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IAEM
This is your last chance to submit a proposal to be a speaker in a breakout session at the IAEM 68th Annual Conference & EMEX, Nov. 13-18, 2020, in Long Beach, California. The Call for Speakers closes Feb. 13, 2020, at 11:59:59 p.m. CST. Follow the instructions in the Speaker Guidance on the IAEM website for a successful application.
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IAEM
The National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) unveiled the National Counterintelligence Strategy of the United States of America 2020-2022, outlining a new approach to counterintelligence to address threats that have evolved significantly since the last strategy in 2016. This new strategy focuses on five key areas where foreign intelligence entities are hitting the United States hardest and greater attention is needed – critical infrastructure, key U.S. supply chains, the U.S. economy, American democratic institutions, and cyber and technical operations. The strategy recognizes that this is no longer a problem that the U.S. government can address alone. Implementing the strategy will require partnerships, information sharing, and innovation across public and private sectors. For the first time, state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) government agencies are mentioned throughout this new strategy.
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Everbridge
With severe weather season intensifying, counties and cities across Florida share their perspective on hurricane preparedness and the benefits of leveraging Everbridge as their statewide mass notification platform, including improved situational intelligence, communication, and mutual aid. Watch Now.
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Homeland Security News Wire
By analyzing more than two decades of data in the western U.S., scientists have shown that flood sizes increase exponentially as a higher fraction of precipitation falls as rain, offering insight into how flood risks may change in a warming world with less snow.
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The Times-Picayune via Governing
A recent cyberattack on Louisiana ITI College in Baton Rouge — which followed similar attacks in New Orleans and elsewhere in the state — suggests that hackers have no intention of leaving Louisiana alone.
If that's the case, the state is in good company.
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Route Fifty
In the absence of strong federal actions to address climate change, states are beginning to implement their own measures to ensure long-term resiliency, governors said recently at the National Governors Association winter meeting in Washington, D.C.
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The Pew Charitable Trusts
Residents displaced by recent natural disasters in Dayton and elsewhere around the country raise tricky questions for this year’s census count. They’re getting conflicting advice from the U.S. Census Bureau on whether to count themselves at a temporary address or at the damaged homes where they plan to return.
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Optimum Seismic
California just experienced its deadliest and most destructive wildfire, ever. Nearly 14,000 homes, 530 commercial structures and 4,300 other buildings were destroyed in November when the Cal Fire ravaged the Butte County landscape, incinerating entire communities like the town of Paradise in its wake.
The devastation of lives and livelihoods lost is unfathomable. So too is the sheer scope of work needed to clear the charred debris before recovery can ever start.
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Homeland Security News Wire
In the last decade, thousands have been killed or injured as a result of mass violence in the United States. Such acts take many forms, including family massacres, terrorist attacks, shootings, and gang violence. Yet it is indiscriminate mass public shootings, often directed at strangers, that has generated the most public alarm.
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Homeland Security Today
The House passed the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) Homeland Security Partnerships Act, which is intended to strengthen the partnerships between HBCUs and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
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Homeland Security News Wire
As the new coronavirus, called 2019-nCoV, spreads rapidly around the globe, the international community is scrambling to keep up. In the midst of all of this, a potential crisis simmers in the shadows: The global dependence on China for the production of pharmaceuticals and medical equipment.
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Homeland Security News Wire
The disease caused by novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) now has a formal name, COVID-19, and deaths in China topped 1,000 as the United States confirmed its 13th case, which involves a Wuhan evacuee who is quarantined in California.
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IANS via The Weather Channel
Back in 1990, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had noted that the single greatest impact of climate change will be on human migration. In 2018, of the new 28 million internally displaced people in 148 countries, 61% were due to disasters, as compared to 39% due to conflict and violence.
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Homeland Security News Wire
Seven of the U.K. ten wettest years on record have occurred since 1998. Its wettest winter in history came in 2013, and the next wettest in 2015. In a single week in November 2019, 400 homes were flooded and 1,200 properties evacuated in northern England. The frequency and severity of these events is expected to increase as a result of climate change, meaning that many more communities will suffer their devastating effects.
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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center via Phys.org
More frequent and intense rainfall events due to climate change could cause more landslides in the High Mountain Asia region of China, Tibet and Nepal, according to the first quantitative study of the link between precipitation and landslides in the region.
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Emergency Management
Kathy Baughman McLeod's job title is a mouthful: director of the Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center at the Atlantic Council, based in Washington, D.C.
That may be apropos, considering the ambitious task in front of McLeod and the center she has helmed since last year.
Its goal is to reach one billion people worldwide with "resilience solutions" to the challenges posed by climate change by 2030.
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Springer via PreventionWeb
This year the international community marks the fifth anniversary of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 (SFDRR), in which countries committed to curbing the impact of natural and human-caused hazards. While there has clearly been progress in the implementation of the Sendai Framework (UNISDR 2017), the evidence suggests that overall countries are falling short of achieving many of its objectives (UNISDR 2015).
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Newsweek
Forty years ago, the Thwaites was thought to be shedding 40 billion tons of water each year. Scientists recently upped that figure to 250 billion tons. To their alarm, a river of warm water appears to be flowing beneath the glacier, which can only hasten the day when it collapses into the sea—it could be a century from now, or a few decades.
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IAEM
FEMA has made the Exercise Simulation System Document (ESSD) available online. This document helps to develop exercises and exercise-based training to support simple to complex community-specific exercises. Included in this document is exercise information and resources for communities on how to respond to and manage an emergency or disaster. For more information on the Exercise Simulation System Document, visit the FEMA website.
Homeland Security Today
From attacks with chemical agents and biological materials to mass casualty incidents, the nation faces risks that require special response capabilities. FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) in Anniston, Alabama provides that critical training to America’s first responders.
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UN Global Pulse via ReliefWeb
For the past three years, we, at UN Global Pulse, have been working with UNOSAT to build a software tool that leverages artificial intelligence to identify and count structures from satellite images. From there, we expanded to a web-based toolkit that can be easily adapted to other remote sensing applications and which allows incorporation of models created by other users.
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IAEM
IAEM has added two certification preparatory course and exam dates to the calendar. Make plans to attend one of the courses:
Apr. 6, 2020 – Falls Church, Virginia
June 29, 2020 – Chicago, Illinois
A complete list of scheduled prep courses and exams is available on the IAEM website, as well as registration details.
Opelika-Auburn News
The Lee County Commission named Chris Tate its new director of the county’s Emergency Management Agency. Tate currently serves with the Jefferson County EMA, though he was a former resident of Lee County for 10 years.
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IAEM
IAEM-USA Region 1 is hosting a webinar, “Building Emergency Preparedness in the Corporate Culture,” on Feb. 19, 2020, 2:00-3:00 p.m. EST. Speaker David Muse, Jr., MPA, senior emergency preparedness manager at State Street Corporation, will explore emergency management through the lens of a corporate organization. This presentation will highlight best practices, lessons learned, and initiatives in a corporate environment. Register online.
IAEM
FEMA has scheduled nine webinars in February and March 2020 with information, highlights and changes regarding the recently revised Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP) Doctrine, which was revised Feb. 5, 2020. Register online for the webinar with the date/time of your choice, or call in at 800-320-4330, pin 504024#. Webinars will be held at: 3:00 p.m. EST, Feb. 18; 9:00 a.m. EST, Feb. 20; 3:00 p.m. EST, Feb. 25; 9:00 a.m. EST, Feb. 27; 3:00 p.m. EST, Mar. 3; 9:00 a.m. EST, Mar. 10; 3:00 p.m. EST, Mar. 17; 9:00 a.m. EST, Mar. 24; and 3:00 p.m. EST, Mar. 31. Please continue to monitor this web page, as additional dates and times will be added.
IAEM
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has opened registration for the 2020 Dam Failure Life Loss Consequence Workshop, to be held Aug. 19-20, 2020, in Washington, D.C. The workshop was developed to provide dam owners, emergency managers, regulators, and other relevant stakeholders with a forum to discuss the ways that the industry can better estimate potential life loss consequence from dam failure. The course is intended for those involved with dam safety and dam security programs at the federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial levels, as well as from the private sector. For additional information on FEMA’s National Dam Safety Program, please visit the FEMA website.
Eurasia Review
The Chinese government formed two new bodies in 2018 that have been expected to improve China’s response to natural hazards and humanitarian emergencies in other countries. What are the implications for Southeast Asia, where the risk and threat of different types of disaster persist?
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CNN
There are signs of recovery in the Abaco Islands, five months after Hurricane Dorian decimated this part of the Bahamas. In fact, some of the areas devastated by the storm appear untouched since the hurricane made landfall, without a person in sight.
Utilities have been slow to come back.
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Homeland Security News Wire
China’s daily total of 3,062 cases is up from 2,656 reported Sunday, boosting the country’s overall total to 40,171. Also, health officials reported 97 more deaths and 296 more serious cases, raising those totals to 908 and 6,484, respectively. More cases surface in more countries.
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Reuters
A four-day downpour across Australia's east coast has brought relief after months of devastating bushfires and years of drought, but also widespread storm damage and forecasts of more wild weather to come.
The weekend drenching represented the biggest sustained run of rainfall in Sydney and surrounding areas for 30 years, dousing some bushfires and replenishing depleted dams across New South Wales, the country's most populous state.
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BBC
Sydney has been hit by its heaviest rain in 30 years, bringing widespread flooding but also putting out two massive bushfires in New South Wales.
Australia's weather agency said 391.6mm of rain had fallen in the past four days in Sydney, more than three times the average rainfall for February.
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The Guardian
Hurricane-force winds and flooding have caused severe disruption across much of Britain, including damage to hundreds of properties and the cancellation of trains, flights and ferries.
Storm Ciara brought heavy rain and winds of more than 90mph, knocking out power to homes in some areas.
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The Associated Press via The Mercury News
Storm Ciara battered the U.K. and northern Europe with hurricane-force winds and heavy rains Sunday, halting flights and trains and producing heaving seas that closed down ports. Soccer games, farmers’ markets and cultural events were canceled as authorities urged millions of people to stay indoors, away from falling tree branches.
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The Daily Star
A 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck Papua New Guinea yesterday, the US Geological Survey said, but no tsunami warning was issued and there were no immediate reports of damage.
The quake hit just after 4pm local time (0600GMT) at a depth of 31 kilometres (19 miles) some 122 kilometres (75 miles) south of Kokopo, the capital of PNG’s East New Britain province, the USGS said.
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AccuWeather
A burst of heavy rainfall and severe weather rocked the South from Wednesday through Friday morning, killing at least five people and leaving over 250,000 others without power from Florida to Virginia. The first storm-related fatality came out of Demopolis, Alabama, as a tornado struck, according to the National Weather Service (NWS) Storm Prediction Center (SPC).
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