Category Archives: Weather Emergencies
Tsunami Imagery
From the Baylor College of Medicine, this page (aimed at teachers of Biology) offers an in-depth look at what it takes to create the imagery from which emergency planners do after-action analysis, resource allocation and focus recovery work. “To determine … Continue reading
Hurricane Katrina Resource Guide
Once again, from the good folks at the NETC LRC (Library), an excellent “one-stop” resource for information of all types on Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. They have gathered together books, reports and articles on topics as diverse as Human … Continue reading
‘Tis the Season…
…for hurricane posts. The National Hurricane Study Program is a part of the “Comprehensive Hurricane Data Preparedness Study Web Site,” a joint effort of FEMA and the US Army Corps of Engineers. The National Hurricane Study Program has been in … Continue reading
Hurricane Season Forecasts Roundup
I’ve blogged about this before – all the places where hurricane season forecasts can be found – but thought it bore updating, for this current season. Colorado State’s Tropical Meteorology Project produces the most up-to-date forecasts for the number of … Continue reading
Volcanic Ash Spread
(This one’s for Dr. David Kitchen, our resident Vulcanologist!) And this, from NASA’s Earth Observatory: More Volcano/Earthquake imagery from NASA’s Earth Observatory is available here.
2009 Hurricane Season Wrap Party
It’s been a quiet one, with H1N1 taking all the news space this season. National Geographic details why this hurricane season has been so Pacific-focused in a great article here. With U of R alumni (and former “Leader-in-Residence” at the … Continue reading
Disaster DVDs from National Archives
(I need a tag for this item called “not-sure-how-I-feel-about-this”) In case you don’t get enough storm stories from the Weather Channel’s “When Weather Changed History” series, the National Archives has produced a boxed set of DVDs, available at your local … Continue reading
Search and Rescue throughout history
American Heritage magazine features an interesting article, “Heavy Rescue”, describing the history of search and rescue, and looking into the future. The article covers both the improvements in technology and management of crises such as building collapse over time. This … Continue reading
GAO report on post-disaster collaboration
This item came to my attention a while ago (it was first published in July 2009), but I finally got a minute to actually look at it. DISASTER RECOVERY Experiences from Past Disasters Offer Insights for Effective Collaboration after Catastrophic … Continue reading
Frontloading
I’m away next week, so I won’t be blogging, but this week has been a banner one for interesting items. The National Library of Medicine maintains a collection of more than 30 environmental health websites under the auspices of the … Continue reading