Article Out Loud – Managing Animal Loss: Emergency Carcass Operations

Joshua Dise is an interdisciplinary national security and emergency management professional with experience in both operational and analytical roles. His work addresses complex and interconnected risks, including industrial hazards, transboundary diseases, cybersecurity, and systemic threats to critical infrastructure. He currently serves as a systems analyst at Sandia National Laboratories, where he provides decision support on ill-defined, multi-domain national security challenges using a broad range of technical skills and expertise. Prior to this, he served as a lead technical analyst and emergency planner at Sandia, where he was responsible for delivering a variety of hazard analyses and consequence assessment products. His research interests include environmental hazard response, biosecurity, agricultural and public health preparedness, natural resource management and security, and the convergence of digital and physical infrastructure risks. Joshua holds advanced degrees in emergency management and natural resources and is currently a Ph.D. student at Oklahoma State University, studying fire and emergency management administration. He is also an alumnus of the National Preparedness and Leadership Initiative at Harvard University.

Marshal Wilson is the co-director of the Southwest Border Food Protection and Emergency Preparedness Center and provides leadership from the New Mexico Department of Agriculture. In addition, Marshal is the assistant division director for Agricultural Production Services and is the Emergency Support Function #11 coordinator for New Mexico. Marshal provides overall leadership and expertise to planning, training, and exercise program(s) focusing on agriculture and food systems.