May 28-30, 2019
CRHNet Annual Symposium
Canadian Risk and Hazards Network
Winnipeg, Canada
Cost and registration: $300, open until filled
This symposium promotes dialogue between disaster researchers and practitioners to increase disaster resilience. This year’s symposium will focus on strategies and tools to enhance disaster risk reduction (DRR) efforts. Topics include considering the human factor in DRR, linking diverse and independent systems into DRR support networks, technologies for collaboration, and applying indigenous knowledge to DRR activities.
June 3-6, 2019
Emergency Management Higher Education Symposium
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Emmitsburg, Maryland
Cost and registration: Free, register before April 26
This annual symposium will focus on building the capacity of the emergency management academic community while engaging in conversations on this year’s theme of diversity, inclusion, and unity of effort. Topics include the scholarship of teaching and learning, research methodology and integration, and program policy and administration.
June 12-13, 2019
Disaster and Emergency Management Conference
Australian and New Zealand Disaster and Emergency Management Conference
Gold Coast, Australia
Cost and registration: $728 before May 8, open until filled
This conference will focus on Australia’s and New Zealand’s emergency management challenges and techniques used to address them. Topics include mental health consequences of disaster, environmental resilience, social network models for communication and collaboration, valuing volunteers, domestic violence and disasters, preparing remote communities, incorporating pharmacies into disaster planning, evaluating risk, and community-led recovery.
June 23-26, 2019
ICONHIC 2019
Innovation Center on Natural Hazards and Infrastructure
Chania, Greece
Cost and registration: $650 before May 15, open until filled
This conference will examine infrastructure in disasters, with an emphasis on what can be done to address and strengthen aging infrastructure. Topics include hazard predication and warning, aging infrastructure and future earthquakes, strategies to prevent levee and dam failures, climate-resilient and adaptive infrastructure, protecting historical structures, drought impact on infrastructure, and integrating disaster risk into infrastructure lifecycles.
July 23-26, 2019
NHERI RAPID Facility Intensive Workshop
Natural Hazards Reconnaissance Facility
Seattle, Washington
Cost and registration: Free, register before April 12
This workshop will give attendees an opportunity to learn more about using the equipment available through the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure’s RAPID Facility to collect and process the data and integrate collected data using RAPID mobile software and the DesignSafe cyberinfrastructure. Topics include an overview of the RAPID facility and reconnaissance planning, hands-on lidar and drone-based image collection training, coastal applications, and using RAPID equipment to enhance social science data collection.