# Presentation: 753198

## Forum On

**Forum On**
**RISK MANAGEMENT**
**AND**
**ASSESSMENTS OF**
**NATURAL HAZARDS**
**“****Toward a Safer America: Building Natural Hazard Resistant Communities Through Risk Management and Assessments”**
**February 5 - 6, 2001**

## 
James Harrison, Deputy Federal Coordinator
Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research

**James Harrison, Deputy Federal Coordinator**
**Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research**

***ADMINISTRATIVE REMARKS***

**DAY 2**
**RISK MANAGEMENT AND ASSESSMENTS OF NATURAL HAZARDS**
**“****Toward a Safer America: Building Natural Hazard Resistant Communities Through Risk Management and Assessments”**

**Notes:**
[Self - Introduction.]

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**This forum is being audio recorded to aid in the development of the proceedings.**
**Audio tapes will ****NOT**** be made available or distributed!  **

**Notes:**
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## LOGISTICS

_**BALLROOM**_
- Registration and Coat Room
- General Session
- Refreshment Breaks and Luncheon @ Day
- One Breakout Session @ Day (Sessions 1B & 2B)
- Poster and Display Area
- Restrooms - Just Outside, Near Elevator
- Phones: Just outside near elevator and in Hotel Lobby
- Phone Messages: Use (202) 638-5900, Posted by Coat Room
_**MEZZANINE LEVEL (MZ)**_
- 2 Breakout Sessions @ Day:
- Council Room (Sessions 1A & 2A)
- Caucus Room (Sessions 1C & 2C)

## AGENDA

**Today**

- Recap of Day 1 Panel and Breakout Sessions by Moderators
-  Panel - Col (sel) Mark Welshinger, (USAF) Assistant 	    Federal Coordinator for Department of Defense/ 	    Air Force and Army Affairs, OFCM
-  1A	Mr. Michael Buckley, Director, Technical Services 		Division, Mitigation Directorate, FEMA
-  1B	Dr. David Cleaves, National Program Leader, Fire 		Systems Research, Research and Development, Vegetation 	Management and Protection Research, USFS
-  1C	Dr. Christopher Adams, Research Scientist, CIRA, 	Colorado State University

## AGENDA

- Moderator:  Dr. Stuart Nishenko, Earthquake Policy Advisor, Mitigation Directorate, FEMA
- SNDR Strategic Plan, Dr. Stuart Nishenko
- US Forest Service - Dr. David Cleaves, National Program Leader, Fire Systems Research
- US Dept. Agriculture - Dr. Steven Shafer, National Program Leader,  Global Change
- National Institute of Standards and Technology - Dr. David Evans, Chief, Fire Safety Engineering Division
- National Weather Service  - Mr. Donald Wernly, Chief,  Performance
- and Awareness Division, Office of Climate, Water, and Weather Services
- US Geological Survey - Dr. Timothy Cohn, Theme Coordinator for Hazards

***AGENDA***

**Today**

## AGENDA

- US Army Corps of Engineers - Mr. Ronald R. Conners
- Environmental Protection Agency - Mr. James Makris, Director, CEPPO
- Housing and Urban Development - Mr. William E. Freeborne, Mechanical 					Engineer
- NOAA Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research - Dr. John Gaynor, 			Director, US Weather Research Program
- National Science Foundation- Dr. Ann Bostrom, Program Director, 		Decision, Risk, and Management Sciences Program
- Bureau of Economic Analysis - Dr. Barbara Fraumeni, Chief Economist
- Federal Emergency Management Agency - Ms. Donna Dannels, Director, Policy and Assessment Division, Mitigation Directorate
- US Nuclear Regulatory Commission - Dr. Andrew J. Murphy, Senior Technical Advisor, Division of Engineering Technology
- National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service -           Ms. Frances Holt, Chief, Atmospheric  Research and Applications

***AGENDA***

**Today**

## AGENDA

- Media and Disasters:
-   Why we are not the Enemy
- Mr. Daniel Dubno
-  Producer and Technologist, CBS News Special Events

***AGENDA***

**Today**

## AGENDA

- 2A: How to Characterize/Reconcile the Tradeoffs... (Council Room, MZ)
-   Moderator:  Dr. John Sorensen, Director, Emergency Management
- 				Program, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (DOE)
- 2B: How do we improve/change policies....				    (Ballroom)
-   Moderator:  Dr. Ben Wisner, Environmental Studies Program, 										Oberlin College
- 2C: Risk Management and Public Perception of 			 (Caucus Room, MZ) 				Vulnerabilities...
-   Moderator:  Dr. Betty Hearn Morrow, Director, Lab for Social and 								Behavioral Research, International Hurricane Center, Florida 								International University

***AGENDA***

**Today**

## AGENDA

- 	2A	 Dr. John Sorensen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- 	2B 	 Dr. Ben Wisner, Oberlin College
- 	2C	 Dr. Betty Hearn Morrow, Florida International	University

***AGENDA***

**Today**

## AGENDA

-  Moderator:  **Dr. Susan Cutter**, President, Association of American	Geographers and Director, Hazards Research Laboratory, University of 	South Carolina
**	****	****Dr. Ronald McPherson****, **Executive Director, American Meteorological Society
- •**	****	****Dr. Robert Hamilton****,  **Deputy Executive Director, Division on Earth and	Life Studies, National Research Council
- •**	****	****Dr. Margaret Davidson****, **Acting Assistant Administrator for Ocean Services and Coastal Zone Management, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- •**	****  ****Dr. Robert Hirsch****, **Associate Director for Water, U.S. Geological Survey**	****	**** **
- •**	****	****Mr. Robert F. Shea,**** **Director, Program Support Division, Mitigation Directorate, Federal Emergency Management Agency

***AGENDA***

**Today**

## AGENDA

**	****	****Mr. Samuel P. Williamson, **** **Federal Coordinator for Meteorology
**	****	****Ms. Margaret Lawless****, **Chairperson of the Subcommittee for Natural Disaster Reduction (SNDR) and Acting Executive Associate Director for Mitigation, FEMA

***AGENDA***

**Today**

## Next

**Recap of Day 1**

**Day 1 Panel: Colonel (Sel) Mark Welshinger, OFCM (USAF)**
**1A: Mr. Michael Buckley, FEMA**
**1B: Dr. David Cleaves, USFS**
**1C: Dr. Christopher Adams, CIRA, Colorado State Univ.**