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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 the International Research Committee on Disasters (IRCD). His primary research interests include: International Aspects of Disasters; 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 Response Networks. Trainor has significant qualitative and quantitative research experience and has been involved in a number of basic and applied research studies, both in the US and internationally. He has authored or co-authored almost a dozen peer reviewed articles and book chapters on disaster related topics and over a dozen more disaster related reports and invited publications. Trainor’s past work has included analyses of 1) multi-organizational coordination after the September 11th World Trade Center attacks; 2) the organizational and institutional development and operation of ESF#9/USAR in the United States; and 3) FEMA employee perspective on the impacts organizational design on response to Katrina. Trainor's active research studies are listed and described in detail below. In addition to more traditional quantitative and qualitative research, Joe has also engaged in a number of field reconnaissance projects aimed at gathering perishable data and identifying critical issues in particular events for further study. 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. Trainor has been actively participating in the establishment of UDEL's new MA and PhD. degree programs in Disaster Science and Management by serving on the program committee and teaching two of the program’s core courses 1) Introduction to Disaster Science and Management and 2) International Aspects of Disasters. Finally, Joe has also recently been working with others at DRC to increase disaster planning and outreach services offered by the center. The goal of these efforts is to both provide local, state and national governments with scientific insights that can help them as they engage in disaster planning processes and to give students hands on experience working with disaster related agencies. In addition to other efforts in this area, Trainor assisted in the development of an approach to writing Emergency Operations Plans (EOP) planning process for small communities, provided insights into the human behavioral dimensions of response to warnings in support of the development of the national Cellular Mobile Alert System (CMAS,) is a member of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Regional Taskforce, and has been involved in writing a number of research summaries/ translations for state, federal, and international governments on different aspects of social science research on disasters. Current Studies"Public Response to Tornadoes" Engineering Research Center (ERC) for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA)/National Science Foundation (NSF) "Netherlands US Water Crisis Research Network (NUWCREN)" Netherlands Ministry of Transport, Public Works, and Water Managment "Reporting for Duty:Selected Workforce Issues in Disasters" Virginia Departement of Emergency Management(VDEM) Selected PublicationsEngle, Karen and Joseph E Trainor with John R. Harrald, Sue McNeil, Greg Shaw, and Marco Zannoni. 2010. “Floods and Disaster Management in the NL:"God Created the world, but the Dutch created the NL." in Comparative emergency Management. David McEntire (ed.) FEMA in Higher Education Program Lauren 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 |
