Heard of NOAA’s Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management (OCRM), but not quite sure what they're all about? Have a look at their new site The OCRM in Your State, and use some fancy GIS'esq tools to navigate around the country and your state.
The OCRM in Your, »read moreTag Archives: publications
What Has the OCRM Done for You Lately?
Heard of NOAA’s Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management (OCRM), but not quite sure what they're all about? Have a look at their new site The OCRM in Your State, and use some fancy GIS'esq tools to navigate around the country and your state.
The OCRM in Your, »read moreEPA Launches Climate Ready Water Utilities
EPA has released another set of tools to help communities adapt to climate change: this time they're focusing on water and wastewater utilities.
If you only have a moment, start with the Climate Ready Water Utilities Toolbox. I know—another toolkit. But the EPA has taken an interesting strategy to address the primary challenge of toolkits: they're, »read moreTags: adaptation & mitigation, infrastructure, planning, publications, weather & climate
FEMA Releases Wind Retrofiting Guide
FEMA has released a new publication on how to best retrofit existing residential buildings. While it was designed with the Gulf of Mexico in mind, it should be applicable for coastal areas around the country (or at least those subject to major wind).
You can download the (large) PDF directly from FEMA's website., »read moreComprehensive (and Free!) Emergency Management Outreach Toolkit
. . . and when I say "comprehensive," I mean "comprehensive."
Ready.gov has come out with an emergency preparedness outreach plan they're calling Resolve to be Ready in 2011, and it includes everything from press releases, newsletters, and links to videos to (are you ready for this?) tweets that you can cut and paste to your twitter account.
Did I, »read moreNew NOAA PDF Answers Hurricane vs Oil Slick Questions
NOAA has released a short new PDF outlining how they expect the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill will affect this year's hurricanes. The short version: not much.
The two pages of "Hurricanes and the Oil Spill" attempt to concisely answer such questions as:
What will happen to a hurricane that runs through this oil slick? (Very little)
What will the hurricane, »read moreTags: publications, weather & climate
New Survey of Southeast Louisiana Residents Shows Most Planning to Evacuate
A new survey of residents of Southeast Louisiana finds that while 57% feel at least "moderately comfortable" with the area's levee systems, drainage pumps, and emergency warning systems, about 80% have "well developed" hurricane evacuation plans and say they are willing to evacuate in the face of a hurricane (see the graph for percentages of how many are, »read moreTags: hazard identification, Louisiana, publications, training & outreach, weather & climate
Study Finds Northeast Getting Fiercer Rainstorms
A new study is reporting that that precipitation in the northeastern portion of the United States has seen an increase in heavy rain events over the past 50 years. The report, authored by the Clean Air-Cool Planet and the University of New Hampshire's Carbon Solutions New England group, is based on an examination of National Weather Service precipitation, »read moreTags: adaptation & mitigation, infrastructure, publications, weather & climate
Risk Communication: Best Practices
The folks over at the NOAA Coastal Services Center recently released a two-page summary of risk communication specifically for those working in coastal hazards.
In addition to explaining the concept of risk and why our behavior in the face of risk is so complicated, it provides six best practices for those trying to communicate risk. In their words: , »read moreTags: publications, training & outreach
EPA Releases Water Quality Scorecard
Dealing with storms means dealing with stormwater. EPA has just released a new resource for local governments to help them do just that. In their words:
"EPA has released a first-of-its-kind water quality scorecard designed to help communities in rural, suburban and urban settings incorporate green infrastructure practices to protect local water quality, »read moreTags: infrastructure, publications
Preventing Human-Caused Disasters (Editorial)
"The best disaster response and recovery policy is advance planning, land use, and building codes to prevent a disaster from happening in the first place. Society has the experience and tools at its disposal to prevent many of the devastating impacts disasters have on humans."
In this month's Natural Hazards Observer (PDF), Edward A. Thomas and Sarah Bowen, »read moreTags: adaptation & mitigation, building, NAI, planning, publications
