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Introduction The Canadian Hazus User Group meets monthly to share knowledge on natural hazard risk assessment and the application of the Hazus loss estimation software 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 (malaika.ulmi@canada.ca). The meeting materials are posted on www.hazuscanada.ca.

Agenda Meet and greet as we connect Training, resources and events Round table Presentation: Regional Seismic Risk Assessment – ER2 Application – Alex Smirnoff and Miro Nastev Questions and Discussion

Hazus Training EMI courses at www.training.fema.gov. Questions to paul.ganem@fema.dhs.gov. Hazus online course flyer and handouts at www.fema.gov/media-library/assets/documents/105722 Esri online courses https://www.esri.com/training/#!/ search for Hazus FEMA regional HUGs COURSE # COURSE TITLE DATES E0176 Hazus for Floodplain Managers March 27-30, 2017 E0313 Basic Hazus April 3-6, 2017 E0317 Comprehensive Data Management for Hazus May 1-4, 2017 E0172 Hazus for Flood June 12-15, 2017 E0170 Hazus for Hurricane July 24-27, 2017 E0296 Application of Hazus for Risk Assessment August 14-17, 2017 E0179 Application of Hazus for Disaster Operations September 11-14, 2017 September 25-28. 2017

Resources www.hazuscanada.ca: Order a copy of Hazus Canada, see upcoming events, download resources and meeting material, find events, ask a Hazus question, and add content FEMA Hazus User Group calls on iTunes, search Hazus Community, or join calls by requesting add from hazus-outreach@riskmapcds.com. www.usehazus.com and LinkedIn for Canadian and US HUG groups and resources Hazus solutions page: www.fema.gov/protecting-our-communities/hazus-help-desk-resource-and-solutions-page

Resources Global best practices: www.preventionweb.net/english, UN ISDR www.unisdr.org, and www.irdrinternational.org Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction: www.iclr.org Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient Cities initiative: www.100resilientcities.org Canadian Risk and Hazards Network: www.crhnet.ca HazNet, the magazine of the Canadian Risks and Hazards Network: www.haznet.ca Resilient America (NASEM): sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/ResilientAmerica/

Resources NIST At-A-Glance Overview of Resilience Economic Decision Guide: https://www.nist.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2017/01/23/nist_communityresilience_brochure-11b_finaldec2016.pdf NIST Community Resilience Planning Guide Briefs: www.nist.gov/el/resilience/community-resilience-planning-guide-briefs Incident Management Preparedness and Coordination Toolkit (IMPACT), a free all-hazards planning tool for first responders from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (DoE): http://geo.ornl.gov/impact/index.html Flood Risk Canada:, parcel-level flood zone determinations: www.floodzone.ca

Resources FEMA Mitigation Best Practices: https://www.fema.gov/mitigation-best-practices-portfolio AGI Policy and Critical Issues Webinar, “Assessing, Mitigating and Communicating Flood Risk”, www.americangeosciences.org/policy-critical-issues/webinars/assessing-mitigating-communicating-flood-risk Canadian Disaster Database: www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/rsrcs/cndn-dsstr-dtbs/ 2016 census data release: http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/rt-td/ Dark Side of the Sun documentary: www.discovery.com/tv-shows/dark-side-of-the-sun

Events ICLR Friday Forum: Canadian Wildfire Interface Maps, February 17, 2017, https://zoom.us/webinar/register/73de0ff3d75c35d07510d14dfea9e911 RES / CON (Int. Disaster Conference and Expo), March 7-9, 2017, New Orleans, LA, www.resconnola.com Fifth Regional Platform for the Americas, March 7-9, 2017, Montreal, QC, http://eird.org/americas/ 69th EERI Conference, March 7-10, 2017, Portland, OR, http://2017am.eeri-events.org/ 2nd Scientific Seminar of the Knowledge Centre for Disaster Risk Management: Science for Policy and Operations, March 9-10, 2017, Rome, Italy, http://drmkc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/partnership/Science-Policy-Interface/SeminarDRMKC/Meeting-2017#documents/649/list

Events Resilience 2017, April 24-26, 2017, Edmonton, AB, www.conferenceboard.ca/conf/17-0067 National Earthquake Program Managers Meeting, April 25-27, 2017, Oklahoma City, OK, http://eqprogram.net/2017-nepm-meeting-information/ National Flood Conference, April 30-May3, 2017, Washington, D.C., https://pcievents.cvent.com/17NFC Disaster Forum 2017, May 8-11, Banff, AB, www.disasterforum.ca/ Australian & NZ Disaster and Emergency Management Conference, May 22-23, 2017, Queensland, Australia, www.anzdmc.com.au Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, May 22-26, 2017, Cancun, Mexico, www.unisdr.org/conferences/2017/globalplatform/en

Events CWRA 2017, June 5-7, 2017, Lethbridge, AB, www.cwra-ab-events.org/2017conference Annual Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop, July 9-12, 2017, Broomfield, CO, https://hazards.colorado.edu/workshop/2017 CRHNet Symposium, October 25-27, 2017, Halifax, NS, www.crhnet.ca 65th Annual International Association of Emergency Managers Conference, November 10-15, Long Beach, CA, www.iaemconference.info/2017/ 7th International Conference on Building Resilience: Using Scientific Knowledge to inform policy and practice in disaster risk reduction, November 27-29, 2017, Bangkok, Thailand, www.buildresilience.org/2017/

Roundtable Introduce yourself Any news, projects, ideas, suggestions, upcoming presentations or conferences of interest …

Regional Seismic Risk Assessment – ER2 Application Presentation: Regional Seismic Risk Assessment – ER2 Application Alex Smirnoff and Miro Nastev Geological Survey of Canada

Wednesday, March 15, 2017 malaika.ulmi@canada.ca Next CanHUG meeting is Wednesday, March 15, 2017 See you then! Please email if there is a speaker or topic you would like featured in future. malaika.ulmi@canada.ca Thank you