Session 7 Disaster Mitigation

Friday, 25 June 2010: 10:20 AM-11:50 AM
Napoleon III (Deauville Beach Resort)
Host: 38th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology
Cochairs:
Joe Murgo, WTAJ-TV, Altoona, PA and Tammie Souza, WFLD, Chicago, IL

Papers:
10:20 AM
7.1
Remodeling of the Deadly EF-5 Plainfield, IL Tornado Using The WRF
Gino Izzi, NOAA/NWS, Chicago, IL
Recorded Presentation

10:40 AM
7.2
From Flood Loss to FloodSmart: How FEMA's Mitigation Tools Work to Reduce the Impact of Flood Disasters
Sandra K. Knight, FEMA, Crystal City, VA
Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM
7.3
Moving from Traditional Risk Communication to Edu-tainment --- How safety advocates are catching on to what some have known all along
Leslie Chapman-Henderson, Federal Alliance for Safe Homes, Tallahassee, FL
Recorded Presentation

11:20 AM
7.4
Broadcast Meteorologists and Pre-event Messaging for a Nuclear Public Health Emergency
Charles W. Miller, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA; and M. C. McCurley
Recorded Presentation

11:35 AM
7.5
Sun Safety and Preventing Skin Cancer: Educating the Public through Social Media
Robert Burchard, Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC
Recorded Presentation

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