April 7, 2014
Community Centered Approach to Disaster Resilience Workshop
National Institute for Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, Maryland
Cost and Registration: $55, closes March 31
This workshop is the first of a series of events that will focus on role that buildings and infrastructure lifelines play in ensuring community resilience. Topics will include the NIST Resilience Program, building a disaster resilience framework, measuring community resilience, and creating disaster resilient communities.
May 5-6, 2014
Global Supply Chain Risk Assessment Workshop
Military Operations Research Society and the Security Analysis and Risk Management Association
McLean, Virginia
Cost and Registration: $475, open until filled
This workshop is will determine best practices for assessing supply chain risk and vulnerability, analyzing threats, and building logistic processes. Topics include threats to the U.S. logistics and acquisitions supply chain, problems with transportation, weaknesses in the supply chain, and conducting risk assessments for acquisitions and logistics.
May 6-8, 2014
TRAIN Affiliate Consortium Annual Meeting
Public Health Foundation
Atlanta, Georgia
Cost and Registration: Invitation only, request invite by March 28
This meeting will focus on analyzing public health learning and healthcare preparedness in the context of the Public Health Foundation’s TRAIN program, which works with state and local agencies to provide public health training online. Topics include connecting the healthcare field, measuring learning analytics, improving communication, and creating quality e-learning environments.
May 19-23, 2014
Large Wildland Fires: Social, Political and Ecological Effects
International Association of Wildland Fire
Missoula, Montana
Cost and Registration: $415, open until filled
This conference will the causes, effects, and opportunities to be found in large wildland fires, with an emphasis on fuel management, resiliency, and climate change. Topics include consequences of changing wildland fire regimes, fuel management, frontiers in fire economics, restoring fire-adapted forests, historical fire climatology, using satellites to observe fire behavior, and journalism skills for fire scientists.
June 7-9, 2014
2014 IRDR Conference
Integrated Research on Disaster Risk
Beijing, China
Cost and Registration: $400, open until filled
This conference will emphasize the importance of science as a tool to address hazard risks and issues of sustainable development in a global contexts. Topics include community disaster risk reduction, forensic investigations of disaster, empowering local officials, indigenous and vulnerable populations, water and disasters, science and the media, and the gap between disaster knowledge, policy and practice.