If you are an individual
involved in disaster preparedness either before, during, or after disaster
events in North Carolina and/or nationwide, you are invited to this
workshop. By including
participants from all phases of disaster management in this workshop,
we will be able to
define the data needs, resources, and gaps throughout the disaster management
cycle.
The goals for this workshop are as follows:
• Define information needs to support a disaster
management system
• Establish the quality, format and location
of the data resources involved
• Identify data gaps and possibilities to improve
data collection and dissemination methods
• Verify commonality in disaster information
among multiple disaster types
• Define objectives for pre-disaster organized
data gathering teams
Registration costs are covered by a National Science Foundation grant
and as a result there
is no registration fee for the workshop. Links to registration materials
are below.
Invitation Letter
Registration Form
Tentative Workshop Agenda
This is an exciting opportunity for you to play a role in improving
disaster data management
in North Carolina.
Best regards,
The Workshop Planning Committee
North Carolina
State University:
Dr. Debra Laefer, Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental
Engineering
Dr. William Rasdorf, Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental
Engineering
North Carolina Emergency Management:
Dr. Ken Taylor, Director, North Carolina Division of Emergency Management
Institute of Disaster Studies:
Dr. Edd Hauser, Director, Center for Transportation Policy Studies,
UNC Charlotte
Dr. Stephen Meinhold, Department of Political Science, UNC Wilmington
For more information, please contact Elizabeth Harris by email
at eagrafpe@ncsu.edu
or by Fax at 919.515.7908 by Friday, October 15,2004