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The Canadian Hazus User Group meets on the second Wednesday of each month to share knowledge and updates about incorporating Hazus risk assessments into decision making in Canada. Natural Resources Canada’s National-Scale Geohazard Risk Project of the Public Safety Geoscience Program supports the forum. This week’s meeting will be facilitated by Malaika Ulmi (mulmi@nrcan.gc.ca). The conversation will be recorded and posted on www.hazuscanada.ca.

Introduction

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• Meet and greet as we connect• Updates, new resources, news and views• Round table• Presentation: Monitoring and Reporting Climate-Related Risks

to Agriculture – Patrick Cherneski, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

• Questions and Discussion

Agenda

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• Training – EMI courses http://www.fema.gov/hazus-training and at

www.training.fema.gov. Upcoming courses include Hazus for Floodplain Managers, Basic Hazus, Hazus for Earthquake and CDMS.

– Esri online courses http://training.esri.com/ search for Hazus– FEMA Region X, Washington HUG offering a 2-day Hazus course on October 28

and 29, 2014

• Resources– www.hazuscanada.ca: Order a copy of Hazus Canada 2.1, get material of past

and future meetings, ask questions and have discussions– Hazus group on LinkedIn for Canada and the US– www.usehazus.com/canadianhug Canadian and US HUG groups and resources– Hazus Hotzone newsletter

http://www.fema.gov/hazus/hazus-hotzone-newsletter

Updates, new resources, news and views

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• New downloadable tool from USGS: Pedestrian Evacuation Analyst (http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=4002#.VBiz0FfDsYs)

• ShakeOut, October 16, 2014 (www.shakeout.org)• Hazus US Modernization• Hazus Canada application update• Report from Nicky Hastings on the Hazus Annual Users Conference 2014,

August 4-6, 2014, Indianapolis, Indiana, http://www.hazusconference.com/

• RAUG Update

Updates, new resources, news and views

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Updates, new resources, news and views (cont’d) • Canadian Risk and Hazards Network (CRHNet) Symposium, October 22-

24, 2014, at the Eaton Chelsea in Toronto. • Canada’s Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, 5th Annual National

Roundtable on Disaster Risk Reduction - The Canadian forum enabling direct participation in disaster risk reduction dialogue and engagement in the Hyogo Framework for Action's priorities for action, October 21, 2014 in Toronto, Ontario

• NWGIS Conference, October 13-17, 2014 in Lynnwood, WA, http://www.nwgis.org/

• Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA), BC Chapter, Seminar November 20th, 2014, http://www.urisabc.org/

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• Introduce yourself• Any news, projects, ideas, suggestions, upcoming presentations or

conferences of interest …

Roundtable

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Presentation: Monitoring and Reporting Climate-Related Risks to Agriculture, Patrick Cherneski, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

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Next CanHUG meeting is October 15, 2014See you then!

Thank you