This message was sent to ##Email## To advertise in this publication please click here October 15, 2020 .ANNUAL CONFERENCE NEWS Don't miss the chance to participate in IAEM Reimagined — Register by 11:59 p.m. Oct. 16 for a chance to receive a $250 prize IAEM IAEM is an organization of almost 6,000 emergency managers who value the sense of community that comes with belonging to the International Association of Emergency Managers. IAEM members and others in the emergency management community will come together to access content and make connections Nov. 16-18 during the IAEM Reimagined first ever virtual conference. The event includes more than 100 speakers in more than 60 sessions. Take a sneak peek at the attendee experience in the virtual platform by clicking here. Anyone who is registered by 11:59 p.m. EDT on Oct. 16, will be entered into a drawing for a $250 Amazon gift card. Two lucky registrants will each receive one of the cards. Register today. Virtual EMEX sponsor highlight of the week: Disaster Tech IAEM This month, Disaster Tech, a data company for emergency management, announced the availability of Data science Integrated Collaboration Environment (DICE) in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. The Disaster Tech platform converges real-time cross sector data for preparing and responding to multiple hazards such as wildfires, hurricanes, and COVID-19. Integration with tools that emergency managers use every day, like Microsoft Teams, accelerates your ability to perform in high-stress situations and streamline operations. Follow Disaster Tech on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook to stay updated with the latest in emergency management technology. .IAEM SCHOLARSHIP Shop to help the IAEM Scholarship Program IAEM With more online shopping happening regularly due to the continuation of the global pandemic and with many holidays just around the corner, your shopping is an easy way to help the IAEM Scholarship Program. There are two ways to shop online and have donations made to the program without paying an extra dime. Amazon offers a special program for donations. Simply shop at smile.amazon.com/ch/31-6050147 or with AmazonSmile ON in the Amazon Shopping app and AmazonSmile donates 0.5% of eligible purchases to the IAEM Scholarship Program. The iGive network has more than 2,300 online stores, including many popular sites you already patronize, that give a portion of the money you spend to the IAEM Scholarship Program. To get started, just create your iGive account at www.iGive.com/iaemscholarship and be sure to add the iGive button to your browser to alert you when you visit a participating site. Shopping is a necessity and for many it is fun. Please take a few seconds to turn your online shopping into an easy and continuing gift that will help IAEM support the future of emergency management by providing scholarships to deserving students.  SPONSORED CONTENT Promoted by VeriCor Keeping the Cold Chain Intact with Cool Cube™ PCM Coolers Data Loggers: Calibrated - Accurate - Easy Coolers That Can be at Fridge Temps or Lab Freezer Temps (or even room temps) Patient Surge Systems Built for Times Like This: ACS | Hospital Triage & Treatment | COVID Care VeriCor: A Company Dedicated Towards Serving Emergency Management Professionals .IAEM-OCEANIA COUNCIL NEWS Australia's summer forecast — intense heatwaves and more cyclones Yahoo News Australia NSW and Victorian residents are going to have to brace for sweltering summer weather with more intense heat waves forecast. The Bureau of Meteorology released its severe weather outlook for the rest of October until April on Monday. The bureau last month said Australia will experience La Niña in the coming months. BOM manager of Climate Operations Dr Andrew Watkins said it means we’ve got warmer ocean water near Australia with cooler water off the south. READ MORE .IAEM-USA COUNCIL NEWS Department of Homeland Security releases Homeland Threat Assessment Security InfoCenter Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad F. Wolf released the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Homeland Threat Assessment (HTA). This first-of-its-kind report synthesizes threat information across DHS including intelligence and operational components. READ MORE  PRODUCT SHOWCASE Watch the on-demand webinar Artificial intelligence can process billions of pieces of publicly available data to alert first responders to an emergency. First Alert, Dataminr’s product for the public sector, uses AI to deliver relevant, breaking news alerts as events are happening. Learn how AI is transforming emergency management in this critical webinar. LEARN MORE National Exercise Program application ends Nov. 1 IAEM FEMA is accepting nominations to the National Exercise Program. The current round nomination submissions are due no later than Nov. 1, and decisions will be sent by Dec. 1. To request exercise support, local, state, tribal, territorial, and federal government agencies and their private, nonprofit or other whole community partners can download the nomination form. For jurisdictions not ready to submit a request at this time, the program will hold additional exercise nomination rounds in spring and fall of 2021. FEMA releases NIMS resource typing documents: geology field reconnaissance and pipeline inspector IAEM The FEMA National Integration Center released the Geology Field Reconnaissance and Pipeline Inspector positions and the Geology Field Reconnaissance resource typing document on the Resource Typing Library Tool. The position descriptions released are: Geology Field Reconnaissance Team Geology Field Reconnaissance Specialist Geological Survey Support Specialist Pipeline Inspector The geology field reconnaissance and pipeline inspector positions and the geology field reconnaissance resource typing document will facilitate the sharing of deployable positions at all jurisdictional levels.  SPONSORED CONTENT Promoted by American Military University COVID-19: Will This Be the Public Health’s 9/11 Earthquakes: The ‘Big One’ Might Hit the Midwest – Not California ­COVID-19: Flattening the Curve to Avoid a 'Great Depression II' Staying Safe: The Twin Threats of COVID-19 and Disaster Events ­How 1911's Triangle Fire Changed US Safety Laws New Data Highlights Most Disaster-Prone US Communities Emergency Management One of the communities most at-risk for wildfires in California is a small enclave in Mendocino County, in the northern half of the state. What makes Brooktrails and Sherwood Ranch in Willits, Calif., so vulnerable is a lack of exit routes out of these areas when disaster strikes. READ MORE US Hit by 16 Billion-Dollar Disasters This Year, So Far Homeland Security Today September will be remembered as a month of extremes: Historic wildfires burned across the West, unprecedented tropical activity churned up the Atlantic, and parts of the country saw record heat. What’s more, the first nine months of 2020 brought a record-tying 16 billion-dollar weather disasters to the nation, according to scientists with NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information. READ MORE .EM NEWS Mazda seeks nominations for first responder hometown heroes IAEM Mazda North American Operations (MNAO) is giving away the 100th Anniversary Special Edition Mazda MX-5 Miata cars to 50 hometown heroes who have made a lasting impact on their respective communities. MNAO's ‘Mazda Heroes: Honoring the Human Spirit’ (Mazda Heroes) spotlights first responders and others across the country who have selflessly uplifted those around them throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Submissions will be accepted until Sunday, Oct. 25, at Mazdausa.com. The 50 Mazda Heroes will be formally announced on Dec. 2. Nominations are being accepted online. Rapid Rescue of Buried People Homeland Security News Wire When someone is buried by an avalanche, earthquake or other disaster, a rapid rescue can make the difference between life and death. Researchers have developed a new kind of mobile radar device that can search hectare-sized areas quickly and thoroughly. READ MORE  PRODUCT SHOWCASE Prepare to Serve Columbia International University’s online Master of Arts in Disaster Relief and Emergency Management provides students the knowledge and skills necessary to respond to natural disasters and crises while demonstrating Christian compassion, service, and witness. Earn your degree in Disaster Relief & Emergency management entirely online in as little as 12 months. LEARN MORE .UNIVERSITY/COLLEGE/SCHOOL EM ISSUES 6 Reasons Why the New Title IX Rules Make K-12 Threat Assessment Teams a Must-Have Campus Safety Having a threat assessment team has long been a suggested practice for K-12 schools. However, K-12 safety managers are often overtasked and under resourced, making it a challenge to start new safety programs. Because of this, many schools have not implemented a threat assessment team. READ MORE Campus Safety Now Accepting Nominations for 2021 Director of the Year Campus Safety t’s time to send in your nominations for the 2021 Campus Safety Director of the Year awards program! If you know a K-12 school, higher education or healthcare facility police chief, security director, emergency manager or VP of security and/or public safety (or the equivalent) who goes above and beyond the call of duty, demonstrating outstanding leadership skills, ingenuity, selflessness and overall achievement, we encourage you to submit his or her (or your) nomination. READ MORE  PRODUCT SHOWCASE Prepare Now with ReadyWise. ReadyWise – Leader in Emergency Food Storage specializes in the production and distribution of high quality freeze-dried food designed to meet a range of disaster relief and emergency food support needs. We have extensive experience providing tailored solutions to a variety of government, healthcare, military and other institutional customers throughout the world.­CALL US TODAY 800-393-2570 or email dmarsiglia@ReadyWise.com LEARN MORE Washington scientists study 'silent quakes' to possibly track bigger earthquakes KING-TV A swarm of thousands of tiny earthquakes deep under western Washington, Oregon and British Columbia started again. You won’t feel these particular quakes because they are happening 40 to 60 miles deep, as it's believed the lower slab of the oceanic Juan de Fuca plate becomes stretched and pliable as it’s heated and melted back into the Earth’s mantle. READ MORE Public review of the Words into Action guide: 'Nature-based solutions for disaster risk reduction' PreventionWeb The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk reductions invites members of the DRR community to comment on the new Words into Action guide on nature-based solutions for disaster risk reduction. Some of the most important risks faced by humankind today are environment related: extreme weather, biodiversity loss, natural hazards and human-made environmental disasters. READ MORE .CLIMATE/WATER/WEATHER UPDATES 'Staggering' Rise in Climate Emergencies in last 20 Years Homeland Security News Wire The first twenty years of this century have seen a “staggering” rise in climate disasters, UN researchers said on Monday. There were 7,348 recorded disaster events worldwide, during the last two decades, causing the death of approximately 1.23 million people. These two decades of disaster also caused $2.97 trillion in losses to the global economy. READ MORE The Accuracy of Tsunami Predictions Homeland Security News Wire Residents of coastal towns in Chile remember the catastrophic earthquakes that struck their country in 1960 and 2010, not always for the quakes themselves but for the tsunamis that followed. New study validates accuracy in predicting the first wave, but weakness in forecasting ‘trailing’ waves. READ MORE .EM RESOURCES Meet the Supercomputer-Powered Hurricane Tool That Saves Lives HPC As the back half of October approaches, the peak of the Atlantic hurricane season is ostensibly winding down – and the post-mortem has begun, with research institutions assessing how well (or poorly) their various weather apparatuses forecasted the year’s major hurricanes. One such apparatus is the ADCIRC Surge Guidance System: a suite of mathematical models aimed at predicting storm surges from incoming storms based on expected hurricane tracks. READ MORE .NEW INSIGHTS A New Service Model for Disaster Recovery and Mitigation Programs Route Fifty A “shared services” model for procurement could eliminate some of the problems and pain points faced by state and local governments in the wake of a disaster. READ MORE Hope to Action: Special Children's Needs Post-Disaster Domestic Preparedness Effective disaster response and recovery involves the whole community. In the United States, there is a wide variation as to how families acquire durable medical equipment (DME) for their children with disabilities post disaster. READ MORE .CEM® UPDATE IAEM Certification Prep Course available online IAEM MindEdge Learning, an online education company founded by Harvard and MIT educators, has partnered with IAEM to develop the online AEM®/CEM® Prep Course (U.S. version). The course, which can be purchased through the IAEM website, allows candidates to review the application process, study the exam materials, watch video commentary from Certified Emergency Managers, and access sample exam questions—including two full-length, 100-question practice exams. AppArmor COVID-19 Custom Self-Assessment Apps AppArmor creates custom branded apps with numerous features including an end user self-assessment and screening tool to help your people return to work safely. LEARN MORE .SURVEY REQUESTS Georgetown University researcher seeks participants for biopreparedness survey IAEM A research project at Georgetown University's School of Continuing Studies, Emergency & Disaster Management graduate program, is studying biological threat preparedness at the SLTT level. An anonymous survey has been developed to determine the state of biological preparedness in the United States. To help with this research, complete the brief survey online. Questions should be sent to mtf66@georgetown.edu. .EM CALENDAR Second webinar in CHDS Shelter from the Storm series will take place on Oct. 16 IAEM The second webinar in an October three-part series from the Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS) will be held on Oct. 16, 2:00 p.m. EDT, on the topic of "Examining Systems of Congregate Emergency Shelter for Homeless and Vulnerable Populations During COVID 19." This CHDS series is co-hosted by IAEM, ASTHO, and NEMA. Every day, hundreds of thousands of homeless Americans are crowded into emergency shelters. Many of the homeless have severe and persistent co-occurring behavioral and medical disabilities, including drug and alcohol addictions. Using a public health and safety lens, this webinar will examine the challenges, options, and emerging model practices to address the daunting task of providing shelters and longer-term housing options for vulnerable populations during COVID-19. Information and online registration for all three webinars (Oct. 9, Oct. 16, and Oct. 23) is available online. Register by Oct. 20 to attend the first in a series of WMO HIWeather webinars IAEM The World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO) HIWeather Research Project will begin a series of webinars on Oct. 26, 2020, 4:00-5:30 p.m. EDT. Register online by Oct. 20, by emailing your details including professional affiliation to Mwegmann@wmo.int. The webinar, “Communicating About High Impact Weather: Uncertainty, Trust, and Beliefs,” will feature these speakers: Dr. Sally Potter, NGS Science, New Zealand; Dr. Andrea Taylor, University of Leeds, United Kingdom; Dr. Thomas Kox, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany; and Associate Professor Amisha Mehta, Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Download the webinar flyer. Third webinar in CHDS Shelter from the Storm series will take place on Oct. 23 IAEM The third webinar in an October three-part series from the Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS) will be held on Oct. 23, 2:00 p.m. EDT, on the topic of Management of Congregate Jail Populations During COVID 19. This CHDS series is co-hosted by IAEM, ASTHO, and NEMA. In this webinar, national experts will consider perhaps the most complex challenge of congregate housing during a pandemic – managing prison and jail populations. Panelists will examine the public health implications of dense jail populations during COVID-19 and the public safety considerations of jail de-densification and other alternatives to incarceration. Information and online registration for all three webinars (Oct. 9, Oct. 16, and Oct. 23) is available online. American Public Works Association extends call for speakers until Oct. 16 IAEM While both of APWA’s national conferences were canceled this year due to COVID, planning has started for the 2021 Snow Conference (Apr. 11-14 in Grand Rapids, Michigan) and Summer Expo (Aug. 29-Sept. 1, in St. Louis, Missouri). The call for speakers has been extended to Oct. 16, and talks about geographically relevant emergency management issues and case studies would be appropriate to submit. More information is available online. .IAEM-JAPAN NEWS Japan schools' anti-tsunami measures reaching national standards after high court ruling The Mainichi Some 60% of education boards in 108 municipalities predicted to be hit by tsunami triggered by major earthquakes including the Nankai Trough megaquake told the Mainichi Shimbun in a recent survey that they had already implemented anti-tsunami measures that meet standards set by the 2018 high court ruling -- double the percentage points from the previous survey two years ago. READ MORE .AROUND THE WORLD Hurricane Delta leaves at least 4 dead and knocks out power for hundreds of thousands CNN Four people are dead in the aftermath of Hurricane Delta as remnants of the storm brought widespread rain to the US mid-Atlantic and Northeast. Meanwhile, large numbers of residents in Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi woke up in the dark Monday morning after Delta made landfall in Louisiana as a Category 2 hurricane. READ MORE Flooding in Cambodia leaves at least 11 dead The Associated Press via CBC Flooding in Cambodia has killed at least 11 people since the beginning of the month, a disaster official said Sunday. Seasonal rains were made worse by a tropical storm, which caused flash floods in several provinces last week, said Khun Sokha, a spokesperson for the National Committee for Disaster Management. READ MORE Southeast Asia flood deaths near 40 as new storm approaches Reuters via WTVB-TV Nearly 40 people have died in Vietnam and Cambodia and scores more were missing, including rescuers, due to prolonged heavy rain and flash flooding as tropical storm Nangka edged towards the Vietnamese coast on Tuesday. 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