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Proceedings Published for 2011 DHS S&T University Summit

The Journal of Homeland Security has published the proceedings of the 2011 DHS Science Conference – 5th Annual University Network Summit, focused on Catastrophes and Complex Systems: Transportation. Thirty-seven white papers from the Summit, held March 30–April 1 in Washington, DC, are now available in a special on-line issue published on June 21, 2011 at: Homeland Security Journal DHS University Summit 2011


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Audio recordings of the presentations from this year's DHS Summit are now available.


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Presentations Now Available

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Summit Materials

Downloadable Summit materials are available in PDF format. 

Speaker Presentations | Speaker Abstracts | Student Abstracts

Speaker Presentations

Note: These presentations can be lengthy and may contain large graphics and images resulting in a large file size. Please reference the file size listed beside each presentation and take this into consideration when downloading the file. Dependent upon your Internet connection, large file sizes may greatly delay the download speed.

Welcome & Introduction Matthew Clark, Director, Office of University Programs, Science & Technology Directorate, Department of Homeland Security (889 KB)
Keynote Speech Jay M. Cohen, Under Secretary for Science & Technology, Department of Homeland Security (1.6 MB)
Explosives Panel Polly Gongwer
Explosives Detection Canine Research (516 KB)

Susan Hallowell
The Top Ten Reasons Why You Might Want to be a Civil Servant (1.4 MB)

Herman A. Rediess
Explosives Prevention Research Challenges (593 KB)

Chemical-Biological Panel

Francis Busta
Defending the safety of the food system through research and education (1.8 MB)

Neville Clarke
National Center for Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Disease Defense (1.4 MB)

Clay Detlefsen
Food & Agriculture Sector Coordinating Councel (FASCC) (41 KB)

Joan Rose
Center for Advancing Microbial Risk Assessment (1 MB)

John Vitko
DHS University Network SummitChem-Bio Panel (32 KB)

Command, Control and Interoperability Panel David Ebert
Visual Analytics for Command & Control (815 KB)

David Leonardis
New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness: An Operational Perspective on Intelligence Fusion (243 KB)

Fred Roberts
Homeland Security: What Can Discrete Science Do? (1.9 MB)

David Scott
USCG Sector Delaware Bay (575 KB)

Jim Thomas
National Visualization and Analytics Center (NVAC) (1.7 MB)

Borders-Maritime Security Panel

David Newton
Border and Maritime Security Division (547 KB)

Human Factors Panel Gary LaFree
Developing a Global Terrorism Data Base (332 KB)

Clark McCauley
Models and mechanisms of radicalization (24 KB)

Sharla Rausch
Overview of the Human Factors Division in DHS S&T (109 KB)
Infrastructure-Geophysical Panel

Christopher Doyle
DHS Infrastructure and Geophysical Division (36 KB)

Tom Kirsch
National Center for the Study of Preparedness and Catastrophic Event Response (PACER) Surge Capacity Networks

Jalal Mapar
S&T Programs: Preparedness & Response (1.1 MB)

Lou Marciani
Development of an Effective Infrastructure for Sport Venue Security (639 KB)

Randy Rowell
Impact of Culture on Preparedness (522 KB)

Operations Analysis, Decision Support Simulation and Risk Analysis Panel Adam Rose
Economic Modeling for Homeland Security Analysis (206 KB)

Robert G. Ross
Improving Use of Risk to Inform Homeland Security Decision-Making (140 KB)

George Thompson
Risk Analysis for DHS S&T: A Perspective on Research Needs (162 KB)

Detlof von Winterfeldt
Overview of CREATE (392 KB)

DHS University Centers Panel

 

 

Francis Busta
Defending the safety of the food system through research and education (1.8 MB)

Neville Clarke
Overview of National Center for Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Disease Defense (946 KB)

Warren Edwards
Southeast Region Research Initiative (SERRI) (380 KB)

Lynn Goldman
National Study Center for Preparedness and Catastrophic Event Response: Science Integration and Framework (529 KB)

Charles N. Haas
Center for Advancing Microbial Risk Assessment (101 KB)

Gary LaFree
NATIONAL CONSORTIUM for the STUDY OF TERRORISM AND RESPONSES TO TERRORISM (159 KB)

Fred Roberts
The DHS University Affiliate Centers
to the Institute for Discrete Sciences (IDS-UACs)
(1.4 MB)

Jim Thomas
Introduction to the Regional Visualization and Analytics Centers (RVACs) (803 KB)

Detlof Von Winterfeldt
Should We Protect Commercial Airplanes Against Surface-to-Air Missile Attacks by Terrorists? (644 KB)

Cross-Media Information Identification and Extraction (1.A,2.A) Deborah A. Cai
Coding Messages from al-Qa'ida Leaders (54 KB)

Moses Charikar
Content-based Similarity Search of Large Feature-rich Dataset (1.3 MB)

Eduard Hovy
CKID: The Center for Large-Scale Strategic Knowledge Integration and Discovery from Multiple Media (6.5 MB)

D.A. Forsyth
Words and Pictures (1.9 MB)

William Ribarsky
Visual Analysis of Multimedia Data (3.2 MB)

Alan MacEachren
Geo-temporal information discovery (23.8 MB)

Dan Roth
Semantic Abstraction and Integration Across Text Documents and Data Bases (3.9 MB)

Janyce Wiebe
CERATOPS Center for Extraction and Summarization of Events and Opinions in Text (577 KB)

Global Terrorism Threats (1.B)

Victor Asal
Organizations and the Choices of Terror (576 KB)

Richard John
Estimating Likelihood of Terrorist Attacks by Modeling Terrorist Beliefs and Motivations (139 KB)

Stephen J. Weber
Attitudinal Factors in Support for Anti-American Violence and Terrorist Groups (182 KB)

 

Risk Analysis: Threat, Vulnerability, and Consequences of Terrorism (1.C) Michail Orosz
Risk Analysis Workbench (RAW) (547 KB)

Shaun Kennedy
Systems Based Vulnerability and Risk Assessment (419 KB)

Detlof von Winterfeldt
Overview of CREATE (392 KB)

Henry Willis
Applying Optimal Capital Allocation Methods to Homeland Security Resources: A Case Study of California’s Allocation of the Buffer Zone Protection Program Grants (373 KB)
Modeling Potential Chemical/Biological Events for Preparedness, Response and Recovery Efforts (1.D)

Lori Mann Bruce
Hyperspectral imaging for detecting the application of biochemical agents to food crops (1.3 MB)

Charles N. Haas
Use of Classical Environmental Risk Paradigms in the Context of Assessing Risks from Bio-Agents (162 KB)

David M. Hartley
Modeling as a Tool for Preparing for Agro- and Bio-terrorism: Rift Valley Fever (534 KB)

Andrew M. Jaine
Consequence Management System Predicting the Consequences of Food Contamination (619 KB)

Rachael M. Jones
A Markov Model of Particle Transport in Indoor Air (736 KB)

Detection and Diagnostics (1.E,2.E) Gary Ackerman
CBRN Terrorism: Motives and Malefactors (964 KB)

Garry Adams
Development of modern detection & diagnostic capabilities for
Rift Valley Fever & Foot & Mouth Disease
(1 MB)

Carol Cardona
Avian Influenza (1.1 MB)

Christopher Y. Choi
Prediction of Contaminants in Water Distribution Systems (1.9 MB)

Mansel W. Griffiths
Extraction, Concentration and Detection of Toxins (871 KB)

Syed A. Hashsham
CAMRA:  Nucleic Acids-Based Methods with Enhanced Sensitivity and High Sample Throughput (1.1 MB)

Eric Johnson
Botulinum Neurotoxin Sensing Solutions Complex Matrices (997 KB)

Richard Rothman
Biothreat and Emerging Infectious Disease Detection: Designing Novel Systems and Evaluating Current Methods (1.2 MB)

Moises Sudit
Situational Detection is More than Just Sensor Detection (624 KB)

All Hazards Emergency Response (1.F)

Elizabeth Casman
Risk Communication Planning for Dynamic Situations: the aftermath of a plague bio-attack (840 KB)

William Cooke
Capturing Hurricane Katrina Data for Analysis and Lessons-Learned Research (1.1 MB)

Gordon Skelton
Emergency Management and Disaster Response (1 MB)

Kathleen Tierney
START Research on Societal Dimensions of Terrorism: Preparedness Networks (145 KB)

Risk Perception and Communication (2.B) Jean Kinsey
Consumer Perception of Food Defense Spending and Patterns (361 KB)

Heather Rosoff
What Do We Know About Public Perceptions of Terrorism Risks? (124 KB)

Donald J. Klingborg
Risk & Crisis Communication (1.3 MB)

Dennis S. Mileti
PUBLIC WARNINGS FOR PROTECTIVE ACTION (89 KB)

Resilient Responses to Terrorism (2.C)

James G. Hodge, Jr.
The Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act: Addressing Public Health Emergency Responses (413 KB)

Melissa McCarthy
Developing Metrics To Measure Emergency Medical Response Capabilities (119 KB)

Adam Rose
Promoting Resilience to Terrorism (625 KB)

Monica Schoch-Spana
Engaging Community Partners in Preparedness Planning (51 KB)

Economic Tools for Optimizing Investments in Critical Infrastructure Protection (2.D) Susan Cutter
The Social Vulnerability Index: A County-Level Assessment of Communities and Implications for Preparedness Planning (2.2 KB)

Bruce A. McCarl
Economic Evaluation of Preparedness, Response, and Recovery strategies (95 KB)

Thomas F. Stinson
Macroeconomic Impacts of Terrorist Attacks (55 KB)
Workforce Development at the Frontier of DHS Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (2.F)

Hamilton Bean
One Student’s Perspective on the Centers of Excellence (33 KB)

Sheldon Greenberg
Building First Responder Capacity to Prevent, Interdict, and Respond to the Delivery of Terror (199 KB)

Raphael D. Isokpehi and Rob Hochberg
A Center of Excellence (COE) Network Approach to Workforce Development (301 KB)

Robyn Mace
Collective Capabilities:  Creating Learners and Learning Environments for Infrastructure Protection (217 KB)

Gordon Skelton
Academic Research “Education to Operations” (67 KB)

Closing Session: Plenary Speech Starnes Walker
Upcoming Research & Education Opportunities (147 KB)

Speaker Abstracts

A compilation of all speaker abstracts is available for download or you can review and print individual abstracts below.

Gary Ackerman University of Maryland
CBRN Terrorism: Motives and Malefactors

Garry Adams

Texas A&M University
Development of Modern Detection and Diagnostic Capabilities for Rift Valley Fever (RVF) and Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD)

Victor Asal University At Albany
Organizations and the Turn to Terrorism
Hamilton Bean

University of Colorado at Boulder
A Student Perspective on the COEs

Lori Mann Bruce Mississippi State University
Hyperspectral Imaging for Detecting the Application of Biochemical Agents to Food Crops
Francis F. Busta

University of Minnesota
National Center for Food Protection and Defense (NCFPD)

Deborah A. Cai University of Maryland
Coding Messages from al-Qa'ida Leaders for Reference, Target, and Persuasive Approaches
Elizabeth Casman & Baruch Fischhoff Carnegie Mellon University
Risk Communication Planning for Dynamic Situations: The Aftermath of Plague Bioattack
Moses Charikar Princeton University
Content-based Similarity Search of Large Feature-rich Datasets
Christopher Y. Choi University of Arizona
Prediction of Contaminants in Water Distribution Systems
Mathew Clark U.S. Department of Homeland Security
DHS University Centers Panel
Neville P. Clarke The National Center for Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Disease Defense
Chemical/Biological Panel
Bill Cooke, PI: David Shaw Mississippi State University
Capturing Hurricane Katrina Data for Analysis and Lessons-Learned Research
Susan L. Cutter

University of South Carolina
The Social Vulnerability Index:
A County-Level Assessment of Communities and Implications for Preparedness Planning

David S. Ebert Purdue University
Visual Analytics for Command and Control:
Creating Actionable, Relevant Information from Multisource, Evolving Data

David Forsyth

University of Illinois at Urbana /Champaign
Words and Pictures

Peter Gordon University of Southern California
The Regional Economic Impacts of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on Oil and Gas Refinery Operations in the Gulf of Mexico and the Rest of the U.S.: Applying a Flexible Multi-regional Input-Output Model

Sheldon Greenberg

Johns Hopkins University
First Responder Capacity Building

Mansel Griffiths University of Guelph
Extraction, Concentration and Detection of Toxins

Charles N. Haas

Drexel University
Use of Classical Environmental Risk Paradigms in the Context of Assessing Risk from Bio-Agents

Susan F. Hallowell Transportation Security Laboratory/Science & Technology Directorate/U.S. Department of Homeland Security
The Top Ten Reasons that Working for the U.S. Government is a Great Career
Daniel Hamilton Johns Hopkins University
Jihadist Networks in Europe: Implications for the United States
David M. Hartley University of Maryland School of Medicine
Modeling as a Tool for Preparing for Agro- and Bio-terrorism: Rift Valley Fever
Syed A. Hashsham Michigan State University
Nucleic Acids-Based Methods with Enhanced Sensitivity and High Sample Throughput
David Hernandez U.S. Department of Homeland Security
What do I do?

James G. Hodge, Jr.

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
The Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act: Addressing Public Health Emergency Responses

John Hoffman &
Shaun Kennedy
National Center for Food Protection and Defense
Systems-Based Vulnerability and Risk Assessment

Eduard Hovy

University of Southern California
Extracting and Combining Information from Text Sources

Raphael D. Isokpehi & Rob Hochberg Jackson State University and East Carolina University
A COE Network Approach to Workforce Development
Andy Jaine BTSafety, LLC.
Consequence Management System (CMS)
Richard John & Heather Rosoff University of Southern California
Estimating Likelihood of Terrorist Attacks by Modeling Terrorist Beliefs and Motivations
Eric A. Johnson

University of Wisconsin
Botulinum Neurotoxin Sensing in Complex Matrices

Rachael Jones University of California, Berkeley
A Markov Chain Model for Supermicron Particle Fate and Transport in Indoor Air
Jean Kinsey University of Minnesota
Risk Perception and Communication, “Consumer Perception of Food Defense Spending and Priorities”
Donald J. Klingborg The National Center for Foreign Animal & Zoonotic Disease Defense Risk
Effective Risk Communication for the Nation's Food System
Gary LaFree
Alan M. MacEachren Pennsylvania State University
Geo-temporal Information Discovery

Lou Marciani, Stacey Hall &
Walter Cooper

University of Southern Mississippi
Introducing a Sport Event Security Aware (SESA) System

Bruce A. McCarl & Levan Elbakidze Texas A&M University
Economic Evaluation of Preparedness,  Response, and Recovery Strategies

Melissa L. McCarthy

Clark McCauley Bryn Mawr College
Mechanisms of Political Radicalization
Dennis S. Mileti University of Colorado at Boulder
Public Warnings for Protective Action
Michael D. Orosz University of Southern California
The Risk Analysis Workbench (RAW): A Tool for Risk Assessment
William Ribarsky

University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Visual Analysis of Multimedia Data

Fred S. Roberts Rutgers University
Homeland Security: What Can Discrete Science Do?
Adam Rose

University of Southern California
Promoting Resilience to Terrorism

Heather Rosoff & Richard John University of Southern California
What Do We Know About Public Perception of Terrorism Risks?
Dan Roth University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Semantic Abstraction and Integration Across Text Documents and Data Bases
Richard Rothman Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
Biothreat Detection: Designing Novel Methods and  Assessing Current Systems for Detection and Surveillance
Monica Schoch-Spana University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Engaging Community Partners in Preparedness Planning
Gordon Skelton Jackson State University
All Hazards Emergency Operations Management System (ALLHAZ)/DRIS
Gordon Skelton Jackson State University
Linking Education to Operations.
Thomas Stinson University of Minnesota
Macro-economic Impacts of Terrorist Attacks
Moises Sudit University at Buffalo
Situational Detection is more than just Sensor Detection.
Jim Thomas U.S. Department of Homeland Security/National Visualization and Analytics Center
Regional Visualization and Analytics Centers
Developing the Next Generation of Science and Scientists in Visual Analytics
Jim Thomas

U.S. Department of Homeland Security/National Visualization and Analytics Center
Visual Analytics: The Agenda in Response to DHS Mission Needs

Kathleen Tierney University of Colorado
Preparedness Networks: Crossing Sectors, Joining Jurisdictions
Detlof von Winterfeldt University of Southern California
Should We Protect Commercial Airplanes Against Surface-to-Air Missile Attacks by Terrorists?
Steve Weber University of Maryland
Terrorism and Institutional Legitimacy: When do ordinary Citizens Support Extraordinary Violence?
Janyce Wiebe

University of Pittsburgh
Extracting and Summarizing Events and Opinions in Text

Henry H. Willis, Don Kleinmuntz, Detlof von Winterfeldt & Harry Bowman RAND Corporation
Applying Optimal Capital Allocation Methods to Homeland Security Resources: A Case Study of California’s Allocation of the Buffer Zone Protection Program Grants

Student Abstracts

A compilation of all student abstracts is available for download or you can review and print individual abstracts below.

Ian Anderson

University at Albany
The Softest of Targets

Timothy A. Bartrand Drexel University
Dose-Response Modeling of Plague Data Reveals High Level of Dispersion

Hamilton Bean

University of Colorado at Boulder
The Role of Homeland Security Electronic Information Bulletins within Emergency Management Organizations:  A Case Study

Smriti Bhagat Rutgers University
Link-Based Classification of Blogs

Vinayak R. Brahmakshatriya

Texas A&M University, National Center for Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Disease Defense
Evaluation in Chickens of a Live Attenuated NS1 Mutant Avian Influenza Virus (AIV) Vaccine

Kimberly Cowden North Dakota State University
Understanding Risk and Crisis Messaging and Use of Spokespersons with Native and New American Populations

Trey Cunningham

The University of Southern Mississippi
Security Management Training of Intercollegiate Athletic Departments

Shannon H. Degenhart Texas A&M University, National Center for Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Disease Defense
Effectiveness of Train-the-Trainer for Foreign and Emerging Animal Disease Curriculum

Elizabeth Dunn

University of South Carolina
Terrorism’s Spatiality and Identity through Media Content Analysis

Susan Fahey National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Response to Terrorism (START)
Exploring the Situational Determinants of Aerial Hijackings

Megan L. Frisk

University of Wisconsin-Madison
Sensing Botulinum  Neurotoxin:  Microfluidic Platforms Integrating Hydrogel- or SAM-based Elements

Qi Gao Texas A&M University, Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Disease Defense Center
Animal Carcass Disposal under Trial Event

Jennifer S. Goldman

Columbia University
The Differential Effects of Collective-level vs. Personal-level Humiliating Experiences

Christian Goulding Princeton University
Optimal Detection and Identification of a Sudden Change in an Information Pattern

Alexander Gutfraind

Center for Applied Math, Cornell University
A Mathematical Model of Terrorist Organizations

Ashley Howell The Homeland Security Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events
Risk Analysis of Biological Agents

Rong Hu

Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University, National Center for Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Disease Defense
Impact of Animal Disease-related Trade Disruption on the U.S. Beef Market

Sungye Kim Purdue University
Visual Analytics for Emergency Response Using Mobile Devices

Zhicheng Liu

Georgia Institute of Technology, Southeast Regional Visualization and Analytics Center
Jigsaw:  Facilitating Investigative Analysis Through Visualization

Hangzai Luo Charlotte Visualization Center at UNC-Charlotte
Exploring Large-Scale News Video Databases via Visual Analysis

Huseyin Onur Mete

University of Washington
Optimization with Uncertainties for the Location and Allocation of Medical Supplies in an Emergency Situation

Ashley M. Nellis American University
Does Watching the News Affect Perceived Risk of Terrorism?

Brian Nussbaum

National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START)
Global Cities, Global Threats:  The New York Police Department, the London Metropolitan Police Service, and the Internationalization of Municipal Policing for Counterterrorism

Edward Orehek START Center – University of Maryland
The Quest for Certainty and Social Response to Terrorism

Chi-Chun Pan

The Pennsylvania State University
Automatic Extraction and Geo-spatial Visualization of FEMA National Situation Updates

Jacquelin D. Reed University of Southern California
A Risk Assessment of Critical Infrastructure Sites in California

C.A. Rossetti

Texas A&M University, Dept of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine and National Center for Foreign Animal & Zoonotic Disease Defense
Host and Brucella Gene Expression Biosignatures in an In Vitro Model of Infection

Heather Rosoff Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorist Events (CREATE), University of Southern California
Estimating the Likelihood of Terrorist Attacks on the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach

Randy Rowel

Morgan State University
Low-Income Minorities’ Preparedness, Response and Recovery Experiences During Hurricane Isabel and a Tornado:  Were They Ready for the Unexpected?

Aylin D. Sayir Michigan State University in partnership with Wayne State University
Longitudinal Evaluation of Food Safety Discussion Based Exercises

Brian M. Tomaszewski

Dept. Geography, Northeast Visualization & Analytics Center, Penn State University
Mapping Open-Source Information to Support Crisis Management

M. Douglas Voss Michigan State University (NCFPD partner under The University of Minnesota)
The Role of Security in the Supplier Selection Decision

Scott Walper

The University of Southern Mississippi
Construction of a Single-chain Fv Antibody for a Bacterial Target-specific Biosensor

Douglas S. Watson Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Texas A&M University and National Center for Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Disease Defense
Multiplex Immunoassays for Detection of Antibodies Against Avian Influenza

Mark H. Weir

Department of Civil Architectural and Environmental Engineering, Drexel University
Effect of Host Species on the Dose Response of Inhaled Bacillus Anthracis Spores

Sungyong Won Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and National Center for Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Disease Defense
Rift Valley Fever Virus NSm Protein Inhibits Virus-induced Apoptic Cell Death

Weizhong Zhu

Northeast Visualization and Analytics Center (NEVAC) and College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University
Visual Analysis of Terrorists’ Networks Extracted from the Public Knowledge Bases

Jun Zhuang University of Wisconsin-Madison
Game Theory and Homeland Security Resource Allocation