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Dr. Walter Dudley; Tsunami Research and Support
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Dr. Walter Dudley, Chair of the Pacific Tsunami Museum's Scientific Advisory Council, has been very busy with tsunami related activities. From December 13-24, 2006, he and Jeanne Johnston, Hawaii State Civil Defense Tsunami and Earthquake Disaster Planner, traveled to Kerala, India where the carried out video interviews with twenty tsunami survivors and the chief magistrate of the district.
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Right: Dr. Dudley and an interviewee in Thailand
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In between interviews, meetings were held with tsunami researchers at Cochin University of Science and technology, and faculty and graduate students in the Disaster Management Program at Mahatma Gandhi University. In addition, Dudley and Johnston were the keynote speakers at a day long conference on disaster management held for secondary school teachers. The project in India was funded by the U. S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) as part of the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning System initiative.
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Left: Community meeting in Thailand
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Dudley was in Thailand from February 14-26, 2007 to help local officials in Ranong Province carry out tsunami evacuation drills and discuss final content for a tsunami safety exhibit for the new community center. Displays for the exhibit were fabricated by Gen Cain at the Pacific Tsunami Museum. Interactive kiosks were programmed by our own electronics expert, John Coney. Coney and Dudley traveled to Thailand in late April 2007 to install the kiosks and displays and to attend the opening of the exhibit.
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Right: Dr. Dudley with Sumon Sangkaew and Mhaiyam Langnam in Thailand
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Last Revised November 2007
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