PDC Updates | May 24, 2010
International Training Workshop
PDC Modeling Analyst Michael Chatman, left, and Senior Geospatial Information Analyst Todd Bosse are seen here with Dr. Wei-Sen Li, Deputy Executive Secretary of NCDR during the International Training Workshop on Natural Disaster Reduction–Slopeland Disaster–2010.

Presentation
PDC Modeling Analyst Michael Chatman presented "Modeling Inundation and Impacts: Inundation Models Applied by PDC."
May 10 to 14, Senior Geospatial Information Analyst Todd Bosse and Modeling Analyst Michael Chatman participated in the International Training Workshop on Natural Disaster Reduction–Slopeland Disaster–2010. The workshop, produced by Taiwan's National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction (NCDR), focused on subjects such as monitoring and evacuation in connection with debris-flow and landslide. Most of the workshop was conducted in an international conference facility in Sindian City, but one luncheon meeting was held at the NCDR offices to give participants an opportunity to become more familiar with the organization.

Q&A Session
During the question-and-answer period after all participant presentations, PDC's representatives were kept quite busy. Here, Senior Geospatial Information Analyst Todd Bosse (with microphone) answers a question. Michael Chatman, to his left, joins more than two dozen others, listening.
The conference included a series of "technical tours" and field trips to such places Taiwan's Central Geological Survey and Core (Sample) Museum, the Yuansantze Flood Diversion Project, a debris flow observation post at Dacukeng and the Gold Ecological Park at Jiu-Fen.

While in Taiwan, Bosse and Chatman met with Dr. Wei-Sen Li, Deputy Executive Secretary of NCDR, and his Information Division staff to discuss data-viewer technology, and to compare the system currently in use by NCDR with PDC's Emergency Operations system (EMOPS).

The PDC representatives also met with Yun-ping Chang, an Environment, Science, Technology & Health Specialist with the Economic Section of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT), to discuss PDC's current relationship with NCDR and other possible future collaborations with the government of Taiwan. AIT—a private, nonprofit corporation promoting U.S.-Taiwan exchanges—could serve as a facilitator for such instances of technical assistance and information sharing.

More information about these topics is available online:

  • Taiwan's National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction (NCDR)
  • The American Institute in Taiwan (AIT)
  • NCDR's International Training Workshop on Natural Disaster Reduction (ITW 10)
  • PDC Participation in ITW 09
  • Partnership between Pacific Disaster Center and NCDR formalized in December 2008.
  • Delegates from NCDR visit PDC's Maui headquarters.

To find out more about PDC's international partnerships see:

  • A partial list of PDC partners in About Us on the Center's website
  • The data-sharing partners in PDC's Global Hazards Information Network (GHIN)
  • Many published articles about the Center working with international partners in PDC in the News
  • Web-released articles about PDC exchanges with partners over the years in Updates
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