Call for Comments
Building and Sustaining National Preparedness Efforts
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Deadline: June 18, 2012
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is collecting comments and ideas on how to best launch its upcoming national preparedness campaign. The feedback will inform a workshop on how to best communicate personal preparedness. The agency is specifically looking for suggestions on how to best motivate people to act to prepare themselves and others for disaster situations.
Call for Abstracts
National Weather Association Annual Meeting
National Weather Association
Deadline: June 29, 2012
The National Weather Association is accepting abstracts for oral and poster presentation at its annual meeting to be held October 6-11 in Madison, Wisconsin. Abstracts on emerging weather technologies, numerical weather prediction, remote sensing, and societal impact are favored. For more information on the conference and to submit an abstract, visit the NWA abstract submission page.
Call for Contributors
Issues in Disaster Science and Management: A Critical Dialogue
University of Delaware Disaster Research Center
Deadline: July 31, 2012
The University of Delaware Disaster Research Center will be accepting contributions to a unique textbook that will use teams of researchers and practitioners to examine topics of disaster and emergency management. Researchers will focus on the scientific findings, while practitioners will discuss patterns in national policies and the state of practice. The project hopes to facilitate an exchange of ideas between the two communities. For a list of topic areas, compensation details, and other information, visit the call for contributors page. Contributors will be selected on a rolling basis with all contributors chosen by July 31.