Publications/Research Presentations

Video Footage Rescue Timeline of the Crash of USAirways Flight 1549
Jung Cho and Charles R. Jennings, PhD, �Video Footage Rescue Timeline of the Crash of USAirways Flight 1549.� Fire Engineering. Volume 162, Number 7 July 2009, p. 60.
"Video Footage Rescue Timeline of the Crash of USAirways Flight 1549"

Working paper 09-01
Charles R. Jennings, PhD, MIFireE, CFO Christian Regenhard Center for Emergency Response Studies (RaCERS)
John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York.
"Concept for Implementation of a Lessons Learned Capability for Presidentially-Declared Disasters"

Working paper 09-02
Norman E. Groner, PhD, Christian Regenhard Center for Emergency Response Studies (RaCERS)
John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York.
"Situation Awareness Requirements Analysis For Emergency Management Planning"

Working paper 09-03
Erika deGuttry, MS, Visiting Researcher, Christian Regenhard Center for Emergency Response Studies (RaCERS)
University of Pisa, ITALY
"Adaptation of the FDNY Command Structure and Training Following 9/11"

Proposal for a Cross-Discipline, Academic-Based Approach to After Action Reporting and Lessons Learned for Public Safety Responders
Charles R. Jennings, PhD, presented April 27, 2010 to the US Department of Homeland Security Responder Technology (R-Tech) User Working Group Meeting.
"Proposal for a Cross-Discipline, Academic-Based Approach to After Action Reporting and Lessons Learned for Public Safety Responders"

Academy for Critical Incident Analysis/Christian Regenhard Center for Emergency Response Studies Conference:
The Symposium on Critical Incident Analysis.
Excerpt of proceedings of “Framing” Conference, held October 2008 in conjunction with the Academy for Critical Incident Analysis, held in New York at John Jay College, www.aciajj.org/index.html. This event was designed to define the need for and mission of the Center, as well as pose challenges to an academic engagement with the subject of first responder policy-directed research.

Glenn Corbett, MEng, PE, John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY), New York, NY
“The Case for First-Responder-Based Research.”

Charles R. Jennings PhD, MIFireE, CFO John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY), New York, NY,
“Toward a Program of First Responder-based Disaster Research.”

Mark D. Chubb, MPP, MIFireE, Portland State University, Oregon
“Fear and Loathing on the Front Lines: A Look at Disaster from the First Responder Perspective.”

The following publications and resources pre-date formation of RaCERS, but are products of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York, and are relevant to the mission of the Christian Regenhard Center for Emergency Response Studies. They are included because they may be of interest to readers.

› Institution of Fire Engineers/John Jay College Symposium Series 1999-2003

Proceedings from a series fo conferences, held under US Fire Administration and corporate sponsorship, at the Fire Department Instructor's Conference.

2003 – Command, Control, and Communications: Assessing the Technologies.
2002 – Second International Conference on Fire Service Deployment Analysis.
2001 – Improving Firefighter Safety: Human Behavior and Organizational Aspects.
2000 – Customers, Changes, and New Challenges. Reinventing the Fire Service: AN International Conference.
1999 – International Conference on Fire Service Deployment Analysis.
(Limited copies of these proceedings are available by request.)

› Urban Hazards Forum

The first major interdisciplinary conference devoted to urban emergency management and related specialties, held in January 2002. This event was sponsored by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Region II. >>