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IAEM
The IAEM website will be offline Friday evening, Apr. 1, 2016, beginning around 4:00 p.m. EDT. The website will be having a database upgrade, which will result in faster response times for our site. Please be patient during our down time. The website should be back online late Friday night, and definitely by Saturday morning, barring any unforeseen complications.
IAEM
The World Conference on Disaster Management (WCDM 2016), to be held June 7-8, 2016, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is offering a $100 discount on the registration fee to IAEM members using the promo code “IAEM2016.” WCDM attracts 1,500+ attendees representing 40+ countries worldwide, covering multiple public and private sectors at all levels, from individual contributors to strategic leaders. There are more than 50 education sessions, pre- and post-conference training, and international poster research presentations. Organizational resilience, community resilience, contingency planning, community preparedness, risk assessment, recovery planning, impact assessment, virtual operations support groups (VOST), and social media emergency management (SMEM) are some of the key topical areas that will be explored at WCDM 2016.
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Entries in the IAEM-Global, IAEM-USA, and IAEM-Canada Awards Competitions will be accepted beginning Apr. 1, 2016, through May 31, 2016. Details will be posted on the IAEM Awards home page on Friday, Apr. 1, 2016, including guidelines, entry instructions, and entry forms. There is no entry fee for IAEM members. If you have any questions, please contact Karen Thompson, awards staff liaison.
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The IAEM-Global Editorial Work Group, working with the IAEM-USA Emerging Technology Caucus, is seeking feature articles on “Emerging Technology’s Impact on Emergency Management.” Articles might include, but are not limited to: cybersecurity specific to emergency threats and emerging vectors; 3-D printing in emergency management; drones (regulatory aspects); drones (actual use); wearable tech; mobile tech; self-driving cars and related implications; robots for searching buildings; overview of the full spectrum of emerging technology, both nationally and internationally; emerging technology in the EOC – innovative uses and new technology we need; and using social media to provide feedback to the government or to share information. The deadline for article submissions is Apr. 10, 2016; please read the author’s guidelines before submitting your 750-1,500 word article to Karen Thompson, editor.
Emergency Management
The government has urged prefectures and municipalities to put five redesigned emergency icons into use to guard against tsunami, floods, landslides and other disasters.
The standardized icons were designed to be easily universally understood as Japan prepares for an influx of foreign tourists for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, officials at the Cabinet Office said.
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The Wall Street Journal
India has the largest number of people exposed to natural hazards including severe storms and flooding, a new report says.
The country’s vulnerability to severe weather during monsoon season, its large agricultural sector and its enormous population put it at the top of the list compiled by U.K.-based risk-analysis and research company Verisk Maplecroft.
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Yibada
Chinese legislators presented a revised disaster relief plan, focusing on updating rescue mission operations.
This is the second time the plan has been refreshed since its conception in 2005. The first was in November 2011. The relief plan, issued by the General Office of the State Council, shows that China will have a four-tier emergency response system, with "Level I" calling for the most urgent response while "Level IV" for the lowest.
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Public Health Ontario is now offering a new self-directed, online Introduction to Public Health Emergency Preparedness course. The course consists of three interactive modules that introduce the foundations of public health emergency preparedness, including definitions, concepts, strategies, and tools. This course builds on traditional incident management system structures and presents new models to aid in emergency preparedness training for public health professionals. This supplements the in-person workshop currently conducted by PHO to build capacity for public health professionals at the local level. For more information about the course, contact PHO.eoc.operations@oahpp.ca.
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The Financial Express
The Center for Excellence-Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance has appreciated Bangladesh’s efforts in significantly improving its disaster preparedness terming Bangladesh a "regional example of courageous progress."
“Despite the vulnerability of Bangladesh to cyclones and other natural disasters, the country has made significant progress in improving its disaster preparedness,” said Director of the Center Col Joseph D. Martin.
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RNZ
The United Nations is assembling an informal working group to help reduce the risk of disasters in the Pacific. The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction said it was partnering with other UN agencies, NGOs and organisations such as the Fijian government and the Institute of Fiji Engineers.
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IAEM
The IAEM-USA Board of Directors has decided to increase the IAEM-USA Council’s individual membership dues rate to $190 for the IAEM 2016-2017 fiscal year (June 1, 2016-May 31, 2017). This $5 increase is the first since 2013.
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National Geographic
Most people associate Oklahoma with weather-related disasters: tornado outbreaks, massive wildfires, Lawrence of Arabia-style dust storms, tumbleweed maelstroms. But thanks to oil and gas wastewater injected deep into the ground, parts of the state can now also claim the dubious distinction of being among the most likely places in the United States to experience a damaging earthquake in 2016.
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The Associated Press via ABC News
A prominent Japanese political figure appealed to U.N. member states Tuesday to implement guidelines approved in Japan last year aimed at saving lives and minimizing the economic impact of tsunamis, earthquakes and other natural and man-made disasters.
Toshihiro Nikai, chairman of the Liberal Democratic party's general council and Japan's former economy and trade minister, said the ideas of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction approved on March 18 last year must now be made real.
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Oneindia
India Russia joint Commission held a meeting to discuss bilateral cooperation between two countries with regards to disaster management. The Russian delegation was chaired by Vladimir Andreevich Puchkov, Minister of the Russian Federation for Civil Defence, Emergencies and Elimination Consequences of Natural Disasters and the Indian delegation was chaired by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh.
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WVIT-TV
Meteorology is an inexact science – so few things in the field are 100 percent certain – though advances in Doppler radar have allowed for some important certainties.
As severe weather season is fast approaching, it's a good time to review some of the latest severe weather research.
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IAEM
IAEM is excited to announce the newly revamped IAEM-USA Student Academic Research Presentation Competition (Poster Contest) for the IAEM 64th Annual Conference & EMEX in Savannah, Georgia, Oct. 14-19, 2016. As we do every year, IAEM seeks feedback from members to adjust our programs. Based on feedback from last year’s participants, the schedule, some submission requirements, and the judging process for the Poster Contest have been adjusted. The Call for Poster Presentations will be open May 2, 2016, through June 3, 2016. This deadline will not be extended as in years past. All students who are interested in submitting an abstract for the Poster Contest should complete the contact information form on the IAEM conference website to add their name to a list to be notified when the Call for Abstracts opens. Those on the contact list will be provided with more information as it becomes available. For more information about the IAEM 64th Annual Conference & EMEX, visit http://iaemconference.info/2016/.
BBC News
About a million people have died in earthquakes in the last two decades, most in a handful of huge quakes in urban areas.
Yet the population of cities at risk continues to grow.
Is such death and destruction inevitable?
Four experts talk to the BBC World Service Inquiry program about how far we can quake-proof a city.
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Columbia Spectator
Tornadoes are some of the most dangerous and devastating weather events in the world. In 2015 alone, tornadoes in the United States caused almost 10 billion dollars in damages.
Tornado outbreaks, in which six or more tornadoes occur in a short period of time, pose an even greater danger than individual tornadoes.
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The Atlantic
There’s a sense of urgency in the air at a Virginia nuclear power plant. Everything within at least a five-mile radius is at immediate risk due to a critical meltdown. One of the emergency responders opens the envelope she’s holding, scans its contents, and announces the bad news: “We just lost 911 and the cell towers are overloaded.”
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Federal News Radio
Emergency management agencies are beginning to realize the best information they can gather during an emergency or natural disaster doesn’t come from their own government-built apps.
It comes from existing social media channels. “That technology is not new,” Geoff DeLizzio, CEO at the American Red Cross national capital region, said at AFCEA Bethesda’s monthly breakfast series March 24.
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Palm Beach Post
From the surface of Earth’s vast oceans to the dark reaches of outer space, hurricane researchers are working to improve their greatest and most ominous forecast challenge — rapid intensification.
The effort to understand better a storm’s ability to deepen quickly from a modest tropical cyclone to a monster hurricane will get a boost in the fall when a new satellite launches into orbit, vastly increasing forecasters’ ability to evaluate a storm.
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RNZ
A New Zealand engineer says unique aerial mapping technology used in Fiji after Cyclone Winston, could be hugely beneficial to the wider region in times of disaster. The technology was used on photographs of Fiji taken from a plane by the New Zealand defense force, after the cyclone hit.
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TechRepublic
Scott Matteson writes: My older son and I watch a lot of films and terrorism has been a long-running theme both in fiction and real life, sadly enough. Therefore, I wasn't particularly surprised by the vivid dream I had the other night.
In the dream I was visiting lower Manhattan with my wife and three kids. A nuclear bomb scare forced the immediate and frenzied evacuation of the area.
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Palm Beach Post
The National Hurricane Center is introducing a suite of new forecast products to communicate better with the public, including new cones of uncertainty that will be used even before a system earns a name.
Beginning this hurricane season, residents living along the vulnerable Gulf and Atlantic coasts will have a clearer idea of how deadly storm surge could affect their community with specially made maps issued when a tropical cyclone threatens.
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IAEM
Participate in this survey from Harvard's National Leadership Preparedness Initiative (NPLI) students to help explore federal, state, local, and private sector partners’ perceptions around responsibilities and authorities for Infrastructure Systems and the effect such perceptions may have overall on critical infrastructure system actions. There are a combination of multiple choice and rating questions, with the option to provide comments in several places. It’s essential to get input from throughout the Whole Community to design a solution. The survey is designed to be anonymous, but if you'd like to provide your contact information that option is available at the end of the questions. The survey is open for the next two weeks.
IAEM
The National Institute of Standards & Technology’s (NIST) Center of Excellence will offer a webinar on "Supporting Community Resilience" on Apr. 28, 2016, 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. MDT. Learn how the NIST Center of Excellence is developing a computational environment to help define the attributes that make communities resilient. The center’s research will drive the ability to plan for community resilience and mitigate potential disasters. A resilient community is one that is prepared for and can adapt to changing conditions and can withstand and recover rapidly from disruptions to its physical and social infrastructure. Modeling community resilience comprehensively requires collaborative efforts by experts in engineering, social sciences and information sciences to explain how physical, economic and social systems interact and affect recovery efforts. Register online.
The Huffington Post
An erupting volcano in Alaska sent ash spurting 20,000 feet into the sky on Sunday.
The Pavlof volcano, located on the Aleutian Islands, began violently coughing up the plume at 4:18 p.m. local time. The smoke blew northward.
The Alaska Volcano Observatory raised its volcano alert level to “warning” and its aviation alert level to “red” following the eruption. Both levels remain there as of Monday morning.
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The Christian Science Monitor
After four days, the worst wildfire in Kansas history continues to burn through the south-central portion of the state.
After starting Tuesday in Oklahoma for unknown reasons, the Anderson Creek Fire has crossed state lines and burned more than 400,000 acres as of Sunday, making it the worst fire in Kansas history.
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Tempo.Co
Landslides hit Clapar village in Madukara Sub-district, Banjarnegara District, displacing 158 people on Friday.
Incessant heavy rains since Thursday caused three consecutive landslides on Thursday afternoon and Friday, Catur Subandrio, head of the Banjarnegara disaster mitigation office, stated on Friday.
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Stuff.co.nz
Homes in the Riwaka township, near Nelson, have been evacuated after heavy rainfall overnight caused the river to break its banks.
Civil defence spokesperson Roger Ball said that flooding on the north branch of the Riwaka River was a one in 50-year event.
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The Huffington Post
As world leaders gather for the fourth nuclear security summit this week, in the aftermath of the horrifying terrorist attacks in Brussels, it seems likely that Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel will have more to say than anyone else — both about real nuclear terrorist dangers and about real steps taken to improve nuclear security.
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