus GIS Training: A Dilemma Revisited in Planning Schools.  In Proceedings of the 92nd Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Charlotte, North Carolina.

Florida Atlantic University (August 2005-present)
Courses taught:

• Introduction to GIS in Planning
• GIS Applications in Planning
• Managing GIS Projects
• In[form]ed City
• Planning Project

Cornell University (Fall 1997 – July 2005)
Courses taught:

• Introduction to Geographic Information Systems in Planning
• Land Use Planning
• Introduction to Environmental Planning
• Environmental Justice and Web-GIS Workshop/GIS Applications Workshop
• City and Regional Planning Workshop
• Introductory Planning Workshop

NCSU - Institute for Transportation Research and Education (Spring 1997)       

• Instructor  (Geographic Information Systems) – for North Carolina’s planning and engineering professionals

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1996)

• Co-Instructor (Spatial Analysis module in Quantitative Methods course)

University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1992-1995)
Academic courses:

• Teaching Assistant (Geographic Information Systems for Planning and Design,  1992 -1993)

Professional Development courses:

• Coordinated and delivered a two-month training workshop in ARC/INFO to a group of Russian planners.  Collaborative project between the University of Massachusetts and the Center of Regional Planning, Pskov Region, Russia.  Funded by the Eurasia Foundation (Office of Geographic Information and Analysis, 1994-1995)

• Training workshop for Indonesian research and development personnel.  Delivered seminars on the use of GIS for economic development and land reform in developing countries and implementation of low-cost spatial information technologies for decision making involving land use and environmental planning, redistricting and economic development. Funded by the Institute for Training and Development (ITD), Amherst, Massachusetts (1993-1994)

External - Policy Committees

• State of Florida Post-Disaster Redevelopment Planning initiative Working Group (2007-)
• Steering Committee for the Evaluation of the National Flood Insurance Program [directed by the American Institutes for Research on behalf of FEMA, 2001-2006]
• Institute for Business and Home Safety Safe Growth Committee (Member, 2006-
• Member, Natural Disasters Roundtable, National Academy of Sciences (2002-04)

External - Academic Committees

• Planning Accreditation Board Site Visitor Pool (2006-)
• Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Strategic Task Force Committee (Member, 2006-)
• Faculty Associate, Department of Planning and Development, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy (2003-).
• Review Committee  Institute for Business & Home Safety and ACSP Award for Scholarship in Planning and Natural Hazards (Chair [2005-]; Member [2004])
• Member, Community Planning Fellowship Review and Selection Committee under the auspices of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and Multi-hazard Mitigation Council (MMC) [Spring 2005]
• Chair, Oversight Committee, Project for Incorporating Mitigation into Standard Planning Curriculum [Multi-hazard Mitigation Council (MMC) of the National Institute of Building Sciences and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA); 2001-2003]
• Member of Project Impact Higher Education Network sponsored by FEMA (2000)
• Member of 2000 Project Impact Summit Poster Review Committee (2000)
• Member, Communities and Academics Partnering for the Environment (CAPE) Governing Board of Directors (2000-2004)
• Member, Town of Dryden Project Impact Steering Committee & Chair of the Education/Outreach Sub-Committee (1999-2002)

External - Journal & Grant Proposal Ad-Hoc Reviews

• Member, Committee to Review the U.S. Climate Change Science Program’s Synthesis and Assessment Product 5.2 “Best Practice Approaches for Characterizing, Communicating and Incorporating Scientific Uncertainty in Climate Decision Making” . The National Research Council of the National Academies (2006-2007)
• Ad-Hoc Reviewer, National Council for Science and Environment (NCSE) Wildlife Habitat Policy Research Program (2008)
• Grant Panel Review, Cooperative institute for Coastal, Estuarine and Environmental Technology (2007)
• Ad-Hoc Reviewer, National Science Foundation HSD Panel (2006)
• Ad-Hoc Review, National Research Council, Division on Earth and Life Studies, The National Academies  (2005)
• Ad-Hoc Reviewer, Journal of the American Planning Association (2008)
• Ad-Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Urban Planning and Development (2008)
• Ad-Hoc Reviewer, Marine Technology Society Journal (2006)
• Ad-Hoc Reviewer, Florida Sea Grant College Program (2003)
• Ad-Hoc Reviewer, Natural Hazards Review (2002)
• Ad-Hoc Reviewer, Coastal Management Journal (2001)
• Ad-Hoc Reviewer, Oregon Sea Grant College Program (2001)
• ACSP Conference Abstract Review Panel member (2001, 2002)
• Ad-Hoc Reviewer, USDA Small Business Innovation Research Program (1997)
• Ad-Hoc Reviewer, Water Resources Research Institute of UNC (1999, 2001)
• Ad-Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Planning Education and Research (1998)
• International Review and Research Planning Group  “AgroEcosystems Sustainability in the Caribbean and Pacific Islands” (1994, 1997).

University - Florida Atlantic University

• Director, Visual Planning Technology Lab, Florida Atlantic University (2005-)
• Chair, Research Committee, College of Architecture, Urban and Public Affairs (2006- present); member (2005-06)
• Member, College of Architecture, Urban and Public Affairs Vision 20 Committee (Fall 2007)
• Member, University Research Committee, Florida Atlantic University (2006-persent)

University - Cornell University

• Inaugural member, Cornell West Campus Living Learning Council and co-chair of House Operations and Transition Committee (2000-2005)
• Cornell University/Ithaca Flats COPC (U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Contributor, Spring 2000)
• Director, GEDDeS Computer Lab (1997-2005)
• College Representative, Faculty Advisory Board on Information Technology (Spring 2005)
• Chair, CRP Curriculum Committee (2003-2005)
• CRP Graduate Admissions Committee (1998-2005)
• Diversity and Recruitment Committee (1999-2005)
• College of Architecture, Art and Planning Digital and Electronic Committee (1999-2005)
• Member, Cornell Risk Analysis Studies Steering Committee (2002-2004)
• GIS Summer Workshop Co-coordinator (2000)
• The Thinning Metropolis conference co-organizer (2000)
• Spatial Data Analysis and GIS Workshop Co-coordinator (1999)