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The Canadian Hazus User Group meets on the third Wednesday of each month to share knowledge and updates about incorporating Hazus risk assessments into decision making 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 The meeting materials are posted on Introduction 2

Meet and greet as we connect Training, resources and events Round table Presentation: Hazus and the Larger Goal: Looking Back at Ten Years of Disaster Mitigation Policy in the US – Andrea Jackman, IBM Questions and Discussion Agenda 3

EMI courses and at Upcoming courses include Hazus for Earthquake, Flood, as well as Basic Hazus and CDMS. Esri online courses search for Hazushttp://training.esri.com/ Training 4 COURSE NUMBER COURSE TITLEDATES E0174Hazus-MH for EarthquakeMarch 30- April 2, 2015 E0313Basic Hazus-MHApril 13-16, 2015 E0317 Comprehensive Data Management for Hazus- MH June 15-18, 2015 E0172Hazus-MH for FloodJuly 27-30, 2015 E0296Application of Hazus-MH for Risk AssessmentAugust 3-6, 2015 E0190ArcGIS for Emergency ManagersAugust 24-27, 2015 E0179 Application of Hazus-MH for Disaster Operations September 28- October 1, 2015

5 Resources FEMA Hazus User Group calls on iTunes, search Hazus Community, or join calls by requesting add from Order a copy of Hazus Canada 2.1, see upcoming events, download and access resources including the Hazus HotZone newsletter, get past and future meeting material, find events, and add content and LinkedIn for Canadian and US HUG groups and resources Hazus helpdesk and solutions page: and help-desk-resource-and-solutions-page

6 Resources Publication: Unscheduled Events, Research Committee on Sociology of Disasters sociology.org/pdfs/rc39newsletter_december_2014.pdfhttp:// sociology.org/pdfs/rc39newsletter_december_2014.pdf Communication in aftermath of a Major Earthquake Vulnerability, Resilience, and Post-Disaster Reconstruction International Debate: First Online Debate: Does Temporary Housing Hinder the Recovery Process? February 19, Downloadable guide: US Governor’s Guide to Mass Evacuations (Key actions for decision-makers in preparing for large scale evacuations) on.pdf on.pdf New pan-Asian earthquake, typhoon, flood and fire preparedness site from National Geographic Channel:

7 Resources OpenQuake live! for info, and for the platform. This is an evolving, open source, earthquake hazard and risk assessment tool. Give it a try!

8 Resources An update to last month’s presentation: if you downloaded a copy of the Microsoft Excel Risk Calculator following the presentation, there have since been updates. These updates include significant enhancements based on user feedback, and Heather McGrath recommends you return to the site and download the latest:

9 Events Hazus 2015 Conference, November 2-4, 2015, Atlanta Georgia 11 th Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Victoria, BC July , Call for proposals to 10e colloque sur les risques naturels au Québec ICLR publications and Friday Forums (next Feb 20 on seismic risk management of buildings) Free webinar, “The growing importance of location for real-time risk management of natural catastrophic events” produced by Canadian Underwriter Magazine and DMTI Spatial Inc., featuring Glenn McGillivray of the ICLR and Phil Kaszuba of DMTI. March 11, 10:30 EST,

10 Events National Emergency Management Association, Alexandria, Virginia, March 13-17, Flood Management in BC Seminar, APEGBC, February 24, 2015, Vancouver, World Conference of Disaster Risk Reduction, UNISDR, Sendai, Japan, March 14-18, 2015, with resources at Preparedness, Emergency Response and Recovery Consortium, Orlando, Florida, March 24-26, Partners in Emergency Preparedness Conference, Tacoma, Washington, April

Introduce yourself Any news, projects, ideas, suggestions, upcoming presentations or conferences of interest … Roundtable 11

12 Presentation: Hazus and the Larger Goal: Looking Back at Ten Years of Disaster Mitigation Policy in the US – Andrea Jackman, IBM

Next CanHUG meeting is March 18, 2015 See you then! Please if there is a speaker or topic you would like featured in future. Thank you 13