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Energy Disruptions [map]
This real-time map from the U.S. Energy Information Administration "tracks and reports on selected significant storms that impact or could potentially impact energy infrastructure."
United States. Energy Information Administration
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Superstorm Research Lab (SRL) [website]
"The Superstorm Research Lab (SRL) is a mutual aid research collective working to understand the changes in how New York City policy actors, NGO [Non-Governmental Organization] leaders, activists, volunteers, and residents are thinking about social, economic and environmental issues following Hurricane Sandy. We produce traditional academic articles, but we are also pushing the boundaries of what it means to do scholarly work founded on the desire to create change."
Superstorm Research Lab
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Preventing Youth Violence: Program Activities Guide
"Violent injury and death disproportionately affect adolescents and young adults in the United States. Although homicide rates have dropped in recent years, rates remain unacceptably high. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS) indicate that homicide is the second leading cause of death among 15- to 24-year-olds overall. In this age group, homicide is the number one cause of death among African Americans, the second leading cause of death among Hispanics, and the third leading cause of death among American Indians. In 2002, 5,219 youth ages 15 to 24 were murdered--an average of 14 per day. Violence does not have to be fatal to greatly affect individuals and communities. Estimates from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System suggest that more than 589,000 youth ages 15 to 24 were treated for nonfatal, assault-related injuries in U.S. hospital emergency departments in 2002. That is 111 nonfatal injuries for every violence-related death."
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.); United States. Department of Health and Human Services
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Oregon Geospatial Enterprise Office [website]
"The Geospatial Enterprise Office (GEO) coordinates with government agencies to develop and manage geographic information. It communicates about Geographic Information Systems (GIS) issues with users. It guides development of Oregon's GIS data standards. Working together, state, federal, and local governments are improving the geographic information they share. GEO is also the State's point of contact for other organizations about geographic information and GIS. GEO also hosts the Oregon Geospatial Data Clearinghouse, an electronic library of geographic information."
Oregon Geospatial Enterprise Office
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City of Los Angeles, California [website]
This is the website for the city of Los Angeles, California. The website provides information about the city, the city's government, and offers various links for residents, businesses, and visitors.
Los Angeles (Calif.)
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2011 Language Mapper
This interactive language map from the U.S. Census Bureau displays where, and to what degree, languages are spoken in a given area. "This is a web-based map application built to display language data from the American Community Survey. The maps contain dots that represent a specified number of people. The legend displays density value based on the level of zoom and scale. Dots are placed randomly inside of the tract they represent. Because tracts are small, you will see many dots clustered together in urban areas. The map is designed to show where there are concentrations of speakers in an area."
U.S. Census Bureau
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Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board [website]
"The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (Board) is an independent organization within the executive branch chartered with the responsibility of providing recommendations and advice to the President and the Secretary of Energy regarding public health and safety issues at Department of Energy (Department) defense nuclear facilities. In operation since in October 1989, the Board reviews and evaluates the content and implementation of health and safety standards, as well as other requirements, relating to the design, construction, operation, and decommissioning of the Department's defense nuclear facilities."
United States. Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
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Disaster, Disease and Distress: Resources to Promote Psychological Health and Resilience in Military and Civilian Communities
From the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress (CSTS) website: "This new book features 10 years of Center fact sheets on military and disaster health and mental health topics for health care providers, government and military leadership, service members, families and communities around the effects of traumatic exposure."
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress
Ursano, Robert J., 1947-; McCarroll, James E.; Vineburgh, Nancy T.
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Family Reunification: Developing a Coordinated Regional Approach and Plan for Large-Scale Incidents and Special Events
"Emergency managers should develop a coordinated plan with a regional approach for family
reunification during large-scale incidents or special events that have a multi-jurisdictional
impact."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency; United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Mass Care Response in Meeting the Needs of Infants and Children: Task Force Planning
"Feedback from the 2013 National Mass Care Exercise revealed that the composition of the task forces did not adequately represent the planning needs of all affected individuals, including infants and children. Participants recommended both explicit assignments of planning responsibilities to the relevant task forces and that working groups within task forces should address the specific planning needs of smaller groups."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency; United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Emergency Planning: Providing Resources to Staging Areas and Receiving Points in Evacuation Zones
"Emergency managers should review plans for providing resources to staging areas and
receiving points in evacuation zones. These locations may need access to additional resources to support responders who are awaiting deployment to other areas."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency; United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Guide to Interacting with People Who Have Disabilities: A Resource Guide for DHS Personnel, Contractors, and Grantees from the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
"The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL) has developed this Guide to assist DHS personnel, contractors, and grantees in their interactions with people who have disabilities. Under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, DHS has a legal obligation to ensure nondiscrimination in the employment of people with disabilities as well as by providing program access, physical access, effective communication, and reasonable accommodation to people with disabilities encountered and served by DHS programs and activities. Examples of these interactions include people with disabilities who are traveling through the airport, crossing into the U.S. at a point of entry, naturalizing to become a U.S. citizen, being held in detention awaiting a hearing or removal, and receiving assistance before, during, or after a disaster. Ensuring nondiscrimination often begins by practicing effective methods for interaction, such as treating individuals with respect and using appropriate language. This document offers a summary of disability myths and facts, guidance on appropriate language, and tips for successfully interacting with people who have disabilities. It is intended as a general overview of the topic and does not supplant any specific policies and procedures used by the DHS Components."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Disability Access in the Department of Homeland Security
This webpage from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) provides information on the Department's disability access policies. "DHS is committed to strengthening and supporting full inclusion and equal opportunity for persons with disabilities in its programs and activities, through enforcement and compliance with requirements of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, including Section 504 of the Act which states: 'No otherwise qualified individual with a disability in the United States...shall, solely by reason of her or his disability, be excluded from the participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance or under any program or activity conducted by any Executive agency...' 29 U.S.C. § 794."
United States. Department of Homeland Security
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Door-to-Door Outreach to Vulnerable Populations After Disasters: Building an Action Plan and Task Force
"An evaluation of the practices utilized in New York City during the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy revealed the importance of planning and organizing door-to-door outreach programs to provide services to vulnerable, homebound, and disabled residents. These programs help ensure continuity of medical care and identify at-risk residents during periods when disasters inhibit the function of normal services or present challenges to individuals with access and functional needs. Cities should develop specific plans to assign and train staff and volunteers to conduct the outreach, as well as linking canvassers with city services and emergency personnel in order to provide any needed assistance."
United States. Department of Homeland Security; United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
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Resource Management for Providing Mass Care Services: An Innovative Tool for Estimating Shelter and Feeding Resources
"The Florida Estimated Mass Care Requirements Spreadsheet provides a standard and unified approach that state and county Mass Care officials, private sector partners, and nongovernmental organizations can use in planning to estimate feeding and sheltering resources. The 2013 National Mass Care Exercise (NMCE), held in conjunction with the 2013 Florida Statewide Hurricane Exercise, provided the state Mass Care participants from across the nation the opportunity to test the effectiveness of the spreadsheet. The spreadsheet proved to be a 'logical and methodical' planning asset for optimizing feeding and shelter resource utilization."
United States. Department of Homeland Security; United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
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Radiation Injury Treatment Network [website]
"The Radiation Injury Treatment Network® (RITN) provides comprehensive evaluation and treatment for victims of radiation exposure or other marrow toxic injuries. Many of the casualties with radiation injury will be salvageable but require outpatient and/or inpatient care. Recognizing this, the US National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP), US Navy and American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (ASBMT) collaboratively developed RITN, which comprises of [sic] medical centers with expertise in the management of bone marrow failure, stem cell donor centers and umbilical cord blood banks across the US. The goals of RITN are: to develop treatment guidelines for managing hematologic toxicity among victims of radiation exposure, to educate health care professionals about pertinent aspects of radiation exposure management, to help coordinate the medical response to radiation events, and to provide comprehensive evaluation and treatment for victims at participating centers."
Radiation Injury Treatment Network
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Advanced Platform for Development and Evaluation of Grid Interconnection Systems Using Harware-in-the-Loop, Part III: Grid Interconnection
"The world's energy paradigm continues to undergo a rapid shift towards an increased use of renewable energy sources. At the same time, an advanced electric power system (EPS) architecture, including increasing amounts of distributed resources, load control, bi-directional power flow, advanced metering, and improved communications is gaining attention and being implemented by many electric utilities. In support of this shifting energy paradigm and new EPS architecture, a swiftly-increasing number of renewable energy-based distributed resource installations are occurring. As these installations occur, it is essential to ensure that these systems, each of which interface to the EPS using a grid interconnection system (ICS), are properly interconnected with the EPS according to the relevant standards […]."
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (U.S.)
Lundstrom, Blake; Shirazi, Mariko; Coddington, Michael
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EAARL Coastal Topography and Imagery-Western Louisiana, Post-Hurricane Rita, 2005: First Surface
From the 'Purpose' page: "These remotely sensed, geographically referenced color-infrared (CIR) imagery and elevation measurements of lidar-derived first-surface (FS) topography datasets were produced by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, St. Petersburg, Florida, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia. This project provides highly detailed and accurate datasets of a portion of the Louisiana coastline beachface, acquired post-Hurricane Rita on September 27-28 and October 2, 2005. The datasets are made available for use as a management tool to research scientists and natural-resource managers. An innovative airborne lidar instrument originally developed at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Wallops Flight Facility, and known as the Experimental Advanced Airborne Research Lidar (EAARL), was used during data acquisition. The EAARL system is a raster-scanning, waveform-resolving, green-wavelength (532-nanometer) lidar designed to map near-shore bathymetry, topography, and vegetation structure simultaneously."
Geological Survey (U.S.)
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Cyberbullying Research Center [website]
From the "About Us" section: "The 'Cyberbullying Research Cente'r is dedicated to providing up-to-date information about the nature, extent, causes, and consequences of cyberbullying among adolescents. Cyberbullying can be defined as 'Willful and repeated harm inflicted through the use of computers, cell phones, and other electronic devices.' It is also known as 'cyber bullying,' 'electronic bullying,' 'e-bullying,' 'sms bullying,' 'mobile bullying,' 'online bullying,' 'digital bullying,' or 'Internet bullying.' This web site serves as a clearinghouse of information concerning the ways adolescents use and misuse technology. It is intended to be a resource for parents, educators, law enforcement officers, counselors, and others who work with youth. Here you will find facts, figures, and detailed stories from those who have been directly impacted by online aggression. In addition, the site includes numerous resources to help you prevent and respond to cyberbullying incidents."
Cyberbullying Research Center
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Five Things Law Enforcement Executives Can Do to Make a Difference
"[1] Crime is rarely random; patrols shouldn't be either. Focusing on small geographic locations and times when crimes occur and targeting specific, high-impact repeat offenders can decrease crime. [2] Quality is more important than speed. In most cases, thorough investigations, problem solving and careful forensic evidence collection contribute more to arresting suspects than shaving a few seconds off of initial response times."
National Institute of Justice (U.S.)
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Government Shutdown: What You Need to Know
This U.S. Department of Defense webpage provides information and resources on the looming government shutdown. Sections of the webpage includes: related documents, news stories, related links, video, and speeches & transcripts.
United States. Department of Defense
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CTC Militant Imagery Project
The following is a searchable database for the Militant Imagery Project created by the Combating Terrorism Center (CTC). "The use of propaganda and imagery by terrorist groups has long been an understudied dimension of the broader field of political violence. This project explores the use of imagery and visual themes by militant groups, focusing largely on jihadist media production. Jihadist organizations and individuals inspired by their message are prolific producers and distributors of visual propaganda, and their efforts have expanded exponentially online. However, these images frequently utilize themes which can be inscrutable to those not familiar with the sub-culture. It is our hope that this project will provide academics, practitioners, and students with a basic contextual understanding of the ideas these images convey before they turn to the larger questions of why they are employed, how they work, and what responses they may elicit. The First Edition of this project was completed in 2006. The second phase (2010-2013) included indexing the project's initial images, expanding and incorporating new images, and putting all of the images online in a searchable format. Particular attention was given to groups who use images to further financial, material, and ideological support for violence. The imagery dataset provides not just a textual analysis, but also full translation, if texts are part of the image, and a search engine for those interested in specific visual motifs. While by no means an exhaustive list, we feel it provides a sample of the most influential and prominent images and themes. We hope it will serve as a useful tool for practitioners, academics and the general public. Contingent upon funding and interest, we hope to update the dataset to highlight visual themes of additional militant groups in the future."
Combating Terrorism Center (U.S.)
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United States Military Academy: Office of Economic and Manpower Analysis (OEMA) [website]
"Since 1983, the mission of the Office of Economic and Manpower Analysis (OEMA) has been to provide a sound basis for policy and planning for the Army of the future During the post-Vietnam transition from conscription to an all volunteer force, Army G1 LTG Maxwell Thurman realized that the Army needed innovative policies to remain competitive in the American talent market. In view of the world's dynamic threat and economic environments, Thurman believed that only a dedicated analytical body could achieve this, and so he championed the establishment of OEMA. This HQDA [Headquarters, Department of the Army] asset was nested within West Point's Department of Social Sciences to provide it with an intellectual environment for active-duty Army analysts to grow in knowledge and contribute to policy formulation. Faculty assignments at West Point attract talented officers, men and women who are current in the latest economic theory and scholarship. They continuously hone their expertise via teaching and professional development within a vibrant community of practice. Their faculty credentials engender collaboration with peers at the nation's top universities. Perhaps most importantly, however, the intellectual freedom provided by an academic setting promotes out-of-the-box thinking, allowing OEMA to focus on long-term solutions to strategic challenges rather than succumbing to the day-to-day bureaucratic pressures it would likely face if at the Pentagon."
United States Military Academy
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United States Military Academy: Conflict and Human Security Studies [website]
"The CHSS [Conflict and Human Security Studies] program helps provide a holistic and empathetic lens to better understand the security environment. To accomplish the mission discussed above, we found that there is a critical need for both increased research and practical experience for faculty and cadets to gain deeper insights into the problem of human security. Under the direction of Ruth Margolies Beitler, Professor of Comparative Politics in the Department of Social Sciences, both faculty members and cadets have multiple opportunities to increase their understanding of the roots of conflict using a human security perspective that sheds light on the comprehensive nature of security."
United States Military Academy
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American Academy of Pediatrics: Children and Disasters [website]
"In 2006, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Board of Directors identified disaster preparedness as 1 of 7 priority issues requiring special attention and resources. The AAP appointed the Disaster Preparedness Advisory Council (DPAC) in May 2007 to establish a focused effort within the AAP to 1) Develop and implement a 3-5 year AAP Strategic Plan for Disaster Preparedness; 2) Oversee/support AAP disaster preparedness initiatives while working collaboratively with AAP committees, sections, and councils and key partner organizations; and 3) Strengthen AAP advocacy and policy efforts, which include responding to inquiries as appropriate, identifying opportunities for advocacy such as providing Congressional testimony and offering comments on federal regulations, and mobilizing a Contact Network."
American Academy of Pediatrics
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Emergency Support Function 11 (ESF) 11 Agriculture and Natural Resources
"This document provides the policy and operational basis for APHIS [Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service] emergency response related to ESF [Emergency Support Function] 11, Agriculture and Natural Resources. Collectively, this document outlines the preparation of APHIS' infrastructure, people, and administration for all-hazards support to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the United States public according to the ESF 11 program. The intended audience is APHIS employees and senior leadership, other Federal agencies, State and Tribal collaborators, and other entities with an interest in how APHIS is organized to support its emergency response responsibilities."
United States. Department of Agriculture; United States. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
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Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security and Society (TSAS) [website]
From the About section: "TSAS engages in policy-relevant research and dissemination in terrorism, security and society. The TSAS Network is designed to foster: communication and collaboration between academic researchers working on these topics in Canada; communication and collaboration between academic researchers and policy officials in these subject fields; and links with research on these topics in other countries. TSAS aims to cultivate a new generation of scholars. As TSAS matures it will create an institutional foundation for the development of Canada's terrorism, counter-terrorism, and security knowledge base and will constitute a uniquely Canadian response to terrorism and its social consequences, producing research that is both academically meritorious and relevant to policy. To support vibrant conversation across disciplines, and between government officials and academics, TSAS provides online resources that help people to connect, network and collaborate. It has also secured resources to support original research and will organize and administer open calls for research proposals. TSAS also convenes a variety of public events and activities to enhance our knowledge about terrorism, security, and society. These include policy-research workshops and seminars, and a summer training academy for graduate students and junior policy officials. […] We aim to provide a network for academic researchers and policy makers to learn about each other's work. TSAS is an independent organization built on the principle of academic independence. It is not a branch of the Canadian government nor is it an advocacy organization. TSAS seeks to provide a platform for balanced discussion about terrorism, security, and society from multiple perspectives."
Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security and Society
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Bio-Response Operational Testing and Evaluation (BOTE) Project: Phase 1 - Decontamination Assessment
"The Bio-Response Operational Testing and Evaluation (BOTE) Project was a multi-agency effort designed to test and evaluate a complete response to a biological incident - from the initial public health and law enforcement reaction through environmental remediation. The scenario involved the intentional release of 'Bacillus anthracis (Ba)' spores, the causative agent for anthrax, inside a building. In this study, 'Bacillus atrophaeus spp. globigii (Bg)' spores were used as a non-pathogenic surrogate for Ba spores."
United States. Environmental Protection Agency
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Ethics for the Professional Diplomat
"The diplomat has suffered from a bad press for a long time. Sir Henry Wooton, in the 17th century, said a diplomat is 'an honest man sent to lie abroad for his country', a comment that has been quoted by almost everyone writing about diplomacy ever since. The profession of diplomacy cannot seem to shake Sir Henry's witticism. Yet the remark also implied that there were layers of behavior involved, between states or governments with their raisons d'états on the surface, and individual agents or diplomats with their personal ethical concerns just underneath. Diplomacy is a practice as old as the first empires and states in the Ancient World. Obviously there was always some truth to Sir Henry's remark. The closed political world of kings and courts and tyrants practiced a form of diplomacy among intimates and in back rooms much as we see enshrined in the 'Sopranos' and the 'Godfather' TV series. Through the Renaissance and up to the end of the 18th century, the diplomat played the role noted by Sir Henry and others: private agents of absolute monarchs operating in the shadows and the bedroom. As Napoleon put it at the end of this era 'Ambassadors are, in the full meaning of the terms, titled spies.' Napoleon's perspective is understandable. He was, after all, an emperor and as such practiced classic diplomacy where only the thinnest of lines separated diplomacy from intrigue."
U.S. Army Command and General Staff College
Marks, Edward, 1934-
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Leadership During a Pandemic: What Your Municipality Can Do
"[T]he impact of a severe pandemic goes far beyond an impact on health. It will take the effort of all sectors, working together in a coordinated way, to prepare, respond, and recover from this disaster. This toolkit has been designed to assist mayors, their municipal leadership teams, and other local leaders to do just that." This toolkit includes 19 different 'tools' for municipalities to meet emergency management goals and exceed expectations. Topics include: Health, Food Security and Livelihoods, Crisis and Emergency Risk Communications, and Disaster Management. This document does include some tables or graphs.
United States. Agency for International Development
