DISASTER RESEARCH 303

October 11, 1999

TABLE OF CONTENTS:


  1. October 13 - World Disaster Reduction Day

  2. NCDC Seeks Information on Use of Weather Data by Researchers

  3. FEMA/EMI Looking for Higher Education Project Course Reviewers

  4. Seeking Information on Eye Injuries Due to Disasters

  5. On the National Drought Policy Commission

  6. President Signs Water Resources Development Act

  7. On the Net

  8. FEMA Seeks Comments on HMGP Application Forms

  9. Some Recently Awarded Research Grants

  10. EIIP Virtual Forum Schedule for October

  11. IEMSA Update

  12. Conferences and Training


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October 13
World Disaster Reduction Day
"Prevention Pays"
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For details about this final World Disaster Reduction Day of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, see: http://www.idndr.org/campaign/reday.htm; or contact: Madeleine Moulin-Acevedo, Promotion and Public Awareness Unit, International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR) Secretariat, Palais des Nations; 1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland; tel: (41 22) 917 97 12; fax: (41 22) 917 90 98; e-mail: idndr@dha.unicc.org.


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NCDC Seeks Information on Use of Weather Data by Researchers

The National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) is hosting a Workshop December 1-2, 1999, to develop a plan for improved access to WSR-88D data to meet research requirements. A necessary step in the process is to define community needs for use of these data. We would deeply appreciate your answering the nine questions below and responding via e-mail (wfaas@ncdc.noaa.gov) by October 15 (responses received after November 5 will not be part of the database provided to workshop attendees). If you know of others who you think would be able to assist us in defining user needs, feel free to distribute the questionnaire. Thanks in advance for your assistance in defining requirements for data from this vital national resource.
T. Karl, Director NCDC
R. Carbone, Chairman, WSR-88D Workshop

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WSR-88D QUESTIONNAIRE

  1. Have you ever used WSR-88D data?

    If so, in what format (gif, NIDS, Level-II, etc)?
    How/where did you obtain these data?
  2. Do these data meet your requirements?
    If not, why not?
  3. How important is improved access to WSR-88D data to your research?
    (Rate 1-5 where: 1=unimportant, 5=extremely important)
  4. Do you have a requirement for real-time access (defined as within minutes to hours)?
    How soon after observation do you need the data? What is the latest lag time acceptable?
    If so, do you need Level II data for this purpose?
    If so, are the needed data local, regional, or national in scope?
  5. Do you have a requirement for historical data?
    If so, do you need data from the Level II archive for this purpose?
    How many years in the past is sufficient for historical?
    Would an events directory to obtain "all" events that meet a special criteria (wind speed, rainfall rate, intensity) be useful?
  6. In what approximate quantities do you require WSR-88D data?
                   #of radars    duration of time series
     Real-time
     Historical

  7. Do you have utility software to access and manipulate these data?
    If so, please identify or describe.
  8. From your perspective, briefly describe what would constitute adequate research access to WSR-88D data?
  9. In your opinion, what principles should govern a fair pricing policy?

Please forward your reply to wfaas@ncdc.noaa.gov by October 15th.


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FEMA/EMI Looking for Higher Education Project Course Reviewers

I am seeking volunteer reviewers (i.e. no honorarium can be provided) for three draft FEMA Higher Education Project courses:
  1. Terrorism and Emergency Management
  2. Individual and Community Disaster Education
  3. Emergency Management Principles and Application for Tourism, Hospitality, and Travel Management
All three are classroom- based courses designed to be taught within an emergency management curriculum at the junior/senior college level. Each could be taught independently of an emergency management curriculum however.

The Terrorism and Emergency Management course has been developed by Dr. William Waugh, Jr., Graduate School of Public Administration, Georgia State University. It is an approximately 380-page course that includes sessions on domestic and international terrorism, law enforcement and national security perspectives, the structure of antiterrorism programs, hazard analysis/risk assessment, and preparedness for major events.

The Individual and Community Disaster Education course was developed by Dr. Steven Rottman, School of Public Health, University of California at Los Angeles. It is an approximately 400-page course that includes sessions on organizational inertia, citizen perception of risk, preparedness for the elderly and people with disabilities, cross-cultural disaster preparedness, communicating preparedness information, and practical aspects of conducting community disaster education programs.

The Emergency Management Principles and Application for Tourism, Hospitality, and Travel Management course was developed by Dr. Thomas Drabek, Department of Sociology, University of Denver. It is an approximately 600-page course that includes sessions on assessing tourist business vulnerabilities, behavioral study of managerial responses to disasters, customer and employee responses, the crisis plan, issues related to foreign tourists, innkeepers' liability and other insurance issues, and rebuilding the destination image.

Thirty days will be allowed for review and the return of comments on either of these draft courses. It is requested that no one seek a review copy for information purposes only - within a few months a final version of these courses will be uploaded to the FEMA Emergency Management Higher Education Web site and will be available for downloading free of charge. Printing and mailing of these documents will be expensive, so, again, it is requested that only serious and qualified reviewers who intend to provide written comments on a course request a review copy.

B. Wayne Blanchard, Ph.D., CEM
Higher Education Project Manager
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Emergency Management Institute
16825 South Seton Avenue
Building N, Room 430
Emmitsburg MD 21727
E-mail: wayne.blanchard@fema.gov


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Seeking Information on Eye Injuries Due to Disasters

Hello,
I am a General Ophthalmologist (MD) working for Venezuela's Miranda State Government Health Department (part of Caracas City). We are planning a general conference about natural disasters - what happens, epidemics, health crises resulting from natural disasters, and what to do about them.

This conference is intended for general medicine doctors that work as primary health care providers in our medical system in our state that could be the first force to act in case of a general emergency due to a natural disaster or general calamity (not natural) in our jurisdiction.

I am in charge of the ophthalmologic aspects of the conference. I've tried to search for information on epidemics, injuries, or illness of the eye due to natural disasters (any kind), but I haven't found much.

Please, if you have some information about this, or about general up-to-date information on epidemics and health crises resulting from natural disasters, I would appreciate it. The information can be in Spanish or English.

Thanks,
Dr. Rudi Magdalenic C.
E-mail: rudimag@etheron.net
Ophthalmology MD. Edo. Miranda (Venezuela) Medical Department


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On the National Drought Policy Commission

According to the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska, droughts create greater dollar losses each year in the U.S. than floods or hurricanes. Yet we have no national policy for dealing with this often neglected hazard. In an effort to correct this situation, Congress passed and the president signed Public Law 105-199, establishing the National Drought Policy Commission (NCPC) to provide advice and recommendations on the creation of an integrated, coordinated federal policy that prepares for and responds to serious drought emergencies.

The NDPC was charged by Congress with making recommendations on:

The NDPC is to submit to Congress and the president a report that contains a detailed statement of the findings and conclusions of the commission, along with its recommendations for legislative and administrative actions.

This year the National Drought Policy Commission has held two meetings in conjunction with public hearings in Washington, D.C. At the public hearings, the commission heard testimony from private citizens, state and federal officials, and nonprofit organizations. The commission plans to distribute its draft policy for public comment in the next few months at several additional public hearings around the country. Public comment will be requested through an announcement in the Federal Register and local news media. The commission will report its findings to the White House and Congress early next year.

For more information, contact the USDA/FSA/AO, National Drought Policy Commission, STOP 0501, 1400 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, DC 20250-0501; WWW: http://www.fsa.usda.gov/drought.


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President Signs Water Resources Development Act

In August, Congress passed, and President Clinton signed, the Water Resources Development Act of 1999 (Public Law 106-53). The bill authorizes an estimated $6-$7 billion in U.S. Army Corps of Engineers projects, programs, and studies, including 45 projects in 19 states and Puerto Rico. Several authorizations represent real progress in the area of nonstructural flood mitigation. The bill has 27 different sections; highlights for floodplain management include:

The text of this bill can be found at any federal repository library or via the World Wide Web at the Library of Congress Web site: http://thomas.loc.gov.

[Adapted from an article in News & Views (October 1999), the newsletter of the Association of State Floodplain Managers]


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On the Net

[Here are a few of the latest and more useful Internet resources we've discovered. For an extended list of selected Internet sites dealing with hazards and disaster management, see http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/sites/sites.html]

http://enso.unl.edu/ndmc/watch/watch.htm
The National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has added this "Drought Watch" section to its already extensive Web site in order to provide additional information about ongoing drought problems in the U.S. It includes links to many pages and sites monitoring current droughts in the U.S., as well as to forecasts, information on global climate and drought monitoring, information about current drought-related impacts and humanitarian issues, and other drought news. The site is a clearinghouse for the many sources of drought information now available on the World Wide Web.

http://quake.usgs.gov
In the decade following the Loma Prieta earthquake, scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey and cooperating organizations intensified their efforts to help safeguard the San Francisco Bay Area from even larger shocks in the future. Some of these future earthquakes will occur closer to the urban core of the region than the 1989 temblor. Although future large earthquakes are inevitable, say USGS scientists, continuing advances in science and engineering afford new avenues for limiting losses and reducing impacts of future shocks.

A fact sheet produced by the USGS to mark the 10th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake highlights the scientific efforts and progress that have been made to help reduce earthquake losses. It describes how USGS scientists and personnel from cooperating organizations are working to quantify more fully the earthquake threat to the Bay Area, promote greater awareness of earthquake hazards, and improve strategies for reducing earthquake losses. The four-page publication also lists materials available, in the form of both maps and narratives, to help scientists, public officials and the general public understand "the lessons of Loma Prieta." Effects of the 1989 earthquake are also documented on a CD-ROM of photographs taken by USGS scientists immediately after the quake.

Figures for the probabilities of large earthquakes on Bay Area faults are not included in the fact sheet. These figures, which are part of a new report by scientists from the USGS and other agencies, will be announced later this week.

Copies of USGS Fact Sheet 151-99, Progress Toward a Safer Future Since the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake, are available, free of charge, at the USGS Earth Science Information Center, 345 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park, CA. The photo CD-ROM, USGS Digital Data Series DDS-29, The October 17, 1989, Loma Prieta, California, Earthquakes - Selected Photographs, is also available at the center for the price of $32. However, both the fact sheet and the photos can be accessed and downloaded from the Loma Prieta Earthquake 10th Anniversary page of the USGS earthquake Web site: http://quake.usgs.gov. Persons without access to a computer or transportation to Menlo Park may ask for copies of the fact sheet to be sent to them by calling 1-888-USA-MAPS. Be sure to ask for USGS Fact Sheet 151-99.

http://www.atcouncil.org
In a recent "tech brief" the Applied Technology Council (ATC), in cooperation with the U.S. Geological Survey, offers safety guidelines for entering earthquake-damaged buildings under emergency conditions. The guidelines are based on engineering research by ATC members and aftershock research by scientists at the USGS in Menlo Park, California. Tables summarizing the degree of risk for structures, based on the amount of initial damage and the probabilities for aftershocks, are included in the report. ATC Tech Brief #2, Earthquake Aftershocks: Entering Damaged Buildings may be downloaded from the ATC Web site above, or ordered from Applied Technology Council, 555 Twin Dolphin Drive #550, Redwood City, CA 94065.

Note: Scientists at the USGS began forecasting aftershocks following the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. Now, following any earthquake in California of magnitude 5 or larger, the survey posts the probability of strong aftershocks on its Web site: http://quake.wr.usgs.gov.

http://www.wkap.nl/sample.pdf?166422
In 1998 George E. Clark at the George Perkins Marsh Institute, Clark University, and several colleagues published "Assessing the Vulnerability of Coastal Communities to Extreme Storms: The Case of Revere, MA., USA" in the periodical Mitigation and Adapatation Strategies for Global Change (Vol. 3, pp. 59-82). The journal's publisher, Kluwer Academic Publishers, has made this paper available on the Web in PDF format at the address above. For more information about the journal and to see the complete sample copy from which the article is taken, see: http://www.wkap.nl/journalhome.htm/1381-2386.

http://www.paho.org/english/ped/technical.htm
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has added a section to its Web site entitled, "Technical Guidelines." These pages are intended to answer various questions that professionals may have about the provision of public health in emergencies. More than 20 public health experts contributed to the preparation of this material, which includes sections on: Needs Assessment; Vaccinations; Special Needs; Donations; Food Safety; Surveillance; Water and Sanitation; Environment; Medical Services; Displaced Persons; and Communicable Diseases. The site includes contact information (e-mail address, phone number) for experts in each area.

suma@desastres.net
http://www.lists.w3internet.com/mailman/listinfo/suma
PAHO has also recently instituted a "SUMA E-mail List" - developed to keep disaster professionals up to date regarding the organization's Supply Management (SUMA) System and its use in recent and ongoing emergencies. SUMA's main objective is to improve the administration of humanitarian assistance by ensuring that it is delivered to affected populations in an effective and convenient way. List messages are issued in both English and Spanish. More information about SUMA is available from: http://www.disaster.info.desastres.net/SUMA/eng/faq.htm

http://www.hyogo.uncrd.or.jp/
In April 1999, the United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD) Disaster Management Planning Program moved from Nagoya to a new office in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, where the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake disaster occurred on January 17, 1995, and its residents are now attempting to redevelop their city. The new Hyogo Office will examine the reconstruction process in Hyogo and other disaster-damaged areas in developing countries, as well as carry out the following programs to fulfill the IDNDR goal of establishing prevention as an essential element of sustainable development:

  1. Provide advisory services to communities vulnerable to disasters in cooperation with governmental agencies, NGOs, and academic institutions;
  2. Improve safety of core community facilities such as schools and hospitals, and cultural heritage that may be damaged by disasters; and
  3. Identify and promulgate best practices in disaster management at the community level and disseminate them through workshops and information technology.

This Web site includes information about the Hyogo office - it's activities and its publications - as well as useful links to other sources of information about the Hanshin-Awaji quake. For more information about the office's mission, contact the UNCRD Disaster Management Planning Hyogo Office, IHD Centre Building, 4th Floor, 1-5-1 Wakihama-kaigan-dori, Chuo-ku, Kobe 651-0073, Japan; tel: +81-78-230-7561; fax: +81-78-230-7565; e-mail: rep@hyogo.uncrd.or.jp; WWW: http://www.hyogo.uncrd.or.jp.

http://www.iy2kcc.org
What will actually happen on midnight, December 31? Who gets to say, "I told you so!"? On that fateful eve, via this Web site, the International Y2K Cooperation Center is going to try to post a real-time map of the world showing year 2000 disruptions across the globe. If the site isn't overwhelmed and if it doesn't suffer its own Y2K dyspepsia, you'll be able to read about everything from trains in Tokyo to banks in Buenos Aires; reports from 170 countries will come in and, hopefully, appear on the site. Reports about the functionality of government, medical, transportation, banking, power and communications infrastructures are supposed to be provided. This international center, founded by the United Nations, aims to be a central clearinghouse for year 2000 information. The map is expected to go live sometime around December 28. The site already contains many valuable 2000-related links and a calendar of events.


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FEMA Seeks Comments on HMGP Application Forms

The Federal Emergency Management Agency, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other federal agencies to comment on the proposed revised application for grants under the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP).

The HGMP was created with the passage of the Stafford Act in November 1988. The program provides states and local governments financial assistance to implement measures that will permanently reduce or eliminate future damage and losses from natural hazards. Because of subsequent changes in the program, FEMA has found a need to clarify program eligibility, simplify program administration, expedite grant award and implementation, and generally streamline the program. Part of this process includes updating and refining the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program Application.

FEMA seeks written comments to:

  1. Evaluate whether the proposed data collections and reporting requirements are necessary for the proper performance of FEMA's functions and program activities, including whether the data have practical utility;
  2. evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed data collections and reporting requirements;
  3. determine the estimated cost of the proposed data collections and reporting requirements to the respondents;
  4. enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and,
  5. minimize the burden of the collection of information on those who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic submission of responses.
Comments are due November 20.

Interested persons can obtain proposed forms from and should submit written comments to Muriel B. Anderson, FEMA Information Collections Officer, FEMA, 500 C Street, S.W., Room 316, Washington, DC 20472; (202) 646-2625; fax: (202) 646-3524; e-mail: muriel.anderson@fema.gov.

Additional information is available from Catherine Young, FEMA Mitigation Directorate, 500 C Street, S.W., Washington, DC 20472; (202) 646-4541.

Complete details are also available from the September 21 Federal Register (Vol. 64, No. 182, pp. 51119-51121), available on-line at http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aces140.html


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Some Recently Awarded Research Grants

[For a list of many of the research grants awarded in the last several years, see http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/grants.html]

Enhancement of Casualty Models for Post-Earthquake Response and Mitigation. Funding: National Science Foundation, $301,909, 24 months. Principal Investigators: Kimberley Shoaf, Hope Seligson, Maya Mahue-Giangreco, and Corinne Peek-Asa, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90024-1301; e-mail: kshoaf@ucla.edu.

Historic Inequities in Disaster Losses: Identifying Disaster-Prone Places. Funding: National Science Foundation, $233,565, 12 months. Principal Investigators: Susan L. Cutter, Disaster Research Laboratory, University of South Carolina Columbia, Columbia, SC 29208; and Dennis S. Mileti, Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center, Campus Box 482, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-40482; (303) 492-6818; fax: (303) 492-2151; e-mail: dennis.mileti@colorado.edu.

Coping with the Littleton, Colorado, School Shootings. Funding: National Science Foundation, $60,000, 24 months. Principal Investigator: Roxane C. Silver, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697; e-mail: rsilver@uci.edu.

Political Ecology of Catastrophic Regional Fire in Indonesia. Funding: National Science Foundation, $107,280, 36 months. Principal Investigator: Judith Mayer, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061; e-mail: jmayer@vt.edu.

Reconstructing a 1000-Year Record of Typhoon Landfalls from Chinese Historical Documentary Evidence. Funding: National Science Foundation, $39,937, 18 months. Principal Investigator: Kam-biu Liu, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803; e-mail: kliu1@unix.sncc.lsu.edu.


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EIIP Virtual Forum Schedule for October

Round tables are EIIP partner-led discussions held each Tuesday at 12:00 noon eastern time. Formal sessions are held each Wednesday, also at 12:00 noon.

To participate in these on-line discussions and presentations, log in to http://www.emforum.org and click on "On-Line Events."


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IEMSA Update

The International Emergency Management Student Association (IEMSA) is using the the above-mentioned EIIP on-line network and services to strengthen the association. Starting this month, IEMSA will commence monthly meetings on-line in the EIIP Virtual Forum Student Lounge (see above; on the World Wide Web, see: http://www.emforum.org). The organization's leadership sees this as an expedient and economical way to aid IEMSA growth while teaching future emergency managers electronic communications skills. IEMSA will host the Tuesday, October 19 EIIP Round Table (see above).


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Conferences and Training

[Below are some recent announcements received by the Natural Hazards Center. 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]

Second Annual Wildfire and Incident Management Academy. Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York: October 22-31, 1999. Contact: Lauren Schmidt, (516) 444-0294; e-mail: fireacad@gw.dec.state.ny.us.

Wetlands '99 - Restoration: Applying Wetland Science. Sponsors: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and others. Presented by: The Institute for Wetland Science and Public Policy, Association of State Wetland Managers. Annapolis, Maryland: October 25-28, 1999. Contact: WWW: http://www.aswm.org/wet99.htm; e-mail: aswm@aswm.org; phone: (518) 872-1804.

Disaster Recovery: Financial and Program Management (formerly "Disaster Recovery: Maximizing Federal Aid"). Presented by Management Concepts. Vienna, Virginia: November 3-4, 1999; February 9-10, 2000; and September 5-6, 2000; San Francisco, California: March 22-23, 2000; Houston, Texas; May 3-4, 2000; Seattle, Washington; July 19-20, 2000. Contact: Management Concepts, attn: Registration Department, 8230 Leesburg Pike, Suite 800, Vienna, VA 22182; (703) 790-9595; fax: (703) 790-1371; e-mail: grants@managementconcepts.com; WWW: http://www.managementconcepts.com.

11th Annual Conference of the Survive Business Continuity Group; "Total Business Continuity for the 21st Century." Birmingham, U.K.: November 16-17, 1999. Contact: Survive Secretariat, The Chapel, Royal Victoria Patriotic Building, Fitzhugh Grove, London SW18 3SX, U.K.; tel: 0181-874 6266; fax: 0181-874 6446; e-mail: survive@survive.com; WWW: http://www.survive.com.

Workshop on Central American School Reconstruction. Organizers: Unit for Sustainable Development and Environment (USDE) of the Organization of American States and the Regional Operations Department of the Inter-American Development Bank. Tegucigalpa, Honduras: December 1-3, 1999. "The objective is to bring together public and private sector players to discuss natural hazard vulnerability reduction criteria, identify technical assistance and investment needs, and recommend actions for school reconstruction." Contact: Pedro Bastidas, Natural Hazards Project; OAS; (202) 458-6295; e-mail: natural-hazards-project@oas.org.

Annual Meeting of the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Associations and American Culture Association. Includes a series of panels on "Western Weather: Tornadoes, Blizzards, Droughts, Prevailing Winds, Etc." Albuquerque, New Mexico: February 9-12, 2000. A call for papers on western weather has been issued. Contact: Virginia Bemis, Associate Professor of English, Ashland University, Ashland, OH 44805; (419) 289-5120; e-mail: vbemis@ashland.edu (from the Literary Calls for Papers Mailing List CFP@english.upenn.edu).

VII International Meeting "Volcan de Colima." Colima, Mexico: March 6-10, 2000. Abstracts in English or Spanish are due January 31, 2000 (format will be available at Web location below). Contact: VII International Meeting "Volcan de Colima," Av. 25 de julio 965, Colima, Col., 28045 Mexico; tel. (+52-331) 35085 ext 174, 175; fax. (+52-331) 27581; e-mail colima00@cgic.ucol.mx; WWW: http://www.ucol.mx/volcan/.

National Symposium on the Great Plains Tornado Outbreak of 3 May 1999. Organizer: Oklahoma Weather Center, in collaboration with local, state, and federal agenices. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: May 2-5, 2000. Persons wishing to present oral or poster presentations should send a 200-word abstract to Kelvin Droegemeier, Conference Chair, School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, 100 East Boyd, Suite 1310, Norman, OK, 73019; (405) 325-0453; fax: (405) 325-7614); e-mail: kkd@ou.edu. Abstract deadline January 15, 2000.

Association of State Floodplain Managers (ASFPM) 24th Annual Conference: "Floodplain Management 2000 and Beyond: A New Beginning in a New Millenium." Austin Texas: June 17-23, 2000. Abstracts due November 15, 1999. Contact: ASFPM, 2809 Fish Hatchery Road, Suite 204, Madison, WI 53713-3120; (608) 274-0123; fax: (608) 274-0696; e-mail: asfpm@floods.org; WWW: http://www.floods.org/aushome.htm (includes abstract submission details).

New Trends in Water and Environmental Engineering for Safety and Life: Eco-Compatible Solutions for Aquatic Environments. Sponsors: Politecnico of Milan, and others. Capri, Italy: July 3-7, 2000. "This meeting will examine integrated, sustainable solutions, involving environmental landscaping and hydrologic measures to prevent floods and erosion in riverine and coastal systems." Contact: Rossella Monti, Terr@A Dipartimento IIAR, Sezione Idraulica, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milan, Italy; tel: 39/02/2399.6293; fax: 30/02/2399.6298; e-mail: terra@marina.iar.polimi.it; or Dr. Scira Menoni, Departimento Scienze del Territorio, Politecnico of Milan, Italy; e-mail: menoni@mail.polimi.it.

National Beach Preservation Conference. Sponsors: American Shore and Beach Preservation Association, University of Hawaii Sea Grant College Program, and others. Kaanapali, Maui, Hawaii: August 7-10, 2000. A call for papers, conference registration form, and more information on the conference venue are posted on the conference home page: http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/SEAGRANT/NBPC2000.html. Persons who want to be added to the mailing list for future announcements should contact Rob Mullane, University of Hawaii Sea Grant Extension Service, Maui Community College, 310 Kaahumanu Avenue, Kahului, HI 96732; (808) 984-3254; fax: (808) 242-8733; e-mail: mullane@hawaii.edu.

American Water Resources Association (AWRA) Summer International Specialty Conference: "Riparian Ecology and Management in Multi-Land Use Watersheds." Portland, Oregon: August 27-30, 2000. Abstracts due December 6, 1999. Contact: AWRA, 4 West Federal Street, P.O. Box 1626, Middleburg, VA 20118-1626; tel: (540) 687-8390; fax: (540) 687-8395; e-mail: info@awra.org; WWW: http://www.awra.org.


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