Maribel Martinez-Mejia, Phd, Cem Email & Phone Number

Arlington, Texas, United States

Arlington, Texas, United States

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Emergency Management Administration Degree Program; Department of Political Science & Criminal Justice• Course Instructor: CRIJ/EMA/POSC 4360 - GIS Technology for Public and Emergency Management

Amarillo, Texas

Canyon, Tx

• Emergency Management Administration Degree Program; Department of Political Science & Criminal Justice• Course Instructor: CRIJ/EMA/POSC 4360 - GIS Technology for Public and Emergency Management

Amarillo, Texas Area

• Consultant for $1.8 million Department of Homeland Security Regional Resiliency Assessment Program (RRAP) for the Texas Panhandle.• Reviewed emergency plans and preparedness information for cattle and livestock industry against natural and manmade threats such as Foot-and-Mouth Disease and other Foreign and Emerging Animal Disasters.• Controller/Evaluator for a series of tabletop exercises conducted by Cubic Corporations for local industries, key emergency management officials, and county judges.

Amarillo, Texas Area

• Responsible for the training, setup, activation, and operation of the Emergency Operations Center and Mobile Operations Center including personnel, communications, warning, computer/AV systems.• Serve as Duty Officer and respond to actual emergencies. Have experience with numerous types of EOC activations, field operation support, and special event Incident Action Plan development.• Develop and conduct programs on emergency preparedness to schools, businesses, organizations, and special outreach events throughout the year. Assist the National Weather Service with identifying areas of safe refuge from tornadoes and evaluating drills for schools and businesses.• Serve as the exercise design officer for City/County discussion and operation based exercises.• Maintain Office of Emergency Management, Local Emergency Planning Committee, and Texas Panhandle Association of Business Planners websites.• Coordinate and develop uses of various computer software for emergency operations and planning (i.e. hazmat, weather, damage assessment, resource mapping, personnel callout, situational awareness, etc..).• Assist in preparation and maintenance of budget and other departmental administrative tasks as the Assistant Department Head over Communications and Emergency Management.

Lubbock, Texas Area

• Assisted with hazard mitigation and emergency planning for local county jurisdictions.• Mapped and developed SPAG region emergency infrastructure datasets.

Lubbock, Texas Area

• Designed and deployed meteorological instrumentation in seven hurricanes and numerous tornadicevents for wind research and mitigation purposes.• Developed radar data display programs in Matlab for use in hurricane wind research.• Created Matlab code for analysis of large volume West Texas Mesonet datasets.• Instructor for atmospheric science laboratory classes for three semesters.

Dodgeville, Wi

• Devloped and maintained the Iowa County Common Land Unit (CLU) layer in ArcGIS.• Developed disaster mapping procedures with the state USDA office for agricultural datasets.

Boulder, Co

• Participated in the Severe Thunderstorm Electrification Precipitation Study field project.• Performed research involving data from radar and lightning systems in various aspects of storm evolution/severity through each summer.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Wind Science And Engineering

NSF Multidisciplinary Integrated Graduate Education Research and Training (IGERT) Fellow.

Master Of Science (Ms), Atmospheric Science

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Geoscience/Geophysics