Dr. Kendra is the coordinator of the Emergency Administration and Planning Program. Prior to joining the faculty at UNT, Dr. Kendra was the Research Coordinator at the University of Delaware Disaster Research Center, managing a number of projects focusing on disasters and emergency planning. His research interests include individual and organizational responses to risk and hazard, emergency and crisis management, and organizational improvisation and resilience. Dr. Kendra is currently devoting most of his research attention to a study of the emergency response to the World Trade Center attack, focusing on creativity and improvisation with special emphasis on the waterborne evacuation of several hundred thousand commuters on September 11. Dr. Kendra and his colleague Dr. Tricia Wachtendorf of the Disaster Research Center have published several articles and given numerous presentations based on their work on the World Trade Center disaster. Early in 2005, with colleagues from the Disaster Research Center, Dr. Kendra participated in a quick-response reconnaissance trip to India and Sri Lanka following the December, 2004 tsunami. The trip was sponsored by the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, with funding from the National Science Foundation, to examine community resilience, interorganizational coordination, and the distribution of disaster assistance.