The Alaska Risk MAP Program is funded through a Cooperating Technical Partnership between the State of Alaska and FEMA. The program provides communities with flood and other hazard information and tools they can use to enhance their mitigation plans and better protect their citizens.
Visit Website Back to Authors. Shaun Tan was born in 1974 and grew up in the northern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia. In school he became known as the 'good drawer' which partly compensated for always being the shortest kid in every class.He graduated from the University of WA in 1995 with joint honours in Fine Arts and English Literature, and currently works full time as a freelance artist and author in Melbourne.haun began drawing and painting images for science fiction and horror stories in small-press magazines as a teenager, and has since become best known for illustrated books that deal with social, political and historical subjects through surreal, dream-like imagery.
Tan is the Chinese character 's Hanyu Pinyin romanisation in Mandarin Chinese. It is pronounced and romanised differently in different languages and dialects. 1  In Cantonese Chinese, it is romanised as Taam4 in Jyutping and Taahm tÃ ahm In Cantonese.  yale The surname came from the less common surname è«, another with the same pronunciation in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese Chinese. 2  In order to avoid the revenge of their enemies, the clan leaders changed it to è­.