April 2016 - Disaster & Emergency Management Conference

herve April 29, 2016 5th Australian and New Zealand Disaster and Emergency Management Conference, Tornadoes

Aerial imagery reveals Kurnell tornado damage

On 16 December 2015, heavy storm warnings left Sydney residents shocked when they saw “Tornado warnings” on the Australian Bureau of Meteorology website. Due to the storm, the NSW State Emergency Services received 650 call outs, most of which came…

herve April 28, 2016 5th Australian and New Zealand Disaster and Emergency Management Conference, Queensland Reconstruction Authority, rebuilding

Keynote speaker announcement: Mr Brendan Moon, Acting CEO, Queensland Reconstruction Authority on emerging technology and capability needs

We are pleased to announce Mr Brendan Moon, Acting Chief Executive Officer, Queensland Reconstruction Authority as a keynote speaker at the 5th Australian and New Zealand Disaster and Emergency Management Conference to be held at Jupiters Gold Coast, QLD on…

herve April 27, 2016 5th Australian and New Zealand Disaster and Emergency Management Conference, technology

ESIC truck will be stopping traffic at Disaster Management Conference

We are pleased and excited to announce that state of the art Emergency Services Integrated Communications (ESIC) vehicle will be attending the 5th Australian and New Zealand Disaster and Emergency Management Conference being held at Jupiter’s Gold Coast 30-31 May…

herve April 14, 2016 5th Australian and New Zealand Disaster and Emergency Management Conference, building product, Resilience

Nepal earthquake a year on – collaboration remains central to building disaster resilience

It has been a been a year since the Nepal earthquake which topped the list of natural disasters in 2015. The magnitude 7.8 quake that struck outside of Nepal’s capital Kathmandu was the worst to hit the country in more…

herve April 6, 2016 5th Australian and New Zealand Disaster and Emergency Management Conference, Resilience

Defining community resilience: where to begin?

Article by Paul Barnes, The Strategist – commentary and analysis site of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, an independent, non-partisan think tank based in Canberra. Australia’s new Defence White Paper has plenty to say about a ‘secure, resilient Australia’. Paragraph 3.6 states:…

herve April 5, 2016 5th Australian and New Zealand Disaster and Emergency Management Conference

University Students Lighting the Way for Cutting Edge Fire Research

For the second time in five years, a student from Griffith University and for the first time a student from The University of Queensland have been awarded the South East Queensland (SEQ) Fire and Biodiversity Consortium’s Research Student Scholarship to…

herve April 4, 2016 5th Australian and New Zealand Disaster and Emergency Management Conference, technology

A new way to detect tsunamis – cargo ships

Racing across ocean basins at speeds over 500 miles per hour, tsunamis can wreak devastation along coastlines thousands of miles from their origin. Our modern tsunami detection networks reliably detect these events hours in advance and provide warning of their…

herve April 1, 2016 5th Australian and New Zealand Disaster and Emergency Management Conference, Disaster Management

Aerial mapping proving useful to Pacific disaster management

A New Zealand engineer says unique aerial mapping technology used in Fiji after Cyclone Winston, could be hugely beneficial to the wider region in times of disaster. The technology was used on photographs of Fiji taken from a plane by…