1. Strategies and Implications for Integrating GeoSpatial Technologies in Emergency Management Education Programs – New Directions and Possibilities National Emergency Management Institute Higher Education Conference June 8, 2010 Kevin Mickey, GISP Director Professional Education, The Polis Center, IUPUI Adjunct Assistant Professor, Loma Linda University 1200 Waterway Boulevard, Indianapolis, IN 46202 317.371.4479 kmickey@iupui.edu

2. 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?

3. 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

4. Service and Teaching Opportunities and Strategies

5. The Polis Center ► Applied research center at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis ► Formed in 1989 ► Over 300 projects ► Strong collaborative emphasis with academia, private sector, and public sector entities ► Multiple opportunities for internships

6. ► Polis engages in a diverse range of projects but has particular expertise in applications of geospatial technology in emergency management. ► Examples  Expertise in use and application of HAZUS-MH and other hazard modeling tools  Development of dozens of mitigation plans  Workshops conducted in nearly every state The Polis Center

7. The value of collaboration 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 ► Multiple private sector partners

8. PDM Projects ► Wisconsin, Illinois, and Minnesota  All hazard risk assessments either have been or are in the process of being conducted in each state.

9. Indiana PDM ► Detailed plans have been developed for all of the counties ► Local data collected as part of this effort is the best in existence

10. Service Example National 100 Year 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

11. Intern Benefits ► Developed familiarity with a number of GIS applications and modeling tools ► Applied experience included interaction with local and state government entities ► Income

12. Research Opportunities

13. Research Example Indiana Risk Assessment Model (RAM) ► Indiana Risk Assessment Model (RAM)

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

15. 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

16. Research Opportunities ► Improvements in hazard loss estimation science ► Identification of effective methods of risk communication (i.e. Risk MAP) ► Creating new ways to effectively distribute data to current and new audiences ► Others???

17. Group Discussion