Speakers
AbstractDr. Stephen P. Leatherman
Director, International Hurricane Research Center & Laboratory for Coastal Research, and Professor, Department of Environmental Studies, Florida International University
Dr. Leatherman's major research focus is storm impacts on coastal areas, including high-technology mapping with airborne lasers. He served for many years on the National Academy of Science Post-Storm Disaster Field Team that was dispatched from Washington, DC, to survey hurricane damage and thus has considerable first-hand experience with these disasters. Dr. Leatherman has authored or edited 15 books and authored more than 200 refereed journal articles and technical reports. He has provided expert testimony to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives committees ten times during the past decade on important science policy issues, especially coastal storm impacts and federal response. Dr. Leatherman has given hundreds of invited talks at professional conferences and public workshops; his research has also been widely reported on television programs and in newspapers.
Since 1997, Dr. Leatherman has been the Director of the International Hurricane Research Center as well as the Director for the Laboratory of Costal Research, which is one of the four laboratories at IHRC.
