Session 11B Disasters and Hazards

Wednesday, 1 October 2014: 2:00 PM-4:00 PM
Salon III (Embassy Suites Cleveland - Rockside)
Host: 20th International Congress of Biometeorology
Chair:
Simon N. Gosling, University of Nottingham, School of Geography, Nottingham

Papers:
2:00 PM
11B.1
WEATHER-READY NATION: HOSPITAL RESILIENCE in the UNITED STATES
Wendy Marie Thomas, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

2:15 PM
11B.2
Harvesting Twitter's tweets through Web GIS for disaster relief
Xiannian Chen, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV; and X. Ye and G. Elmes

2:30 PM
11B.3
PROJECTING RESIDENTIAL TORNADO EXPOSURE RATES THROUGH ARCMAP DIGITIZATION TECHNIQUES AND THE EMPLOYMENT OF BOTH U.S. CENSUS AND MIGRATION PATTERN DATA
Marius J. Paulikas, Kent State University, Kent, OH

2:45 PM
11B.4
Combination of multi-sensor remote sensing data for drought monitoring over Southwest China
Cui Hao, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, Beijing, China; and J. Zhang

3:00 PM
11B.5
A GIS-BASED FLOOD RISK MAPPING ALONG THE NIGER-BENUE RIVER BASIN IN NIGERIA USING WATERSHED APPROACH
Ademola Akinbobola, FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, Akure, Nigeria; and E. C. okogbue and O. olajiire

3:15 PM
11B.6
Health Factors and Medical Emergency Issues of Fishing Communities of Kutubdia Island, Bangladesh
Munshi Khaledur Rahman, 413 McGilvrey Hall, Kent, OH; and T. W. Schmidlin

3:30 PM
11B.7
EFFECTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION ON HUMAN HEALTH IN SELECTED OIL COMMUNITIES IN DELTA STATE
Vincent Nduka Ojeh, WASCAL WACS, Akure, Ondo State , Nigeria

3:45 PM
11B.8
School based clustered randomised intervention trial to climate change adaptation in Bangladesh
Md Iqbal Kabir, The University of Newcastle, New Lambton Heights, NSW, Australia; and M. B. Rahman, W. Smith, M. A. F. Lusha, and A. H. Milton

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