World Humanitarian Day August 19, 2022

 

Today is World Humanitarian Day – a day to remember that at the heart of being a humanitarian is humanity. To celebrate the service of humanitarians around the globe, we invited a few DisasterReady learners to recognize a colleague or friend who lost their life walking alongside communities during humanitarian emergencies or conflict.  We have put these images together into a new video to honor humanitarians around the world who risk their own lives to help others at their most desperate and vulnerable moments.

 

 

 

 

At DisasterReady, we are proud to support over 500,000 humanitarians, many of whom risk their own lives in the most dangerous locations and conflict areas in the world. We are so grateful to all of you and appreciate the sacrifices you make to provide life-saving support and protection to people most in need. We wish you continued health and safety.

 

 

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CDEMA, the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency needs your assistance. Awareness and Satisfaction of the Caribbean Risk Information System (CRIS) Survey August 19, 2022

CDEMA, the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency needs your assistance.

BEMA International

 

Awareness and Satisfaction of the Caribbean Risk Information System (CRIS) Survey     Dear Stakeholder,  The team at the CDEMA CU is seeking your assistance in the completion of a brief survey to assess your Awareness and Satisfaction of the new Caribbean Risk Information System (CRIS) platform.  Please follow this link to the survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/8Z3GFLK We appreciate your feedback!

Black Emergency Managers Association International Washington, D.C.
bEMA International Cooperation, Collaboration, Communication, Coordination, Community engagement, and  Partnering (C5&P)   A 501 (c) 3 organization  We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our ancestors, our children, and the unborn. — Amilcar Cabra

 

 

 

SCIENCE ADVANCES . CLIMATOLOGY Climate change is increasing the risk of a California megaflood

 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abq0995

SCIENCE ADVANCES | RESEARCH ARTICLE

CLIMATOLOGY Climate change is increasing the risk of a California megaflood 

Xingying Huang1 *† and Daniel L. Swain2,3,4 *† 

Despite the recent prevalence of severe drought, California faces a broadly underappreciated risk of severe floods. Here, we investigate the physical characteristics of “plausible worst case scenario” extreme storm sequences capable of giving rise to “megaflood” conditions using a combination of climate model data and high-resolution weather modeling. 

Using the data from the Community Earth System Model Large Ensemble, we find that climate change has already doubled the likelihood of an event capable of producing catastrophic flooding, but larger future increases are likely due to continued warming. We further find that runoff in the future extreme storm scenario is 200 to 400% greater than historical values in the Sierra Nevada because of increased precipitation rates and decreased snow fraction. These findings have direct implications for flood and emergency management, as well as broader implications for hazard mitigation and climate adaptation activities.

Copyright © 2022 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S.Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC)

INTRODUCTION 

California is a region more accustomed to water scarcity than overabundance in the modern era. Between 2012 and 2021, California experienced two historically severe droughts—at least one of which was likely the most intense in the past millennium (1, 2)—resulting in widespread agricultural, ecological, and wildfire-related impacts (3, 4) and ongoing drought-focused public policy conversations. 

Yet, historical and paleoclimate evidence shows that California is also a region subject to episodic pluvials that substantially exceed any in the meteorological instrumental era (5)—potentially leading to underestimation of the risks associated with extreme (but infrequent) floods. Observed extreme precipitation and severe subregional flood events during the 20th century—including those in 1969, 1986, and 1997—hint at this latent potential, but despite their substantial societal impacts, none have rivaled (from a geophysical perspective) the benchmark “Great Flood of 1861–1862” (henceforth, GF1862). 

This event, which was characterized by weeks-long sequences of winter storms, produced widespread catastrophic flooding across virtually all of California’s lowlands—transforming the interior Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys into a temporary but vast inland sea nearly 300 miles in length (6) and inundating much of the now densely populated coastal plain in present-day Los Angeles and Orange counties (7). 

Recent estimates suggest that floods equal to or greater in magnitude to those in 1862 occur five to seven times per millennium [i.e., a 1.0 to 0.5% annual likelihood or 100- to 200-year recurrence interval (RI)] (5, 8). 

The extraordinary impacts resulting from GF1862 provided motivation for a 2010 California statewide disaster scenario—known as “ARkStorm” (ARkStorm 1.0)—led by the U.S. Geological Survey in conjunction with a large, interdisciplinary team (9). The meteorological scenario underpinning the ARkStorm 1.0 exercise involved the synthetic concatenation of two nonconsecutive extreme storm events from the 20th century (10). Subsequent analysis suggested

READ Complete Article at:   https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abq0995

Grants. Writers, Awareness, Education, and Training. August 2022

 

The unwillingness to try is worse than any failure.   Nikki Giovanni

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“Trust and Credibility is what we’ve built over time within BEMA International”.

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Review the Grant Writer with Workshop, the Grant (CERT) Webinar info below. 

If you never dot your I’s, or cross your T’s.  Our communities need your continued support and services.

If you’ve never registered your nonprofit, separated personal and business bank accounts you still have time.

If your nonprofit doesn’t have the monitoring & evaluation, or other administrative and operations components for grant award consider outsourcing or contracting.  Outsourcing or contracting in partnership with a member of BEMA International.

Times have changed.  Those that do the work, the ‘boots on the ground’ before, during, and after a disaster or crisis NEED THE FUNDING.

There are grant writers that are members of BEMA International.  Your standing as a member gives you exclusive access to their full range of services.  Trust and credibility are two of the cornerstones of BEMA International.

We have vetted other members and their services.

Plan accordingly.  You are not alone.

BEMA International

 

Grant Writer with Workshop

Does anyone need support writing grants or want to learn how to write a grant?    Join Cooper Consulting for their virtual Beginner Grant Proposal Workshop for only $24.99!    Wednesday, August 17th from 7:30pm-8:30pm EST   You can sign up here: www.iamqueentanz.com    Tanzania Fair is the Founder of Cooper Consulting. She has over 10 years of experience in the business field. She raised over 150K in grant funding for her own businesses and other businesses.    Cooper Consulting mission is to serve aspiring entrepreneurs, small- mid size businesses, nonprofits, and start-up companies to develop strategic change to achieve desired outcomes.   We provide resources and strategies to ensure that companies grow in a realistic way.   If you need grant writing services you can email her at inquiries.cooperconsulting@gmail.com or 313-364-9382

 

Grant (CERT) Webinar

National CERT Association, FEMA, and Cal OES

FEMA the new grant guidance for the 2022 Homeland Security Grant Program requires a 3% minimum spend on community preparedness and resiliency programs like CERT.  Many CERT programs have never applied for grant funding and have asked for additional information on the topic.   The National CERT Association, FEMA, and Cal OES have partnered to host a webinar on CERT Grant Funding.  This webinar will feature presentations from Butler County, Kanas, and the City of Boston.  These presenters will talk about how they have leveraged grant funding to support their local CERT programs and will give some insight on their application and execution process. Join us for this informative webinar on Wednesday, August 24th, 2022 from 1pm to 3pm eastern, 10am to 12pm pacific. Click here to register for the webinar:  https://fema.connectsolutions.com/certgrants/event/registration.html   This webinar will be hosted on FEMA’s Adobe Connect platform.  Make sure to test your Adobe Connect before this webinar:  Adobe Connect Test This webinar will be recorded and made available on FEMA’s Preparedness Webinar Portal. Please see the attached flyer for more information.

 

 

Black Emergency Managers Association International Washington, D.C.
bEMA International Cooperation, Collaboration, Communication, Coordination, Community engagement, and  Partnering (C5&P)   A 501 (c) 3 organization       The unwillingness to try is worse than any failure.   Nikki Giovanni

 

Monkeypox: experts give virus variants new names. August 2022

Anyone wishing to propose new names can do so here (see ICD-11, Add proposals).

(https://www.who.int/news/item/12-08-2022-monkeypox--experts-give-virus-variants-new-names) https://www.forbes.com/sites/jenaebarnes/2022/08/12/who-renames-monkeypox-variants-to-dispel-stigma-and-creates-open-forum-for-name-change/?sh=51de72e03502  The World Health Organization is inviting the public to propose new names for monkeypox and has renamed two variants of the disease, according to a statement released Friday, after weeks of criticism that the name has racist connotations and generates stigma…………… The WHO met with several scientists this week to discuss best naming practices for diseases, in order to avoid ”causing offense” to any “ethnic, social or professional” groups, and minimize harm to trade, travel, tourism or animals.

 

Black Emergency Managers Association International Washington, D.C.
bEMA International Cooperation, Collaboration, Communication, Coordination, Community engagement, and  Partnering (C5&P)   A 501 (c) 3 organization