EVENTS
UPCOMING WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCES FEATURING SILUS
- Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster:
Lessons from Hurricane Katrina Conference
Co-Sponsored with USGS
Speakers include Dr. Patrick Leahy, Acting Director, U.S. Geological Survey
Date: February 2-3, 2006
Please see Penn IUR Conference Website for details.
- "Can a National Framework for Risk and Reduction be
Developed?" American Association of Geographers Panel
Panel participants include Dr. Susan M. Wachter and Dr. Richard L. Bernknopf, Co-Directors of SILUS; Carl D. Shapiro, Program Coordinator, USGS; Professor Susan Cutter, University of South Carolina; David Applegate, USGS; and Nathan Wood, USGS.
Date: March 5, 2006
- European Geophysical Union General
Assembly
Natural Hazard Session: “Science and Societal Decision Making”
Date: April 2-7, 2006
- “National Risk Assessment and Reduction:
Building a Framework”
Date: Spring 2006
Location: The Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania
