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Here's the latest from DISASTER RESEARCH  July 28, 1992

                DISASTER RESEARCH 96
                 TABLE OF CONTENTS:

  A Passel of Conferences, Meetings, Workshops, Training

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Conference on New Technology for Structural Collapse. Sponsor: National
Institute for Urban Search and Rescue (NIUSR). La Jolla, California: August
21-23, 1992. Contact: NIUSR, P.O. Box 91648, Santa Barbara, CA 93190-1648.

National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) 1992 Conference. Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma: August 23-27, 1992. Contact: Marty Naugher, NDMS '92 Registrar,
Department of Veterans Affairs, Birmingham Regional Medical Education Center,
930 South 20th Street, Birmingham, AL 35205, (205) 933-8101, ext. 6934 + ext.
5240.

Mitigation 101 Workshop: A comprehensive workshop on cost-effective techniques
to reduce hazards due to earthquakes and other disasters. Sponsor: Central
United States Earthquake Consortium (CUSEC). St. Louis, Missouri: September
10-11, 1992. Contact: CUSEC, Mitigation 101 Workshop, 2630 East Holmes Road,
Memphis, TN 38118-8001, (901) 345-0932; fax: (901) 345-0998.

16th Annual National Council of State Emergency Medical Services Training
Coordinators Conference. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: September 13-18, 1992.
Contact: NCSEMSTC, Iron Works Pike, P.O. Box 11910, Lexington, KY 40578, (606)
252-2291.

1992 National Emergency Management Association (NEMA) Annual Conference.
Columbus, Ohio: September 19-23, 1992. Contact: NEMA Staff, c/o Council of
State Governments, Iron Works Pike, P.O. Box 11910, Lexington, KY 40578-1910,
(606) 231-1876.

Annual EMS Management Academy. Kansas City, Missouri: September 30-October 4,
1992. Contact: Fitch & Associates, P.O. Box 170, Platte City, MO 64079-0170,
(816) 431-2600.

National Earthquake Training Conference and Seismic Products Exhibit. Sponsor:
Masonry Institute of Tennessee, FEMA, CUSEC, and others. Jackson, Tennessee:
November 10-12, 1992. Contact the Masonry Institute of Tennessee, 1136 Second
Avenue North, Nashville, TN 37208-1702, (615) 244-3090; fax: (615) 242-7674.

American Geophysical Union (AGU) 1992 Fall Meeting. San Francisco, California:
December 7-11, 1992. A call for papers on Tsunami Generation and Runup
(session 003) has been issued. For details on submission, contact: 1992 Fall
Meeting, AGU, 2000 Florida Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20009.

1992 National Committee on Property Insurance (NCPI) Annual Forum - Natural
Disasters: Perceiving our Vulnerabilities and Understanding our Perceptions.
Boston, Massachusetts: December 16, 1992. Contact: Karen Gahagan, Director of
Information Services, NCPI, Ten Winthrop Square, Boston, MA 02110-1273.

Fourth Multidisciplinary Conference on Sinkholes and the Engineering and
Environmental Impacts of Karst. Sponsor: Florida Sinkhole Research Institute.
Panama City, Florida: January 25-27, 1993. Contact: Florida Sinkhole Research
Institute, Research Building Alpha, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
32816, (407) 823-5645.

Cross-Training: Light the Torch. Association of State Floodplain Managers
(ASFPM) 17th Annual Conference. Atlanta, Georgia: March 15-18, 1993. Contact:
Alexis Harris, Floodplain Management Office, Georgia Department of Natural
Resources, 7 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive S.W., Atlanta, GA 30334, (404) 656-
6382; fax: (404) 651-9425.

Lessons from the Loma Prieta Earthquake: Implications for Practice. Sponsor:
Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI). San Francisco, California:
March 22-24, 1993. Contact: EERI, 499 14th Street, Suite 320, Oakland, CA
94612-1902, (510) 451-0905; fax: (510) 451-5411.

Seminar on Drought Management and Preparedness. Sponsors: NOAA, UNEP, WMO and
others. Montevideo, Uruguay: March 22-26, 1993. A limited amount of financial
support is available for participants from Latin America and the Caribbean.
Interested persons should contact: Dr. Donald Wilhite, 241 L.W. Chase Hall,
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68583-0728, (402) 472-6707; fax: (402)
472-6614; telex: UNL Comm LCN 484340.

International Emergency Management and Engineering Conference (EMC 1993):
Research and Applications. (Part of the Society for Computer Simulation (SCS)
1993 Multiconference.) Arlington, VA: March 29-April 1, 1993. Contact: Jim
Sullivan at (214) 888-8804; e-mail: gaa201@utdallas.bitnet. Or write:
Emergency Management and Engineering Conference (EMC 1993), c/o The Society
for Computer Simulation, P.O. Box 17900, San Diego, CA 92177, (619) 277-3888;
fax: (619) 277-3930.

25th International Symposium on Remote Sensing and Global Environmental
Change: Tools for Sustainable Development. Sponsors: Consortium for
International Earth Science Information Network and others. Graz, Austria:
April 4-8, 1993. The organizers' call for papers includes a solicitation for
presentations on disaster monitoring and mitigation. Contact: Environmental
Research Institute of Michigan (ERIM) International Symposium, P.O. Box
134001, Ann Arbor, MI 48113-4001, (313) 994-1200, ext. 3234; fax: (313) 994-
5123.

Second World Congress on Stress, Trauma, and Coping in the Emergency Services
Professions. Sponsor: The International Critical Incident Stress Foundation,
Inc. Baltimore, Maryland: April 28-May 2, 1993. Contact: Conference
Coordinator, ICISF, 5018 Dorsey Hall Drive, Suite 104, Ellicott City, MD
21042, (410) 730-4311.

20th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology. Sponsor: American
Meteorological Society. San Antonio, Texas: April/May 1993 (dates to be
determined). Contact: Hugh E. Willoughby, Program Chair, NOAA/AOML/Hurricane
Research Division, 4301 Rickenbacker Causeway, Miami, FL 33149-1097, (305)
361-4407; fax: (305) 361-4402.

Climate Change, Natural Disasters, and Agricultural Strategies. Beijing,
China: May 26-29, 1993. Contact: Prof. Lu Guangming, Beijing Agricultural
University, 100094 Beijing, China; fax: 86-01-2582332.

Sixth International Conference on Permafrost. Beijing, China: July 5-9, 1993.
Contact: Prof. Cheng Guodong, Secretariat for the Sixth International
Conference on Permafrost, Lanzhou Institute of Glaciology and Geocryology,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China; telex: 72008 IGGAS CN;
fax: 86-931-485241.

Rescue '93: Trade Exhibition for Disaster Management and Relief. Utrecht,
Holland: November 24-26, 1993. Contact: Jaarbeurs Sales and Service,
Jaarbeursplein 6 3521 Al Utrecht, P.O. Box 8500 RM Utrecht, the Netherlands;
tel: +3130-955587; fax: +3130-961660; telex: 47132 JAARB NI.

Fifth U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering. Sponsor: Earthquake
Engineering Research Institute (EERI). Chicago, Illinois: July 10-14, 1994.
Contact: EERI, 499 14th Street, Suite 320, Oakland, CA 94612-1902, (510) 451-
0905; fax: (510) 451-5411.

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