2016 Bahamas National Knowledge Exchange

Flood - Lawrenceburg, KY Region, United States

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Flood - New York--Newark, NY--NJ--CT Region, United States

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Floods - Midwestern, United States

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Volcano - Reventador, Ecuador

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Volcano - Popocatepetl, Mexico

1 hour ago WATCH
Tropical Storm - Danas

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Volcano - Sabancaya, Peru

2 hours ago WARNING
Earthquake - 5.4 - 251km NNW of Puerto Ayora, Ecuador

2 hours ago ADVISORY
Floods - Southeastern, United States

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Flood - Port Arthur, TX Region, United States

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Volcano - Karymsky, Russia

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Volcano - Dukono, Indonesia

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Volcano - Fuego, Guatemala

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Earthquake - 5.4 - 227km W of Bandon, Oregon

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Volcano - Sangeang Api, Indonesia

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Earthquake - 5.6 - 103km S of Merizo Village, Guam

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Storms - Southern Vietnam

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Extreme Heat - Northern South Korea

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Storms - Austria

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Landslides - Callapa, Bolivia

7 hours ago INFORMATION
Floods - Amazonas State, Venezuela

8 hours ago INFORMATION
Extreme Heat - Northwest Territories, Canada

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Storms - Central British Columbia, Canada

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Extreme Heat - Northern and Central Vietnam

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Floods - Caimitillo, Panama

8 hours ago INFORMATION
Floods - Southwestern Sudan

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Wildfire - Sardinia, Italy

8 hours ago WARNING
Drought - Southeastern Nigeria and Cameroon

8 hours ago WATCH
Drought - Southeastern Cote d’Ivoire

8 hours ago WATCH
Ebola virus disease – Democratic Republic of the Congo/Uganda

4 weeks ago WARNING
Drought - Central Nigeria

8 hours ago WATCH
Drought - Southern Senegal, Gambia and Western Mali

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Floods - Nepal

2 days ago WARNING
Floods - Northeastern India

2 days ago WARNING
Earthquake - 5.2 - Fiji region

21 hours ago ADVISORY
Extreme Heat - Northwestern Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan

10 hours ago WARNING
Drought - Northwestern Kazakhstan

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Drought - Eastern Dominican Republic

11 hours ago WATCH
Drought - Southern Haiti and Southwestern Dominican Republic

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Drought - Belize and Northern Guatemala

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Drought - Eastern El Salvador, Eastern Honduras, and Northern Nicaragua

11 hours ago WATCH
Storms - Western Mexico

11 hours ago WARNING
Earthquake - 5.1 - 134km ENE of Laiwui, Indonesia

12 hours ago ADVISORY
Tsunami (AK/BC/US West Coast) - off the coast of Oregon - 5.3

12 hours ago INFORMATION
Earthquake - 5.1 - 184km SSE of Lata, Solomon Islands

22 hours ago ADVISORY
Wildfire - S of Zhigansk, Chukot - Russia

23 hours ago ADVISORY
Wildfire - E of Fort Yukon, Alaska - United States

23 hours ago ADVISORY
Wildfire - SW of Kikwit, Bandundu - Congo (Kinshasa)

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Wildfire - NE of Pine Creek, Northern Territory - Australia

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Wildfire - SE of Kabalo, Katanga - Congo (Kinshasa)

23 hours ago ADVISORY
Wildfire - NE of Ensenada, Baja California - Mexico

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Wildfire - E of Kirensk, Irkutsk - Russia

23 hours ago INFORMATION
Wildfire - SE of Zhigansk, Chukot - Russia

23 hours ago INFORMATION
Storms - Chile

1 day ago WATCH
High Wind - Western Peru

1 day ago WATCH
High Wind - Southeastern New South Wales, Australia

1 day ago WARNING
Floods - Azad Kashmir, Pakistan

1 day ago WARNING
Storms - India

1 day ago WARNING
Volcano - Sheveluch, Russia

1 day ago ADVISORY
Floods - Bangladesh

2 days ago WARNING
Floods - Myanmar

2 days ago WARNING
Volcano - Ebeko, Russia

1 day ago ADVISORY
Extreme Heat - Central United States

2 days ago WARNING
Extreme Heat - Eastern North Carolina and Eastern South Carolina, United States

2 days ago WARNING
Extreme Heat - Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, Canada

2 days ago WARNING
Wildfires - Northern Ontario, Canada

2 days ago WARNING
Floods - Balikpapan, Indonesia

2 days ago INFORMATION
Wildfire - Sierra de Gador, Spain

2 days ago WARNING
Floods - Western Greece

2 days ago WARNING
Floods - Central and Southeastern China

2 days ago WARNING
Storms - Southern and Eastern Thailand

2 days ago WARNING
Wildfires - Switzerland

2 days ago WATCH
Drought - Southeastern Alaska, United States

2 days ago WARNING
Drought - Northern Mariana Islands

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Drought - Marshall Islands

2 days ago WARNING
Drought - Southeastern United States

2 days ago WARNING
Drought - Northwestern United States

2 days ago WARNING
Storms - Western Malaysia

2 days ago WARNING
Floods - Tasmania, Australia

2 days ago WATCH
Floods - Eastern Victoria, Australia

2 days ago WATCH
Storms - Peru

2 days ago WARNING
Volcano - Ibu, Indonesia

2 days ago WATCH
Volcano - Etna, Italy

3 days ago WARNING
Floods - Paraguay

6 days ago WARNING
Nipah Virus Encephalitis - Kerala State, India

1 month ago ADVISORY

November 23, 2017

PDC, in partnership with the The Bahamas National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), facilitated the sixth Bahamas National Knowledge Exchange was held in Nassau at the National Emergency Operations Center from July 25-27, 2016.

What our partners are saying about us...

Willem Rampangilei

Chief, BNPB

As I mentioned when we met recently at BNPB HQ Jakarta, I want to extend my appreciation to you, to your colleagues at PDC, and to USAID/OFDA for your hard work and dedication – and for your tangible results – in building capabilities and capacities for disaster risk reduction in Indonesia, especially in the area of hazard monitoring and early warning.

Daniel B. Whitley

Acting Associate Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service (2017)

"On behalf of USDA's Foreign Agricultural Services, I would like to express my appreciation and full support of the Pacific Disaster Center (PDC) for its essential contributions...with data and support...we've been able to improve our global agricultural production and disaster assessment analyses, products, and decision outcomes."

Harlan V. Hale

Regional Advisor, USAID/DCHA/OFDA/EAP

"From a disaster management perspective, these agencies [PDC, HOT, PetaBencana.id] have combined their skills, have worked well together, and have created something that is really innovative, useful, and can actually improve both the disaster response by the government and citizen's participation in it as well."

John Andoe

Emergency Management Coordinator, Texas Health and Human Services (2017)

“Keep up the good work. I'm using EMOPS (DisasterAWARE) in Texas to monitor Hurricane Harvey.”

Eric Yarrell

Lieutenant Colonel, United States Air Force, JTF-Bravo (2017)

"JTF-Bravo sincerely appreciated the HADR decision-support information provided by the Pacific Disaster Center during Hurricane Irma response… has been both timely and valuable support of current operations."

Susan Cruz

Director, Office of Civil Defense (2015)

"We are very appreciative of your support to our country."

Augusto Moreno O'Phelan

Director General for Policy and Strategy, Ministry of Defense, Peru (2016)

"Many thanks for your important information about the ongoing outbreak of Zika virus in the Americas."

Paulo Bayly

Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Infrastructure & Transport, Fiji (2016)

"Thank you and your team for so quickly responding to our needs."

- Carolann Albury

Director, Bahamas National Geographic Information Systems (2017)

"…thank you all for the assistance you have rendered on so many occasions to The BNGISC but more importantly to The Bahamas."

Claudia Mateo

President, Republica Domincana Comisión Nacional de Energía

"Thank you for being aware of our situation and for the sending of images for analysis."

William I. Clark

Humanitarian Assistance Division Chief, U.S. SOUTHCOM (2017)

Our success during response efforts is directly related to PDC's contribution. The set of tools offered by your decision support system (DisasterAWARE), the large amount of data, the modeling and assessments, and skill set of your staff are unique. They provide my team with great situational awareness in a timely manner, enabling rapid and informed decision making in critical periods."

Don Price

Disaster Management Advisor, U.S. Forest Service, Myanmar (2017)

"The big floods in Southern China are causing some real problems for Vietnam and Myanmar and DMRS/EMOPS (DisasterAWARE) is the best visualization for this regional flood situation."

Ana Ake

Ministry of Information and Communications, Kingdom of Tonga (2017)

"I was first introduced to EMOPS (DisasterAWARE)...during a HA/DR training in Auckland this year. I've worked with several tools and it is obvious that EMOPS is the only sustainable tool that is available and is openly available."

Dr. Sutopo Purwo Nugroho

Head of Data, Information, and Public Relations, BNPB (2017)

"Thank you very much for your support in Mt Agung eruption. Very useful to us."

Lisa Samson on PDC products during hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria

Assistant Deputy Director, Exercises & Coalition Affairs, U.S. SOUTHCOM (2017)

"[I] wanted to pass along that the reports that PDC is generating are succinct and extremely informative. I've passed along to other colleagues in the HQs staff and other COCOMs to peak their interest. Well done!"

Christopher Vaughan

FEMA National Headquarters Geospatial Information Officer (2015)

"My sincerest thanks to the PDC team during this event. [Tropical Cyclone Dolphin] Your professionalism and dedication to the mission is to be commended. I'm sure we will have plenty to discuss/improve upon in the weeks to follow. Thanks again for all the support. Great job team."

USDA Foreign Agriculture Service officer

USDA (2016)

"Your suggestion that we look at PDC content and capabilities has really paid off. We partnered with them, and are ingesting their global disaster feeds into [Global Agricultural & Disaster Assessment System] GADAS. The addition of a couple of our own applications to quickly delineate impacted areas and extract agricultural acreage and population has proved quite valuable."

Jeremy K. Delancy

Senior Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Social Services & Community Development, Commonwealth of The Bahamas (2016)

"I wanted [PDC] to know that I used DisasterAWARE during Hurricane Joaquin and it performed admirably. Some further training will be needed for us to use it to its full capabilities. One of the persons who was quite impressed is Chief Meteorological Officer, Mr. Arnold King."

Giuseppe Timperio

Research Engineer, Advanced Supply Chain Management & Humanitarian Logistics, National University of Singapore (2016)

"I knew of 'InAWARE' and I am impressed by its capabilities. Information sharing in the humanitarian context is still a big challenge (especially in ASEAN), and the efforts you are putting to close this gap are highly appreciated, and indeed highly useful for the whole humanitarian community."

Kenta Hamasaki

The Consulate General of Japan, Honolulu, HI (2016)

"Aloha Julie. Hello. After the registration [for DisasterAWARE], I started to receive warnings such as Typhoon Meranti. That data contains necessary info and is so graphic that it's easy to know at a glance how the impact is. This is very important for our duties. Thank you again."

Jonathan Colwell

Goespatial Coordinator, DHS-FEMA Region 9 (2016)

"EMOPS (DisasterAWARE) made my day so much easier while monitoring [Tropical Cyclone] AMOS. Data that I thought I'd spend a good part of the morning digging for was available, as were the tools to draw polygons and annotate and meet the requirement."

Matt Lott

Emergency Coordinator of Safety, Security and Emergency Management, Virginia Department of Transportation (2016)

"I work for the Virginia DOT as an emergency planner. I would like to be added to your distribution list for awareness products. I followed work during Hurricane Mathew and would like to avail our organization of your great products."

Jesse Rozelle

Program Manager, Natural Hazards Risk Assessment Program, FEMA (2017)

"Aloha PDC team: I wanted to express my sincere gratitude for all of your support during Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. The modeling and risk assessment support you have provided to FEMA has been incredibly helpful for our response efforts and our emergency management partners. I'm looking forward to a continued partnership."

Brian Abbott

Lieutenant Colonel, Public-Private Cooperation Program Coordinator, U.S. SOUTHCOM (2016)

"As a Public-Private Cooperation (PPC) Program Coordinator, PDC's vision and leadership translates into strategies that enable others to effectively achieve results."

Mr. Eliezer Serrano, Jr.

Lead Data Fusion Manager, U.S. SOUTHCOM Joint Operations Center (2016)

PDC's support in the SOUTHCOM region and its commitment to promote public safety were unfailing during the Rio Olympics. [DisasterAWARE] greatly enhanced our situational awareness and offered an abundance of useful data and safety monitoring information."

Marcus Elten

United Nations OCHA (2016)

"I was impressed with how quickly you guys developed situational awareness products...quite impressed with your team's work."

Dr. Sutopo Purwo Nugroho

Head of Data, Information, and Public Relations for Indonesia's National Disaster Management Agency, BNPB

Paul Ugarte

CONRED Special Advisor to the Executive Secretary of Guatemala

Gayle Outten-Moncour

Bahamas Disaster Recovery Manager and First Assistant Secretary

Edy Manolo Barillas

U.N. OCHA National Disaster Advisor to Guatemala

November 23, 2017

2016 Bahamas National Knowledge Exchange

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