Transcript Strong Local Partnerships: The Keys to Success

Strong Local Partnerships:
The Keys to Success
62nd Interdepartmental Hurricane Conference
Tropical Cyclone Operations and Research: Priorities for the Future
3-7 March 2008
Charleston, South Carolina
Moderator
Denise Stephenson Hawk, Ph.D.
Associate Director, NCAR
Director, SERE Laboratory
Boulder, Colorado
SERE – Societal-Environmental Research and Education Laboratory
SESSION FOCUS
 Public Safety
 Recovery
 Resilience
SERE – Societal-Environmental Research and Education Laboratory
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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Integrating Research, Data and Information
into End-use Knowledge Systems
Weather Research,
Data and Information
Reliable Information
Delivery
Predictions
Regional and
Local
Environments
Operational
Implementation
Decision Tools
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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
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