Mastodawn

Trump Nominates Cameron Hamilton to Lead FEMA

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/climate/trump-fema-cameron-hilton.html

#Politics #Government #EmergencyManagement

Trump Nominates Cameron Hamilton to Lead FEMA

President Trump chose Cameron Hamilton to direct federal disaster response. As acting head of FEMA last year, he had opposed abolishing the agency and was ousted.

The New York Times

NYT > Science 5d ago

Trump Nominates Cameron Hamilton to Lead FEMA

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/climate/trump-fema-cameron-hilton.html

#Politics #Government #EmergencyManagement

Trump Nominates Cameron Hamilton to Lead FEMA

President Trump chose Cameron Hamilton to direct federal disaster response. As acting head of FEMA last year, he had opposed abolishing the agency and was ousted.

The New York Times

Global News Calgary Apr 23

Calgary emergency management agency moving to create urban wildfire plan
Calgary's emergency management agency is proactively preparing for potential disasters in our city by implementing an urban wildfire plan.
#Canada #cityofcalgary #Wildfire
https://globalnews.ca/news/11813121/calgary-emergency-management-agency-urban-wildfire-plan/

Cadmus Apr 21

Finished up attending a state preparedness conference this last week. The keynote speaker who has a PhD in '#AI in #EmergencyManagement'. What entailed was a nearly two hour-long ad for ai and robots. The what now feels old shtick of 'if you don't hop onto the planet-burning bandwagon, you'll be left behind. Robots will run shelters and do all #SAR.'

#ClimateEmergency #Drought #ColumbiaRiver

Inky says "What the hell?!"Apr 21

An interesting look at how messaging and disinformation impact actual emergencies and what can be done about it. The short anwser is there is a way though but it will take work to be durable.

https://climateandsecurity.org/2026/04/fires-and-falsehoods-in-california/

#climatechange #emergencymanagement #messaging #disinformation #california

Fires and Falsehoods in California

Information manipulation around extreme weather, climate resilience, and the clean energy transition will continue to proliferate as climate change impacts worsen.

The Center for Climate & Security

💧🌏 Greg Cocks Apr 21

Influence Of Modeling Assumptions On Pedestrian Evacuation Success For Non-Eruptive Lahar Hazards At Mount Rainier, Washington
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2026.106132 <-- shared paper
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https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/697ba3e5b66b0197c3043d2f <-- shared, related open data source
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[I still remember working on and being fascinated by lahars being an engineering geologist in Washington State (and from my time studying in New Zealand), although (of course) not to this level of detail/focus]
#volcano #lahar #evacuation #exposure #model #modeling #engineeringeology #risk #hazard #naturalhazard #MountRainer #Washington #USA #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #emergencymanagement #GIS #spatial #mapping #publicsafety #hazardzone #vulcanism #downstream #debrisflow #massmovement #monitoring #detection #geostatistics #demographics #atrisk #fedscience #publicgood #fedservice #opendata
@USGS

Derek Law Apr 7

In 1 week, @esri webinar: #Tech Integrations for #RealTime Decisions https://tinyurl.com/3269xvc8

#EmergencyManagement #location #business #spatial #intelligence #GIS #esri #arcgis #geospatial #GISchat @esrifederalgovt @esrislgov @gispublicsafety @esritraining

CBC North Apr 2

Q & A | N.W.T. adding 5th rating to fire danger level ahead of wildfire season
Mike Westwick, the N.W.T.’s wildfire prevention and mitigation manager, spoke to CBC News about the new rating level and other changes being made ahead of wildfire season.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/wildfire-season-emergency-danger-communication-9.7150863?cmp=rss