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Future Eruptions in California's Long Valley Area-What's Likely?
"Long Valley Caldera and the Mono-Inyo Craters chain form a large volcanic complex in eastern California that has had persistent earthquake activity and ground uplift in recent decades. Volcanoes have been active in the area for millions of years, and future eruptions are certain to occur. When the next eruption in the area does occur, it will most likely be small and from a site in the Mono-Inyo chain."
United States. Department of the Interior; Geological Survey (U.S.)
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Mobile Response Team Saves Lives in Volcano Crises
"The world's only volcano crisis response team, organized and operated by the USGS, can be quickly mobilized to assess and monitor hazards at volcanoes threatening to erupt. Since 1986, the team has responded to more than a dozen volcano crises as part of the Volcano Disaster Assistance Program (VDAP), a cooperative effort with the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance of the U.S. Agency for International Development. The work of USGS scientists with VDAP has helped save countless lives, and the valuable lessons learned are being used to reduce risks from volcano hazards in the United States."
United States. Department of the Interior; Geological Survey (U.S.)
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Detainee Review Procedures at Bagram Theater Internment Facility (BTIF), Afghanistan (U)
This detainee review from United States Central Command provides procedures for detaining persons temporarily and detaining and interning persons at the Bagram Theater Internment Facility (BTIF).
United States. Central Command
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Emergency Preparedness and Response: Earthquakes
This online resource provides information about earthquakes. This includes public health issues, info for specific groups, and recovery resources.
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US Geological Survey: Latest Earthquakes
This dynamic map provides a list of and displays the location and size of world-wide earthquakes from the past 24 hours, with a magnitude of 2.5 or greater.
Geological Survey (U.S.)
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Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (website)
"Founded in 1984 with support from the National Science Foundation, the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) is a consortium of over 100 US universities dedicated to the operation of science facilities for the acquisition, management, and distribution of seismological data. IRIS programs contribute to scholarly research, education, earthquake hazard mitigation, and verification of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. IRIS is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization incorporated in the state of Delaware with its primary headquarters office located in Washington, DC."
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
2009
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Crime in America.Net [website]
"Crime in America.Net offers significant research and media accounts to provide a comprehensive view of criminality in the United States and beyond. The site is guided by criminologists and criminal justice specialists. It's a highly ranked site for crime, crime news, crime statistics, crime rates, violent crime and crime prevention according to blog directories and search engines. Crime in America.Net will post material deemed to have a major impact on crime and crime control policy. When research or a newspaper article has something significant to offer, the item will be posted. The site also carries newspaper blogs on crime plus resources from national and international criminal justice organizations. These sources are updated daily via RSS feeds."
Crime in America.Net
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Coast Guard Compass [blog]
"The Coast Guard Compass is the official report of the U.S. Coast Guard on its people and missions. The United States Coast Guard is a military, multimission, maritime service within the Department of Homeland Security and one of the nation's five armed services. The Coast Guard provides unique benefits to the nation because of its distinctive blend of military, humanitarian, and civilian law-enforcement capabilities. Its core roles are Maritime Safety, Maritime Security, Maritime Mobility, National Defense and the Protection of Natural Resources."
United States. Coast Guard
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DoD Live [blog]
This site provides up-to-date information about the Department of Defense. The site features a number of blogs related to the Department, including blogs entitled "Armed with Science; Bloggers Roundtable; Chairman's Corner; DoD News; Pentagon Channel."
United States. Department of Defense
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Kentucky Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program [website]
This web page offers information and links on Kentucky's Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program. From the site description: "The Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program (CSEPP) was created in 1985 when the US Congress passed a law directing the Army to dispose of its aging chemical weapons inventory with maximum protection of the public and environment as its primary consideration. Since its inception, the primary goal of CSEPP has been to educate and enhance emergency preparedness in communities surrounding the chemical stockpile stored at the Bluegrass Army Depot. There are 10 counties in Kentucky which are affected by the chemical stockpile. Madison County, where the Bluegrass Army Depot is located, is considered the Immediate Response Zone (IRZ). Clark, Powell, Estill, Jackson, Rockcastle and Garrard Counties make up the Protective Action Zone (PAZ). Fayette, Jessamine and Laurel Counties are considered Host counties, in which citizens of the IRZ or PAZ may be deployed. Until the chemical stockpile is safely destroyed, CSEPP will continue to support efforts to ensure a community's preparedness and safety in the unlikely event of a chemical agent accident."
Kentucky. Division of Emergency Management
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National Centers for Environmental Prediction: Strategic Plan 2009 - 2013
"NCEP [National Centers for Environmental Prediction] represents a critical national resource to operational and research communities affected by weather, water, climate and space weather. To meet the future needs of the ever-broadening user community and address the strategic climate-water-weather issues, NCEP continues to develop a Seamless Suite of Products. The 'seamless suite' describes a set of related products that are integrated and consistent across time and space, as well as across forecast applications. It spans all environmental prediction services and benefits from the unprecedented and ongoing explosion of scientific and technological advances within the research community. Using today's more powerful computers and sophisticated models, NCEP is able to establish the necessary linkages between environmental prediction services that are essential to a 'seamless suite' of NWS products. Benefits of this effort will extend across all time scales. These include immediate tactical forecasts related to the protection of life and property, guidance required to lengthen weather and climate predictions from days to weeks to months, and long-range characterizations of climate change."
National Centers for Environmental Prediction (U.S.)
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Public Health Law Program: Mutual Aid
"Mutual aid agreements can be effective tools to assist U.S. state and local governments, Tribes, Canadian provinces, First Nations, and Mexican states in sharing information, data, supplies, resources, equipment, or personnel for the purpose of protecting the public's health." Resources which can be accessed on the site include: "A Menu of Suggested Provisions for Public Health Mutual Aid Agreements" and "An Inventory of Mutual Aid Agreements and Related Resources."
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
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National Security Education Program (NSEP) [website]
"The National Security Education Program (NSEP) is a major Federal initiative designed to build a broader and more qualified pool of U.S. citizens with foreign language and international skills. It consists of five initiatives that represent broad strategic partnerships with the U.S. education community designed to serve the needs of U.S. national security and national competitiveness. These initiatives integrate the best components of language learning and international education developed in conjunction with progressively minded partners throughout the U.S. education community. NSEP focuses on the critical languages and cultures of Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America. Participants are involved in innovative, intensive, and long-term programs designed to provide meaningful opportunities to gain significant competencies in these languages and cultures. NSEP is unique in the commitment of its award recipients to proceed into public service upon completion of their academic studies. Each NSEP award recipient must demonstrate a commitment to bring his or her extraordinary skills to the Federal Government through employment within one of its many agencies and departments."
National Security Education Program (U.S.)
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Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) [website]
"The Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) is an independent, nonprofit, scientific research and communications organization supported solely by property insurers and reinsurers. IBHS' building safety research leads to real-world solutions for home and business owners, helping to create more resilient communities. At the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety, our mission is to conduct objective, scientific research to identify and promote the most effective ways to strengthen homes, businesses and communities against natural disasters and other causes of loss."
Institute for Business & Home Safety
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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: Responding to Bioterrorism
This Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's webpage offers clinicians, hospitals and healthcare systems, tools, training models and guidance on how to respond to bioterrorism.
United States. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation: Spill Prevention and Response [website]
"The mission of the Division of Spill Prevention and Response is to prevent, respond and ensure the cleanup of unauthorized discharges of oil and hazardous substances. The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation's Division of Spill Prevention and Response (SPAR) is responsible for protecting Alaska's land, waters, and air from oil and hazardous substance spills. Alaskans have made a concerted effort to prevent and clean up spills. Significant progress has been made in the safe handling, storage and transportation of oil and chemicals and the cleanup of historic contamination. We will never totally eliminate the risk of spills, but we are constantly learning how to better manage that risk." This website also includes information on several programs administered by SPAR.
Alaska. Division of Spill Prevention and Response; Alaska. Department of Environmental Conservation
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EPA [Environmental Protection Agency] Region 10's Emergency Response Program
This document is a power-point presentation of an overview of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) response plan for EPA region 10, which includes Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington and 267 Indian Tribes. This presentation includes details about actions the EPA is prepared to take in an emergency, equipment and personnel available, and also gives details about national capabilities.
United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Region X
Szerlog, Michael
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Facility Response Planning, Compliance Assistance Guide [Spanish]
"This guide is part of a series of compliance assistance guides that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) developed in order to help owners and operators of facilities that store or use oil, as well as other interested people, to better understand the Federal Oil Pollution Prevention regulation (40 CFR part 112). If you own or operate a facility that stores or uses oil, these guides will help you to determine whether the regulation applies to you. They also provide descriptions of some of the basic requirements you will be expected to meet if the regulation does apply to your facility." This document is in Spanish, but is also available in English.
United States. Environmental Protection Agency
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Facility Response Planning, Compliance Assistance Guide
"This guide is part of a series of compliance assistance guides that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) developed in order to help owners and operators of facilities that store or use oil, as well as other interested people, to better understand the Federal Oil Pollution Prevention regulation (40 CFR part 112). If you own or operate a facility that stores or uses oil, these guides will help you to determine whether the regulation applies to you. They also provide descriptions of some of the basic requirements you will be expected to meet if the regulation does apply to your facility." This document is also available in Spanish.
United States. Environmental Protection Agency
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Storm Prediction Center [website]
This website has real time information regarding weather, specifically storm predictions.
United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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Direct Relief [website]
"Direct Relief is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that provides medical assistance to people around the world who have been affected by poverty, natural disasters, and civil unrest. [...] Direct Relief's assistance programs are tailored for the particular circumstances and needs of those who have suffered from the effects of natural and man-made disasters. Direct Relief also establishes partnerships with local organizations to provide health services to people in rural areas of a country that are poor and lack basic healthcare infrastructure."
Direct Relief International
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LCRA: Energy, Water, Community Services (Lower Colorado River Authority, Texas) [website]
"The mission of the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) is to provide reliable, low-cost utility and public services in partnership with our customers and communities and to use our leadership and environmental authority to ensure the protection and constructive use of the area's natural resources. LCRA is a Texas conservation and reclamation district operating with no taxing authority".
Lower Colorado River Authority
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Texas Association of Counties [website]
The Texas Association of Counties (TAC) "is the representative voice for all Texas counties and county officials and, through TAC, counties communicate the county perspective to state officials and the general public. Understanding the way county government works and the value of county services helps state leaders preserve counties' ability to serve their residents effectively."
Texas Association of Counties
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Citizen Corps Volunteer Liability Guide: An Overview of Legal Issues and Approaches to Address Liability for Emergency Volunteers
"FEMA has learned from Citizen Corps Councils, volunteer program managers, and volunteers that liability is a significant concern and a potential barrier to volunteer involvement in emergency services. Liability--legal responsibility for one's acts or omissions--includes diverse concerns: legally imposed payment of damages for personal injury or property damage; penalties for practicing a profession or trade without the required license or permit; compensation for lost income and medical expenses of an injured volunteer; and damages for breach of contract. To offer guidance in this area, FEMA funded the nonprofit Public Entity Risk Institute (PERI) to develop the Citizen Corps Volunteer Liability Guide (CCVLG) to provide an overview of liability and to suggest some approaches to addressing these concerns. The material in this Guide is offered for general information purposes only. It does not provide legal advice, and the user is encouraged to seek out state-specific counsel from a qualified attorney before taking any action. This Guide also does not address specialized liability issues, such as liability based on credentialing and privileging of healthcare workers, accreditation of healthcare facilities, privacy laws, and quarantine decisions. Descriptions of statutory provisions have been paraphrased to make them easier to read, and the user is encouraged to review the complete statutory language. Links to all state statutory websites have been provided for this purpose. Finally, while there can be no guarantees against being sued, being informed on the issues can minimize your risk."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
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FBI: National Data Exchange (N-DEx)
This webpage provides information on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI's) National Data Exchange (N-DEx) program. "N-DEx provides criminal justice agencies with an online tool for sharing, searching, linking, and analyzing information across jurisdictional boundaries. A national repository of criminal justice records submitted by agencies from around the nation, N-DEx enables users to 'connect the dots' between data on people, places, and things that may seem unrelated in order to link investigations and investigators. N-DEx is an unclassified national information sharing system that enables criminal justice agencies to search, link, analyze, and share local, state, tribal, and federal records."
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
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Library of Congress: United States Elections Web Archive
"The United States Elections Web Archive includes sites archived weekly during the election seasons since 2000, documenting sites associated with the Presidential, Congressional, and gubernatorial elections. The campaign sites archived for the U.S. Elections typically include social media channels as well, in order to provide a fuller representation of how candidates presented themselves via the Internet to the electorate. In previous United States Election web archive collections the Library of Congress included web sites of political parties, government, advocacy groups, bloggers, and other individuals and groups expressing relevant views - these types of web sites are now collected and presented separately in the ongoing Public Policy Topics Web Archive."
Library of Congress
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Library of Congress: September 11, 2001 Web Archive
"The September 11, 2001 Web Archive preserves the web expressions of individuals, groups, the press and institutions in the United States and from around the world in the aftermath of the attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001. The selected websites are comprised broadly of United States and non-United States government sites; press, corporate/business, portal, charity/civic, advocacy/interest, religious, school/educational, individual/volunteer, professional organizations sites; and others."
Library of Congress
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Remarks at the United States Institute of Peace by Hillary Rodham Clinton [video]
This video is of the speech given by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at the annual Dean Acheson lecture at the United States Institute of Peace. Some topics addressed by the Secretary of State include: current nuclear proliferation challenges, the IAEA, and reducing the number of nuclear weapons that the United States has. This video runs approximately 50 minutes. A transcript of the speech is also available in the HSDL collection.
United States. Department of State
Clinton, Hillary Rodham
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National Youth Gang Survey Analysis
"Since 1996, the National Youth Gang Center (NYGC) has conducted an annual survey of law enforcement agencies to assess the extent of gang problems by measuring the presence, characteristics, and behaviors of local gangs in jurisdictions throughout the United States. The National Youth Gang Survey (NYGS) is based on a nationally representative sample of law enforcement agencies serving larger cities, suburban counties, smaller cities, and rural counties. This Web resource contains analysis and findings from the ongoing National Youth Gang Surveys. Numerous charts and descriptions are provided as a resource for understanding gang problems. Standard questions asked each year include the following in these charts: the presence or absence of gang activity, the number of gangs and gang members, the number of homicides involving gangs, and the assessment of the gang problem from the previous year. Other questions asked are also included in these charts; however, these questions are asked intermittently and not every survey year. The questions include year of gang onset, demographic characteristics of gang members, gang unit operation, gang-member migration patterns, gang-related offenses, definitional characteristics of a gang, and designations of gang membership."
United States. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
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Emerging Arctic: A New Maritime Frontier
This presentation was created by the U.S. Coast Guard and presents information on current changes in the Arctic, the work of the Coast Guard and others in the Arctic, the changing nature of Coast Guard missions in the Arctic, and Arctic Operations during Summer 2008. This presentation includes many maps of the Arctic region and images of work done there. Additionally, this presentation touches on the following topics : boundary claims, maritime traffic management, coastal erosion, growing eco-tourism, expanded resource exploration, species movement north, LORAN (Long Range Navigation), Coast Guard service, missions, and operations in the Arctic, marine safety and law enforcement, environmental response, homeland security issues, defense readiness, expanded scientific research, and coastal community engagement.
United States. Coast Guard
