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IAEM
The June 2019 IAEM Bulletin will include a special focus section on the theme of “Treasure the Present: What We Need to be Talking About Now.” Article submissions (750-1,500 words) must be received by the extended deadline of May 20, 2019. Articles might include, but are not limited to: what current happenings emergency managers should be talking about – and why; the vulnerabilities of anything to a cyber hack (power grid, gas pipeline); how we are preparing today to be ready for the future; or how emergency managers can stay informed on the latest technological changes that can support their community’s preparedness goals. Please refer to the IAEM Bulletin web page for details on all of the 2019 special focus topics, including examples of articles, and email any questions to Editor Karen Thompson.
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Entries will be accepted in the 2019 IAEM Awards Competition until 5:00 p.m. EDT, May 31, 2019, for the IAEM-Global award categories (open to those at any location worldwide) and the additional IAEM-USA Council award categories (limited to USA entrants). Don’t miss out on this opportunity to recognize and honor persons who have made special or significant contributions to the field of emergency management and have represented the profession well by their outstanding performance. Award winners will be announced in a formal Awards Presentation at the conference, will be featured in the Awards Showcase, and also will receive a $315 discount toward their IAEM Annual Conference & EMEX registration fee. If you have questions about the awards competition, guidelines or entry forms, please contact Karen Thompson, IAEM Awards staff liaison. To learn more, visit the Awards page and also check out the recording of the Apr. 18 webinar, “Helpful Tips for Entering the 2019 IAEM Awards Competition.” If this is your first year to enter the competition, we recommend downloading the 2019 IAEM Awards Overview, which can help you to determine which category to enter.
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FEMA, in partnership with organizations that collectively represent the emergency management profession, including IAEM, on Wednesday, released the eighth presentation from the PrepTalks Symposium held on Sept. 6, 2018, in Washington, D.C. The PrepTalk by Dr. Charles “Chick” Macal is entitled, “Using Complex Adaptive Systems Thinking to Understand Community Interdependencies.” In his PrepTalk, Dr. Macal urges emergency managers to apply the principles of systems thinking to their work in preparedness and response. Dr. Macal is the chief scientist of Argonne National Laboratory’s Resilient Infrastructure Initiative, where he leads a team of interdisciplinary researchers developing computational models and simulations for infrastructure interdependency analysis, planning and resilience. His PrepTalk video and additional resources are available at www.fema.gov/preptalks/macal. PrepTalks are a partnership between FEMA, the International Association of Emergency Managers, the National Emergency Management Association, the National Homeland Security Consortium, and the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security.
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The IAEM Scholarship Program is accepting applications from full-time undergraduate and full- and part-time graduate students for scholarship awards for the 2019-2020 academic year. 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. Questions may be directed to Scholarship Program Director Dawn Shiley. All application materials must be submitted by 5:00 p.m. EDT, June 12, 2019.
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IAEM encourages exhibitors at the 2019 IAEM Annual Conference & EMEX, Nov. 15-20, 2019, in Savannah, Georgia, to finalize their booth registrations by June, when the current booth rate of $23 per square foot will increase to $27 per square foot. A standard 10’x10’ exhibit booth will cost $2,700 for non-members and $2,430 for Affiliate members beginning June 1. View the floor plan online to choose your booth. If you are a return IAEM customer and this is your first time using our new website, you will have to set a new password for your account, in order to view the floor plan. If you are a new customer, you will need to register before reviewing the floor plan. Direct questions to Kyler Bartee.
Storm Water Solutions
In Canada, communities are looking to mitigate costs and damages from the flooding of businesses and residences. Flooding has especially been an issue in Sussex, NB, where flooding is an issue during the spring freshet and when the snow melts during the winter. Member of Parliament for Fundy Royal Alaina Lockhart announced on behalf of the Minister for Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness that New Brunswick will receive $637,500 under the National Disaster Mitigation Program. According to PR Newswire, the funding was given to prevent flooding events in Sussex.
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Homeland Security Today
An audit focusing on the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) found that officers did not always have access to the hard-body armor and carbines they need to protect themselves and the public. This audit also showed that a lack of planning around the addition of the carbine to the RCMP’s inventory had impacted the maintenance of these semi-automatic rifles and the annual retraining of officers.
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Route Fifty
Massachusetts is best prepared to respond to a public health emergency, while Alaska, Ohio and Nevada lag behind in readiness, according to national rankings released this month.
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Politico
A vote on the multibillion-dollar aid package, which has yet to be finalized, would make good on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s calls for the chamber to pass the deal by the Memorial Day recess.
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The Hill
President Trump on Monday formally nominated Jeffrey Byard to serve as the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), three months after the previous administrator resigned. Trump indicated in February plans to put Byard's name forward to replace Brock Long, who resigned that same month amid an internal ethics investigation and criticism over the administration's handling of its response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.
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Government Technology
Telephone companies would need to alert California emergency officials of outages that prevent users from calling 911 or receiving emergency alerts under a new bill proposed by state Sen. Mike McGuire. The proposal comes after back-to-back years of record-breaking wildfires throughout the state and notable shortcomings in how local emergency officials in several of those fire-ravaged areas alerted residents of the danger.
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Nextgov
In March, the Federal Communications Commission began auctioning the 24GHz band — a portion of the radio spectrum used for communication applications — to be used in 5G networks. But 24GHz is adjacent to spectrum used for weather operations, causing senators and the Navy to express grave concerns that those networks could disturb forecasting in the future.
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Homeland Security News Wire
Researchers examine how buildings with externally bonded fiber-reinforced polymer composite retrofits withstood the 30 November 2018 magnitude 7.1 earthquake in Alaska. By assessing how these buildings held up, the researchers hope to help engineers construct buildings that stand up to natural disasters.
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NPR
There have been dramatic improvements in hurricane forecasting over the past 20 years. The greatest progress has been made in forecasting a hurricane's track, including where and when it will make landfall. But the harder challenge is predicting a storm's intensity, especially for hurricanes like Michael that continue to strengthen as they approach the coast.
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PBS
It’s been six months since the most deadly and destructive wildfire in California history, the Camp Fire, which killed 85 people and burned 19,000 structures in November 2018. But even at the peak of the inferno, some scientists moved toward it, in an attempt to understand more about the intensity and spread of the flames. Science correspondent Miles O’Brien has the harrowing inside look.
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The Seattle Times
The Skagit River carves past the town, and chinook salmon, local orcas’ favorite food, swim by Hamilton each year as youngsters, before spilling into Puget Sound. Chinook numbers have dwindled, and scientists fear the southern-resident killer whales are on the brink. Now, Hamilton — proud and tight-knit even after the mines shut down, the logging jobs largely disappeared and the sawmill shuttered — is at a crossroads also.
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IAEM
The International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM) and Association of Healthcare Emergency Preparedness Professionals (AHEPP) have partnered with the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) to host a webinar that seeks to help local and state emergency managers see the value behind being a driving partner in their local health care coalitions (HCCs). The webinar will be held on June 7, 2019 from 2:00-3:30 p.m. EDT, and will feature a distinguished panel consisting of: Melissa Harvey, director, National Healthcare Preparedness Programs, ASPR; Mike Sprayberry, director, North Carolina Emergency Management and past president, National Emergency Management Association; and William Ray, assistant director, North Carolina Emergency Management. Learn more and register online.
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To enhance this critical information sharing across all alerts, warnings and notifications systems, SAFECOM and the National Council of Statewide Interoperability Coordinators, in collaboration with the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, developed the Ten Keys to Improving Emergency Alerts, Warnings, and Notifications.
Homeland Security News Wire
Extreme floods across the continental United States are associated with four broad atmospheric patterns, a machine-learning based analysis of extreme floods found.
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Homeland Security Affairs
Collaboration between the DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and public- sector partners has revealed that a dearth of cyber- incident data combined with the unpredictability of cyber attacks have contributed to a shortfall in first-party cyber insurance protection in the critical infrastructure community. This research explores the foundations of insurance theory and adopts behavioral manipulation methods to incentivize cyber-security investment.
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Homeland Security News Wire
A new computer model shows that as more rain falls on a warming planet, it may not take a downpour to cause widespread disruption of road networks. The model combined data on road networks with the hills and valleys of topography to reveal “tipping points” at which even small localized increases in rain cause widespread road outages.
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Homeland Security Affairs
The United States lacks a comprehensive strategy and supporting programs to support and defend the population of the United States during times of war and to mobilize, sustain and expand its defense industrial base while under attack from a peer or near- peer adversary. These legacy programs were disbanded and broken up over 25 years ago, and without a reinvestment in these activities by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), America risks losing its next great war.
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Reuters
Governments and businesses are still investing far too little to protect poor communities at rising risk from wild weather and other threats, the heads of the U.N. disaster prevention agency and the Red Cross said Tuesday.
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Government Technology
During the 2017 and 2018 hurricane seasons, most fatalities resulted from water — not from wind. Yet, when most people think about hurricanes, they think wind. Some say that perception must change.
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Popular Mechanics
These bots are built to work in space, but first we need their help here on Earth.
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Government Technology
IBM marked Hurricane Preparedness Week to call on the technology community to take action that will help save lives of people in communities that are vulnerable to disasters. IBM’s 2019 Call for Code Global Challenge is a competition that calls on software developers, data scientists and technologists from around the world to build solutions that help communities prepare for, respond to and recover from natural disasters and vie for a $200,000 grand prize.
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IAEM
IAEM certification and recertification fees will increase by 4% on June 1, 2019. Certification application fees will become $410 for members and $620 for non-members. Recertification fees will become $260 for members and $340 for non-members. This is the first price increase since 2014, and candidates may click here to pay before June 1 and avoid the additional cost.
Homeland Security Today
Homeland Security Today, the nation’s leading news and analysis site for homeland security, today launched a free webinar series for front-line government, law enforcement, first responders and others serving the homeland mission.
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The Asia Risk & Resilience Conference (ARRC 2019) will take place on Aug. 28-30, 2019, at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. IAEM is a supporting organization of this annual conference. As a benefit of IAEM membership, IAEM members receive an early-bird discount by using the code: IAEM 10. ARRC 2019 is a premier networking and knowledge-sharing platform for industry professionals from the region and globally to further their knowledge and get to know the trends in business continuity management, enterprise risk management, emergency management, crisis management and communications, and other resiliency-related areas. Sponsors and exhibitors can expect to meet and mingle with business representatives and decision-makers from the region, consisting of personnel from the C-Suite, directors and managers, looking to enhance their businesses with relevant software, products and professional business services. Visit the event site to learn more.
Brunel University London
Fani, a rare summer cyclone in the Bay of Bengal, hit eastern India on May 3. It is one of the strongest cyclones to have hit India in the last 20 years, according to the Indian government’s meteorological department. Storm surges and powerful winds reaching 125mph blew off roofs, damaged power lines and uprooted countless trees. But the worst-affected state, Odisha, has been successful in keeping the loss of life and numbers of affected people to a minimum. This is the result of a very effective strategy of disaster preparation and quick responding.
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Taiwan News
With the flood season approaching, the Ministry of National Defense (MND) announced plans regarding the island’s disaster preparedness in a press conference. In the event of typhoons, a total of 1,844 personnel from Taiwan’s armed forces will be on standby 24 hours prior to the landing of tropical cyclones. The Marine Corps’ amphibious transport squadrons and more than 39,000 troops will be dispatched to townships prone to flooding across Yilan, Taoyuan, Kaohsiung and other municipalities to assist in relief work, according to MND.
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Women of China
China will hold over 1,000 lectures on earthquake resistance and disaster relief nationwide this year as the country made persistent efforts on raising public awareness and capability of disaster reduction. The lectures will be held in schools, government agencies, enterprises, communities and villages in forms including expert instruction, emergency first-aid training and evacuation drills, the China Earthquake Administration said on the launch ceremony of the lectures Sunday.
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Homeland Security Today
Launching a major, long-term strategy to tackle flooding and coastal change, the United Kingdom’s Environment Agency Chair, Emma Howard Boyd has said ‘we cannot win a war against water’ by building higher flood defences and called for a new approach to ensure communities are resilient to the threat of flooding posed by climate change.
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Jamaica Observer
A senior United Nations official has highlighted the importance of disaster risk reduction in the Caribbean amidst the “existential threat” that climate change poses to the region. Head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), Mami Mizutori, said that 90 per cent of major disasters are related to severe extreme weather events.
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The Canadian Press via Saskatoon StarPhoenix
Fraser Lake Mayor Sarrah Storey was driving back from a soccer tournament out of town when she saw the skyline transformed by a wildfire creeping up a mountain on the edge of her central British Columbia community. The blaze grew from four hectares Saturday morning to 260 hectares that night, prompting a local state of emergency and several evacuations for the area about 140 kilometres west of Prince George.
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The Ledger
A strong earthquake struck a lightly populated area of Panama near its border with Costa Rica on Sunday, causing some wooden porches to collapse and products to shake from store shelves. Panamanian authorities said at least two people had been injured in a village but gave no details.
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The Japan Times
A shallow magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck close to Papua New Guinea’s remote island of New Britain on Tuesday, the United States Geological Survey said, triggering a tsunami warning for parts of the Pacific that was later lifted.
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CNN Newsource
At least 16 people have died after the Philippines was rattled by two major earthquakes, authorities said on Tuesday. A further 81 people were injured and 14 remain missing, a statement from the Office of Civil Defense read.
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The Associated Press via
The National Weather Service says hurricane-force winds left a trail of damage on the Alabama coast. An assessment from forecasters says winds blowing from 70 mph to 80 mph (113 kph to 129 kph) ripped metal roofing off buildings and knocked over pine trees on Dauphin Island on Sunday morning. Hurricanes have winds of at least 74 mph, so the storm's winds were the rough equivalent of a category 1 storm.
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Tech Know Bits
Tuesday more than 50 people are believed to have died in a mudslide at a mining site in Myanmar, also a lawmaker representing the region said. Tin Soe stated three bodies have been recovered and 54 people remain missing at Kachin state’s Hpakant region Monday night.
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