All-Hazards:
- Five States Diverted 911 Fees for Other Purposes, FCC Says (Rt Fifty)
- Levees: Flooding Damage to Levees Is Cumulative—and Often Invisible (HSNW)
- Drones Are Helping Texas First Responders Plan for the Worst (Gov Tech)
- The Economic Effects of Financial Relief Delays Following a Natural Disaster (Economic Systems Research)
- First Fires, Then Floods. Now Australians Need To Watch Out For Deadly Funnel-Web Spiders, Experts Say (CNN)
Resilience:
- Federal Coastal Plan Recommends Way to Protect New Haven from Rising Seas(New Haven Register)
- Wildfires: Before We Rush to Rebuild after Fires, We Need to Think about Where and How (HSNW)
- Fighting Wildfire with Fire: New Study Looks at Barriers to ‘Prescribed’ Burns (Rt Fifty)
- Virginia Beach’s New Flooding Models Are as Advanced as any in the United States (Virginian-Pilot)
- 4 Earthquakes Hit the S.C. Midlands in the Last 2 Months (EM / GovTech)
- Untrained Volunteers Add to Chaos of Animal Rescue During Wildfires (EM / GovTech)
- Resilience: From Bush Fires to Terrorism: How Communities Become Resilient (HSNW)
Public Health / Biosurveillance:
- Public-Private Cooperation for Pandemic Preparedness And Response: A Call To Action (Center for Health Security)
- Harnessing Wearable Device Data to Improve State-Level Real-Time Surveillance of Influenza-Like Illness in the USA: A Population-Based Study (The Lancet: Digital Health)
- WHO raises possibility of ‘sustained’ human-to-human transmission of new virus in China (STAT News)
- How China’s Mystery Pneumonia Illness is Different from SARS (Washington Post)
- Screening for Coronavirus to Expand to Chicago, Atlanta Airports (The Hill)
- New China Virus: Five Questions Scientists Are Asking (Nature)
Critical Infrastructure & Cyber:
- North Dakota Cyberattacks Skyrocket to 15 Million a Month (Governing)
- Radiation risks: Securing Radiological Sources on the Go (HSNW)
Innovations & Interconnections:
- Climate Mitigation: The Prospects of Climate Engineering (HSNW)
- The Limits of Green Capitalism (New Statesman)
- A GREAT Opportunity for Greater Government Fiscal Transparency (Governing) Editors’ note: The GREAT Act, updates the Single Audit Act, and requires recipients of federal money to reported financial information in fully-searchable and machine-readable formats.
Training & Professional Development
Panel Discussion “Climate Change and the Australian Bushfires: A Singular Catastrophe or The New Normal?” Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) For further information: http://www.csis.org or Andrew Schwartz at 202-775-3242.
- Date/Time: Monday, Jan. 27, 5 p.m. ET
- Location: 1616 Rhode Island Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.
Subcommittee Hearing – House: “Out of Control: The Impact of Wildfires on our Power Sector and the Environment.” A joint hearing by the Energy Subcommittee and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee
- Date/Time: Tuesday, Jan. 28, 10 a.m. ET
- Location: 2123 Rayburn Bldg.
Webinars on Business Continuity Planning: (Disaster Recovery Journal) A business continuity plan (BCP) outlines procedures and instructions an organization must follow in the event of major disruption to the delivery of critical products & services to key customers. Many industry pundits, consultants are of the firm belief that a Business Impact Analysis (BIA) should automatically lead to a unique Business Continuity Plan. The author of these webinars introduces Capability Assessment, Risk Assessment, among other analytical components, in arriving at viable business resumption strategies:
- Date/Time: Wednesday, February 5, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET
- Date /Time : Wednesday, February 12, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET
Key Resources
Netflix Docu-series: “Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak” (2020 | TV-14 | 1 Season | Science & Technology Docuseries) In this docuseries, meet the heroes on the front lines of the battle against influenza and learn about their efforts to stop the next global outbreak.
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