Strategies and Implications for Integrating GeoSpatial Technologies in Emergency Management Education Programs National Emergency Management Institute Higher Education Conference June 2, 2009 Kevin Mickey Director, Professional GIS Education Program The Polis Center, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis

Service and Research Opportunities and Strategies

Poll How many emergency management practitioners (non-academic) are in the audience? How many of you engage students and/or faculty in helping you support your emergency management needs and goals? How many faculty are in the audience? How many of you currently encourage your students to support emergency management practitioners as part of your classes?

Academia and Emergency Management The emergency management community is increasingly seeking support for a variety of services Identified needs  Experts who are familiar with the latest advances in technology and science and can successfully apply that experience in the field  Experts who are capable of working in a collaborative environment and who can successfully engage a variety of stakeholders  Organizations with the capacity to support projects on a variety of scales  Tool (GIS and others) experts

Role of Academia Defined in National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP) Establishing Centers of Excellence (i.e., university-based partnerships or federally funded R&D centers) to provide independent analysis of Critical Infrastructure Key Resources (CIKR) protection issues Supporting the research, development, testing, evaluation, and deployment of CIKR protection technologies Analyzing, developing, and sharing best practices related to CIKR prioritization and protection efforts Researching and providing innovative thinking and perspective on threats and the behavioral aspects of terrorism

Role of Academia Defined in National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP) Preparing or disseminating guidelines, courses, and descriptions of best practices for physical security and cybersecurity Developing and providing suitable all-hazards risk analysis and risk management courses for CIKR protection professionals Establishing undergraduate and graduate curricula and degree programs

Role of Academia Defined in National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP) Conducting research to identify new technologies and analytical methods that can be applied by partners to support NIPP efforts Participating in the review and validation of NIPP-supporting risk analysis and management approaches

Service Example National Flood Study 31 States Completed by University Consortium Coalition of Universities for Spatial Information Sciences (CUSIS) Purdue University Indiana University Ball State University University of Southern Indiana Indiana State University Vincennes University

Service Example Midwest All Hazard DMA 2000 Mitigation Planning University partners  Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (The Polis Center)  Southern Illinois University Carbondale  Augustana College  University of Wisconsin - Madison  University of Minnesota - Duluth

Service Example Midwest All Hazard DMA 2000 Mitigation Planning 259 counties  Illinois - DMA 2000 plans with detailed HAZUS/GIS Risk Assessments – completed or in progress  Indiana – DMA 2000 plans with detailed HAZUS/GIS Risk Assessments – completed or in progress  Wisconsin – statewide flood risk assessment to support state plan update - completed  Minnesota – funding being finalized

Research Example Service Oriented Architecture for the Indiana Flood GRID Collaborative Team of Agencies   State   Federal   Regional

Research Example Service Oriented Architecture for the Indiana Flood GRID Model Calibration (USGS Water Scientists) Real-Time Water Flow Gauge Data (USGS) FastMech Process (IU Big Red) Loss Calculation Process (Polis) Maps Flood Depth Grid Data CGNS Data Water Flow Data Loss Estimate Property Assessment Data Flood Map Parcel & HAZUS Data Service (Polis) Reports SAVI (Polis) Parcel Boundaries (Marion County) Parcel Map Demographics Distributed Processes and Asynchronous I/O

Research Example Service Oriented Architecture for the Indiana Flood GRID Heterogeneous  Many Operating Systems  Many Compilers  Many Communication Protocols  Many Development Frameworks  Many Databases and File Systems

Research Example Indiana Risk Assessment Model (RAM) Indiana Risk Assessment Model (RAM)

Research Example Indiana Risk Assessment Model (RAM) Partners  Indiana Department of Homeland Security  The Polis Center – Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis  Integrated Solutions Consulting

Research Example Indiana Risk Assessment Model (RAM) Project Description  Devise a method to compare, assess, and evaluate natural, technological, and political hazard (hazard analysis) with the underlying vulnerabilities (risk assessment) common within Indiana.  Apply consistent and scalable methodology that can be applied uniformly throughout the state at all levels of government.

Research Example Indiana Risk Assessment Model (RAM) Research Questions  Varying community characteristics make it difficult to develop common empirical values.  Impact must consider pre-disaster condition of the community as well as the hazard event.  Hazard impact must account for blend of physical and social measures. ► Physical – physical damage to built environment ► Social - environmentally sensitive areas, historical structures, socioeconomic conditions, various social concerns such as degree of public trust, literacy, and collective action and solidarity

Research Example Indiana Risk Assessment Model (RAM) Research Questions  Model must be flexible – allowing analyst with framework that can be adjusted for the unique needs of and between jurisdictions while still ensuring consistency in creating a common operational picture.  Model must allow for a degree of subjectivity in order for analyst to include community-specific and hazard-specific considerations.

Research Example Indiana Risk Assessment Model (RAM) Timeline  Phase 1: Conceptualize Risk Assessment Model (July 2009)  Phase 2: Test RAM on Indiana DHS Regions (Funding dependent)  Phase 3: Integrate County RAM into State- Focused RAM (Funding dependent)