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April Monthly Luncheon

Wednesday, April 17, 2013 - 11:30AM


Westin Virginia Beach Town Center


Topic: New Geospatial Tools for Emergency Managers

Presenters: Panel Moderator is Neal Wright, PE, VP Dewberry, and Lauren Hand, Dewberry

Scope: Dewberry, under contract to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Mobile District and in coordination with the Federal Emergency Management Agency Region IV Office, conducted Hurricane Evacuation Studies (HES) for Mississippi and Alabama for FEMA’s National Hurricane Program. The purpose of this presentation is to demonstrate a new tool developed for these studies that uses ArcGIS to present hurricane and disaster planning maps, data and information from an HES in an easy to use form.

The presentation will highlight its portability for sharing location-based intelligence that can be easily accessed, queried, shared and updated by emergency managers. The tool provides non-GIS emergency managers and decision makers a way to interact with, query and make timely and better informed decisions during periods of disaster threats. Similar efforts are underway for the Georgia and South Carolina HES.

An additional application of the tool will be demonstrated showing how the GeoPDF could be used to display geo-spatial infrastructure data obtained from a project conducted by Auburn University’s Geospatial Research and Applications Center (GRAC), funded by a grant from the Economic Development Administration, to map surface level coastal utility infrastructure along Alabama’s gulf coast region.

Objectives:

1. Introduce the GeoPDF tool to the audience and demonstrate how it is being applied in several coastal States.

2. Show how the tool provides complete and simplified access to the data developed for the FEMA and USACE HES without having to have GIS capability.

3. Show how the tool can greatly expand a local government leader’s maker’s ability to make better informed and more timely decisions during times of impending disaster.

4. Demonstrate another application of the tool showing how coastal utility data can be mapped and used in the aftermath of a hurricane.

CE/PDH: This 50 minute presentation will provide with you one CEU credit/PDH credit.



Click here to register for this event

Registration deadline is noon on Monday, April 15.

Limited walk-ins will be available on a first-come, first-serve basis at the door. 

For registration problems, please contact the Post webmaster, Tom George, at tgeorge@fairwindscg.com








Membership

SAME Membership offers many benefits! Primarily the opportunity to meet and share ideas with other professionals from the government and private sector with the mutual goal of promoting a strong national defense. Most SAME activities are sponsored through a local Post, which makes it important to affiliate with a local Post to fully participate in SAME's many opportunities. The Hampton Roads Post of SAME has 100 Sustaining Member firms and over 500 individual members. Our primary gathering consists of a luncheon each month, featuring guest speakers addressing a wide range of engineering and construction related topics.

If you are interested in joining SAME, you may  sign up here. We hope you will decide to affiliate with the Hampton Roads Post. To do that simply enter Hampton Roads Post in the appropriate place under the Post and Dues section. We also have application forms available upon request.

If you desire additional information, please contact our Membership Chair, Captain George Bonner, U.S. Coast Guard.  If he is not available, you can contact any of our other Post Officers.


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