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August 28, 2017
Maritime Security West – September 20-22
For the second year in a row, the Maritime Security West and the Marine Law Enforcement (MLE) Conference will join forces to bring the largest and most comprehensive maritime security and law enforcement event to Tacoma, Washington.
May 23, 2017
HCDE Team Receives Distinguished Article Award
HCDE’s Professor Mark Hasekorn, PHD candidate Robin E. Mays, and HCDE alum Professor Rebecca Walton were awarded one of three Distinguished Article Awards at this year’s Science and Technical Communication’s Journal annual awards event. Professor Haselkorn attended the ceremony in Washington DC on behalf of all the authors to receive the honor on May 10th....
May 18, 2017
Mark Haselkorn to Keynote ICT DM Conference
Mark Haselkorn, professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering, will be the keynote speaker at the Fourth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Management, happening December 11-13, 2017, in Münster, Germany.
March 15, 2017
CoSSaR Spring Speaker Series
CoSSaR is announcing the 2017 spring session of the quarterly Speaker Series: Speaker: General Randy “Church” Kee Topic: Operationally Driven Science and Technology in support of Arctic Maritime Responders Date: Wednesday, April 12th 2017 Time: 7:00PM-8:30PM Location: UW Seattle Campus, Husky Union Bldg (HUB) room 145. Campus Map: Map Event is open to the public,...
Effective Preparedness Messaging
In collaboration with the “Global Disaster Preparedness Center” (GDPC) at the Red Cross, CoSSaR is working to enhance the design and delivery of information to motivate and enable people to take actions to prepare for and cope with emergency situations. This work focuses on the need to diversify delivery methods of preparedness messaging for different...
October 5, 2016
Disaster Response Research Facility Coming to UW
Dr. Scott Miles, senior research scientist in HCDE's Center for Collaborative Systems for Security, Safety, and Regional Resilience (CoSSaR), is Co-Principal Investigator on a new NSF award to host the United States’ first post-disaster, rapid response research facility at University of Washington.
June 30, 2016
Haselkorn, Mays Bring Humanitarian Response Research to Europe
Robin Mays, a HCDE PhD candidate and Marie Curie Research Fellow at the European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS) at the University of Münster in Germany, presented a paper at the International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation, in Trondheim, Norway. The paper, co-authored with fellow HCDE PhD students Melissa Braxton, Andrew Berry, and...
May 23, 2016
ISE Blog: Cascadia Rising, Information Sharing and Interoperability
The New Yorker’s 2016 Pulitzer winning article “The Really Big One” presents an informative, yet terrifying overview of what Northern California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia will experience when, after 316 years of building pressure (and counting), the Cascadia Subduction zone breaks free, resulting in the largest North American natural disaster in the modern era....
Cascadia Rising, Information Sharing, and Interoperability
HCDE Professor Mark Haselkorn describes HCDE and CoSSaR's involvement with Cascadia Rising, an exercise simulating the field response of a 9.0 magnitude earthquake, on the United States government's Information Sharing Environment blog.
March 9, 2016
CoSSaR and ERCIS Join Forces
HCDE PhD candidate Robin Mays, a humanitarian practitioner and ethnographic researcher, will travel to Germany under the Marie Curie Fellowship from the European Union. Mays’ research explores the human and contextual factors of disaster and humanitarian response systems that lead to effective response.
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