Theme Day I - July 8, 2009

On Wednesday July 8th the TP DRM had their first Theme Day ...

We took advantage of the availability of having representatives from the World Bank and CAPRA programs who are visiting the ISU SSP to continue with presentations concerning Disaster Risk Management. We also had a dynamic presentation on the World Wind geospatial engine and a hands-on demo and discussion of the "earthquake machine" and an introduction to the Global Earthquake Model (GEM) program.

To see more about the "earthquake machine", click here ...

To see the "earthquake machine" in action click on the image to the left ...

TP 1 - July 6, 2009

We started out TP 1 with a one hour exercise led by John Bergstrom to develop team skills ... Step #1 is the development of our consensus TP DRM Mission Statement ...

We followed up with an introduction to the World Bank and a discussion of how the TP DRM project evolved ...

TP DRM Introduction - June 30, 2009

We are going to save the world !

Hello World!

Traditional "Hello World" post to test out email posting to the blog!
Hooray!

Welcome to the Team Project Disaster Risk Management (TP DRM) blog in support of the International Space University Space Studies Program (ISU SSP) for 2009. Please feel free to post your comments and ideas.
From the TP DRM Description: The objectives of the team project are as follows:
1. To provide students with experience in interdisciplinary and international teamwork, while fostering skills in effective management of time and resources.
2. To encourage students to share and develop novel ideas for using space technologies to improve current methods of disaster risk management.
3. To provide recommendations on how existing space-based Earth observation missions and tools can be better applied to the field of disaster risk management.
4. To identify where gaps exist in current space-based Earth observation missions and tools and, if it is possible, to define a mission or missions that may address those gaps.
5. To study opportunities to improve the impact of disaster risk management projects via innovative and effective use of Internet based applications and to help the team better understand key lessons learned, success factors and good practices.
6. To produce a comprehensive report with recommendations for future international planning to implement space technologies for disaster risk management.