Message-ID: <UPMAIL04.199703060227300242@msn.com> Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 02:05:47 UT From: James Cohen <mailto:JCCPC@MSN.COM> Subject: Hazard Mitigation in the Mid-Hudson Valley - Presentation To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTNEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
ENGINEERING SECTION
SPEAKERS: Mr. Marshall Mabry/Joseph Picciano/Mary A. Colvin Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA Region II
SUBJECT: Hazard Mitigation in the Mid-Hudson Valley
DAY/DATE: Wednesday; March 12, 1997. Presentation at 7:30 pm Dinner (with the speaker) will be at 6:30 pm; Drinks at 6:00 pm. The dinner is served at the Academy.
SUMMARY: A team from the Federal Emergency management Agency (FEMA) Region II area will present:
(1) a discussion of the wide variety of federal programs that come into play following a presidentially declared disaster, (2) a discussion of managing floodplain development through the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), including basic requirements for construction in the floodplain and information on community participation and flood insurance policies, and (3) a review of the HAZUS - modeling earthquake, hurricane, flood, tornado;/hail, and fire hazards with Risk Management Solutions.
Mary A. Colvin, who will speak on the NFIP in the lower Hudson Valley, is a Natural Hazards Program Specialist at FEMA Region II. Marshall Mabry is currently the Federal Hazard Mitigation Officer for the November flooding event in Upstate New York and previously was in Puerto Rico for Hurricane Hortense and is serving as the GIS Coordinator for FEMA Region II with coverage areas including New Jersey, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Joseph Picciano is the Mitigation Division Director at FEMA Region II and has served in the top levels of the Office of the Federal Coordinating Officer which directs and coordinates all aspects of the federal workforce responding to a presidentially declared disaster.
Admission to the lecture is free. The cost of dinners is $22.00 for members and $27.00 for non-members. (Annual membership in the Academy is $85.00).
The Academy may be reached with the N or R trains (Fifth Avenue Station); all Lexington Avenue trains (59th Street Station); buses along Fifth and Madison Avenues; and, crosstown buses on 57th or 65th/66th Streets.
For dinner reservations only, send your name(s), check(s) and daytime telephone number to Marcie Brenner, New York Academy of Sciences, 2 East 63rd Street, New York, New York 10021; make out check(s) to New York Academy of Sciences. State on check "Engineering Section, Meeting March 12, 1997". Alternatively, reservations may be made by calling Marcie Brenner at (212) 838-0230. Reservations must be received by Friday, March 7. Reservations are not required for the lecture.