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The Call for Abstracts for the IAEM-USA Academic Research Presentation Competition (Poster Contest) is now open. Open only to IAEM-USA student members, it is an opportunity to showcase research to scholars and practitioners in the emergency management community, as well as the general public.
The IAEM-USA Academic Research Presentation Competition has been revamped from previous years, with changes in the submission timeline, requirements and judging process. Awards will be given in both the undergraduate and graduate level as follows: First Place - $225; Second Place - $175; and Third Place - $100. View the IAEM-USA Academic Research Presentation Competition Guidance for complete details.
Visit the conference website for the call for abstracts and a link to the poster contest guidance. The call for abstracts closes at 5:00 p.m. EDT, on June 3, 2016. Entries must be submitted via email attachment in Microsoft Word format, with the subject line “IAEM-USA Poster Abstract” to Julie Husk.
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Don’t miss this opportunity to be part of one of the most popular sessions at the IAEM 64th Annual Conference. The EMvision Talks are modeled on the well-known TED™ Talk format. They are five to seven minute presentations that will be held on the plenary stage at the IAEM Annual Conference & EMEX, in Savannah, Georgia, Oct. 14-19, 2016. View the Speaker Guidance and submit your EMvision Talk proposal by 5:00 p.m. EDT, May 27, 2016. All selected speakers will receive $200 off the full registration to the IAEM 2016 Annual Conference.
Republic of the Philippines
Interim officers and members of the Cordillera Regional Association of Local Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Officers deliberated and polished the association’s draft Constitution and By-Laws during a meeting conducted on April 29, 2016 at Chalet Hotel, Baguio City.
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CBC News
A new app has been designed to help Canadians prepare for emergencies and disasters.
The app, called Be Ready, was launched by the Canadian Red Cross across the country, with the Saskatchewan rollout happening in Regina.
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On Apr. 22, 2016, IAEM-Salvador was founded as the newest region of the IAEM Latin American and Caribbean Council (IAEM-LAC). “It is a pleasure to announce the foundation of IAEM-Salvador on Earth Day, Apr. 22,” stated IAEM-LAC President Roberto Macchiavello, CA, CEO, Agemer S.A., Santiago, Chile. “The creation of IAEM-Salvador was accomplished through the effort, service vocation, heart, and enthusiasm of a group of businessmen. This is an important event for IAEM-LAC and for the humanitarian movement that we all promote.” IAEM-LAC members welcome IAEM-Salvador as a new partner in promoting the mission of IAEM and wish them the greatest success.
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The Weather Channel
Flooding has proved to be extremely deadly in the United States in the last 16 months. Nearly 200 people, including 14 in Texas last month alone, have lost their lives since January 2015. NOAA says that in 2015 176 people were killed by flooding in 26 states.
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The Washington Post
With the morale of its employees lingering at the bottom of government rankings year after year, the Department of Homeland Security seems to be Exhibit A for weaknesses in management and leadership.
Last week, impatient House lawmakers pressed a top agency official to tell them when things would get better.
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The call for nominations for IAEM-USA Council Vice President and Secretary opened on May 2, 2016, and will close at 5:00 p.m. EDT on May 31, 2016. Individual members are eligible to hold national office, provided they have been a member for at least three consecutive years, and have served as a regional or national officer, national committee chair, or active national committee member for two consecutive years. The complete call for nominations, with details about how to get on the ballot, is posted on the IAEM-USA News web page.
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FEMA’s Emergency Management Institute (EMI) hosts the Master Exercise Practitioner Program (MEPP). Participants in the program are assigned to an exercise planning team where they are challenged to: demonstrate their expertise at all levels of exercise design and conduct; apply best practices and lessons learned from their organizations and experience; and use the concepts from the MEPP curriculum for their exercise planning team assignments. The program is delivered in a series of three courses covering advanced exercise design, conduct, and evaluation practices in each phase of the Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP). Candidates must have three to five years of experience designing and conducting emergency management exercises consistent with the HSEEP doctrine and development of discussion-based and operations-based exercises. The application period is open until July 1, 2016. Please apply only once for the series of your choice.
IAEM
IAEM Headquarters is maintaining a list of IAEM members who have a current student membership and wish to be considered for a student registration fee stipend in the amount of $300 (early-bird rate) for the conference registration fee to attend the IAEM 2016 Annual Conference, Oct. 14-19, in Savannah, Georgia. IAEM student members should email their interest to be considered in the registration fee stipend lottery to IAEM Membership Manager Sharon Kelly at info@iaem.com no later than Monday, Aug. 1, 2016, along with the following information: name; complete contact information; and university you are attending. Notifications will be sent via email in late August. Please read about the requirements that those who are selected must meet in order to receive the stipend.
CIDRAP
A yearly detailed inventory of the nation's public health preparedness showed the nation remains on solid footing, but with some weak spots, such as erosion in the ability to test drinking water and a persistent and varied gap in readiness among states — especially in areas vulnerable to disasters.
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Campus Safety
Most school districts have created emergency plans and flipcharts that are designed to make their responses to various crises more effective and efficient. However, according to nationally known speaker, consultant, author and expert on emergency preparedness, Gary L. Sigrist, Jr., K-12 campuses must do much more. Additionally, they must expand their focus beyond active shooter response.
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Toronto Star
After a 7.8-magnitude earthquake ripped through Ecuador’s coastal region last month, Toronto-based GlobalMedic answered the call for aid with a posse of drones, which can survey, map and pinpoint damage as well as the location of survivors. The group’s founder, paramedic Rahul Singh, says they’re the way of the future for humanitarian aid.
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Nature
After a magnitude-7.8 earthquake struck Ecuador’s Pacific coast on April 16, a new ally joined the international relief effort: A citizen-science network called Zooniverse.
On 25 April, Zooniverse launched a website that asks volunteers to analyse rapidly-snapped satellite imagery of the disaster, which led to more than 650 reported deaths and 16,000 injuries. The aim is to help relief workers on the ground to find the most heavily damaged regions and identify which roads are passable.
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The InterAgency Board (IAB) recently published a new document, Preparedness Activities for High Threat Events Requires Additional Study, which discusses the IAB’s recommendation for further review and analysis of the causes of death from active shooter and high threat incidents that have occurred in the United States, with continued refinement of the systems of care and preparation for these types of events. IAB highly recommends additional study and data analysis to guide the continued development of U.S. preparedness activities for such events.
IAEM
The InterAgency Board (IAB) recently published a new document, Conformity Assessment Guidance for Public Safety Equipment, which discusses the guidance and its assistance in determining an appropriate method for assessing public safety equipment’s conformance with standards or other requirements. The guidance is intended to benefit persons or organizations responsible for developing and maintaining a specific conformity assessment scheme.
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FEMA recently announced the newly launched Children and Disasters website. The site hosts various resources to help state, local and tribal governments – as well as stakeholders responsible for the temporary care of children — integrate children’s disaster-related needs into preparedness, planning, response, and recovery efforts.
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RadResponder, a product of collaboration between FEMA, the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration, and the Environmental Protection Agency, is a free network that provides a flexible, efficient and integrated approach to the input and management of radiological data through daily environmental monitoring activities to all federal, state, local, tribal and territorial organizations. The program was originally conceived in 2011, shortly after the Fukushima Dai’ichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster. Five years later, RadResponder is now being used operationally across the country, supporting a variety of organizations at all levels of government. The RadResponder Network is the national standard and whole community solution for the management of radiological data.
IAEM
The National Weather Service (NWS) has scheduled a webinar on “Hurricane Model Research and Application in NOAA,” on May 10, 2016, 10:00 a.m. EDT. NOAA’s National Hurricane Center (NHC) and Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory will provide an overview of the research and application of various hurricane models used to provide guidance on track and intensity. Register online.
IAEM
The 18th Annual Emergency Management Symposium, “Whole of Community – Talking about my Generation,” will take place June 6-9, 2016, at FEMA’s Emergency Management Institute, National Emergency Training Center, Emmitsburg, Maryland. If you wish to attend, applications must be submitted by May 13, 2016. Those submitted after the deadline will not be accepted. The draft agenda and complete details about how to apply are on the EMI website.
IAEM
The National Association of Government Communicators (NAGC) 2016 Communications School begins on June 7 with a choice of training workshops, one of which is “Don’t Just Present. Persuade!” Nathaniel Forbes, MBCI, CBCP, Forbes Calamity Prevention, Singapore, examines these elements of a persuasive presentation, speech or training course: developing a story that your audience will remember; finding the emotional appeal in your story; and choosing images that reinforce your message. An effective public information officer must have the ability to persuade the public, elected officials and the media, whether in an emergency, in a classroom or at a conference. Register today for the NAGC Communications School.
IAEM
The Third International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Management (ICT-DM 2016) is scheduled for Dec. 13-15, 2016, in Vienna, Austria. ICT-DMT 2016 aims to bring together academics and practitioners who are involved in emergency services, ad hoc planning and disaster management and recovery, in order to learn about the latest research developments, share experiences and information about this area and develop recommendations. The call for papers is open until June 1, 2016. For information about the conference, visit the event website.
The Weather Network
Heavy rain and flooding in the Kenyan capital city of Nairobi are being blamed for a building collapse that has killed at least 20 people. Rescuers continued to sift through rubble on Sunday for the 73 people who remain missing. BBC News reports 134 people — including several children — have been pulled from the rubble since the collapse on Friday night.
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PTI
Thunderstorm coupled with heavy rain has damaged over 1,000 houses, injured two people and snapped electricity supply in five districts in Nagaland, the State Disaster Management Authority said. Heavy rain and thunderstorms have been reported in Chuchuyimlang areas of Mokokchung district besides, Longleng, Phek, Wokha and Mon districts, a release issued by Khrienuo Metha, Secretary Relief and Rehabilitation said.
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The Economic Times
An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale hit Lampung province of Sumatra Island on Monday, the meteorology and geophysics agency said.
No immediate casualties were reported as of now, an official of the agency said.
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Reuters
A grandmother and four of her grandchildren were killed and another person also died in floods in Texas caused by storms that unleashed tornadoes, damaging hail and torrential rains on several central U.S. states, officials said on Saturday.
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DW
Sweltering temperatures and a severe water crisis have claimed more than 300 lives in India. Officials have banned daytime cooking in some parts of the country to prevent accidental fires that have killed 80 more people.
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The Associated Press via Fox News
Guatemala City authorities say that 24 people are listed as missing two days after a massive slope of trash collapsed, killing at least four people.
Hundreds of rescuers are still picking through the garbage dump looking for survivors or bodies.
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Reuters via Business Insider
Nepal and parts of northern India are battling their worst forest fires in years that have devastated thousands of hectares of woodland, killed at least 18 people and sent a pall of smoke across the southern Himalayas that can been seen from space.
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The Washington Post
The sky in Fort McMurray, Alberta, was gray with smoke. The ground beneath was glowing red with fire.
Like everyone else, Cassie White, a 19-year-old resident of the Canadian oil-sands town, was trying to escape the flames that began to tear through neighborhoods Tuesday. But in a car bound for Edmonton with her boyfriend, White discovered that there was no easy way out.
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