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I'm searching for any communication aid or dispatching tool to use in large-scale emergency situations such as disasters. We were, since 1990, taking information down on forms, but we recently decided to seek new ways to enter and manage data to improve efficiency. We are particularly seeking call-taking and/or dispatching software, for use on field coordination center (lap top). The software provided would log calls, be able to suggest priority for dispatching, give the status of any given field team or current incident, be able to provide statistical resumes of situation, etc. Cost would be below $500. Every reply submitted will be answered. Thanks.
Frederic Ducharme,
Canadian Red Cross (Quebec)
duchafr@magellan.umontreal.ca
I am working on a project for my employer (The Metropolitan Community
Colleges) regarding emergency preparedness in community colleges. Are
you aware of any information that exits on this topic? I would settle
for emergency preparedness information in colleges & universities, but
am primarily interested in emergency preparedness in community
colleges.
Thank you.
Tom Clayton
clayton@kcmetro.cc.mo.us
I am a student studying International Disaster Management at Coventry University, England. I am looking for any information that is currently available on the states of Sarawak and Sabah in Eastern Malaysia. In particular any vulnerability assessments that have been carried out in the past. I was wondering if anyone has done any research on the area, or if there are any publications that may be available. Failing this, if anybody has any connections in the area, I would greatly appreciate it if I could be put in touch with them. Even a negative response would be helpful. Thank you very much for any help you can give.
Richard Cross
rickcross@classic.msn.com
A) Executive Director, American Meteorological Society
The American Meteorological Society (AMS) is seeking applications for the position of executive director. The AMS is a scientific and professional organization of approximately 11,000 members, dedicated to the development and dissemination of knowledge of the atmospheric and related oceanic and hydrologic sciences and the advancement of their professional applications. The executive director serves as the chief executive officer with leadership and management responsibili- ties for all ongoing activities.
To obtain more information about this position contact Professor Susan Avery, Chair of the Search Committee; (303) 492-8773; e-mail: savery@boulder.colorado.edu. To apply, send a letter of application, including a resume and the names of three references, to the Chair, Search Committee, American Meteorological Society, 45 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02108-3693.
B) Executive Director, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
The Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) is seeking an executive director. The executive director functions as the chief operating officer of the institute and is expected to provide general administrative management of personnel and facilities. CIRES is a joint institute that links the University of Colorado at Boulder and NOAA's Environmental Research Laboratories. The institute performs interdisciplinary research in earth system sciences. Persons interested in applying for this position can learn more about CIRES from the CIRES Web site: http://cires.colorado.edu. Additional information regarding the position is available from Professor Susan Avery; (303) 492-8773; e-mail: savery@boulder.colorado.edu". Applicants should send, in writing, a letter of interest; a complete curriculum vitae; the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of at least three professional references and their relationship to the applicant to: Susan K. Avery, Director, CIRES, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309-0216.
The Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) is actively soliciting nominations for its first annual Shah Family Innovation Prize. This is a $10,000 prize to reward a young professional or academic for creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship in the field of earthquake risk reduction. Nominations are to consist of a nominating letter and a supporting letter. The nomination should succinctly describe earthquake risk contributions that the nominee has developed and implemented. The key elements that will be measured are intellectual contribution, social relevance, and economic viability. Nominations are due Friday, December 5th, and should be sent to EERI, 499 14th Street, Suite 320, Oakland, CA 94612-1934. Questions can be directed to Bob Hanson, Chair of the Endowment Committee, e-mail: robert.hanson@fema.gov; or Marjorie Greene, e-mail: mgreene@eeri.org.
[Below are some interesting hazards/disaster Web sites we've discovered recently. A list of selected useful sites is available from the Hazards Center home page: http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/sites/sites.html]
http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/query2.html
The Natural Hazards Center home page now includes a search engine
for locating information on our Web site.
http://www.es.mq.edu.au/NHRC
http://www.es.mq.edu.au/NHRC/ema.html
The Natural Hazards Research Centre (NHRC) at Macquarie
University in New South Wales, Australia, has put together a directory
of natural hazards research in the South Pacific region (Australia,
New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji,
Tonga, New Caledonia, Western Samoa, American Samoa, the Cook Islands,
French Polynesia, and other small island nations of the Pacific south
of the equator). Information about the NHRC and the directory are
available from the URLs above. Researchers not included are invited to
submit information about their projects via an on-line form.
http://www.ehc.arch.vuw.ac.nz
This is the Web site of the recently established Earthquake
Hazard Centre - a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting
earthquake resistant construction in developing countries (see
DR #232).
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/CALHAZ/calhaz.html
The United States Geological Survey's Menlo Park Office provides
earthquake hazards information via the first URL above. The site
includes information on the most recent seismic events, preparedness
information, background information about earthquakes, information
about USGS seismic research, and numerous links to other resources.
The site now also offers a bibliographic database of geologic hazards
publications concerning northern California at the second URL above.
http://www.cdc.gov/epo/mmwr/mmwr_wk.html
The November 14, 1997, Vol. 46, No. 45 issue of the "Morbidity
and Mortality Weekly Report" (MMWR) of the Centers for Disease Control
& Prevention (CDC) includes an article, "Tornado Disaster - Texas, May
1997." From time to time, the MMWR contains analyses of deaths and
injuries due to recent disasters. Current and back issues can be found
on the WWW at the address above.
http://hoshi.cic.sfu.ca/epc/pub/en_publist.html
The Emergency Preparedness Canada Web site now includes a
Canadian National Electronic Disaster Database, including a browser
program, via the publications page listed above. The site also offers
numerous other on-line disaster management materials.
http://www.nas.net/~ccep/ccepnews/index.html
The Canadian Centre for Emergency Preparedness recently began
providing its quarterly news magazine, "CCEP NEWS," on-line at the
address above.
http://www.paho.org/english/disaster.htm
http://www.paho.org/spanish/disaster.htm
In mid-November, in Bogota, Colombia, the Pan American Health
Organization held a major international conference on harnessing the
Internet for disasters and epidemics. About 300 health and
communication experts from over 40 countries collaborated to produce
an extensive conference document that calls for a major drive to help
developing nations to harness the Internet to deal with natural
disasters and outbreaks of disease. The complete conclusions and
recommendations from the meeting are now available from the PAHO Web
sites above.
http://www.PPBI.org
This is the home page of a new not-for-profit corporation -
Private & Public Businesses, Inc. (PPBI) - established to act as a
clearinghouse for the exchange of information between emergency
management, public agencies, and private business through
communication, training, and standards setting. The site includes a
section on education and training from PPBI, a glossary of emergency
management/disaster recovery terms, a list of participating
individuals and agencies, and numerous links to partners. PPBI can
also be reached at P.O. Box 510229, St. Louis, MO 63151-0110; (314)
894-2052.
Below are recent conference announcements received by the Natural Hazards Center. Most previous issues of DR contain additional notices. A comprehensive list of upcoming disaster-related meetings and training is available from our World Wide Web site: http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/conf.html
Symposium on Business Continuity Planning. Sponsor: Contingency Planning Association of the Carolinas (CPAC). Charlotte, North Carolina: December 11, 1997. Contact: Jim Brandon, Belk Store Services; e-mail: jim_brandon@belk.com.
Disaster Management Workshops - Emergency Information Management and Communications. Offered by University of Wisconsin - Disaster Management Center. Madison, Wisconsin: December 15-19, 1997. Contact: University of Wisconsin - Disaster Management Center, 432 North Lake Street, Madison, WI 53706; 1-800-462-0876; (608) 262-5411; WWW: http://epdwww.engr.wisc.edu/brochures/7504.html.
Critical Incident Stress Management - A 2-day Basic CISD Certificate Workshop. Offered by: International Critical Incident Stress Foundation, Canadian Centre for Emergency Preparedness, and BGF Enterprises. Hamilton, Ontario, Canada: January 30-31, 1997. Contact: Canadian Centre for Emergency Preparedness; 1-800-965-4608; WWW: http://nas.net/ccep.
Executive Military Support to Civil Authorities Course (MSCAC). Offered by the National Interagency Counterdrug Institute (NICI). San Luis Obispo, California: February 1-4, 1998. Contact: Steven Pendleton; (805) 782-6738; WWW: http://www.nici.org.
International Symposium on Information Technology Tools for Natural Disaster Risk Management. Sponsors: International Center for Disaster- Mitigation Engineering (INCEDE) and the United Nations University. Bangkok, Thailand: February 4-6, 1998. Abstracts due December 20, 1997. Contact: Prof. Srikantha Herath, ISITT for NDRM, INCEDE, Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, 7-22-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106, Japan; tel: (+81-3) 3402-6231 ext. 2661-3; fax: (+81-3) 3402-4165: e-mail: herath@incede.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp; WWW: http://incede.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/symposium98.html.
Floodplain Management Association of California Spring Conference: "Winter 97-98: Year of the Great El Nino?" San Diego, California: March 1998. Abstracts due January 23, 1998. Contact: Lisa Vomero Inouye, Conference Chair, A&M Engineering Consultants of California, 11440 West Bernardo Court, Suite 300, San Diego, CA 92127-1644; (619) 674-6930; fax: (619) 674-6931.
Conference on Current Earthquake Engineering Research in the Central United States (CEERICUS '98). Sponsor: Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) Student Chapter at the University of Illinois. Urbana, Illinois: April 4, 1998. Contact: Mr. Pat Arnett, 3139 Newmark Lab, 205 North Matthews, Urbana, IL 61801; fax: (217) 333-9264; e-mail: jarnett@uiuc.edu.
20th Annual National Hurricane Conference. Sponsors: Florida Shore and Beach Preservation Association and many others. Norfolk, Virginia: April 6-10, 1998. Contact: Florida Shore and Beach Preservation Association, 2952 Wellington Circle, Tallahassee, FL 32308; (850) 906- 9224; fax: (850) 906-9228; WWW: http://www.nettally.com/nhc.
Scaling, Multifractals, and Natural/Man-Made Hazards. NP1.04 Session of the 23rd European Geophysical Society (EGS) General Assembly. Nice, France: April 20-24, 1998. Abstracts due at EGS December 15, 1997. Contact: Bruce D. Malamud, Department of Geological Sciences, Cornell University, Snee Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-1504; (607) 255-3432; fax: (607) 254-4780; e-mail: malamud@geology.cornell.edu; or see WWW: http://www.multifractal.jussieu.fr - or - http://www.copernicus.org/EGS/EGS.html.
1998 National Flood Conference. Sponsor: Federal Insurance Administration. Atlanta, Georgia: May 31-June 4, 1998. Contact: National Flood Conference, attn: Rebecca Reardon, National Flood Insurance Program, 10115 Senate Drive, Lanham, MD 20706; (301) 918-1439; fax: (301) 918-1471; e-mail: becky.reardon@fema.gov.
14th Technical Conference on Irrigation, Drainage, and Flood Control. Sponsor: U.S. Committee on Irrigation and Drainage (USCID). Phoenix, Arizona: June 3-6, 1998. Contact: USCID, 1616 Seventeenth Street, Suite 483, Denver, CO 80202; (303) 628-5430; fax: (303) 628-5431; e-mail: stephens@uscid.gov
Water: A Looming Crisis? - International Conference on World Water Resources at the Beginning of the 21st Century. Convened by: United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); International Association of Hydrological Sciences; and World Water Council. Paris, France: June 3-6, 1998. Contact: UNESCO, Division of Water Resources, 1 Rue Miollis, 75732 Paris Cedex 15, France; fax: 33 1 45 68 58 11.
19th Conference on Severe Local Storms. Including panel on "Communicating Information About Hazardous Weather." Sponsor: American Meteorological Society. Minneapolis, Minnesota: September 14-18, 1998. Papers are currently being solicited; abstracts due March 16, 1998. Abstracts and proposed slide and video presentations should be sent to: Harold E. Brooks, Program Chairperson, NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory, 1313 Halley Circle, Norman, OK 73069; (405) 366-0499, fax: (405) 366-0472; e-mail: brooks@nssl.noaa.gov; they can also be submitted via the 19th Severe Storms Conference Web Site: http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/sls19/.
Annual Meeting, Eastern Section, Seismological Society of America (SSA). Millersville, Pennsylvania: October 11-13, 1998. Contact: Charles Scharnberger; (717) 872-3289; e-mail: scharnd@marauder.millersv.edu; or contact: SSA, 201 Plaza Professional Building, El Cerrito, CA 94530; (510) 525-5474; fax; (510) 525-7204; WWW: http://www.seismosoc.org/ssa/.
International Workshop on Development and Management of Flood Plains and Wetlands. Beijing, China: May 1999. Contact: Dr. Tan Ying, IRTCES, P.O. Box 366, Beijing 100044, China; tel: 86.10.68413372; fax: 86.10.68411174.
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