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UNSW scientist talks about his experience researching the Samoan tsunami

An interview featured in Nature news online today... doi:10.1038/news.2009.1060 "Aftermath of a tsunami A natural-hazards expert talks about surveying the destruction in Samoa. By Quirin Schiermeier On 29 September, a tsunami triggered by a magnitude-8.3 earthquake hit Samoa, killing more than 100 people. Dale Dominey-Howes, of the Australian Tsunami Research Centre in Sydney, led a survey team commissioned by the United Nations Educat… Continue

Added by Carolina Roman on November 3, 2009 at 7:17pm — No Comments

UNSW Scientists to assess impact of Samoan Tsunami

News from the Australian Tsunami Research Centre at UNSW, Sydney: UNSW Scientists to assess impact of Samoan Tsunami By Dan Gaffney, 30 September 2009 UNSW scientists will assess the impact of the regional tsunami that has struck Samoa, American Samoa and surrounding islands when they soon arrive in the remote South Pacific island group. Tsunami expert Professor James Goff from UNSW’s Natural Hazards Research Laboratory will reach Wallis and Futuna Islands west of Samoa in mid Oct… Continue

Added by Carolina Roman on October 2, 2009 at 3:32am — No Comments

The Global Risk Forum Upcoming Conference

The Global Risk Forum is planning for the next International Disaster Risk Conference... check out www.grforum.org Below is an excerpt from their invitation letter. This is a very interesting conference I attended last year. Lots of interesting topics in disaster managment and climate change in a wonderful location of Davos. Dear colleague, Now we start with the detail planning of the IDRC 2010. Please have a look at the IDRC website and see the topics, deadlines and sumbission information. I… Continue

Added by Steve Ambrose on September 28, 2009 at 11:19am — No Comments

Teaching Strategic Approaches to Crisis Management

I am working on a new syllabus for a graduate-level course on strategic approaches to crisis management offered as part of an MPA program. The course will explore the leadership role of emergency managers in preparing for and responding to crises. (For the purpose of this course a crisis emerges from the decisions and actions [or inactions] of responsible parties and may accompany an emergency, disaster, or catastrophe, manifesting itself in a marked decline in public confidence in key instituti… Continue

Added by Mark Chubb on August 18, 2009 at 11:59am — No Comments

WAS*IS at the Australasian Hazards Management Workshops 09

A half-day Weather and Society Integrated Studies (WAS*IS AUS) session was held at the Australasian Hazard Management Workshops yesterday. The WAS*IS session began with several presentations. The first presentation outlined a variety of weather-related research projects that have been undertaken in Australasia recently. the presentationdiscussed flood research that is currently being undertaken in New Zealand and Australia, as well as several up-coming projects (i.e. a 'short fuse warnings' wor… Continue

Added by Julia Becker on August 6, 2009 at 7:27am — 3 Comments

Australasian Hazard Management Workshops 09

The 2009 Australasian Hazard Management Workshops are being held in Melbourne this week (5-7th August). Attendance has been good, with a variety of academics and practitioners coming together to discuss disaster related issues. A key theme of the workshops has been the Black Saturday bushfires which occurred in Australia in February this year, with many of the worshops referring to the implications and lessons from that disaster. The workshops have touched on warnings, climate change, law and di… Continue

Added by Julia Becker on August 6, 2009 at 7:04am — 2 Comments

Disaster Preparedness for Schools at 2009 Hazards Workshop

It's been 10 years since the shootings at Columbine High School. In terms of disaster preparedness in schools, where are we now? A panel, moderated by Scott Robinson of Texas A&M University, is discussing preparedness for students, schools, and school districts. What has changed over the last 10 years? -Schools are actively teaching students about risk and how to recognize it. -Students are coming forward with informatio… Continue

Added by Corey Reynolds on July 17, 2009 at 6:03pm — No Comments

Rethinking the Emergency Alert System at the 2009 Hazards Workshop

An interesting panel on different approaches to public warning. Some highlights: Dennis Mileti moderated the panel and began with a story about the switch from the Emergency Broadcast System (EBS) to Emergency Alert System (EAS) and his work in assessing how the public will respond to the new system. Dennis told the packed, hot room about how he created three focus groups made up of his friends – on the three levels of his house – to test public perception of the new warnings in different socia… Continue

Added by Corey Reynolds on July 16, 2009 at 5:45pm — No Comments

Craig Fugate at the 2009 Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop

I'm joining 430 others at the 2009 Annual Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop outside Boulder, Colorado. Catch my live blogs on IHDN today through Saturday. Check out the program here. After a workshop tradition in which everyone in the room -- all 430 -- introduce themselves, Natural Hazards Center Director Kathleen Tierney i… Continue

Added by Corey Reynolds on July 16, 2009 at 12:52pm — 3 Comments

Twitter Fails a Critical Real World EM Test

There's been a lot of talk over the role that Twitter is playing in the Iranian upheaval during the last few weeks. Some of it is justified but to read some of the praise heaped on Twitter you'd think it was a magical revolution-inducing technology. Twitter is also often touted as having strong potential in the Emergency Management field - and I agree, I think it does - but the DC Metro train collision shows in very stark terms one of my biggest reservations about the entire enterprise: message… Continue

Added by Greg Guibert on June 23, 2009 at 10:30pm — 1 Comment

Featured Blogs

Keep watching this space for some Featured blogs. Featured blogs will be regular posts from leaders on various hot topics ranging from Climate Change to Disaster Mental Health to Legal Issues. We hope that these regular posts will be provocative points for discussion so be sure to check in regularly and post comments! Although we'll be featuring a few bloggers in particular to start, any community member can blog and have their post appear in this space on the IHDN homepage. Happy blogging! Gr… Continue

Added by Greg Guibert on June 16, 2009 at 1:49pm — No Comments

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