March 29 to April 2, 2010
2010 National Hurricane Conference
National Hurricane Conference
Orlando, Florida
Cost and Registration: $350, open until filled
This conference will examine new ideas and lessons learned to improve hurricane preparedness, response, mitigation, and recovery. Session topics include emergency planning and special needs preparation, managing floodplain development, animals in disasters, debris management, crisis communications, and mass care.

April 8-9, 2010
2010 Annual Emergency Preparedness Conference
Joint Commission Resources
Washington, D.C.
Cost and Registration: $629, open until filled
This conference will present emergency planning methodologies, best practices, and case studies to advance disaster preparedness among healthcare workers. Session topics include disaster medicine, patient and clinical support services, and security. A preconference event will improve participants' understanding of changing emergency management standards.

June 1-4, 2010
Understanding Risk: Innovation in Disaster Risk Assessment
The World Bank
Washington, D.C.
Cost and Registration: Not posted
This conference will examine innovations in disaster risk assessment with a focus on hazard and vulnerability modeling, geographic information systems, insurance and reinsurance, and climate change adaptation. The 2010 Outreach Meeting of the Global Earthquake Model Initiative and the Washington, D.C. Crisis Camp will take place in conjunction with this event.

June 4-5, 2010
Katrina Research Summit
University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast
Long Beach, Mississippi
Cost and Registration: $50, closes April 15
This conference will present research on the natural, social, political, and economic effects of Hurricane Katrina in hopes of making communities threatened by natural disasters become more resilient.

June 13-26, 2010
Climate Change and Its Impacts: Resilience and Adaptation to Changes in Precipitation
Brown International Advanced Research Institute
Providence, Rhode Island
Cost and Registration: See website
This conference will examine hydrologic cycle changes; ecological, agricultural, economic, and social system resilience; and trans-regional adaptation policies. Session topics include expected patterns of climate change, extreme events, human disease and migration, biodiversity, and food security.