Rick Brady’s professional background includes five years working as an environmental, urban, and homeland security planning consultant and more than one year as a public sector land use and environmental planner.  His experience includes the preparation of general and community plans, environmental impact reports, baseline environmental studies, emergency operations plans, disaster recovery plans, housing elements, and HUD consolidated plans.  Rick graduated from UC San Diego in 2003 with a Bachelor of Arts in Urban Studies and Planning and earned Highest Distinction honors.  In 2007, Mr. Brady earned a Master in City Planning from San Diego State University and was awarded the Department’s Outstanding Graduate Student of the Year Award.  Rick’s work has been published in peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings.  A paper co-authored by Mr. Brady for the Joint Statistical Meeting of the American Statistical Association will be included as a chapter in a book to be published in 2008 by J. Wiley & Sons. 

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Suburbanization of the Fire Terrain: A Planner's Perspective   Wildfires_Roundtable.ppt