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.ANNUAL CONFERENCE NEWS
IAEM On-Demand: if you don't get it, you don't get it
IAEM
There is only one more month remaining of on-demand access from the IAEM Reimagined Virtual Conference. This is a reminder to conference registrants to view all speaker presentations online before Apr. 16, 2021 to receive up to 48.5 contact hours that may be used toward IAEM certification. There is still time to sign up and begin learning. Registration fees are just $199 for individual (member and non-member) or $99 for student members. Registration includes:
- All breakout and plenary sessions.
- The ever-popular EMvision Talks – seven thought-provoking presentations.
- 26 poster presentations.
- Video overviews of the latest EM products and services from the EMEX virtual hall.
- The 2020 Yearbook of Honors, featuring the 2020 award winners.
Register on the IAEM website.
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IAEM hosts webinar today to provide tips on submitting a successful 2021 Poster Showcase proposal
IAEM
The IAEM Conference Committee Poster Showcase organizers are hosting a free webinar on Mar. 18, 2021, at 2:00 p.m. EDT. The Poster Showcase allows participants to present the significance of their research project, practice, or general findings to practitioners and scholars in the emergency management community. Register online to get insider information for a successful poster showcase submission for the IAEM 69th Annual Conference & EMEX in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Oct. 15-22, 2021. This webinar will include time for a question-and-answer session. IAEM’s call for speakers for the poster showcase will open on Monday, Mar. 22, and close on Friday, Apr. 23. For more information, visit the conference website.
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EMEX sponsor highlight of the week: Association of State Dam Society
IAEM
The Association of State Dam Safety Officials (ASDSO) is a national non-profit organization of state and federal dam safety regulators, dam owners and operators, engineering consultants, manufacturers and suppliers, academia, emergency management officials, contractors and others interested in dam and levee safety. ASDSO works side-by-side with its members to build a unified community of dam and levee safety experts, recognized as leaders in their field, through the creation of industry standards and best practices; educational opportunities to help members build upon their knowledge of core foundational topic areas, as well as the latest technology and practical trends impacting the profession; education of the general public on issues of concern for dam and levee safety professionals; advocacy of legislative policy matters; and more. Learn more about the benefits ASDSO can provide to emergency management officials.
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.IAEM SCHOLARSHIP
Need money for school?
IAEM
The IAEM Scholarship Program now is accepting applications from full-time undergraduate and full- and part-time graduate students for the 2021 scholarship awards. Students must be working toward a degree in emergency management, disaster management, or a closely related field of study. Undergraduate and graduate applications with complete instructions are available on the IAEM website. The application deadline is 11:59:59 p.m. EDT, May 17, 2021. Questions may be directed to Scholarship Program Director Dawn Shiley.
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It is easy to give — please help IAEM's Scholarship Program earn these donations as you shop
IAEM
Celebrate the spring this year with a new member promo from iGive.com. iGive.com will give the IAEM Scholarship Program an extra $5 for every new iGive member who joins before Apr. 15 and makes their first purchase when they shop at any of the 2,200+ online stores in the iGive network before May 1. IAEM has raised more than $1,000 for the program from members who have done nothing more than joined and done their usual online shopping. Every time a participating member shops, a portion of the money spent benefits the IAEM Scholarship Program. It's a free service, and iGivers never pay more when they reach a store through the program. In fact, smart shoppers will enjoy iGive's repository of coupons, free shipping deals, and sales. To get started, just create your free iGive account. Be sure to download the iGive button for your browser. Once you do that, you will receive a notice when you visit a participating site and can opt in to donate when you purchase.
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.IAEM-USA COUNCIL NEWS
Post-wildfire landslides becoming more frequent in Southern California
Homeland Security News Wire
Southern California can now expect to see post-wildfire landslides occurring almost every year, with major events expected roughly every ten years, a new study led by U.S. Geological Survey researchers finds.
The results show Californians are now facing a double whammy of increased wildfire and landslide risk caused by climate change-induced shifts in the state’s wet and dry seasons, according to researchers who mapped landslide vulnerability in the southern half of the state.
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Biden taps FEMA to run interagency effort to house record influx of migrant children
Government Executive
President Biden has deployed Federal Emergency Management Agency personnel to the southwest border to assist with an influx of migrants, with a focus on the unprecedented number of unaccompanied minors arriving there.
FEMA will lead a governmentwide effort to address the record number of children making the journey from Central America and Mexico and organize the interagency response to process and find permanent housing for them. The Biden administration faced pushback after it placed thousands of minors in tents and other shelters managed by the Homeland Security Department, including a detention center in Texas.
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FEMA says it will make disaster response more equitable*
Scientific American
Through internal emails, public advisories and virtual seminars, the Federal Emergency Management Agency says it wants to do better on equity, and it acknowledges that disasters and disaster recovery programs unfairly burden low-income and minority populations.
The effort began last fall before the election and has accelerated under President Biden. As FEMA helps distribute coronavirus vaccines nationwide, it is prioritizing underserved populations and last month established a civil rights advisory group to “identify and eliminate inequities” in who gets inoculated.
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.IAEM NEWS
IAEM Editorial Committee seeks feature articles by Mar. 31 for an IAEM Bulletin issue on 'COVID-19: Emergency Management a Year Later'
IAEM
The IAEM Editorial Committee is accepting feature article submissions for the first 2021 special focus issue of the IAEM Bulletin. The topic of the April 2021 issue will be “COVID-19: Emergency Management a Year Later.” A year ago, we were struggling with even calling COVID-19 a problem. How have the experiences of dealing with the pandemic influenced you and your approach to emergency management? What have we learned about ourselves and the opportunities for growth, development, change and synergy as we move into the next new normal? The article submission deadline is Mar. 31, 2021. Email articles 750 to 1,500 words in Word or text format to IAEM Bulletin Editor Karen Thompson. Visit the IAEM Bulletin webpage to learn about the other three 2021 special focus issue topics. Since the Bulletin is published monthly, the committee also is interested in submissions for the eight non-special focus issues, for which they will consider articles on a wide variety of topics of interest to emergency management professionals.
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.EM NEWS
After the insurrection, America's far-right groups get more extreme*
The Conversation
As the U.S. grapples with domestic extremism in the wake of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, warnings about more violence are coming from the FBI Director Chris Wray and others. The Conversation asked Matthew Valasik, a sociologist at Louisiana State University, and Shannon E. Reid, a criminologist at the University of North Carolina – Charlotte, to explain what right-wing extremist groups in the U.S. are doing.
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.HEALTHCARE EM UPDATE
Why the pandemic experts failed
Route Fifty
A few minutes before midnight on March 4, 2020, the two of us emailed every U.S. state and the District of Columbia with a simple question: How many people have been tested in your state, total, for the coronavirus?
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.CLIMATE/WATER/WEATHER UPDATES
Should the hurricane season begin earlier?
BBC News
The Atlantic hurricane season officially begins on 1 June. But over the past six years, significant storms have been forming earlier than this. So does the hurricane season need to start earlier — and is climate change to blame?
At a regional meeting of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) this week, meteorologists and officials will be discussing a possible change to how the hurricane season is defined.
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.CYBERSECURITY NEWS
Rapidly restoring the electrical grid after cyberattack
Homeland Security News Wire
Some 330 million Americans rely on the nation’s critical infrastructure to keep the country humming. Disruptions to electrical grids, communications systems, and supply chains can be catastrophic, yet all of these are vulnerable to cyberattack. RADICS program delivers novel technologies, custom testbed, and evaluation exercises to enable utilities and first responders to quickly restore critical infrastructure amidst a cyberattack.
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Microsoft shares one-click mitigation tool for exchange server flaws
HealthITSecurity
Microsoft unveiled a mitigation tool for small entities and others operating without a designated IT or security team, which is designed to automatically mitigate the recently disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities in Exchange Servers, prior to employing the security update.
The Microsoft Exchange On-Premises Mitigation Tool has been tested in versions 2013, 2016, and 2019 deployments. The tech giant hopes the tool can support those struggling with applying the patch and updating software for the vulnerabilities disclosed earlier this month.
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.EM RESOURCES
FEMA is publishing final updates to 18 public works resource type positions and teams
IAEM
FEMA's National Integration Center is publishing final updates to 18 public works resource typing positions and teams. The updates will facilitate sharing of these positions and teams at all jurisdictional levels and will support the augmentation of the FEMA workforce during disaster operations. The release includes 18 various positions and teams for debris and damage assessment specialists, public works, engineers, mechanics and equipment operators. These teams and positions will ensure proper classification of deployable public works positions and teams at all jurisdictional levels. The updates will support the augmentation of the FEMA workforce during disaster operations. Visit FEMA's Resource Typing Library Tool to review the draft document.
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CISA releases resources for ensuring physical security at COVID-19 vaccine Points of Distribution
IAEM
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has just released two resources to assist vaccine facility owners and operators and POD managers to prepare for these physical security threats. An infographic, COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Physical Security Measures, breaks down vaccine distribution into four stages and provides an at-a-glance overview of physical security threat vectors for each stage, with mitigation measures and links to more in-depth information for each threat vector. A COVID-19 Vaccine Points of Distribution Physical Security Action Guide, outlines pre-planning protective measures and mitigation options for threats to physical security at vaccination PODs specifically.
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.NEW INSIGHTS
A&M professors: Lessons from COVID-19 will help prepare for next pandemic
The Eagle
Two Texas A&M professors say the lessons learned from fighting COVID-19 will help prepare experts to battle the next outbreak and possibly prevent it from becoming a pandemic.
“While the world is still reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic, public health and emergency management experts are already preparing for the next one,” Angela Clendenin and Tiffany A. Radcliff wrote in an article published on the website The Conversation. “Biologists are certain another dangerous new pathogen will emerge sooner or later.”
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The new world of interoperability communications
Domestic Preparedness
Four years ago, during the 2017 Inauguration, the country and the world existed in a very different reality than they do today. Today, a “new world” exists within a global pandemic and among First Amendment activities and protests. The 2021 Inauguration was unique for these reasons but also presented challenges in communications that are not so new. Now, more than ever, agencies need to collaborate to ensure continuity of government and security of the homeland as well as the health of the overall emergency communications ecosystem.
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Top 5 lessons COVID-19 has taught us for the next pandemic
Emergency Management
The pandemic that launched the nation's first and most ambitious experiment to slow the spread of COVID-19 — stay-home orders for 7.6 million Bay Area residents — is easing.
It's left behind shattered lives, economic upset and widened racial inequities, but also valuable lessons which could strengthen our future response to outbreaks of deadly contagion.
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.IAEM CERTIFICATION UPDATES
Certification Commission seeks applications for commissioners for terms beginning in 2022
IAEM
The Certification Program is now accepting applications for new commissioners. Any USA CEM who has recertified at least once is encouraged to apply. Deadline to submit your application to KMcClimans@iaem.com is June 1. The IAEM website has more details including expectations and how to apply.
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.EM CALENDAR
IAEM-USA Access & Inclusion Caucus to sponsor Apr. 7 webinar on 'Emergency Managers' Guide to DAFN Best Practices'
IAEM
The IAEM-USA Access and Inclusion Caucus will sponsor a webinar on what emergency managers need to know about Disability, Access, and Functional Needs (DAFN) best practices on Apr. 7, 2:00-3:00 p.m. EDT. A panel of experts will address key issues in COVID-19 response and recovery, such as workplace and telework considerations, education issues, vaccination, and other topics. This webinar will provide guidance on how to approach COVID prevention and response inclusively. Panelists will include: Rodney Garrott, regional disability integration specialist, FEMA Region V; Jim House, disability integration manager, Coalition of Inclusive Emergency Planning, Washington State Independent Living; Michael Houston, regional disability integration specialist, FEMA Region VIII; Sadie Martinez, CDPS, Access and Functional Needs coordinator, Colorado Springs, Colorado; Bryan Russell, project manager, Disability and Health Program, Florida Department of Health; and Vance Taylor, chief, Office of Access and Functional Needs, California Governor's Office of Emergency Services. The moderator will be Anne-Marie McLaughlin, director of emergency management and continuity, NYU. Register online.
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Learn about funding school safety at a Mar. 24 webinar on 'Funding School Safety: DOJ Grant Opportunities'
IAEM
The Federal School Safety Clearinghouse will present an informational webinar on Mar. 24 at 4:00 p.m. EDT, that will discuss school safety grants available to the K-12 academic community through the Department of Justice (DOJ). Representatives from the DOJ’s Bureau of Justice Assistance and Office of Community Oriented Policing Services will provide an overview of funding opportunities, eligibility and eligible uses for grants available, key requirements and deadlines, and helpful tips for developing and submitting applications. The webinar will conclude with a Q&A for participants to engage directly with agency staff. Register online. The Federal School Safety Clearinghouse is a federal government interagency collaboration comprised of the Departments of Education, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, and Justice to provide a comprehensive and centralized location for federal school safety resources. The Mar. 24 free-of-charge webinar is part of the 2021 School Safety Webinar Series, a program hosted by the Federal School Safety Clearinghouse to address emerging risks and threats facing the K-12 school community. Held on a monthly basis, the webinar series covers a range of school safety topics, and provides information on the resources, tools and best practices available to equip school leaders with a set of strategies in creating safer and more resilient school systems. Learn about upcoming events at www.schoolsafety.gov.
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Protiviti offers Mar. 25 webinar on 'Turning Pandemic Learnings into More Effective Emergency Management Initiatives'
IAEM
COVID-19 has been and will continue to be a hard school master, but it has provided an unprecedented learning opportunity in hospital resiliency. This webinar will provide healthcare emergency management executives with key insights to how hospitals are building new pathways of resilience as recovery takes a front seat. Join Protiviti on Mar. 25 at 1:00 p.m. EDT, as their healthcare industry experts discuss how you can build a stronger program that is better prepared for the future. One CPE credit will be available for live attendees. Register today and you will receive a copy of Protiviti's Business Continuity and Resilience Guide.
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.IAEM-ASIA NEWS
Upgrading the National Building Code
Manila Times
Several natural calamities may have destroyed man-made environments and structures that the occurrence of typhoons or earthquakes have just become a natural wonder for Filipinos. The World Risk Report of 2018 indicated the Philippines as ranking third in terms of disaster risk index. Because of its geographical location, the highest risks posed on the Philippines are those of earthquakes reported with 10 risk index points and tropical cyclones of 9.5 risk index points.
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.IAEM-JAPAN NEWS
Editor's take: Japan's disaster lessons aren't just about expensive hardware
The New Humanitarian
Ten years after the Great East Japan Earthquake (GEJE), I have come to understand that the success of the country's risk approach has as much to do with community readiness and human connection as it does with visible feats of structural engineering.
Sitting in my small office in Haiti in March 2011, I read with concern the news coming from the northeast coast of Japan. A massive earthquake had struck offshore, triggering a tsunami of such force that it toppled seawalls and other defenses, washed away entire towns and villages, killed up to 20,000 people, and set off one of the worst nuclear meltdowns in history.
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20% of local governments in Japan have no disaster specialists: Survey
Japan Today
Across Japan, 20.5 percent of municipalities have no officials exclusively tasked with handling disaster responses, a Kyodo News survey shows.
The survey also found that 14.1 percent of respondents have only one official for that particular task, with those in charge of elections, traffic safety and other duties doubling in those roles.
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.AROUND THE WORLD
As Colorado digs out from historic blizzard, daily life disrupted for hundreds of thousands
The Denver Post
Hundreds of thousands of Coloradans on Monday started to dig themselves out of feet of snow dumped during a record-setting winter storm that continued to shutter businesses and schools, close major highways and leave thousands without electricity.
Despite its late start Saturday evening, the storm — Denver’s fourth-largest ever — dropped more than two feet of snow along the Interstate 25 corridor and blasted enough wind across the state’s most populous region to trap hundreds of cars on highways and ensnare the reinforced rescue vehicles sent to save them.
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Severe weather, tornadoes cause damage throughout Texas Panhandle region
Amarillo Globe-News
When Andrew Shirey got to Palo Duro Canyon on Friday afternoon, he knew there was the possibility of high winds and severe weather throughout the weekend.
But what occurred Saturday afternoon was not something he expected to happen during the first few days of his Spring Break.
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