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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: Climate Change Hazards and Information Portal – Neil Comer, Risk Sciences International 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 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 E0317 Comprehensive Data Management for Hazus September 25-28. 2017

Resources www.hazuscanada.ca: Order a copy of Hazus Canada, see upcoming events, download resources and meeting material, ask a risk assessment 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 All things Hazus: www.fema.gov/hazus

Resources Global best practices: www.preventionweb.net/, 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): ResilientAmerica.nas.edu

Resources QuakeSmart resource for businesses, organizations and communities: www.flash.org/quakesmartcommunity NIST Resilience: www.nist.gov/topics/resilience SFU Centre for Natural Hazard Research: www.sfu.ca/cnhr/ New UNISDR report on national disaster risk assessments: www.preventionweb.net/publications/view/52828 AGI Critical Issues webinars: https://www.americangeosciences.org/policy-critical-issues/webinars Assoc. of State Floodplain Managers’s practitioners’ guide: http://coastalresiliencecenter.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/ASFPM-March-2017-Insider.pdf

Articles Currents, Muddy Waters: Defining the 100-Year Flood: https://ncseagrant.ncsu.edu/coastwatch/previous-issues/2017-2/spring-2017/currents-muddy-waters-defining-the-100-year-flood/ NYT, When Rising Seas Transform Risk Into Certainty: www.nytimes.com/2017/04/18/magazine/when-rising-seas-transform-risk-into-certainty.html G & M, Canadians are in the dark about flood risk: www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/canadians-are-in-the-dark-about-flood-risk/article34945436/?page=all

Events Australian & NZ Disaster and Emergency Management Conference, May 22-23, 2017, Queensland, Australia, www.anzdmc.com.au Multi-hazard Early Warning Conference, May 22-23, 2017, Cancun, Mexico, www.wmo.int/earlywarnings2017 Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, May 22-26, 2017, Cancun, Mexico, www.unisdr.org/conferences/2017/globalplatform/en Fourth International Congress on Risks, May 23-26, 2017, Coimbra, Portugal, www.uc.pt/fluc/nicif/riscos/Congresso/IVCIR_ENG

Events ICLR Forecast of 2017 Hurricane Season Webinar, May 30, 2017, https://zoom.us/webinar/register/106e449891157d8734538d7d4481ef37 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 ShakeOut 2017, October 19, 2017, www.shakeout.org

Events Emergency Preparedness and Business Continuity Conference, October 31-November 2, 2017, Vancouver, BC, www.epbcconference.ca 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 …

Climate Change Hazards Information Portal Presentation: Climate Change Hazards Information Portal Neil Comer Risk Science International www.cchip.ca

Wednesday, June 21, 2017 malaika.ulmi@canada.ca Next CanHUG meeting is Wednesday, June 21, 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