Coastal Hazards
Links and Resources
British Columbia - Provincial Emergency Management Program
The function of the Provincial Emergency Program (PEP) is to maintain effective awareness, preparedness, response and recovery programs to reduce the human and financial costs of emergencies and disasters.
Cascadia Region Earthquake Workgroup
The Cascadia Region Earthquake Workgroup (CREW) is a not-for-profit corporation of private and public representatives working together to improve the ability of Cascadia Region communities to reduce the effects of earthquake events.
Coastal Management Web
This clearinghouse is an independent venture focusing on coastal management issues.
Disaster, Hazard, Risk, and Emergency Management Research Centers
This site provides links to domestic and international research centers.
FEMA-Sustainability
This new planning section on the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Web site focuses on a vision of sustainable communities and shows communities how disaster prevention planning before a disaster strikes, and/or a planned recovery process after a disaster, can serve as a catalyst for making them more sustainable.
Hazards Forum
The Hazards Forum was established in 1989 by the four major engineering institutions, the Institutions of Civil, Electrical, Mechanical, and Chemical Engineers. The forum was set up because of concern about several major disasters, both technological and natural.
Hazard Reduction & Recovery Center
This center engages in research in hazard mitigation, disaster preparedness, response, and recovery.
HazNet
This site is a prototype natural and technological hazard information-sharing network. The site's goal is to enhance the timeliness, quality, quantity, specificity, and accessibility of information to individuals and groups concerned with preventing, mitigating, or preparing for large-scale natural and technological emergencies.
The Heinz Center - Sustainable Oceans, Coasts and Waterways
The H. John Heinz Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment is dedicated to improving the scientific and economic foundation for environmental policy through collaboration among the major sectors - industry, environmental organizations, governments, and academia - to identify issues, conduct and analyze scientific research and economic analyses, and develop and disseminate nonpartisan policy options for resolving key environmental challenges.
Hurricane Awareness Week
The goal of Hurricane Awareness Week is to educate the public about the hazards of hurricanes and provide them with knowledge which can be used to take action.
Institute for Business and Home Safety
The goal of this organization is to reduce property damage and loss of life from natural disasters through the use of structural and nonstructural initiatives.
Florida International University - International Hurricane Center
The International Hurricane Center is an interdisciplinary research center focused on the mitigation of hurricane damage to people, the economy, and the built and natural environments.
Maui Shoreline Change Web site
This site provides resources on historical shoreline changes for the Hawaiian areas of Kihei and Kaanapali, Maui, as well as Kailua Bay, Oahu. Maps, posters, textual descriptions, and geographic information system (GIS) data layers are available to study local shoreline changes over many decades. Measurements of these changes were obtained from survey-quality aerial photographs and historical NOAA Ocean Service topographical survey charts, known as T-sheets.
National Climatic Data Center
The world's largest archive of weather data.
Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder
The Natural Hazards Center, located at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA, is a national and international clearinghouse for information on natural hazards and human adjustments to hazards and disasters. The Natural Hazards Center carries out its mission in four principal areas: information dissemination, an annual workshop, research, and library services.
NOAA's National Weather Service (NWS)
The NWS conducts service assessments to evaluate performance for catastrophic weather events.
NOAA and NOAA News
This news story archive includes weather related publications.
NOAA Realtime Environmental Applications and Display sYstem (READY)
The source for interactive trajectory and dispersion modeling on the Web.
Pacific Disaster Center
A federal information processing facility that supports emergency managers in the Pacific and Indian Ocean regions
Pew Oceans Commission
The Pew Oceans Commission Web site.
Public Entity Risk Institute
Provides resources for the public, private, and nonprofit organizations on the practical enhancement of risk management.
Risk Analysis & Information Management (RAIMS)
Provides information on the Shellfish Information Management System (SIMS).
The University of Washington - Geophysics Program
An interdisciplinary program for the quantitative study of the Earth and its environment.
U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake Hazards Program
Provides information and data on earthquakes.
U.S. Geological Survey - Mapping Coastal Change Hazards
Looks at coastal change to such features as beach, dune, and sea-cliff erosion from natural hazard events.
Vulnerability Assessment Techniques and Applications (VATA)
Provides information on VAT workshops and identifies sources of useful tools, methodologies, applications, technical resources, and case studies to help communities mitigate for natural hazards.
Resources
Conferences and Workshops
Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder
A list of upcoming conferences, workshops, and training.
Publications
Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder
A list of publications.
1998 Year of the Ocean - Mitigating the Impacts of Coastal Hazards
Discussion paper.
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