February 26-27, 2015
Ice Rescue Operations and Training Meeting
National Association of State Boating Law Administrators
Bay City, Michigan
Cost and Registration: $695 before March 8, open until filled
This conference will focus on ice rescue practices, techniques, and equipment to reduce risk and will improve first responder understanding of the effects of cold water on victims. Topics include cold water injuries, ice dynamic, on-ice tools, surface rescue, and ice searches.
March 30 to April 2, 2015
National Hurricane Conference
National Hurricane Conference
Austin, Texas
Cost and Registration: $400 before March 27, open until filled
This conference will focus on improving hurricane preparedness, response, recovery and mitigation in the United States, Caribbean, and the Pacific. Topics include lessons learned, multijurisdictional response, effective communication in crises, evacuation planning, coastal evacuations, debris management planning, and hurricane protection for homes and commercial buildings.
April 14-17, 2015
Preparedness Summit
National Association of County and City Health Officials
Atlanta, Georgia
Cost and Registration: $775 before March 6, open until filled
This conference will focus on global health security preparedness, including protecting against infectious disease and the effects of climate change on health. Topics include lessons from the frontlines of the Ebola outbreak, strengthening relationships between public health and emergency management, biosecurity and biodefense, and crisis leadership in public health emergencies.
April 17-18, 2015
International Symposium on Anthropology and Natural Disasters
University of Coimbra
Coimbra, Portugal
Cost and Registration: $65 before March 1, open until filled
This conference will present an anthropological perspective helpful in understanding human behavior in relation to disasters. Topics include, bioarcheological responses in Byzantine Greece, impacts of natural disasters on human life, and the relationship between social and cultural anthropology and disasters.
April 20-24, 2015
International Wildland Fire Safety Summit and Human Dimensions of Wildland Fire
International Association of Wildland Fire
Boise, Idaho
Cost and Registration: $550 before March 2, open until filled
This conference will examine the social aspects of wildfire and use research findings, innovations, and lessons learned to discuss ways to improve practice. Topics included indigenous experience with wildfire, predicting homeowner mitigation behavior, assessing firefighter risk, wildfire loss policies, and international case studies in wildfire response.