1. SERE – Societal-Environmental Research and Education Laboratory Strong Local Partnerships: The Keys to Success 62 nd Interdepartmental Hurricane Conference Tropical Cyclone Operations and Research: Priorities for the Future 3-7 March 2008 Charleston, South Carolina Moderator Denise Stephenson Hawk, Ph.D. Associate Director, NCAR Director, SERE Laboratory Boulder, Colorado

2. SERE – Societal-Environmental Research and Education Laboratory SESSION FOCUS  Public Safety  Recovery  Resilience

3. SERE – Societal-Environmental Research and Education Laboratory Definition  Re-sil-ience: The capacity of a system, community, or society potentially exposed to hazards to adapt in order to reach and maintain an acceptable level of functioning and structure. From NOAA Guidance Memorandum FY2009-2013 What should we do?

4. SERE – Societal-Environmental Research and Education Laboratory Operational Implementation Predictions Regional and Local Environments Decision Tools Integrating Research, Data and Information into End-use Knowledge Systems Weather Research, Data and Information Reliable Information Delivery

5. SERE – Societal-Environmental Research and Education Laboratory How do we decide what to do? Decisions are: Individual - Yes Local - Yes State – Yes Regional - ? National - ? Global - ?

6. SERE – Societal-Environmental Research and Education Laboratory OFCM-NCAR Partnership  Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology: Conducted an Exploratory Review on the Flow of Tropical Cyclone Information throughout Mobile, AL and Charleston, SC Partnered with NCAR to extend the time frame of information flow from hours before the storm to months and years before the storm

7. SERE – Societal-Environmental Research and Education Laboratory Session 11 Strong Local Partnerships The Keys to Success Moderator: Dr. Denise Stephenson Hawk, NCAR Associate Director and Director of the NCAR/SERE Laboratory Panelists: Ms. Cathy Haynes, Director, Charleston County Emergency Preparedness Division Mr. Walt Dickerson, Director, Mobile County Emergency Management Agency Mr. Michael Emlaw, Meteorologist-in-Charge, NWS Weather Forecast Office, Charleston, SC Dr. Betty Hearn Morrow, Professor Emeritus, Florida International University, Consulting Sociologist Ms. Naomi Moye, Hazards Communications Consultant Mr. Ronald Glaser, Sandia National Laboratories, Program Manager, Integrated Public Alert and Warning System