The Canadian Risk and Hazard Network holds an annual conference each year. This year the event is being held in Toronto, Canada. As part of this conference David Diabo (Assembly of First Nations) and Brenda Murphy (Wilfrid Laurier University) are running a series of five special sessions called: Promoting Aboriginal Resilience: Sharing Knowledge to Increase Disaster Risk Reduction. In the first session we are partnering with the Arctic Observing Network and Applied Research in Environmental Sciences Nonprofit, Inc. to offer a webinar of the first presentation (see details below). This will be a one hour presentation starting at 2 pm on Wednesday October 22. The presentation includes a half hour question and answer session. This is a free session and we hope you can join us!
Presentations Details:
Arctic Observing Network Observing, Management, and Governance Discussions
Arctic Observing Network (AON), http://www.arcus.org/search-program/aon, is seeking discussions and input for long term observing, management, and governance. ARIES (Applied Research in Environmental Sciences Nonprofit, Inc.) was granted a long term observing discussion award to discuss the following queries in relation to Risk and Disaster Management across multiple jurisdictions, http://www.arcus.org/search-program/aon/discussion-funding-form. This webinar is provided through the AON funding. After the presentation, your input is requested during the webinar Q&A and the HERMYS Forum at www.arctichub.net.
See below the 3 queries ARIES selected for the Arctic Observing Network discussions. While the AON queries are not necessarily about risks and hazards, ARIES selected three that are relevant to risk and disaster management, that is,
- more applied research with local communities to assist operations, regulations, and management,
- interdisciplinary research across social and natural sciences, and
- integration across jurisdictions (interagency and regional partnerships).
Question(s) to discuss (maximum of three questions):
- Are the priorities for research networks different from those for operational, community, regulatory, and management observing systems? Can the two be resolved or shared? Should they
be? - How do we bridge the gap in funding between social science and natural science observations and observing networks?
- How to best employ interagency and regional partnerships? What role should regional centers play in directing observing activity?
For details on connecting to the webinar contact - awhgarland [at] yahoo.com