Highlights from 43rd Annual Natural Hazards Workshop: Reducing Disaster Vulnerability

1. Highlights from the 43rd Annual Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop August 21, 2018, 2:00 – 3:30 PM Webinar Conference Call - 1-800-320-4330 PIN 376368 National Training & Education Division/National Training & Education SystemFEMA - Higher Education Program

2. Administrative • Submitting questions • File/Resource Sharing • The session will not be recorded • Webinar is closed captioned • Access to Adobe site post webinar • How to follow up with presenters • How to get more information about the Higher Education Program

3. Webinar Agenda • Jennifer Tobin – Overview and Workshop Structure • DeeDee Bennett – Cultural Competency: Initiatives to Reduce Disaster Vulnerability • Alessandra Jerolleman – Working with Practitioners Roundtable • Mike Gavin – Support for the Supporters: Caring for First Responders after a Disaster • Wendy Walsh – Learning Our Lessons: Integrating Disaster Research and Practice • Joe Trainor – Onwards: Identifying and Overcoming Barriers to Action • Jolie Breeden – Social Media, Communications, Workshop Summaries • Michelle Meyer – Researchers Meeting

4. Highlights from the 43rd Annual Natural Hazards Workshop Jennifer Tobin Deputy Administrator Natural Hazards Center University of Colorado Boulder

5. History Structure Keynote Plenaries Roundtables Concurrent Sessions Recent Research and Projects Sessions Poster Sessions Special Events Researchers Meeting Workshop Overview

6. 2018 Workshop Details • Theme: Twenty Questions: Looking for Answers to Reduce Disaster Risk • Continuing Education Credits • Certified Floodplain Manager Education Credits • Certified or Associate Emergency Manager Contact Hours • Evaluation Survey: • https://hazards.colorado.edu/workshop/2018/workshop-evaluation

7. 2018 Workshop Attendance 533 Registrants

8. 2018 Workshop Attendees by Sector Local, State, & Federal Government 27% Private Sector 11 % Nonprofit & Philanthropic Organizations 10 % Academic Institutions 52% 113 Students 113 Students

9. Save the Date! July 14-18, 2019 44th Annual Natural Hazards Workshop and Researcher’s Meeting • Where: Omni Interlocken Hotel, Broomfield, Colorado • 2019 Theme: Convergence • How to Participate: • Sign up to receive Workshop announcements and invitations to submit ideas: https://hazards.colorado.edu/signup • Volunteer!

10. Thank You! Jennifer Tobin Deputy Administrator Natural Hazards Center University of Colorado Boulder Jennifer.L.Tobin@Colorado.edu https://hazards.colorado.edu/

11. Cultural Competence: Initiatives to Reduce Disaster Vulnerability Moderator - DeeDee Bennett, Ph.D. August 21st, 2018

12. Overarching Question • To what extent, and under what conditions, do culturally competent initiatives increase representation of and reduce disaster vulnerability among underserved communities? • Motivation: • Several new programs and initiatives to increase representation in emergency management fields or disaster science studies. • Interest in programs and initiatives to reduce disaster vulnerability in underserved communities.

13. Panelists • Suzanne Frew, The Frew Group • Derrick Hiebert, Washington State Emergency Management • Brian Mayer, University of Arizona • Oluponmile Olonilua, Texas Southern University • Cindy Schmidt, NASA

14. Panel Questions • Provide a brief overview of your work as it relates to cultural competency, increasing representation, or reduction of vulnerability.  • What are a few successes (and/or challenges) have you encountered while facilitating cultural competence in research and practice? • Where (and how) do we move forward with these type of initiatives? How do we measure the positive impacts of culturally competent strategies?

15. Key Take-aways • Listen more, talk less • Be willing to learn from various communities • Entrée may require respected individuals to champion • Social vulnerability connected to ‘one’s access to resources’

16. Partnering with Practitioners Roundtable • 2017 Roundtable as Background • Overview of 2018 Discussion • Utilized the NHW Questions • Key Challenges Identified • Recommendations • How might these roundtables be improved in the future? • What else might we do?

17. Support for the Supporters: Caring for First Responders after a Disaster Mike Gavin

18. Experience & Reflections from The Natural Hazards Research & Applications Workshop 2018 Wendy Walsh FEMA Higher Education Program Manager Session Moderator & Attendee

19. My Question # 16 • How can we better coordinate post-disaster research and integrate the findings from those efforts into education, training, practice, and policy?

20. The Panel David Abramson Christopher Dyer New York University University of New Mexito Aubrey Miller Maria Peppler National Institute of US Geological Survey Environmental Health Sciences Sneha Patel NYC Office of Preparedness & Response

21. Other Highlights • Networking • Advisory Board • Session

22. Thank You!

23. Action Research Onwards: Identifying and Overcoming Barriers to Action Joe Trainor; University of Delaware; School of Public Policy and Administration; Disaster Research Center August 21, 2018

24. Goal and Panelists There has been significant progress in producing research and knowledge on hazards and disasters, yet many lessons still remain unlearned and unapplied. In this session, panelists discussed barriers to action and ways that knowledge is being transformed into actions and meaningful social change. • Panel • Moderator, Russ Paulsen, Paulsen Associates • Lisa Marie Jackson, Emergency Management Victoria • Ted Serrant, Houston Independent School District • Pamela Jenkins, University of New Orleans • Joe Trainor, University of Delaware • Recorder, Joyce Klein-Rosenthal, Columbia University

25. What Has Worked? • How big is the Gap? • Broad Conceptual Successes • Many individual efforts by folks who engage in their communities. • Relationship based work • After Action reporting with teeth

26. Biggest Failures

27. Important Barriers

28. Highlights from the 43rd Annual Natural Hazards Workshop Jolie Breeden Science Writer/Editor Natural Hazards Center University of Colorado Boulder

29. LET’S TALK! Long Breaks and Lunches Nearly half of each session devoted to audience interaction Career Kickstarter Orientations and Roundtables Self Introductions Research and Practice Highlights No titles or acronyms Communication Philosophy

30. Answering the 20 Questions We asked audience members to submit their answers the 20 Questions and share their related stories. www.hazards.colorado.edu/workshop/2018/audience-answers

31. Social Media • Twitterwww.twitter.com/HazCenter • Facebookwww.facebook.com/hazcenter • LinkedInwww.linkedin.com/company/natural-hazards-center • #HazWS, #HazCtr

32. Summaries and Resources • 2018 Natural Hazards Workshophazards.colorado.edu/workshop/2018 • Keep in touch!hazards.colorado.edu/signup

33. Thank You! Jolie Breeden Science Writer/Editor Natural Hazards Center University of Colorado Boulder Jolie.Breeden@Colorado.edu https://hazards.colorado.edu/

34. Natural Hazards Center & International Research Committee on Disasters (RC-39) Annual Researchers Meeting PI: Lori Peek, NSF-CMMI 1833298 Organizing Committee: Michelle Meyer, Chair, Louisiana State University Ray Chang, Oklahoma State University Sara Hamideh, Iowa State University Jen Henderson, Cooperative Institute for Research on Environmental Sciences Mason Matthews, University of Colorado-Boulder Elaina Sutley, University of Kansas Haorui Wu, University of Colorado-Boulder

35. Goal & Objectives Goals: • Improve rapid reconnaissance research • Information sharing and community building Objectives: • Identify salient research needs • Integrate new and emerging hazards and disaster researchers into existing community • Generate improved research coordination, data collection, and data sharing

36. 48 abstracts involved rapid research Abstract Prompts What challenges or opportunities have you identified in terms of conducting rapid reconnaissance research? What has your research revealed regarding team formation, rapid reconnaissance research coordination, or interdisciplinary collaboration? Has your research contributed to innovative data collection strategies? How can data sharing and archiving capabilities be enhanced to ensure the greatest scientific impacts? 82 Total Abstracts Submitted

37. Identifying New Frontiers for Rapid Reconnaissance Research Tracy Kijewski-Correa, University of Notre Dame; Nina Lam, Louisiana State University; Roxane Cohen Silver, University of California, Irvine; John van der Lindt, Colorado State University; Karl Rockne, NSF, Moderator Coordinating Researchers and Research Teams Jonathan Bray, University of California, Berkeley; Aubrey Miller, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; Lori Peek, University of Colorado, Natural Hazards Center; Robin Dillon-Merrill, NSF, Moderator Improving Data Collection and Data Sharing Capabilities DeeDee Bennett, University of Nebraska Omaha; Tim Cockerill, University of Texas at Austin; Maggie Ortiz-Millan, EERI; Joe Wartman, University of Washington; Robert O’Connor, NSF, Moderator 3 Plenaries

38. 204 Attendees and 61 Presentations On topics such as: Infrastructure Economics Energy New data technologies and methods Health, healthcare Water quality Community resilience Recovery Vulnerable populations • Spontaneous volunteers • Resilience buildings • Evacuation • Displacement and Resettlement • Risk Perception • Mitigation • Climate change • Business recovery • Damage assessments

39. “I found a LOT of useful information for my current and future research. Is there a mail-list or some sort of newsfeed that I could subscribe to and be up to date?” – first time attendee “It was a great conference – I always enjoy it immensely!” - regular attendee “What a great event! Thank you for the opportunity to attend and present our disaster drinking water work. This was my first disaster conference and it was wonderful to see all the different types of research being done. I loved learning about others’ strategies for data collection and seeing hot they could be incorporated into my campaigns. Also, having the opportunity to engage with and meet other researchers was amazing.” – first time attendee Feedback & Save the Date: July 17-18, 2019, Broomfield, CO

40. Discussion

41. Contact Information Presenters: • Jennifer Tobin - Jennifer.L.Tobin@Colorado.edu • DeeDee Bennett - dmbennett@unomaha.edu • Alessandra Jerolleman - agazzo@gmail.com • Mike Gavin - migavin@poudre-fire.org • Wendy Walsh – Wendy.Walsh@fema.dhs.gov • Joe Trainor - jtrainor@udel.edu • Jolie Breeden - jolie.breeden@colorado.edu • Michelle Meyer - mmeyer@arch.tamu.edu EMI Higher Education Program Information: • Wendy Walsh wendy.walsh@fema.dhs.gov 301-447-1262 • Barbara Johnson Barbara.Johnson3@fema.dhs.gov 301-447-1452 • Danielle Green Danielle.green@associates.fema.dhs.gov 301.447-7251 https://training.fema.gov/hiedu/educonference19.aspx 21st Annual Emergency Management Higher Education Symposium

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