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From:
Cynthia Gardner <cgardner@xxxxxxxx>
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Dear Colleagues:
If you work with emergency responders to help mitigate the affects of
natural or volcanic disasters, please consider submitting an abstract to
the following session at Cities on Volcanoes 5 to be held in Shimabara,
Japan, November 19-23, 2007. Abstracts are due 31 May 2007. Travel grant
application are due 30 April 2007. We would equally interested in
abstracts from your emergency management/first responder counterparts,
so please alert them to this e-mail request. Meeting information is
found at: http://www.iavcei.org, or http://www.citiesonvolcanoes5.com
Session 2-1a. Responding to Natural Disasters: Case Histories with
Lessons for Volcano Crises
Although there are some aspects of volcanic crises that are somewhat
unique to volcanoes (long lead times before and duration of volcanic
events), many volcano hazard mitigation and response issues are common
to all large-scale natural disasters--for example, alert notification,
communication, evacuation, and public education. This symposium seeks to
draw upon the broader scientific and emergency management community that
has dealt with, or is planning for, large-scale natural disasters to
share their insights on what works and what doesn’t. The session will
focus on practical lessons and invite scientists, emergency responders
and managers, public officials, and the media to share case histories of
actual events, or of large-scale simulated events, to motivate
discussions on how to prepare for, and respond to, volcano crises that
communities. Case history topics of interest include, but are not
restricted to: alert-level notification systems; new technologies for
warning populations; interagency structures for crisis response; the
media’s role in public warnings; how to or not handle large relief
efforts; living with long-term volcanic activity; building an educated
emergency response community and evaluation of forecasting volcanic ash
hazard and alerting.
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Cynthia Gardner
Scientist-in-Charge
Cascades Volcano Observatory
1300 SE Cardinal Court
Vancouver, WA 98683
tel: 360-993-8914
Fax: 360-993-8981
web: http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov
e-mail: cgardner@xxxxxxxx
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