Just announced: the 2010 Coastal Resilience Symposium will be held at Rice University (Houston) on May 26th. From the event’s new webpage: “Hurricane Ike was not the “Big One” for the Houston area, but it gave us a much clearer picture of what we might expect should a large hurricane make landfall to our southwest. […]
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FEMA Grants Conference Call—February 5
Posted on January 28, 2010
A friend just passed this announcement our way: The DHS Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives would like to connect you to some of our colleagues in FEMA and share information on specific grant programs to strengthen your resilience against hazards. The call will provide an overview of four programs: Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI) […]
EVENT: Southeast Stormwater Association's Conference, October 6-8, Biloxi
Posted on January 12, 2010
The folks over at the Southeast Stormwater Association have set the date and location of their annual conference: October 6-8 at the Beau Rivage in Biloxi. According to the event’s webpage, the organizers aim to “bring quality training to stormwater professionals,” specifically targeting local, state and federal government administrators and regulators; developers, builders, contractors; land […]
NEW StormSmart Coasts Network Calendar
Posted on December 14, 2009
We’ve started pulling together a calendar for the site that will list events we think would be useful for our readers across the network. It’s not much yet — little more than a list of events we’ve heard about recently — but we’ve got big plans. Once we get it populated we’ll make it look […]
GIS Training (Mobile, AL: January 5th)
Posted on November 23, 2009
This from the fine folks at the Coastal States Organization: “On January 5 there will be a GIS training for coastal resource professionals in Mobile, Alabama on the Habitat Priority Planner. The tool is a geographic information system (GIS)-based tool used to make decisions about land use, conservation, and restoration. Different scenarios can be quickly […]
Legal Seminar on Post-Katrina Insurance
Posted on October 19, 2009
From our friends at the Gulf of Mexico News: The Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Legal Program will sponsor “Post-Katrina Insurance Developments and Other Legal Issues,” a continuing legal education (CLE) seminar for Mississippi attorneys and other interested people, from 8:30 a.m. until 4:15 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 30, at the Mississippi State University Coastal Research and […]
Gulf Coast Regional Ocean Policy Task Force: New Orleans, Oct. 19
Posted on October 15, 2009
From a White House press release: Obama Administration officials will hold a Gulf Coast Regional Ocean Policy Task Force Public Meeting in New Orleans on Monday, October 19, 2009. The Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force, led by White House Council on Environmental Quality Chair Nancy Sutley, consists of senior-level officials from Administration agencies, departments, and […]