AEROBUREAU Corporation
AEROBUREAUÈ is a revolutionary development in news, information gathering and now disaster assistance. Its design concept is simple: when major events occur on a scale and in locations that prevent traditional news gathering techniques and organizations from covering them adequately, AEROBUREAUÈ provides a high tech system know as STARS (Strategic Television Airmobile Reports-via-Satellite) by providing a self-sufficient, fully mobile information gathering, processing and disseminating platform.

Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO): DOI/USGS, UAF/GI, ADGGS: Fairbanks and Anchorage, Alaska. Monitors and studies AlaskaÍs hazardous volcanoes to predict and record volcanic activity and to implement public safety measures. 

AlertNet is an Internet news and information service run by the Reuters Foundation asa collaborative project with international relief agencies. Anyone with Internet access can read rolling news from Reuters and news from relief organisations about their work. Relief organisations can also joing a password protected "Professional Zone" with additional resources. AlertNet is working on a pilot project funded by the European Commision to offer a free service of satellite imagery to relief agencies.

Asian Disaster Preparedness Center
ADPC is a regional resource center working towards disaster reduction for safer communities and sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific. Established in 1986, the Center is recognized as an important neutral focal point in Asia and the Pacific for promoting disaster awareness and the development of local capabilities to foster institutionalized disaster management and mitigation policies.

Australian Geological Survey Organisation's geohazards programme

Aviation Weather Center (AWC) - NOAA; Kansas City, Missouri. Enhances aviation safety by issuing warnings, forecasts, and analyses of hazardous weather to aircraft in flight and to the aviation community. The center also forecasts weather conditions affecting domestic and international aviation interests out to two days. The AWC is one of nine centers within the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP).

California Governor's Office of Emergency Services

Canadian Centre for Emergency Preparedness (CCEP)

Cascades Volcano Observatory (CVO) - DOI/USGS; Vancouver, Washington. Provides accurate and timely information pertinent to the assessment, warning, and mitigation of natural hazards (volcanoes, earthquakes, landslides, and debris flows) and performs research into the effects of geologic or hydrologic processes on the landscape (e.g., volcanic gases on the atmosphere, increased sediment transport on streams).

Caucus Work Group
The primary goal of the Natural Hazards Caucus Work Group is to develop a wider understanding within Congress that reducing the risks and costs of natural disasters is a public value.¾ That requires educating Members and staff about the costs of natural disasters to their districts and states, and the benefits their constituents will realize through greater efforts to understand, prevent, and mitigate natural disasters.

Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies: Johns Hopkins University; Baltimore, MD. Fosters the development of national and international medical and public health policies and structures to protect the civilian population from bioterrorism. The CenterÍs principal focus is upon those bioweapons that have the potential to cause catastrophic, potentially destabilizing epidemics. 

Center for Integration of Natural Disaster Information (CINDI): DOI/USGS; Reston, VA. A research facility operated by the USGS to develop better ways to integrate and disseminate disaster data and information. 

Center of Excellence in Disaster Management & Humanitarian Assistance

CEOS Disaster Management Support Group: Lead by Helen M. Wood, NOAA, the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites Disaster Managment Support Group (CEOS) supports natural and technological disaster management on a worldwide basis, by fostering improved utilization of existing and planned Earth Observation (EO) satellite data.

Climate Prediction Center (CPC): NOAA; Washington, D.C. Maintains a continuous watch on short-term climate fluctuations to diagnose and predict them. Assists agencies both inside and outside the federal government in coping with climate-related problems such as food supply, energy allocation and water resources. The CPC is one of nine centers within the NCEP. 

Conservationtech.com:Building Conservation Technology A web publishing site of the work of Randolph Langenbach, with related works in the field of Building Conservation and Disaster Recovery

Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Response Association, International

Disaster Research Center (DRC): University of Delaware. Social science research center devoted to the study of disasters. The center conducts field and survey research on group, organizational and community preparation for, response to, recovery from natural and technological disasters and other community-wide crises. 

Earth Resources Observation Systems (EROS) Data Center (EDC): DOI/USGS; Sioux Falls, SD. Handles data collection and distribution of images from satellites and aircraft. The EDC holds the three decades of land-surface phenomena information within the National Satellite Land Remote Sensing Data Archive. The EDC also acts as the Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) for land processes on behalf of NASA's Mission to Planet Earth. 

Emergency Information Infrastructure Partnership -A voluntary association of organizations and individuals, seeking to enhance their effectiveness in coping with disasters and emergency situations, by exploring the opportunity for sharing information and ideas made possible by electronic technology.

Emergency Management Australia

Emergency Management Gold!
Emergency Management Gold! is sponsored by DERA and has been created and is maintained by a Certified Emergency Manager. It has been built direct from US Disaster experience and it has been integrated and formated for EM Operations. The International side of EM Gold! can be found on the Alerts! and GEMS pages. EM Gold! contains hundreds of URLs that support EM activities.

Emergency Planning Society, England

Emergency Preparedness, Canada

ENVIREF - The ENVIREF project looks at how high resolution satellite images can be used in refugee relief operations. The project is sponsored by the European Commission.

Environmental Modeling Center (EMC): NOAA; Camp Springs, MD. Improves numerical weather, marine, and climate predictions at the NCEP through research in data assimilation and modeling. The EMC develops, improves and monitors data assimilation systems and models of the atmosphere, ocean, and coupled systems using advanced methods developed internally as well as cooperatively with scientists from universities, NOAA laboratories and other government agencies, and the international scientific community. The EMC is one of nine centers within the NCEP.

Ericsson Response
A site which is dedicated to developing cooperation between the Company and the Relief Organisations as well as to develop Inter-company contacts.

FEMA National Map Service Center: FEMA; Washington, D.C. Maintains Flood Insurance Rate Maps and other material related to flood hazard mitigation and protection. Detailed maps of communities may be ordered from this source at low cost.

FEMA National Mapping and Analysis Center and Regional Offices: FEMA; Washington, D.C. Maintains baseline disaster management data and develops integrated products distributed to regional offices, which further assimilate local information for emergency management purposes. 

Food Insecurity and Vulnerability Information and Mapping Systems (FIVIMS) and is an FAO (Food and Agricultural Organization) initiative.

GDIN Information Technology Exposition & Conference

GDINusa

Global Fire Monitoring Center
The GFMC is an activity of the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) financed by the German Foreign Office, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance. The GFMC provides daily to regular services in global to national early warning of wildfire, monitoring of wildland fire activities and impacts, archiving and linking to global fire information. GFMC is providing advice to countries in developing national fire management strategies and policies. The GFMC hotline offers information for countries that submit an emergency request. The GFMC emergency advice is closely linked with the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) with its Joint UNEP-OCHA Joint Environment Unit, Environmental Emergencies Services Branch. The GFMC is coordinating the UNISDR Wildland Fire Advisory Group and the Global Wildland Fire Network. The GFMC is based in Freiburg (Germany).

Global VSAT Forum

Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO): DOI/USGS; National Park, HI. Monitors and studies Hawaii's hazardous volcanoes to predict and record eruptive activities and to implement public safety measures. 

Hazards Mitigation Center: DOE; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories. LLNL has been investigating and assessing the hazards associated with natural phenomena for DOE since the 1970s. DOE is concerned about possible damage to its facilities throughout the country due to such extreme natural hazards as earthquakes, severe storms, floods, lightning, volcanic eruptions, and extreme hot or cold.

Hydrometeorological Prediction Center (HPC): NOAA; Camp Springs, MD. Provides basic hydrometeorological analysis and forecasts for National Weather Service field offices and the entire meteorological community. HPC meteorologists are experts in quantitative precipitation forecasting and numerical model interpretation. Products provided by the HPC include surface analyses, outlooks for heavy rain and snow, and weather forecasts through 5 days. The HPC is one of nine centers within the NCEP.

Information Technology for Crises Management Team

Institute of Civil Defence and Disaster Studies, England

Institute for Crisis, Disaster and Risk Management: George Washington University; Washington, D.C. Its objective is to improve the disaster, emergency and crisis management plans, actions and decisions of government, corporate and not for profit organizations by transforming theory into practice.

International Association of Emergency Managers, Falls Church, Virginia

Mid-America Earthquake Center (MAE): University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign. The MAE will work to reduce potential earthquake losses in the central and eastern U.S., concentrating on problems associated with less frequent seismic events and their consequences for individuals, economic systems, and infrastructure. Projects will focus on identification and evaluation of seismic hazards and development of loss-reduction strategies for the build environment. 

Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary

Mozambique Floods

National Audiovisual Center at the National Technical Information Service: Part of the U.S. Department of Commerce, this web siteincludes EMS training programs from the U.S. National Fire Academy at FEMA and other U.S. agencies.

National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP): NOAA/NWS; Washington, D.C. Provides worldwide weather forecast guidance products. This agency is the starting point for all weather forecasts. It is the parent center for the Tropical Prediction Center and the National Hurricane Center.

National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC): DOI/USGS; Golden, CO. Determines earthquake locations following occurrence, alerts appropriate entities, archives earthquake information and performs active research to improve earthquake detection.

National Emergency Management Association

National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC): NOAA/NESDIS; Boulder, CO. Manages environmental data in the fields of marine geology and geophysics, paleoclimatology, solar-terrestrial physics, solid earth geophysics, and glaciology.

Natural Hazards Center (NHC): University of Colorado; Boulder, CO. The NHC is a national and international clearinghouse for information on natural hazards and human adjustments to hazards and disasters. NHC carries out its mission in four principal areas: information dissemination, an annual workshop, research, and library services. The centerÍs prime goal is to increase communication among hazard/disaster researchers and those individuals, agencies and organizations that are actively working to reduce disaster damage and suffering. 

Natural Hazard Los Estimation Methodology (HAZUS) Project

National Hurricane Center (NHC): Tropical Prediction Center (TPC), NOAA/NWS; Miami, FL. NHC and its parent center, TPC, maintain a continuous watch on tropical cyclones over the Atlantic, Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico and the Eastern Pacific (from May 15 through November 30); they prepare and distribute hurricane watches and warnings, as well as marine and military advisories; conduct research to evaluate and improve hurricane forecasting techniques; and are involved in public awareness programs. The TPC is one of nine centers within the NCEP. 

National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC): DOI (BLM, FWS, NPS, BIA, OAS), USDA (USFS), DOC (NOAA/NWS); Boise ID. Serves as primary U.S. logistical support center for wildfire suppression; also serves as a focal point for wildfire information and technology. 

NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Services

National Response Center (NRC): DOT/USCG; Washington, D.C. Serves as the sole national point of contact for reporting all oil, chemical, radiological, biological and etiological discharges into the environment anywhere in the U.S. and its territories; sends alerts to appropriate entities; and serves as the communications and operations center for the National Response Team (NRT). 

National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL): DOC/NOAA/NWS; Norman, OK. Enhances national capabilities to provide accurate and timely forecasts and warnings of hazardous weather events (e.g., blizzards, ice storms, flash floods, tornadoes, lightning) through research into weather processes, research in forecasting and warning techniques, and development of operational applications and transfer of technology.

National Weather Service (NWS): NOAA; Silver Spring, MD. Serves to protect the life and property of U.S. citizens from natural disasters by issuing warnings and forecasts for hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, winter and summer storms, and all manner of severe or extreme weather. 

OCHA Emergency Telecommunications Project

On-line US Hazard Maps

Pacific Grove Office of Emergency Services

Pacific Disaster Center (PDC): DoD; Kilhei, Maui, HI. The PDC is a center designed to provide world-class information support to federal, state and local disaster managers in mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery for disasters within the Pacific region. 

Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER Center): University of California-Berkeley. The PEER Center, a consortium of nine institutions, will conduct research in five basic areas: 1) policy, planning and economics; 2) seismic hazards; 3) performance assessment; 4) systems reliability; and 5) innovative technologies. The center will develop a business and industrial partnership program, conduct urban demonstration projects to test research, and provide education programs.

ReliefSat - Sponsored by the US Institute of Peace, ReliefSat aims to demonstrate the pre-operational use of earth observation data for more efficient and cost-effective planning and management of relief operations.

ReliefWeb

Sparta Solutions

SPOT Image Corporation

Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC): A community of scientists and specialists who actively coordinate research on earthquake hazards at nine core institutions and communicate earthquake information to the public. SCEC is a National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center and is co-funded by the USGS.

State and Local Emergency Management Data Users Group (SALEMDUG)

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (USAERDC): USACE; Washington, D.C. USAERDC is responsible for coordinating the various research activities throughout the Corps of Engineers. 

U.S. Coast Guard MSO San Francisco Bay, Area Contingency Plan (ACP)

US State Emergency Management Web Sites

Volcano Systems Center (VSC): University of Washington and USGS; Seattle, WA. Formed to integrate research across disciplines to understand the role of volcanic systems in geological evolution.

Western Disaster Center

Mark Whitney: Geographer, FEMA