Gerard A. Finin ADJUNCT PROFESSOR and Deputy Director of the East West Center PhD, urban and regional planning and Southeast Asian studies, Cornell University more....

Stanley Goosby ADJUNCT PROFESSOR and Chief Scientist at the Pacific Disaster Center
Mr. Stanley Goosby has been Chief Scientist for Pacific Disaster Center since 1996 and a member of the Executive Management Team. From 1996 to 2001, he also served PDC as a Modeling Analyst and Manager for Applications Development. He has over 25 years experience in earth-science disciplines relevant to natural disaster modeling, scenario simulation and natural hazard phenomenology. He has led and managed teams analyzing geophysical hazards and phenomena resulting from tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic activity in American Samoa, Vanuatu, Thailand and the Philippines. During his years with Pacific Disaster Center, he has enhanced his capabilities by taking special courses in numerical modeling, remote sensing, GIS analysis and disaster management, as well as hazard and risk impacts. He authored The Impacts of Disasters in the Asia Pacific Region, for the First International Conference on Urban Disaster Reduction, 2005. Mr. Goosby earned a B.S. in Physics, 1978, from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; an M.S. in Physics, 1982, from Washington State University; and did graduate studies at the University of California, San Diego.

Curtis M. Johnson

ADJUNCT PROFESSOR

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APCSS adjunct professor Curtis Johnson is a member of the Advanced Concepts Group at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Sandia Labs is a science and engineering research and development laboratory for the U.S. national security complex. The mission of the Advanced Concepts Groups is to explore the future of national and international security. In his four years in the Advanced Concepts Group Curtis has explored causes of the Global War on Terror, neuroscience and national security, homeland security for soft targets such as airports and shopping malls, global aging, influence operations, and missile defense. The Advanced Concepts Groups specializes in science and engineering approaches to complex systems and problems requiring social science expertise, Curtis has been employed at Sandia Labs since 1994. Prior to that Curtis worked for the New Mexico State Legislature. He has a BA in Liberal Arts from St. John’s College and a MBA in Technology management from the University of Phoenix.

Last updated: 09/25/2008

Gerard A. Finin

ADJUNCT PROFESSOR and Deputy Director of the East West Center

Curtis M. Johnson

ADJUNCT PROFESSOR