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TITLE: DISASTERMAN's BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR by RUSSELL C. COILE, CERTIFIED EMERGENCY MANAGER, WWW.disasterconsultant .com. 1) AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY RUSSELL C. COILE (CEM) is a Certified Emergency Manager and is a Disaster Consultant listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World, and Who's Who in Science and Engineering. Dr. Russell C. Coile received S.B., S.M., and E.E. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., and a Ph.D in Information Science from The City University, London, England. Colonel Russell C, .Coile, USAF (Retired) is a graduate of the Air War College, Maxwell AFB, AL. and a graduate of the USN Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island. Russell C. Coile now lives in Pacific Grove, California with Ellen his wife. They have three children: Jennifer Coile is a city planner consultant; Jonathan Coile is President and CEO of Champion Realty, Annapolis Maryland; and Andrew Coile is studying for a Ph. D. in Computer Science at the University Of California - Santa Cruz. 2) BACK COVER disasterman'S biographical memoir by RUSSELL C. COILE (Certified Emergency Manager) is a detailed account of Dr. Russell Coile's life progressing through stages of scientific geophysical research intereupted by active duty in the US Army Signal Corps and Army Air Corps during World War Two, consulting work in engineering designing radio broadcast stations, operations research for the US Navy and US Marine COrps, working for the Federal Emergency Management Agency on disaster management on natural disasters including earthquakes and floods in California, and working as a disaster consultant for the US State Department on Vice President Gore's Global Disaster Information Network program in Mexico, Turkey, Iceland, and England. Dr. Coile has published a number of disaster management and was invitd by the Chinese Academy of Science to come to Beijing to give a seminar on earthquake preparedness. 4) KEY WORDS Disaster Preparedness, Disaster Management, Disaster Planning, Emergency Operations Center Design, Preparedness for Earthquakes, Flooding, hurricanes, Evacuatio9n Planning, Training and exerrcising first responders for natural disasters, Community Emergency Response Teams.