The University of New Orleans Center for Hazards Assessment, Response and Technology (UNO-CHART) will hold a national disaster resilience workshop at the Lindy C. Boggs International Conference Center February 16-18.
Tony Russell, the regional administrator for FEMA Region VI, will speak at the opening plenary session at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, February 16.
The conference, which is entitled “Building Partnerships in Mitigation,” will bring together leading thinkers and practitioners to share ideas on mitigation and disaster resilience. Some of the topics that will be discussed will be conducting risk assessments, short and long-term recovery, partnerships with community stakeholders, coordination with local and state officials, preparing for pandemics, campus violence and involving students in mitigation planning.
Featured speakers include a number of professors from UNO and other Louisiana universities as well as those from as far away as the University of California-Berkeley and the University of Washington.The workshop will be held in the Boggs conference center on Wednesday and Thursday and will conclude with a mitigation bus tour around the city on Friday morning.
Registration for the workshop is $25, and the fee includes lunch. The event is free to students. For more information, contact Monica Farris, director of UNO-CHART, at (504) 280-4016 or monica.farris@uno.edu. To register, visit http://events.signup4.com/dru2011.
The workshop is made possible by FEMA through a grant from the Louisiana Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness.