Tag: Emergency response
Nationwide test of Wireless Emergency Alert system could test people’s patience...
Elizabeth Ellcessor, University of Virginia and Hamilton Bean, University of Colorado Denver
The Wireless Emergency Alert system had its...
Autonomous drones could speed up search and rescue after flash floods,...
Vijayan Asari, University of Dayton
During hurricanes, flash flooding and other disasters, it can be extremely dangerous to send...
Coronavirus: Strategic National Stockpile was ready, but not for this
Andrew Lakoff, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
As the COVID-19 crisis unfolds, Americans have been hearing a lot...
National Guard joins the coronavirus response – 3 questions answered
Dwight Stirling, University of Southern California
As a military organization divided into 50 distinct parts that can be commanded by either the president or state...
Making life-or-death decisions is very hard – here’s how we’ve taught...
Laurence Alison, University of Liverpool and Neil Shortland, University of Massachusetts Lowell
When faced with a rapidly advancing fire threatening a community, it can be...
A high-adrenaline job: 5 questions answered about fighting wildfires
Michael Kodas, University of Colorado
Editor’s note: More than 1.2 million acres are currently burning across much of the West, Alaska and Florida. In California,...
3 things I learned from delivering medical aid to a remote...
Asa Oxner Myers, University of South Florida
I belong to a group called Doctors for Puerto Rico.
We have been dispatching medicine and small teams of...
Why social media apps should be in your disaster kit
Daniel P. Aldrich, Northeastern University and Courtney M. Page, Northeastern University
With floodwaters at four feet and rising, a family in Houston, Texas abandoned their...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
