Ryan Lanclos
Ryan is Esri’s Director of National Government Solutions and leads the Disaster Response Program (DRP). He is a subject matter expert in GIS for emergency management and is appointed to FEMA’s National Advisory Council and Japan’s Scientific Advisory Board of IRDR ICoE-Coherence. He serves on the XPRIZE Wildfire Advisory Board and is UN working group member. He was Missouri’s first state GIO and member of the Governor’s Homeland Security Advisory Council, and NAPSG Foundation’s director of state and local government. He holds a M.S. in Cartography and GIS from the University of Wisconsin and a B.A. in Geology from Centenary College.
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FEMA’s Resilience Analysis and Planning Tool Supports All Phases of Emergency Management
With FEMA's latest web-based mapping tool, communities can dive deep into location data for a more comprehensive view of resilience.
What to Do When Fragile Infrastructure Fails: a GIS Emergency Response Playbook
GIS emergency response playbook helps you apply the geographic approach to your incident response including the recent oil spill in California.
New Data Hub Improves the Features of over 250 Datasets
Staying Ahead of the Next Disaster — How GIS Is Advancing in Disaster Management
Risks from natural disasters are greater than ever & they must be incorporated in how to build, sustain, & improve emergency management.
Call for Code: National Hurricane Preparedness Week
As climate change makes hurricanes more intense, geographic information systems (GIS) can help us prepare.