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Introduction
The Canadian Hazus User Group meets on the third Wednesday of
each month to share knowledge and updates about incorporating
Hazus risk assessments into decision making in Canada. Natural
Resources Canada’s National-Scale Geohazard Risk Project of the
Public Safety Geoscience Program supports the forum. Today’s
meeting will be facilitated by Malaika Ulmi (mulmi@nrcan.gc.ca). The
meeting materials are posted on www.hazuscanada.ca.
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Agenda
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Meet and greet as we connect
Training, resources and events
Round table
Presentation: Hazus and the Larger Goal: Looking Back at Ten
Years of Disaster Mitigation Policy in the US – Andrea Jackman,
IBM
• Questions and Discussion
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Training
• EMI courses https://www.fema.gov/hazus-mh-training and at
www.training.fema.gov. Upcoming courses include Hazus for
Earthquake, Flood, as well as Basic Hazus and CDMS.
• Esri online courses http://training.esri.com/ search for Hazus
COURSE
NUMBER
COURSE TITLE
E0174
Hazus-MH for Earthquake
E0313
Basic Hazus-MH
April 13-16, 2015
E0317
Comprehensive Data Management for HazusMH
June 15-18, 2015
E0172
Hazus-MH for Flood
July 27-30, 2015
E0296
Application of Hazus-MH for Risk Assessment
August 3-6, 2015
E0190
ArcGIS for Emergency Managers
E0179
Application of Hazus-MH for Disaster
Operations
DATES
March 30- April 2, 2015
August 24-27, 2015
September 28- October 1, 2015
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Resources
• FEMA Hazus User Group calls on iTunes, search Hazus Community,
or join calls by requesting add from hazus@arcaspicio.com
• www.hazuscanada.ca: Order a copy of Hazus Canada 2.1, see
upcoming events, download and access resources including the
Hazus HotZone newsletter, get past and future meeting material,
find events, and add content
• www.usehazus.com/canadianhug and LinkedIn for Canadian and US
HUG groups and resources
• Hazus helpdesk and solutions page: helpdesk@support.hazus.us
and https://www.fema.gov/protecting-our-communities/hazushelp-desk-resource-and-solutions-page
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Resources
• Publication: Unscheduled Events, Research Committee on Sociology of
Disasters http://www.isasociology.org/pdfs/rc39newsletter_december_2014.pdf
• Communication in aftermath of a Major Earthquake
http://srl.geoscienceworld.org/content/85/2/561
• Vulnerability, Resilience, and Post-Disaster Reconstruction International
Debate: First Online Debate: Does Temporary Housing Hinder the Recovery
Process? February 19, 2015 https://oddebates.wordpress.com/
• Downloadable guide: US Governor’s Guide to Mass Evacuations (Key
actions for decision-makers in preparing for large scale evacuations)
http://www.nga.org/files/live/sites/NGA/files/pdf/GovGuideMassEvacuati
on.pdf
• New pan-Asian earthquake, typhoon, flood and fire preparedness site
from National Geographic Channel: http://safesteps.com/earthquake/
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Resources
• OpenQuake live! www.globalquakemodel.org for info, and
https://platform.openquake.org for the platform. This is an
evolving, open source, earthquake hazard and risk assessment tool.
Give it a try!
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Resources
• An update to last month’s presentation: if you downloaded a copy
of the Microsoft Excel Risk Calculator following the presentation,
there have since been updates. These updates include significant
enhancements based on user feedback, and Heather McGrath
recommends you return to the site and download the latest:
http://www2.unb.ca/~hmcgrat1/index.html
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Events
• Hazus 2015 Conference, November 2-4, 2015, Atlanta Georgia
• 11th Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Victoria, BC July 2124 2015, www.canadianearthquakeconference.ca
• Call for proposals to 10e colloque sur les risques naturels au Québec
www.geo.uqam.ca
• ICLR publications and Friday Forums http://iclr.org/ (next Feb 20 on
seismic risk management of buildings)
• Free webinar, “The growing importance of location for real-time risk
management of natural catastrophic events” produced by Canadian
Underwriter Magazine and DMTI Spatial Inc., featuring Glenn McGillivray
of the ICLR and Phil Kaszuba of DMTI. March 11, 10:30 EST,
http://bit.ly/natcatwebinar15
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Events
• National Emergency Management Association, Alexandria, Virginia, March
13-17, 2015 http://www.nemaweb.org/
• Flood Management in BC Seminar, APEGBC, February 24, 2015, Vancouver,
https://www.apeg.bc.ca/Events/Events/15FEBFMI
• World Conference of Disaster Risk Reduction, UNISDR, Sendai, Japan,
March 14-18, 2015, www.wcdrr.org, with resources at
www.preventionweb.net/english
• Preparedness, Emergency Response and Recovery Consortium, Orlando,
Florida, March 24-26, 2015 http://www.perrc.org/
• Partners in Emergency Preparedness Conference, Tacoma, Washington,
April 14-16 https://www.cm.wsu.edu/ehome/piepc/Program/
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Roundtable
• Introduce yourself
• Any news, projects, ideas, suggestions, upcoming presentations or
conferences of interest …
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Presentation:
Hazus and the Larger Goal: Looking Back at Ten Years of Disaster
Mitigation Policy in the US – Andrea Jackman, IBM
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Next CanHUG meeting is March 18, 2015
See you then!
Please email if there is a speaker or topic you
would like featured in future.
mulmi@nrcan.gc.ca
Thank you
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