In the last forty years, dam safety professionals have recognized the importance of preparing emergency actions plans (EAPs) as an effective tool to minimize the consequences of dam failures. In the last 15 years, the National Incident Management System (NIMS) was established and the Incident Command System (ICS) has become a more important emergency response tool. As a result, EAP formats, procedures for testing dam EAPs and training personne...

Internal erosion causes about half of all failures of water-retaining earth embankment dams. Similar statistics apply to levees. Internal erosion occurs when the hydraulic loads imposed by water seeping through the pores or flowing through cracks and openings in the soils in embankments and their foundations generate erosive forces sufficient to overcome the resistance to erosion of those soils. The knowledge of internal erosion processes has...

The Student Safety & Security Conference and Workshop will be held on October 31 – November 1, 2019 and will feature real-world simulations of community response to school shootings and related tragedies.

The Distributed Energy Conference is the power generation industry’s foremost event about distributed generation, bringing together utility-scale electricity providers with power generators utilizing distributed energy resources (DERs), including commercial and industrial facilities, cooperatives, and private enterprise. The conference focuses on real-life applications of DERs, providing insight and information about renewable energy sou...

The purpose of the exercise is to create an opportunity for critical infrastructure owners and operators and their public safety partners to identify and examine the issues and capability gaps they are likely to face in responding to and recovering from a major earthquake.

Responding to disasters and rapidly changing humanitarian crisis events requires developers and engineers to create or update applications to meet requirements quickly and accurately.Join this webinar to learn how to fine-tune the deployment workflow with NVIDIA's Transfer Learning Toolkit (TLT) - which in conjunction with DeepStream SDK offers a complete end-to-end solution for real-time object detection in video streams.By attending this web...

Join us on October 24 and you’ll get a front row seat to strategies and tactics of communications that drive behavior change, and help your organization accomplish it mission. Hear from organizations on how they faced mission-driven situations and how they measured success: LA County safely evacuated 250,000 people in less than 24 hours Leon County directed donations to people in need during hurricane Harvey The State of Michigan fed ove...

Much of our water and wastewater infrastructure needs rehabilitation and replacement. Shifting population patterns and the need for vigilance against man-made and natural threats place increasing demands on water and wastewater utilities. This four-day conference and exposition will address water infrastructure planning and reinvestment strategies, critical infrastructure protection through comprehensive emergency preparedness efforts, and enh...

Whether supporting a national security event, responding to a natural or manmade crisis, or securing the Super Bowl, Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) is indispensable to the public safety community to create and sustain shared situational awareness among all agencies. YPG presents this workshop as a way to discuss how GEOINT is necessary to disaster and humanitarian planning and response. FEMA Geospatial Information Officer Chris Vaughan will...

Our Fall 2019 Webinar Week includes an impressive line-up of instructors from the first responder and public safety community. They are volunteering their time and sharing their expertise to educate and train public safety professionals from around the globe. There will be a total of 10 webinars available during webinar week, including selected previously recorded webinars. Special note: All webinars will be recorded and only IPSA Members will...