August 16-22, 2009
World Water Week
Stockholm Water Institute
Stockholm, Sweden
Cost and Registration: $943, Open until August 15, 2009
This year’s annual conference will examine water constraints resulting from growing demand and erratic availability. Session topics will include rainfall variability, Asian climate change impacts and costs, and flood management policy assistance.
September 14-17, 2009
Social Media for Government
Advanced Learning Institute
Chicago, Illinois
Cost and Registration: $1,699, Open until filled
This conference provides strategies on how to improve organizations’ ability to communicate, collaborate, and disseminate information using social media. Sessions will include information on how social media can be used during an emergency or disaster.
September 15-17, 2009
2009 International Conference on Lightning and Static Electricity (ICOLSE)
ICOLSE and Lightning Technologies
Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Cost and Registration: $130 before August 15, Open until filled
This conference will cover lightning interaction and protection from lightning. The meeting will also emphasize protecting advanced aerospace and ground vehicles, systems, and facilities.
September 15-17, 2009
2009 University College London Johnston-Lavis Colloquium
AON Benfield University College London Hazard Research Center
London, England
Cost and Registration: $190, Open until filled
The third Johnston-Lavis Colloquium, Climate Forcing of Geological and Geomorphological Hazards, will address relationships between past and present climate change and triggering hazardous geological and geomorphological phenomena.
September 22-23, 2009
World Conference on Disaster Management Summit
Canadian Centre for Emergency Preparedness
Los Angeles, California
Cost and Registration: $895, Open until filled
This conference provides education, training, and best practices to assist organizations in emergency and disaster mitigation, preparation, response, and recovery.
September 23-25, 2009
First International Conference on Disaster Management and Human Health Risk
Wessex Institute of Technology
New Forest, United Kingdom
Cost and Registration: $1,547, Open until filled
This conference emphasizes the need to reduce human health impacts by understanding global health risks and disaster preparation, response, and recovery. Participants will learn how to identify strategies in disaster management and public health.
September 25-26, 2009
Oil, Gas, and Disaster Management Workshop
The International Emergency Management Society
Antwerp, Belgium
Cost and Registration: $411, Open until filled
This forum combines session-specific workshops with oil spill response field exercises and case studies. Emergency preparedness, industrial firefighting, communicating with citizens, and other topics will be covered.