I am in Broomfield, Colorado outside Denver at the “Natural Hazards & Applications Workshop” which is organized by the University of Colorado’s famed Natural Hazards Center. The workshop, now in its 34th year, is “designed to bring hazards researchers and practitioners from many disciplines together for face-to-face discussions on issues and trends that affect how society deals with hazards and disasters.”
Among the panel discussions I plan to attend today are “Rethinking The Emergency Alert System” and “Rethinking How We Characterize And Communicate Risk” (both are subjects that this blog has been rethinking as well so I am very interested to hear from the panelists and audience). FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate will give the Workshop’s keynote speech later today.
Last night was the opening reception and poster session; some of the poster presentations included “Community Resilience And Recovery: Questions From Galveston”, “The Death Map: What it Is and What it Is Not”, and “Disasters Roundtable of the National Academies Wants to Hear from You” at which an Academies’ staffer was collecting and posting index cards with attendee recommendations topics for future public disaster-related events. I suggested “Social Media For Citizens In Disaster”. The full list of poster presentations here.
Recommendations for National Academies Disaster Roundtable posted by Workshop attendees
If you want to follow the Workshop’s panels, speeches and activities, you can check the Center’s Twitter feed which will be tweeting coverage; hashtag is #haz. (I will be following the feed from here as there a number of panels I am interested in that are running contemporaneously.) The Workshop schedule can be found here.
2 responses so far ↓
1 FEMA’S Fugate Brings “Bully Pulpit†To Mile High: Tells Hazards Workshop That Authorities Have To “Trust The Public,†But Public Also Has To Take More Responsibility. Pushes Value Of Social Media & Citizens’ Star Trek “Tricorder& // Jul 17, 2009 at 1:21 pm
[...] on that same public to take more responsibility for preparing for and mitigating disasters. Fugate kicked off the 34th annual Workshop held by the University of Colorado’s Natural Hazards [...]
2 Jeannette Sutton, Natural Hazards Center — Debunking Myths/Learning How To Use Social Media During Disasters (”What Should We Tell The Public?) // Jul 21, 2009 at 7:11 pm
[...] the University of Colorado’s Natural Hazards Center. I filmed this segment at the Center’s recently completed Natural Hazards And Applications Workshop held in Broomfield, Colorado. Jeannette’s work was featured in a recent Reason [...]
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