by admin | Apr 27, 2015 | Education, Information technology, Science, Technology
Before attending the NOAA Coastal GeoTools Conference in North Charleston, South Carolina (March 30-April 2), I had not spent much time thinking about data resilience. A brilliant scientist now working for ESRI, the leading company in geographic information services,...
by admin | Apr 12, 2015 | Chicago, Environment, Urban forest
Chicago is not terribly old, as world-class cities go. It was incorporated only in 1837. The area was essentially devoid of European settlers until the 19th century. In the preceding centuries, the resident Indians, including the Potawatomi, had created a landscape...
by admin | Apr 5, 2015 | Blogging, Climate, Disaster, Disaster policy, Government, Resilience, Science
In response to my good friend, Allison Hardin, planner and floodplain manager in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, posting on Facebook the article referenced in my last post from the Post & Courier covering my and Matt Hauer’s presentations last week at the...
by admin | Apr 1, 2015 | Blogging, Climate, Disaster, Disaster policy, Urban Planning
Since Sunday evening, I have been in North Charleston, South Carolina, attending the 2015 Coastal GeoTools conference, hosted by the Association of State Floodplain Managers with support from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. I intend to post more...
by admin | Mar 22, 2015 | Climate, Disaster, Public health, Resilience, Urban Planning
It appears the American Planning Association may break all its attendance records at its annual National Planning Conference next month in Seattle. The last previous record of about 7,000 was also set in Seattle in 1999, so there must be something about the city that...
