I'm writing from La Universidad de Los Andes in Merida, Venezuela and here we are working to develop a disaster research team with specialization in Stochastic Models and Optimization applied to this area . . . We need all the information possible about who else is working on this problem.
Thanks, and soon as I can I'll send you more information about our work.
Alejandro Linayo R.
Escuela de Ingenieria de Sistemas
Departamento de Investigacion de Operaciones
Universidad de Los Andes
Merida - Venezuela
Looking for Information on Public Perception of Coastal Flood Warnings
I am helping to plan a system to provide information on realtime coastal water levels to emergency management officials in New Jersey. Has there been a study to determine how the general public perceives warnings concerning the elevation of coastal waters during storms? Do people understand and act on warnings of water levels measured above mean low water differently from warnings of water levels measured above mean sea level (also known as the National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929)? Any information on this would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.Ward Hickman I need information (articles, points of contact, cost-benefit, etc.) on the merits/demerits of underground versus above ground storage tanks for storing Diesel Fuel. (Storage location is in the upper Midwest of the U.S.) Thanks,Robert Cook The University of Idaho Library announces the availability of the second issue of the ELECTRONIC GREEN JOURNAL (ISSN: 1076-7975). The ELECTRONIC GREEN JOURNAL is a professional refereed publication devoted to disseminating information concerning sources on international environmental topics including: assessment, conservation, development, disposal, education, hazards, pollution, resources, technology, and treatment. Environmental issues frequently cross national borders; therefore, our journal encourages the international sharing of environmental expertise. The journal serves communities as an educational environmental resource, and includes both practical and scholarly articles, bibliographies, reviews, editorial comments, and announcements. We are academically sponsored; however, our focus is for the educated generalist as well as the specialist. The journal is available via gopher, worldwide web, ftp or by subscription. To subscribe, send an e-mail message to MAJORDOMO@UIDAHO.EDU with the following in the body of the message: Addresses:gopher: gopher.uidaho.edu (menu choice: University of Idaho Electronic Publications) Original contributions from authors are welcome. Guidelines for authors are available from the editors. Send contributions, advertisements, requests for guidelines, or requests for any other information about the journal to: Maria Jankowska, majanko@uidaho.edu [As always, thanks to Art Botterell and the "Nets" news list for the following information] The Federal Communications Commission has released its Report and Order on the revised Emergency Broadcast System (EBS)... hereafter to be known as the Emergency Alerting System (EAS). . . We've downloaded the full R&O - all 250K of it - and posted it on our gopher server: Or, for ordinary gopher users: gopher oes1.oes.ca.gov 5555 The University of Virginia has posted the EPA's Chemical Substance Factsheets on their gopher: Also reachable through the California OES Web Server: I don't know the process by which these sheets get posted, so this information probably shouldn't be considered definitive. Nonetheless, it's a handy resource, and a good demonstration of how the net can be used to simplify the dissemination of this sort of database. California Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering (CUREe) is soliciting announcements of research projects underway on the Northridge earthquake of January 17, 1994. CUREe is updating its Directory of Northridge Earthquake Research. One page summaries of projects including the names of the principal investigators or consultants as well as the name, address, telephone and fax numbers, e-mail address, and small photo of the principal investigator should be sent: CUREe Listings for compilations of government or other data, maps, reports, and libraries and information services are also being included in the directory. Copies of the directory can be ordered from the address above. ERRI Expands News/Information Services Some of the changes include: Emergency Response & Research Institute As you have probably heard, the American Red Cross Disaster Services Department will soon be joining other departments and offices at our new-to-us headquarters facility located in Falls Church, Virginia. This move takes place from 1/6 - 1/9/95. Computers, phones, voice mail, etc., will likely be down during that period. For those of you who have regular contact with various Red Cross NHQ staff members, it is suggested to call their "old" telephone number, where a voice mail message will be left providing the new contact number after the move. The new mailing address is: Rocky Lopes, who initiated this message, will have a new telephone number: (703) 206-8805. Hi, I am a computer scientist with a burning interest in disaster management. I am looking for examples of programs which are used in relation to that field. I would also like to hear from people who have/are developing software themself. I am particullarly interested in programs that can be used when managing disaster relief operations. Things like victim registration, relief supply tracking and also graphical tracking and organizing of search and rescue using things like satelite positioning system. References to intresting books on this and the subject of disaster management are also appriciated (pls include ISBN numbers if possible). Thanks Dear Friends, I am developing a spatial decision support system for earthquake emergency management - the relief phase of a disaster. I am looking for some help on models to assess risk (or vulnerability) of a population in an urban centre in Western Turkey (Izmir). The model I have developed so far, appears to be unsatisfactory, in the sense it relies entirely for its output (a simulation of expected numbers of fatalities and buildings substantially damaged) on the numbers of fatalities etc., in previous earthquakes. I wonder if I am approaching this in the right way - would anyone like to advise me? I have split the city into eight hundred microzones, and I have the data for past earthquake events for each microzone. That is to say, I know how many people died and how many buildings were substantially damaged as a result of an earthquake event some time ago. By simply dividing the number of fatalities, say, by the historical number of popualtion, and summing for the whole bunch of earthquakes, I have some sort of probability (?) figure with which to multiply aginst the current (or projected) popualtion to obtain tan absolute number of expected fatalities or buildings expected to be substantially damaged. Now, whilst this method produces some sort of number for each of the microzones in the city, it is dependent on historical data - which I believe is far from accurate in the first place. So, is there a better way to assess the vulnerability of population and infrastructure, perhaps taking into account the magnitude, distance and focal depth of earthquakes, as well as other factors such as construction type - is it necessary to take into account such (sophisticated) variables when the original data is suspect? I would be grateful for any advice, models, criticism, laughter or whatever, you might have out there. Warm regards, Mike Francis, Anyone Know About Diesel Storage Tanks?
An Internet Journal That May Be of Interest
subscribe egj your_email_address
WWW: http://gopher.uidaho.edu/1/UI_gopher/library/egj/
anonymous ftp: ftp.uidaho.edu (directory: pub/docs/publications/EGJ)
Francis Griego, fsg@aruba.ccit.arizona.edu
Mike Pollastro, mikep@uidaho.eduRegarding that New EAS We Talked About
gopher://oes1.oes.ca.gov:5555/00/eas
Look under "Emergency Public Information."Another Note from Art and Nets
gopher://ecosys.drdr.virginia.edu/11/library/gen/toxics
http://www.oes.ca.gov:8001/html/cuicc.htmlCUREe Wants to Know Who's Studying Northridge
Northridge Research Coordination Project
1301 South 46th Street
Richmond, CA 94804
(510) 231-9557
fax: (510) 231-5664A News Service You Might Want to Know About
Chicago, IL, January 4 -- The Emergency Response & Research Institute today announced that it has made several changes in order to better serve the needs of the media and emergency response community.
(c) Emergencynet NEWS Service, 1994
5656 N. Moody St., Chicago, IL 60646
(312) 631-ERRI - Voice/Voice Mail
(312) 631-4703 - Fax
(312) 631-3950 - Computer/Modem-EMERGENCY BBS-28,800bpsRed Cross Disaster Services Moving
(name of person or unit)
American Red Cross NHQ
Disaster Services Department
8111 Gatehouse Road
Falls Church VA 22042Last Minute Information Request from Israel?
Gisli Olafsson
System Designer
gro@ismennt.isLast Minute Information Request from the U.K.
Mike
Department of Geography,
University of Lancaster,
England
E-mail: M.Francis@lancaster.ac.uk
Tel: 0524 65201 extension 2330
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