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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 User Survey – Tamsin Lyle Round table Presentation: Land use planning for natural hazards – a risk-based approach – Wendy Saunders, GNS Science, New Zealand Questions and Discussion Agenda 3

4. EMI courses www.fema.gov/hazus-mh-training and at www.training.fema.gov.www.fema.gov/hazus-mh-training www.training.fema.gov Course flyer at www.fema.gov/media-library/assets/documents/105722 Esri online courses http://training.esri.com/ search for Hazushttp://training.esri.com/ Training 4 COURSE NUMBER COURSE TITLEDATES E0296Application of Hazus-MH for Risk AssessmentMarch 21-24, 2016 E0313Basic Hazus-MHApril 11-14, 2016 E0172Hazus-MH for FloodJune 20-23, 2016 E0190ArcGIS for Emergency ManagersJuly 18-21, 2016 E0317Comprehensive Data Management for Hazus-MHAugust 29-September 1, 2016 E0179Application of Hazus-MH for Disaster OperationsSeptember 26-29, 2016

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: www.fema.gov/protecting-our- communities/hazus-help-desk-resource-and-solutions-pagewww.fema.gov/protecting-our- communities/hazus-help-desk-resource-and-solutions-page

6. 6 Resources Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction: www.iclr.orgwww.iclr.org Global best practices: www.preventionweb.net/english and UN ISDR www.unisdr.orgwww.preventionweb.net/englishwww.unisdr.org HazNet, the magazine of the Canadian Risks and Hazards Network: www.haznet.ca www.haznet.ca Mitigation Best Practices – A FEMA portfolio: www.fema.gov/mitigation-best-practices-portfolio www.fema.gov/mitigation-best-practices-portfolio

7. 7 Resources University of Missouri Disaster and Community Crisis Center resilience curricula and activities for kids: http://dcc.missouri.edu/hunter-eve http://dcc.missouri.edu/hunter-eve Texas A&M Community Engagement and Risk Communication: http://cerc.tamu.edu/http://cerc.tamu.edu/ Rockefeller Foundation 100 Resilient Cities: www.100resilientcities.org www.100resilientcities.org Student Tools for Emergency Planning: http://www.fema.gov/media-library-data/1446646244445- e4c7811152d75912ab1bda6fb01d121b/FEMA_STEP_Curricu lum_October2015_508_v2.pdf http://www.fema.gov/media-library-data/1446646244445- e4c7811152d75912ab1bda6fb01d121b/FEMA_STEP_Curricu lum_October2015_508_v2.pdf

8. 8 Resources USRC Earthquake Building Rating System: http://usrc.org/building- rating-systemhttp://usrc.org/building- rating-system Temblor - US app to understand local earthquake hazard and potential retrofit benefits: http://temblor.net/http://temblor.net/ Podcast: Societal Impact of Earthquake Simulations at Extreme Scale: https://www.tacc.utexas.edu/-/sc15-societal-impact-of- earthquake-simulations-at-extreme-scalehttps://www.tacc.utexas.edu/-/sc15-societal-impact-of- earthquake-simulations-at-extreme-scale

9. 9 Events ICLR Friday Forum - IBC’s new flood maps: Leveraging data to effectively assess and manage flood risk, January 26, 2016, 10:00-11:30 EST: www.iclr.org and https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1838339833023362049www.iclr.org https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1838339833023362049 Canadian BCP and Emergency Management, Ottawa, ON, Canada, January 26-27, 2016, www.infonex.ca/1187/?id=BCIwww.infonex.ca/1187/?id=BCI SFU Hazard Change Caused by Climate Change, Vancouver, BC, February 22, 2016: http://cnhr.mhrisk.ca/index8.phphttp://cnhr.mhrisk.ca/index8.php RES/CON, New Orleans, LA, USA, March 1-3, 2016: http://resconnola.com/ http://resconnola.com/

10. 10 Events Climate Leadership Conference, Seattle, WA, USA, March 8-10, 2016: www.climateleadershipconference.orgwww.climateleadershipconference.org World Conference on Disaster Management, Toronto, ON, June 7-8, 2016, www.wcdm.orgwww.wcdm.org Association of State Floodplain Managers Annual Conference, Grand Rapids, Michigan, June 19-24, 2016, www.asfpmconference.org www.asfpmconference.org 41 st Annual Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop, Broomfield, CO, July 10-13, 2016, www.colorado.edu/hazards/workshop/current.html www.colorado.edu/hazards/workshop/current.html

11. 11 Risk Assessment User Survey Tamsin Lyle

12. Risk Assessment Way Forward Some Context National Disaster Mitigation Plan has mandate to “identify and mitigate high-risk flood areas” National Scale Geohazard Risk project has mandate to “support research of best practices” for risk mitigation NRCan currently supports risk assessment tools, including Hazus Time is right to check-in and evaluate the existing risk tools

13. Risk Assessment Way Forward Project Plan Between now and 5 th February we will be looking for users (current or potential) of risk assessment tools in Canada – YOU!!! We will be conducting 30- minute interviews (by phone, internet, in-person) to help define user needs. These will be used to develop the measures that will be used to compare tools Next month we will be targeting Hazus Canada users to learn more about its strengths and weaknesses

14. Risk Assessment Way Forward Want to help? Want more info? http://www.ebbwater.ca/wp/risk- assessment-user-needs-for-canada- survey/http://www.ebbwater.ca/wp/risk- assessment-user-needs-for-canada- survey/ CanadianRiskUser@ebbwater.ca Project Manager: Tamsin Lyle – 604.787.6856

15. Introduce yourself Any news, projects, ideas, suggestions, upcoming presentations or conferences of interest … Roundtable 15

16. 16 Presentation: Land Use Planning for Natural Hazards – A risk-based approach – Wendy Saunders, GNS Science http://www.gns.cri.nz/Home/RBP/Risk-based-planning/A-toolbox

17. Next CanHUG meeting is February 17, 2016 See you then! Please email if there is a speaker or topic you would like featured in future. malaika.ulmi@nrcan.gc.ca Thank you 17