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The Canadian Hazus User Group meets on the third Wednesday of each month 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 The meeting materials are posted on Introduction 2
Meet and greet as we connect Presentation: Hazus Earthquake Seismic Risk Assessment for Cairo, Egypt – Jesse Rozelle, FEMA Region VIII Training, resources and events Round table Questions and Discussion Agenda 3
4 Presentation: Hazus Earthquake Seismic Risk Assessment for Cairo, Egypt– Jesse Rozelle, FEMA,
EMI courses and at Upcoming courses include Hazus for Flood, Risk Assessment, Emergency Managers and Disaster Operations. Esri online courses search for Hazushttp://training.esri.com/ Training 5 COURSE NUMBER COURSE TITLEDATES E0179Application of Hazus-MH for Disaster OperationsSeptember 28-October 1, 2015 E0190ArcGIS for Emergency ManagersOctober 5-8, 2015 E0170Hazus-MH for HurricaneOctober 26-29, 2015 E0174Hazus-MH for EarthquakeNovember 16-19, 2015 E0313Basic Hazus-MHDecember 7-10, 2015 E0176Hazus-MH for Floodplain ManagersDecember 14-17, 2015 E0317Comprehensive Data Management for Hazus-MHJanuary 4-7, 2016 E0296Application of Hazus-MH for Risk AssessmentMarch 21-24, 2016
6 Resources 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, ask a Hazus question, and add content FEMA Hazus User Group calls on iTunes, search Hazus Community, or join calls by requesting add from and LinkedIn for Canadian and US HUG groups and resources Hazus solutions page: communities/hazus-help-desk-resource-and-solutions-pagewww.fema.gov/protecting-our- communities/hazus-help-desk-resource-and-solutions-page
7 Resources ICLR publications and Friday Forums Global best practices: and UN ISDR AIR Worldwide hazard models, a new winter storm and tropical cyclone model released for Canada: Centre for Disease Control Drought Communication Tool: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Canadian Drought Monitor application ( and Agroclimate Impact Reporter (
8 Resources Performance of Natural Infrastructure and Nature-Based Measures as Coastal Risk Reduction Features: New video on earthquake bolting/retrofitting to secure foundations: julianconstruction.com/services/earthquake- retrofitting-or-house-bolting/julianconstruction.com/services/earthquake- retrofitting-or-house-bolting/ Rockefeller Foundation 100 Resilient Cities third call: NIST Community Resilience Planning Guide for Buildings and Infrastructure:
9 Resources U.S. Department of Health and Human Services new site, TRACIE, for Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information Exchange on medical care and disaster response and preparednes: Article on ten steps to resilience planning for buildings for facilities managers: Resilience-Planning-for-Buildings www.facilitiesnet.com/green/article/Ten-Key-Steps-to- Resilience-Planning-for-Buildings Case studies in building community resilience from US and China: resilience resilience
10 Resources NRCan and DNV Hazus case study and guidance publications: and Best Practices in Local Mitigation from US: Geological and Nuclear Sciences New Zealand Risk-Based Planning Toolkit: New Zealand Earthquake Commission:
11 Events Webinars from the Applied Technology Council, including Earthquake Safety and Mitigation for Schools on September 23, 2015, Seismic Design of Special Reinforced Masonry Shear Walls on September 30, 2015 and recorded previous webinars: ICLR Workshop, Storm Surge – Lessons from Hurricane Sandy, September 23, 2015, Liveable Cities Forum: Building Flood Resiliency, Calgary, AB, September 28-30, 2015, 8 th Australasian Natural Hazards Management Conference, October 13-14, 2015, Perth, Australia,
12 Events Annual National Roundtable on Disaster Risk Reduction, November 2-3, 2015, Calgary, AB Annual Canadian Risk and Hazards Network Symposium, Calgary, AB, November 4-6, 2015, International Association of Emergency Managers Annual Conference, Clark County, Nevada, November 13-18, Emergency Preparedness and Business Continuity Conference, Vancouver, BC, November 17-19, 2015, Hazus Users Conference, Atlanta, GA, December 9-11, 2015,
Introduce yourself Any news, projects, ideas, suggestions, upcoming presentations or conferences of interest … Roundtable 13
Next CanHUG meeting is October 14, 2015 See you then! Please if there is a speaker or topic you would like featured in future. Thank you 14