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Strong Local Partnerships:The Keys to Success

62nd Interdepartmental Hurricane ConferenceTropical Cyclone Operations and Research: Priorities for the Future

3-7 March 2008Charleston, South Carolina

ModeratorDenise Stephenson Hawk, Ph.D.Associate Director, NCARDirector, SERE LaboratoryBoulder, Colorado

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SESSION FOCUS

Public Safety Recovery Resilience

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Definition

Re-sil-ience: The capacity of a system, community, or society potentially exposed to hazards to adapt in order to reach and maintain an acceptable level of functioning and structure.

From NOAA Guidance Memorandum FY2009-2013

What should we do?

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Operational Implementation

Predictions

Regional and Local Environments

Decision Tools

Integrating Research, Data and Information into End-use Knowledge Systems

Weather Research, Data and Information

Reliable Information Delivery

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How do we decide what to do?

Decisions are:

• Individual - Yes• Local - Yes• State – Yes• Regional - ? • National - ?• Global - ?

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OFCM-NCAR Partnership

Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology:

• Conducted an Exploratory Review on the Flow of Tropical Cyclone Information throughout Mobile, AL and Charleston, SC

• Partnered with NCAR to extend the time frame of information flow from hours before the storm to months and years before the storm

SERE – Societal-Environmental Research and Education Laboratory

Session 11

Strong Local Partnerships The Keys to Success

Moderator: Dr. Denise Stephenson Hawk, NCAR Associate Director and Director of the NCAR/SERE Laboratory

Panelists:

Ms. Cathy Haynes, Director, Charleston County Emergency Preparedness Division

Mr. Walt Dickerson, Director, Mobile County Emergency Management Agency

Mr. Michael Emlaw, Meteorologist-in-Charge, NWS Weather Forecast Office, Charleston, SC

Dr. Betty Hearn Morrow, Professor Emeritus, Florida International University, Consulting Sociologist

Ms. Naomi Moye, Hazards Communications Consultant

Mr. Ronald Glaser, Sandia National Laboratories, Program Manager, Integrated Public Alert and Warning System