September 12, 2018
Disaster Health Education Symposium
National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health
Bethesda, Maryland
Cost and Registration: Free, register before August 31
This symposium will focus on education initiatives in disaster medicine and public health, as well as address challenges facing the field. Sessions include opportunities for health in disaster education, facilitators and barriers to education in the United States, and roundtable networking opportunities.
September 18-20, 2018
Colorado Wildland Fire Conference
Fire Adapted Colorado, Colorado State Forest Service, and others
Crested Butte, Colorado
Cost and Registration: $295, open until filled
This conference will explore the human dimensions of wildfire adaptation and why communities adopt or reject best practices, understand risk, and perceive wildfire. Topics include building wildfire resilience, translating research to operational results, teaching wildfire ecology, starting neighborhood fire mitigation programs, and quantifying wildfire risk.
September 19, 2018
QuakeSmart Preparedness Workshop
Federal Alliance for Safe Homes
Golden, Colorado
Cost and registration: Free, register before August 31
This workshop will help businesses prepare to withstand an earthquake physically and economically. Topics include business continuity planning, preparing for business disruptions caused by quakes, planning retrofit projects, identifying mitigation needs, and getting prepared using the QuakeSmart Community Resilience Plan.
October 9-10, 2018
Transportation Resilience Innovations Summit and Exchange
Transportation Research Board of the National Academies and others
Denver, Colorado
Cost and Registration: $650, open until filled
This summit will examine ways to incorporate resilience practices into transportation system planning and performance. Topics include approaches to cybersecurity and manmade incidents, frameworks for resilience, resilience strategies of state departments of transportation, resilience and asset management, multisector partnerships, and sustaining resilience in agency functions.
October 30 – November 1, 2018
Canadian Risk and Hazards Network Conference
Canadian Risk and Hazards (Knowledge and Practice) Network
Vancouver, Canada
Cost and Registration: $512, open until filled
This conference will focus on dealing with uncertainty in development and emergency management decision-making by incorporating innovation and informed practice. Topics include modifying disaster risk reduction planning strategies for indigenous communities, improving monitoring techniques to keep track of decision success and support, and managing risk in urban settings with rapid population growth and climate change.