National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program

John R. Hayes, Jr. ("Jack")
NEHRP Director
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
100 Bureau Drive, MS 8610
Gaithersburg, MD  20899
(301) 975-5640
jack.hayes@nist.gov

Jack Hayes joined the Building and Fire Research Laboratory in early 2006. He is the Director of the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP). NEHRP is the federal government's program to reduce risks to life and property from earthquakes. NEHRP consists of four federal agencies: the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) of the Department of Homeland Security, the National Science Foundation (NSF), the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and NIST. As director, Hayes provides overall program management, coordination and technical leadership; strengthens program effectiveness by facilitating implementation of earthquake risk mitigation measures; and builds and maintains effective partnerships with NEHRP program agencies and stakeholders in industry, academia and government. Specific duties include strategic and management plan development and implementation; program evaluation and performance measurement; budget review, guidance and coordination; preparation and submission of coordinated annual program budgets; submission of an annual report to Congress on consolidated program priorities, budget and results, including an assessment of program effectiveness; information dissemination on earthquake hazards and loss-reduction measures; and related interagency programs and policies.

Hayes joins NIST after serving since 1988 as leader of seismic and structural engineering research at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center's (ERDC) Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL) in Champaign, IL. At CERL, Hayes was actively involved in earthquake engineering research for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He also collaborated extensively with the earthquake engineering program at NSF, including work within the Mid-America Earthquake Center, and has been directly involved with a number of significant earthquake mitigation projects for FEMA. Working with key personnel at USGS, Hayes helped develop the seismic provisions for the American Society of Civil Engineers' ASCE 7-05 standard and a new Department of Defense tri-services seismic design manual.

Prior to his tenure at CERL, Hayes was Research Civil Engineer and Senior Scientist at the Engineering Research Division of the U.S. Air Force Engineering and Services Laboratory (1984-1988); Structural Engineer at the U.S. Air Force Armament Division (1982-1984); Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at the Virginia Military Institute (1980-1982); Civil Engineer and NATO Infrastructure Staff Officer at the Headquarters U.S. Air Forces in Europe (1977-1980); and Civil Engineer Officer at Tinker AFB, OK (1975-1977).

Hayes is a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Air Force Reserves and is a registered Professional Engineer in Florida and Virginia.

Education:
Ph.D. Civil Engineering, 1998, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
M.E. Civil Engineering, 1975, University of Virginia (Tau Beta Pi)
B.S. Civil Engineering, 1973, Virginia Military Institute (Distinguished Graduate)

Tina Faecke
NEHRP Administrative Officer
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
100 Bureau Drive, MS 8630
Gaithersburg, MD  20899
(301) 975-5911
tina.faecke@nist.gov

Tina Faecke is the Administrative Officer for the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) Secretariat.

Faecke joined the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST in July 1974 as a Clerk-Stenographer assigned to NIST Personnel. She was selected for a permanent position in the Office of ADP Standards Management, Institute for Computer Sciences and Technology (ICST), in November 1974, and was promoted to an Administrative Aid position within the same office in December 1976. During her career in ICST, she served as a Secretary (Stenography) for a Division Chief, the Center Director, and the Laboratory Deputy Director. In September 1988, Faecke was promoted to an Administrative Officer position. She was given full responsibility for the laboratory headquarters budget and human resource execution and operation. She was also responsible for coordinating and overseeing the November 1995 physical relocation of approximately 520 employees and property to NIST North when the NIST Computer Systems Laboratory (CSL) and NIST Computing and Applied Mathematics Laboratory (CAML) merged to become the NIST Information Technology Laboratory (ITL).

In March 1996, Faecke was selected for an Administrative Officer position in the Building Environment Division (BED), NIST Building and Fire Research Laboratory (BFRL). BED has an annual operating budget of about $10 million and its staff includes about 48 federal employees and 10 guest researchers from industry, universities, and foreign entities.

In early 2006, Faecke was named to serve as the Administrative Officer for the NEHRP Secretariat. In her current position, Faecke:

• coordinates and assists in managing NEHRP budget and project guidance and execution;
• attends and participates in executive-level interagency meetings and prepares meeting minutes
• oversees, manages, and executes daily financial and human resource operations for the Building Environment Division;
• assists with outside collaborations and personally negotiates with high-level officials to explore all possible avenues in order to obtain funds from outside sponsors;
• serves as BFRL representative and administrative liaison for the Commerce Business Systems (CBS) My Tools Other Objects and Labor Subcommittees; and
• serves as the division liaison for all administrative, human resource, and budgetary operations.

Education:
Frederick Community College, Frederick, MD
Secretarial Science Degree, 1974

Edward M. Laatsch ("Ed")
Chief, Building Science Section Risk Reduction Branch, Mitigation Division
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Department of Homeland Security
500 C Street, SW
Washington, DC 20472
edward.laatsch@dhs.gov

Edward Laatsch is Chief, Building Science Section of the Risk Reduction Branch within FEMA's Mitigation Division. This section is responsible for several programs and initiatives including: The National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP); disaster-resistant building codes and standards activities; technical and engineering support for earthquake, hurricane, flood, physical security and other natural and man-made hazards; and post-disaster forensic engineering studies through the Mitigation Assessment Team (MAT) program. Other activities within this section include the development of technical guidance documents related to hazard mitigation and special projects related to all-hazards risks.

Previously, Laatsch was Chief of the Multi-hazard Engineering Services Section at FEMA. Prior to that, he was a Research Administrator and Loss Control Superintendent for State Farm Insurance. Before that he spent 7 years with the National Association of Home Builders and the NAHB Research Center. Previous to that, Laatsch worked as a consulting engineer including 5 years with a specialty munitions facilities design firm as a Vice President and blast-effects designer. In all, Ed Laatsch has over twenty-five years of experience in the areas of engineering design, housing research, project management, and construction supervision. In addition, Laatsch has written numerous papers and publications on residential housing technology and loss control issues over the last 10 years.

Laatsch holds an M.S. in Architecture from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Michigan, as well as being a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Virginia.

Education:
M.S. Architecture, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
B.S. Civil Engineering, University of Michigan

Joy Pauschke
Program Director
Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation
George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES)
National Science Foundation (NSF)
4201 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 545
Arlington, VA 22230
(703) 292-7024
jpauschk@nsf.gov

David Applegate
Senior Science Advisor for Earthquake and Geologic Hazards
United States Geographical Survey (USGS)
905 National Center
12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, MS 905
Reston, VA, 20192
(703) 648-6714
applegate@usgs.gov

David Applegate is the senior science advisor for earthquake and geologic hazards at the U.S. Geological Survey. In that capacity, he leads the Earthquake Hazards, Global Seismographic Network, and Geomagnetism Programs and provides coordination for geologic hazards activities across the USGS. He also serves as Vice-Chair of the National Science and Technology Council's interagency Subcommittee on Disaster Reduction.

In addition to his USGS duties, Applegate is an adjunct faculty member of the University of Utah's Department of Geology and Geophysics and an instructor in the Environmental Sciences and Policy graduate program at The Johns Hopkins University. Prior to joining USGS in February 2004, he spent eight years at the American Geological Institute as director of government affairs and, for the last four years there, as the editor of Geotimes, AGI's newsmagazine of the earth sciences. Before coming to AGI, Applegate served with the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources as the American Geophysical Union's Congressional Science Fellow and as a professional staff member for the minority.

Born and raised in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, Applegate holds a B.S. in geology from Yale University and a Ph.D. in geology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Education:
Ph.D. Geology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B.S. Geology, Yale University