Key Features of Effective Emergency Action Plans for Dams: Instructors

Steve Jamieson, P.E.
W. W. Wheeler & Associates, Inc. 
Vice President

Steve Jamieson is nationally recognized for his expertise in emergency action planning for dams.  He has 43 years of dam engineering experience and has also been one of the key instructors for ASDSO’s course on integrated emergency planning at dams and levees since 2006. Steve has prepared hundreds of dam EAPs and was instrumental in helping the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service develop a simplified 5-step EAP format in 2001.  Key elements of this simplified format have been adopted by many state and federal agencies.  Steve has also facilitated numerous tabletop and functional exercises for dams nationwide.

Danielle T. Hannes, P.E.
W. W. Wheeler & Associates, Inc. 
Project Engineer

Danielle has 19 years of dam engineering consulting experience and has prepared dam-failure inundation mapping and EAPs for more than 50 dams nationwide.  She has performed hundreds of dam inspections nationwide and has been involved in several potential failure modes analysis workshops for FERC-licensed hydroelectric dams. Danielle has facilitated tabletop or functional exercises for dams in four different states and has performed the exercises in virtual, hybrid, and in-person settings.  She has also been an instructor for the ASDSO Course, Improving Emergency Operations for Dam and Levee Failures and Incidents, since 2021. 

Darren Price, MA, MEP
Insight Global Consulting Group
Consultant

Darren has more than 34 years of government service, including nearly 20 years in emergency management.  He retired in September 2020 as a regional supervisor with the Ohio Emergency Management Agency, where he was responsible for emergency planning and incident response for a 17-county region in southeast Ohio. He was very involved in the preparedness exercise efforts associated with the rehabilitation of Buckeye Lake Dam in Ohio, as well as strengthening local emergency management agency participation in dam safety emergency action planning.  Darren has a Master of Arts degree in security studies (homeland defense and security) from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School and is an adjunct professor at Idaho State University and Mount Vernon Nazarene University, as well as a member of the adjunct faculty at FEMA's National Disaster and Emergency Management University/Emergency Management Institute. Darren has authored articles for the International Association of Emergency Managers and the Domestic Preparedness Journal and is the co-author of Emergency and Disaster Exercises: A Practitioner’s Guide to Exercise Design and Development, Conduct, Evaluation, and Improvement Planning. He has also been an instructor for the ASDSO Course, Improving Emergency Operations for Dam and Levee Failures and Incidents, since 2021.