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Dr. Joseph E TrainorResearch Assistant Professor BioJoe is a Research Assistant Professor at DRC with joint appointments in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice and the School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy. He is a member of the University of Delaware Research Council, and an active participant in International Research Committee on Disasters (IRCD). His primary research interests include: International Aspects of Disasters; Social Networks; Disaster Researcher and Practitioner Integration, Warnings and Protective Action; Human Behavioral Response to Disasters; Effects of Organizational Design; and Patterns of Association in Multi-organizational Networks. Trainor has significant research experience and has been involved in number of funded research projects, both in the US and internationally. He has authored or co-authored over a dozen articles and book chapters on disaster related topics. He was the principal network analyst in a study of multi-organizational coordination after the September 11th World Trade Center attacks; was the lead graduate researcher on a project to examine the organizational and institutional development and operation of ESF#9/USAR in the United States; conducted an analysis of FEMA employee perspective on the impacts organizational design. Trainor's active reserach studies are listed below. In addition to more traditional quantitative and qualitative research, Joe also has engaged in a number of field research projects. He was a member of a research reconnaissance team that traveled to India and Sri Lanka immediately following the December, 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and later served as the lead field researcher for DRC’s effort to examine the social aspects of Hurricane Katrina. Joe has also recently been working to develop a number of disaster planning and outreach services. The goal of this effort is to both provide state and local communities with assistance as they engage in the disaster planning process while also providing emergency management students real life experience. In addition to other efforts in this area he assisted in the development of an approach to writing Emergency Operations Plans (EOP) planning process for small communities and has been involved in writing a number of research summaries for state, federal, and international governments that summaries different aspects of key social science research on disasters. Finally, Trainor has been actively participating in the establishment of UDEL's new degree program in Disaster Science and Managment. Current StudiesEngineering Research Center (ERC) for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA)- National Sciecne Fundation (NSF "Extreme Occasions as Organizational Context: A Contingency Perspective on FEMA’S “Fit” During the Response to Katrina" "Infrastructure Security and Emergency Preparedness" UDEL UTC and Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT) "Learning from a Large Scale Flood Exercise in the Netherlands" COT Institute for Safety, Security, and Crisis Management "Netherlands US Water Crisis Research Network (NUWCREN)" Netherlands Ministry of Transport, Public Works, and Water Managment "Scientific Insights on Preparedness for Public Health Emergencies" Delaware Departemnt of Health and Socail Services Training the Next Generation of Disaster Scholars:DRC's Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site (National Science Foundation) Selected PublicationsLauren Barsky, Joseph E. Trainor, Manuel Torres, and Benigno Aguirre .2007. Managing Volunteers: FEMA’s Urban Search and Rescue Program and Interactions with Unaffiliated Responders in Disaster Response” Disasters Barnshaw, John, and Joseph E. Trainor. 2007. “Race, Class, and Capital Amidst the Hurricane Katrina Diaspora.” Pp 131-154 in The Sociology of Katrina: Perspectives on a Modern Catastrophe, editedby David Brunsma, David Overfelt, and Steve Picou. Lanham,Maryland:Rowman & Littlefield Trainor, Joseph E., William Donner, and Manuel Torres .2006. “There for the Storm: Warning, Response, and Rescue Among Non-Evacuees in Hurricane Katrina”. Learning from Catastrophe: Quick Response Research in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina. Natural Hazards Center; Boulder Colorado Pp. 307-326 Dick A. Buck, Joseph E. Trainor, and Benigno E. Aguirre .2006. "A Critical Evaluation of the Incident Command System and NIMS," Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management: Volume. 3. Issue. 3, Article 1. Available at: http://www.bepress.com/jhsem/vol3/iss3/1 Rodriguez, Havidan, Tricia Wachtendorf, James Kendra, Joseph Trainor. 2006. “A Snapshot of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami: Societal Impacts and Consequences.” Disaster Prevention and Management Journal. 15(1):163-177 Rodríguez, Havidán, Joseph E. Trainor, and Enrico L. Quarantelli. 2006. “Rising to the Trainor, Joseph (2005) Searching for a System Multi-organizational Coordination in the September 11th World Trade Center Search and Rescue Response. Public Entity Risk Institute, |
