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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: Coordination of Disaster Response in Interdependant Critical Infrastructure Systems – José Martí 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

Resources Resilience Dialogues, community-level discussions on climate change resilience: www.resiliencedialogues.org Data Basin, science-based mapping and analysis platform and crowd-sourcing for environmental applications: www.databasin.org/ Smart Villages webinar: “Going off the Grid: Disaster, Resilience, and Off-grid Energy”, http://e4sv.org/events/going-off-grid-disaster-resilience-off-grid-energy/ Extreme Rainfall Detection System, ITHACA: http://erds.ithacaweb.org/

Resources INFORM Global Risk Index (open-source risk assessment tool designed to support decisions about crisis and disaster prevention, preparedness and response): http://www.preventionweb.net/news/view/50533?&a=email&utm_source=pw_email SLIP-DRIP, automatic detection of landslides: http://www.gisarea.com/topic/6467-slip-drip-new-software-for-automatic-detection-of-landslide/ and https://github.com/NASA-DEVELOP/DRIP-SLIP NIST Community Resilience Planning Guide: https://www.nist.gov/el/resilience/community-resilience-planning-guide

Resources Canadian Mountain Network, “a voluntary alliance of partners from universities, governments, First Nations, and businesses dedicated to the sustainability of mountain environments and communities across the country and around the world.”: www.canadianmountainnetwork.ca/ New publication from the International Association for the Study of Insurance Economics: “The stakeholder landscape in extreme events and climate risk management”, http://www.preventionweb.net/publications/view/51535

Events ICLR webinar: “Great Cascadia megathrust earthquakes: Past, present, and future”, January 26, 2017, https://zoom.us/webinar/register/c63f1fc784fb7b4466858a512be5123a The Future of Emergency Alert and Warning Systems: Research Directions, January 26 and 27, 2017, San Diego, CA, www8.nationalacademies.org/cp/meetingview.aspx?MeetingId=9012 CWRA 2017 Roundtable Climate Extremes: National Collaboration on Floods and Droughts, January 27, 2017, Ottawa, ON, www.cwra.org/en/branches/ontario/on-branch-news

Events CatIQ’s Canadian Catastrophe Conference (C4), Toronto, ON, February 1-3, 2017, www.catiq.com/c4 Coastal GeoTools 2017, February 6-9, 2017, Charleston, NC, http://coastalgeotools.org/ 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/

Events Australian & NZ Disaster and Emergency Management Conference, May 22-23, 2017, Queensland, Australia, www.anzdmc.com.au Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, May22-26, 2017, Cancun, Mexico, www.unisdr.org/conferences/2017/globalplatform/en 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

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

Presentation: Coordination of Disaster Response in Interdependant Critical Infrastructure Systems José Martí, UBC http://www.i2sim.ca/

Wednesday, February 15, 2017 malaika.ulmi@canada.ca Next CanHUG meeting is Wednesday, February 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