Focus: Domestic Preparedness Journal. September 2022. Aviation Response.

Taking Flight – Creating a Robust Aviation Response, Part 1 

By Sky Terry

This article describes general aviation pilots’ efforts to significantly advance their communities’ disaster response over the past two years. 

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Florida Hurricane Relief. Shelter. Recovery\Homeless shelter location September 28, 2022

I crisis could contribute to transitioning housing\shelter for those in recovery\homeless.

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https://www.redcross.org/get-help/disaster-relief-and-recovery-services/find-an-open-shelter.html

  Click on OPEN shelter location in map to get additional information.

FOCUS: EM Situation Awareness of Environmental Justice and Climate. Subscribe to EPA Science Matters, or look for posts on BEMA International

As Emergency Managers situation awareness of environmental justice and climate change are a vital part of our daily activity.  EM supports the impacts of environmental and climate change when a crisis or disaster\emergency occurs.

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EPA Science Matters: Green infrastructure, African swine fever virus, and more

U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development sent this bulletin at 09/27/2022 11:09 AM EDT

Having trouble viewing this email? View it as a Web page. September 27, 2022 EPA's Science Matters newsletter delivers the latest from EPA's Office of Research and Development straight to your inbox. Keep scrolling to read about recent news and upcoming events. EPA researchers are helping communities manage stormwater using green infrastructure. Read about their work below. EPA Research Updates Runoff from stormwater continues to be a major cause of water pollution in urban areas. To address this problem, cities are increasingly using green infrastructure — a variety of practices that use soil and vegetation to capture, filter, and reduce stormwater. EPA designed a framework to support the use of green infrastructure by assisting communities in making informed decisions surrounding stormwater planning and management. Sometimes a research challenge leads to the invention of a cutting edge technology. While onsite at a water treatment plant, EPA engineer David Wahman’s team needed to measure free chlorine from parallel filters. To fill this need, Wahman created and patented the Sample Device for Mobile Water Analysis to support the simultaneous analysis of multiple water samples when using a mobile water analysis device. African swine fever virus is a deadly pig disease that spreads rapidly and can affect domestic and wild swine. While it has never been detected in the U.S., it is important to find ways to protect our food supplies, the pork industry, and swine around the country in the event of an outbreak. EPA researchers and responders are working with USDA’s Animal Plant Health Inspection Service to develop disease control measures and test approaches to manage infected waste, including mortality management. Traditional toxicity testing can be time and resource intensive. To fill this gap, EPA researchers are developing and improving tools, databases, and resources to determine chemical safety in a more efficient, data driven way. New versions of the CompTox Chemicals Dashboard and GenRA bring added features and more data to meet the evolving needs of chemical risk assessment. Enhanced aquifer recharge (EAR) is the practice of using excess surface water to intentionally replenish and supplement existing groundwater supplies for storage and potential reuse. We awarded $2 million in research funding to the University of California, Berkeley to develop a cost-benefit tool to support EAR as a viable, safe, and cost-effective water management strategy. You can apply for EAR research funding now through Nov. 9. Register for a Sept. 29 informational webinar to learn more. Meet Our Researchers Meet EPA Researcher Katie Williams, Ph.D. Katie is an EPA researcher studying how individuals, organizations, and agencies are engaged in environmental management in the Great Lakes Areas of Concern program. To understand these dynamics, Katie researches policies, learns about how different people use information and knowledge, and maps institutional processes. Learn about Katie's work. Events 10/6 Hear from the Winners of the Let's Talk About Heat Challenge 10/12 Emergency Response Research Webinar: Fire-Suppressant Systems for Airport Hangars 10/13 EPA Tools and Resources Training Webinar: The Web-based Interspecies Correlation Estimation (Web-ICE) Application Science Matters is produced by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development. All content is copyright free and can be reprinted without permission. Questions or comments? Send us an email. EPA Research | EPA Science Matters

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Focus: Environmental Justice and Climate Advocates.. Corporate Opponents. Get to the heart of environmental justice and climate change.

Emergency Management steps in as a support entity planning for the disasters from environmental and climate change impacts.

The center\heart of environmental justice and climate will come with a focus of the advocates on the corporations and main contributors to contamination in communities not only in the U.S. but globally.

Globally, consider the frenzy for Cobalt in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the plight of the workers in dangerous conditions, and the environmental impact.

Now is the time to recycle and put other uses to existing fossil fuel by-products mentioned (plastics, chairs, tables, etc.) in the hearing by the representative from Louisiana. Cleanup the damage that has occurred to let the planet heal itself.

Change must occur NOW.

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Systems Engineering. Concepts for HARD (aircraft, auto, space craft, etc.), and SOFT (CERT program, Recovery\Homeless programs, Training, Education, etc.) systems.

Systems Engineering Approach

From simple systems, to complex-complex system.  

Knowing the components, external and internal interactions can lead to solutions\actions to problems both social and mechanical systems.  Basis of problem solving?

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