1. Tips for WebEx interaction: – Raise your virtual hand to ask a question. – Post your coffee cup to let us know when you are away. – Use the chat window to interact throughout the session. Send messages to all participants. – Participate actively. – Do NOT put the line on hold – Have fun! *6 Mute your line, so participants cannot hear you. Repeat to cancel your request *7 Unmute your line, so that participants can hear you. Welcome! We will begin shortly… After introducing yourself, please put your microphone and telephone on mute 1

2. 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 (mulmi@nrcan.gc.ca). The meeting materials are posted on www.hazuscanada.ca.www.hazuscanada.ca Introduction 2

3. Meet and greet as we connect Training, resources and events Round table Presentation: An Inside Look at the 2013 South Alberta Flood Disaster – John Conrad, Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resources Development Questions and Discussion Agenda 3

4. EMI courses https://www.fema.gov/hazus-mh-training and at www.training.fema.gov. Upcoming courses include Hazus for Flood, Risk Assessment and Disaster Operations.https://www.fema.gov/hazus-mh-training www.training.fema.gov Esri online courses http://training.esri.com/ search for Hazushttp://training.esri.com/ Training 4 COURSE NUMBER COURSE TITLEDATES E0172Hazus-MH for FloodJuly 27-30, 2015 E0296Application of Hazus-MH for Risk AssessmentAugust 3-6, 2015 E0190ArcGIS for Emergency ManagersAugust 24-27, 2015 E0179Application of Hazus-MH for Disaster OperationsSeptember 28- October 1, 2015

5. 5 Resources www.hazuscanada.ca: 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 www.hazuscanada.ca FEMA Hazus User Group calls on iTunes, search Hazus Community, or join calls by requesting add from hazus@arcaspicio.com www.usehazus.com/canadianhug and LinkedIn for Canadian and US HUG groups and resources www.usehazus.com/canadianhug Hazus solutions page: https://www.fema.gov/protecting-our- communities/hazus-help-desk-resource-and-solutions-pagehttps://www.fema.gov/protecting-our- communities/hazus-help-desk-resource-and-solutions-page

6. 6 Issue The Hazus Canada flood module is experiencing an issue when updating a study region with new inventory data from CDMS. Users should create the study region with both earthquake and flood hazards selected, even if only one hazard will be analyzed. Any data the user wishes to import into a provincial database or study region through CDMS should be set up and then imported for both earthquakes and floods. The NRCan National-Scale Geohazard Risk Assessment Project Team is working on the issue and will provide an update if and when a solution is found.

7. 7 Resources New publications! (see www.hazuscanada.ca and www.geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca)www.hazuscanada.ca www.geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca – Risk-Based Land Use Guide: support for municipal decision making to reduce risk from natural hazards – A Profile of Earthquake Risk for the District of North Vancouver, British Columbia District of North Vancouver – Earthquake Ready Action Plan – When the Ground Shakes

8. 8 Resources ICLR publications and Friday Forums http://iclr.org/http://iclr.org/ Global best practices: www.preventionweb.net/englishwww.preventionweb.net/english Archivist Pocket Response Plan: http://www.statearchivists.org/prepare/framework/prep.htm http://www.statearchivists.org/prepare/framework/prep.htm Report by DHS on Drought Impacts to Critical Infrastructure SUMMIT, a modeling and simulation software for planning, exercise or operational response of hazards: https://dhs-summit.us/https://dhs-summit.us/

9. 9 Events World Conference on Disaster Risk Management, Toronto, ON, June 8-11, 2015, www.wcdm.orgwww.wcdm.org Webinar: Guidelines for Seismic Retrofit of Weak-Story Wood- Framed Buildings, June 24, 2015, www.atcouncil.org/eventswww.atcouncil.org/events 11 th Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Victoria, BC July 21-24, 2015, www.canadianearthquakeconference.cawww.canadianearthquakeconference.ca 40 th Annual Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop, Broomfield, CO, July 19-22, 2015, www.colorado.edu/hazards/workshop/current.html www.colorado.edu/hazards/workshop/current.html International Symposium on Geo-Disaster Reduction, Prague, Czech Republic, August 9-11, 2015, www.icgdr2015.euwww.icgdr2015.eu

10. 10 Events Annual Canadian Risk and Hazards Network Symposium, Calgary, AB, November 4-6, 2015, http://www.crhnet.ca/http://www.crhnet.ca/ Emergency Preparedness and Business Continuity Conference, Vancouver, BC, November 17-19, 2015, http://www.epbcconference.ca/ http://www.epbcconference.ca/ Hazus Users Conference, Atlanta, GA, December 9-11, 2015, www.hazusconference.com www.hazusconference.com

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

12. 12 Presentation: An Inside Look at the 2013 South Alberta Flood Disaster – John Conrad, Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resources Development

13. Next CanHUG meeting is June 17, 2015 See you then! Please email if there is a speaker or topic you would like featured in future. mulmi@nrcan.gc.ca Thank you 13