Back to the Home Page.My name is Amy Marshall, and I am the curator of a DOD ArchaeologyCollection at Ft. Bliss in El Paso, Texas. As part of my job, I amrequired by 36 CFR 79 to develop and implement a disaster preparednessplan for our museum/curational facility. I have a number ofpublications, but would be interested in corresponding with anyone whohas researched and established a similar plan for a museum.
Thank you.
Amy Marshall
Curator, Ft. Bliss Archaeological Collection
archstar@dzn.com
I work for the Department of Internal Affairs in New Zealand. I amcurrently starting to do some research on the involvement ofvolunteers in emergency management. I would be grateful if anyonecould let me know of any recent work in the area. I am interested inquestions such as:
Thanks very much,
Wendy Searle
One of our instructors is very keen to obtain some general guidelinesfor evacuation not more than 5 years old and sourced from overseas.She particularly wants generic guidelines or a checklist which couldbe applied to a range of emergency situations. Any ideas or e-mailaddresses would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Jo Menzies
Joanne Menzies
Librarian
Information and Research Center
Australian Emergency Management Institute
Main Rd
Mount Macedon, Victoria
AUSTRALIA 3441
Tel: (054) 215224 Fax: (054) 215273
e-mail: robf@brain.vifp.monash.edu.au
I am presently conducting a search for digital datasets describingJava and Madura, Indonesia. Specifically, I need the followingdatasets:
Dr. Harvey A. Singer
Hazards Assessment and Simulation Division
Science Applications International Corporation
1710 Goodridge Drive
McLean, VA 22102
(703) 556-7099
Fax: (703) 356-8408
E-mail: singer@zippy.saic.com
The Central U.S. Earthquake Consortium (CUSEC) State Geologists havepublished a 1:2,000,000-scale Earthquake Hazards Map of the CUSECstates. The map shows areas of relative potential for liquefactionand/or increased levels of ground shaking due to earthquake events.Also shown are epicenters of selected earthquakes and culturalfeatures of interest to the Federal Emergency Management Agency andstate emergency management agencies. This map can be used as aneducational tool to explain the difference between ground responsemaps and USGS earthquake probability maps.
CUSEC geologists are currently mapping the upper 100 feet of geologicmaterials at a scale of 1:250,000 within the Memphis, Paducah, andCincinnati areas shown on the map. This mapping will be used by theFEMA (census track based) Loss Estimation Program.
A limited number of Central U.S. Earthquake Hazards Maps are nowavailable from CUSEC, Memphis, TN and the CUSEC State GeologicalSurveys which include AR, IL, IN, KY, MS, MO, and TN. The map isapproximately 26" x 35". Although the map is free, $2.00 will becharged for postage and handling.
This research is supported by the USGS, Department of Interior,National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program, Award Number1434-94-G-2404.
Paul B. DuMontelle, Coordinator
CUSEC State Geologists Projects
Illinois State Geological Survey
615 East Peabody Drive
Champaign, IL 61820
dumontel@geoserv.isgs.uiuc.edu
The Federal Emergency Management Agency's Family Preparedness Programwill hold its first on-line conference on the World Wide Web on June20, 1996 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. (EDT). The conference, entitled"Partnerships in Action," can be accessed at
Through a resource area and other conference capabilities,participants will be able to ask questions of featured presenters,learn about nationwide preparedness programs, and obtain disasterpreparedness information and materials to share with their community.
In addition, participants will be able to add their names to adisaster preparedness database that will serve as an ongoing resourcefor preparedness program organizers around the country. They will alsobe able to post questions and comments on a bulletin board and receiveanswers from other participants. The resource area will containvaluable information on emergency preparedness partnerships andpublications, as well as links to other preparedness sites.
The on-line conference will provide opportunities for local and stateemergency managers, fire department personnel, American Red Crossstaff, business and industry officials, community disasterpreparedness leaders, and interested volunteers to share resources andinformation on finding and using existing community resources to helpimplement community-wide preparedness programs.
The conference is part of FEMA's "Act Now: Disaster Preparedness andFire Prevention" series. It will follow a video conference, also onpartnerships, scheduled for the same day from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.(EDT).
Persons seeking further information on these events should call ore-mail Heather Wurthman, (202) 452-9448; heather_wurthman@oar-wash.com.
A Discussion List for Hazard/Disaster GISers
The National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering at theUniversity of California-Berkeley has set up a discussion list forpersons interested in GIS issues in hazards management. Although thediscussion will focus on earthquakes, other hazards/GIS topics will bewelcome. This list is open and unmoderated, and the standardprocedures apply:
1) To subscribe - send an e-mail message to: majordomo@violet.berkeley.edu with the text "subscribe gis_group" in the body of the message.
2) To post messages, send them to: gis_group@violet.berkeley.edu
The discussion list software (majordomo) will then broadcast yourmessage to all subscribed members. If you reply to a message, yourreply will be sent to the entire group.
According to its mission statement, this working group will work tofoster discussion and improve knowledge transfer among people working in this area. Ideally the discussion will lead to 1) less duplicationof efforts; 2) development of and adherence to hazard-specific datastandards; 3) a general idea of who has what data/models/tools where;4) exchanges of data/models/tools between participants; 5)establishment of information and data clearinghouses; 6) a forum forpeer review; and 7) a better understanding of the state of the art.
For more information, contact
Scott McAfee
GIS Analyst
California Office of Emergency Services
sdm@oes.ca.gov
Canadian Emergency Preparedness Discussion Group Established
The Emergency Preparedness Information Exchange (EPIX) at Simon FraserUniversity has established a Canadian Emergency PreparednessDiscussion Group on the Internet. The service is intended to promotethe exchange of ideas and information among members of the Canadianemergency preparedness community. To subscribe, send an e-mail messageto listserv@hoshi.cic.sfu.ca with the one-line message: subscribe emercan [firstname lastname] For example: subscribe emercan Peter Anderson.
Quake-L Moved
The QUAKE-L list has moved to a new listserv server at the same hostsite (North Dakota Higher Education Computer Network). QUAKE-L is nowon listserv@listserv.nodak.edu. The QUAKE-L list is for generaldiscussions about earthquakes. The list covers a wide range of topicsfrom discussions of specific earthquakes and the after-effects tovarious theories and scientific principles of earthquakes and relatedphenomena.
To subscribe to the list send e-mail to listserv@listserv.nodak.edu with the command sub quake-l [yourfirstname yourlastname] For example: sub quake-l James Witt
You will be asked to confirm your subscription and will then be sentfurther information about workings of the LISTSERV server.The QUAKE-L owner/manager is Marty Hoag, hoag@plains.nodak.edu.
http://www.teleport.com/~wildfire
The Web site for the International Association of Wildland Fire offersarticles and other information from the current issue of "Wildfire,"the association's quarterly bulletin.
http://www.idrisi.clarku.edu/risk/rskhome.htm
This web site was created for a project entitled "Environmental RiskDecision Making and Conflict Resolution with GIS" funded by the UnitedNations Environment Programme (UNEP) and conducted at the Clark Labsfor Cartographic Technology and Geographic Analysis. The overall goalof the project is to contribute towards the UNEP EnvironmentalAssessment Programme's efforts in developing frameworks, method-ologies, tools, and indicators for environmental assessment andreporting and for providing information for decision making. Specificobjectives of the project include:
With the approach of the hurricane and tornado seasons, we took aquick jaunt around the Web to see what sites offered pertinentinformation. There are a lot of them - particularly hurricane andtropical storm Web pages. Below are some of the better ones westumbled across. Of course, interested readers are welcome to suggestother good hazard/disaster sites on the Internet.
Hurricanes
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov
This is the home page of the National Centers for EnvironmentalPrediction, including the Tropical Prediction Center and the NationalHurricane Center (NHC) - obviously a good place to start - withinformation about past and present tropical storms and lots of stuffabout who the NHC is and what they do.
http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/tropical.html
The University of Michigan's Weathernet site includes this "TropicalWeather Products" page, which they tout as providing "the mostcomprehensive access to hurricane-related products on the Net -National Hurricane Center advisories, recon reports, local NationalWeather Service statements, tracking maps . . ." well, you get thepicture. And there really *is* a lot of stuff here - both current newsand historical data. Weathernet itself: http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnetis a wonderful source of all kinds of weather information - much of itin images and other graphics. (Want to know the weather in Bozeman,Montana? or Manoa, Hawaii? - just click on the Weathercam feature tolook at pictures only minutes old from these cities and many othersaround the nation.)
http://asp1.sbs.ohio-state.edu/tropicaltext.html
Meanwhile, down in Columbus, Ohio State University's AtmosphericSciences Program has put together a site that includes this page witha broad array of current weather information, tropical storm outlooksand advisories, satellite images - mostly compiled from NationalHurricane Center data. The site also includes a "Severe Weather andNatural Disaster Bulletins" page: http://asp1.ohio-state.edu/severetext.html
The same Atmospheric Sciences Program also offers a "Severe Weatherand Disasters" page: http://asp1.sbs.ohio-state.edu/severetext.htmlthat provides information about all sorts of recent and currentevents. The subheadings include thunderstorms; tornadoes; floods;adverse marine weather and coastal flooding; tropical advisories;special weather and severe weather statements; adverse winter weather;fog/wind/fire/pollution; avalanche, earthquake, and tsunami reports;natural disaster bulletins; civil emergencies; and short termforecasts.
http://thunder.atms.purdue.edu/hurricane.html
What is it with these Big Ten schools? They each seem to be trying tooutdo the others with weather information on the Net. PurdueUniversity's *extensive* collection of weather information and data onthe Web includes pages and pages of stuff on hurricanes/tropicalstorms - encompassing archived data, graphics, satellite images, andphotographs of recent storms.
http://thunder.met.fsu.edu/explores/tropical.html
Current weather reports, outlooks, and forecasts, as well as lots ofarchived information on past hurricanes from Florida State University.
http://www.fema.gov/fema/trop.html
The Federal Emergency Management Agency's tropical storm watch pageprovides news and situation reports on current storms as well asarchived information on past hurricanes monitored by FEMA.
http://www.fema.gov/fema/hurricaf.html
FEMA's "Fact Sheet" on hurricanes, including information about what todo before, during, and after a hurricane and steps to take to effectlong-term mitigation.
ftp://downdry.atmos.colostate.edu/pub/TCfaqI
ftp://downdry.atmos.colostate.edu/pub/TCfaqII
Tropical cyclone FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) prepared byChristopher W. Landsea, a NOAA postdoctoral researcher. All aspects ofhurricanes - A to Z.
http://www.florida.net:80/storm/
The Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel's Hurricane '95 Home Page is anexcellent site for information on preparing for and recovering fromhurricanes.
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/whur0.htm
The USA Today Weather Guide to Hurricane Information includes the 1996outlook, USA Today stories about current and recent tropical storms,an overview of the remarkable 1995 hurricane season, various otherarticles covering virtually all aspects of hurricanes - frommeteorology to sociology. As you might expect from USA Today, the siteoffers lots of charts, graphs, pictures, and other gewgaws.
Tornadoes
http://www.fema.gov/fema/tornadof.html
FEMA's fact sheet on personal tornado preparedness, response, andrecovery.
http://cc.usu.edu/~kforsyth/Tornado.html
A concise little page about what tornadoes are, why they happen, howthey are rated, and what a person can to do prepare for them -prepared by a 14-year-old tornadophile in Logan, Utah.
http://www.movies.warnerbros.com/twister
In about a week, Warner Brothers is coming out with their firstblockbuster thriller of the season - "Twister." We can't tell youanything about the movie, except the previews look great. This siteprovides additional information about the film, but, somewhatsurprisingly, it also contains a cache of good information abouttornadoes, tornado safety, tornado statistics, as well as a glossary,storm chasers guide, and lots of other good stuff. (Unfortunately, wedoubt that the site will be around for very long - unless the movie*is* a blockbuster and/or Warner Brothers decides to donate theinformation to another twister-oriented Web site.)
http://www.st.rim.or.jp/~k_ono/tornado
The "Tornado Boy" home page - with everything you ever wanted to knowabout Hideo "Tornado" Nomo, the incredible Los Angeles Dodger (#16)pitching phenom and favorite son of Osaka, Japan - where he is knownas "Tornado Boy" because of his unique windup and delivery.
But now we've really gone too far . . .
Both the Weathernet site and the Ohio State Severe Weather and NaturalDisaster Bulletin Pages mentioned above provide lots of informationabout current extreme events - as do many other organization sites(FEMA, for example). But for those of you who want to keep up oncalamities the world over, another resource to check out is theEarthweek home page:
http://www.slip.net/~earthenv/
which offers a world map dotted with small icons that chronicle recent(within the last week) natural events - from earthquakes to forestfires to insect infestations. Click on an icon and find out the latestabout the locust infestation in Iran . . . (Back issues are alsoavailable.)
These are the latest announcements we've received. Most previousissues of DR contain additional notices. For a *comprehensive* list ofupcoming disaster-related conferences, see our World Wide Web page:
http://adder.colorado.edu/~hazctr/Home.html
Geologic Hazards and Engineering Practices in Colorado. Sponsor:Colorado Geological Survey. Colorado Springs, Colorado: May 13, 1996.Contact: Colorado Geological Survey, 1313 Sherman Street, Room 715,Denver, CO 80203; (303) 866-2611; fax: (303) 866-2461.
Environmental Emergencies: From On-Site Intervention to R&D. Sponsor:Environment Canada. Montreal, Canada: May 16, 1996. Contact: VincentJarry, Environmental Emergencies Division, Environment Canada, 1179Bleury Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3B 3H9; (514) 283-6418; fax:(514) 496-1157.
Continuing Emergency Disaster Studies and Strategies: Symposium withSimulations. Sponsor: Penn State University's College of Education,Institute for Research in Training and Development. State College,Pennsylvania: May 28-June 1, 1996. For a conference brochure, contact:Suzanne St. Pierre, Conference Planner, (814) 863-5140; fax: (814)863-5190; e-mail: Conferenceinfo@cde.psu.edu. For detailed informationabout program content, contact: Dr. William Rothwell, (814) 863-2581;e-mail: wjr9@psu.edu.
Arizona Emergency Services Association 23rd Annual Conference andTraining Session: "Disasters Only Happen Somewhere Else." Phoenix,Arizona: June 12-14, 1996. Contact: Arizona Emergency ServicesAssociation, 2035 North 52nd Street, Phoenix, AZ 85008-3403; DennisCvancara, President, (602) 273-1411.
Sixth International Forum on Seismic Zonation (6IFSZ) (convened inconjunction with the Eleventh World Conference on EarthquakeEngineering - 11WCEE). Sponsors: United States Geological Survey andUnited Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization(UNESCO) and others. Acapulco, Mexico: June 26, 1996. The theme of6IFSZ is "Integration of Source, Path, and Site Effects on the UrbanScale." The conveners are seeking examples of urban areas where theresults of monitoring, paleoseismology, mapping, modeling, andanalysis have provided a basis for identifying the "worst" and "best"parts of the urban area for applications such as: new development,emergency preparedness scenarios, and mitigation strategies. The forumwill serve as an informal way to share these experiences. Contact: Dr.Walter Hays, USGS, 955 National Center, Reston, VA 22092; (703)648-6711; fax: (703) 648-6747; e-mail: whays@usgs.gov.
SARScene '96: Search and Rescue Workshop. Sponsor: Canadian NationalSearch and Rescue Secretariat. Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada: October16-19, 1996. Contact: National Search and Rescue Secretariat, SARSceneEditor, 275 Slater, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0K2; 1-800-727-9414 or(613) 996-3035; fax: (613) 996-3746.
1996 Annual Meeting and Workshops of the National Association of Floodand Stormwater Management Agencies (NAFSMA): "Stormwater/Floodplain/Watershed Management: A Common Ground?" San Diego, California: October23-26, 1996. Contact: NAFSMA, 1401 Eye Street, NW, Suite 900,Washington, DC 20005; (202) 218-4122.
Geological Society of America (GSA) Annual Meeting. Denver, Colorado:October 28-31, 1996. Abstracts due July 9. Contact: GSA, (303) 447-2020; 1-800-472-1988; fax: (303) 447-0648; e-mail: meetings@geosociety.org; WWW: http://www.geosociety.org.
PPR '96: Prevention, Preparedness and Response to Major IndustrialAccidents. Sponsor: Major Industrial Accidents Council of Canada(MIACC). Edmonton, Alberta, Canada: November 4-7, 1996. Contact:MIACC, 265 Carling Avenue, Suite 600, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1S 2E1;(613) 232-4435; fax: (613) 232-4915; e-mail: miacc@globalx.net.
International Erosion Control Association (IECA) 28th AnnualConference and Trade Exposition. Nashville, Tennessee: February 25-28,1997. Abstracts due May 31, 1996. Contact: IECA, P.O. Box 774904,Steamboat Springs, CO 80477-4904; 1-800-455-4322 or (970) 879-3010;fax: (970) 879-8563; e-mail: ecinfo@ieca.org.
Fourth International Conference on Remote Sensing for Marine andCoastal Environments: Technology and Applications. Sponsors:Environmental Research Institute of Michigan (ERIM), National Oceanicand Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and others. Orlando, Florida:March 17-19, 1997. Contact: Wendy Raeder, Conference Coordinator,ERIM, P.O Box 134001, Ann Arbor, MI 49113-4001; (313) 994-1200, ext.3453; fax: (313) 994-5123; e-mail: raeder@erim.org; WWW:http://www.erim.org/CONF/conf.html.
Sixth Multidisciplinary Conference on Sinkholes and the Engineeringand Environmental Impacts of Karst. Host: Department of Geography,Geology, and Planning, Southwest Missouri State University.Springfield, Missouri: April 6-9, 1997. Abstracts due August 22, 1996.Contact: Dr. Barry F. Beck, P.E. LaMoreaux & Associates, Inc., P.O.Box 4578, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-4578; or call (423) 483-7483; e-mail:pelaor@use.usit.net.
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