Disaster PRIMR 2024: Interfaces of Disaster
Opportunities and challenges arise where boundaries converge. Disaster PRIMR 2024 Conference presents opportunities to discuss and explore these challenges and identify innovative and meaningful strategies and techniques to mitigate them and improve the resilience of communities throughout. This year's conference will focus on the challenges in rural and tribal communities, including heirs’ property rights and gentrification, the impacts of environmental driven catastrophes, accessibility challenges and many more. Please join us in this exploration with scholars and practitioners representing the interfaces of disaster.
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PRIMR Plenary Speakers |
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Saundra H. Glover, Ph.D., MBA
PRIMR Core Values: This event is guided by these shared values:
- People First
Coming all together to share, learn, and take away relevant information, knowledge of best practices, experience of lessons learned, and insights of wisdom, which are relevant and applicable within communities engaged in proactive Preparedness for, Response to, Innovation on, Mitigation of, and Recovery (PRIMR) from, the impacts and effects caused by disasters caused by natural phenomena and/or human actions.
- Listen First
Highlighting how local knowledge is critical for any aspect of PRIMR in order to prioritize people and respond effectively and efficiently to their needs.
- Partnership
Upholding the need to maintain the highest levels of respect, trust, commitment to each other, the organizations they represent, and the communities they serve.
- Cultural Humility
Recognizing the value of ALL people, by being open to other ways of doing things, and by being co-learners.
- Access to All
Focusing on the connectivity among disciplinary and institutional/organizational silos to integrate a broad range of cross-disciplinary and cross-population perspectives and experiences.
- Agency
Helping people understand and access their own power in all dimensions of PRIMR, focusing on the agentic capacity of individuals and communities to act independently and to make their own free choices.
Conference ScheduleClick here for a downloadable version |
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February 26, 2024 - George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum |
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February 27, 2024 - HD Smith Building - Brayton Fire Training Field |
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TRACKS |
Innovation 1 |
Innovation 2 |
Preparedness / Response |
Mitigation / Recovery |
| 7:30-8:30 | Coffee/Breakfast/Check-in | |||
| 8:30-9:00 | Introductions and Welcome @ Rm122AB | |||
| 9:00-9:45 | Dr. Saundra Glover - Keynote: The Interface of Disaster and Rural Economic Development: Elevating the Voices of Rural | |||
| 9:45-10:15 | Presentation: Enhancing Disaster Resilience in the Cyberinfrastructure Era: Platform for Resilience Inference Measurement and Enhancement | Professional Development Workshop: Navigating Global Chaos: Disaster Preapredness, Mitigation, Response, and Innovation in a VUCA, TUNA, and BANI World | Presentation: Advancing Agrosecurity and Community Resilience Through Collaboration, Capacity Building, and Extension Program Innovation | Presentation: Embedding Equality in Infrastructure Resilience Research and Practices: Reflecting on the Past Decade and Envisioning the Future |
| 10:15-10:45 | Presentation: Crisis Communications: Resilience Building in the African American Community | Presentation: The Texas A&M VET Emergency Management Rotation: Partnering with Communities to develop Emergency Animal Sheltering Plans While Preparing 4th Year Veterinary Students to Serve Their Communities | Presentation: Leveraging Emerging Flood Modeling Techniques and Infrastructure Designes for Land-Use Analysis | |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Panel: Discussion with ASSURE/ASSUREd Safe: Preparation and Response to Disaster and Public Safety Operations using Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS) | Presentation: Rapid Post-Disaster Debris Estimation with Artificial Intelligence and Aeriol Phtogrammetry | Presentation: Go Bag - Disaster Preparedness on a Budget | Presentation: A Systems Approach for Disaster Risk Reduction: Exploring the Nexus of Energy, Food, and Human Mobility in the Northern Countries of Central America |
| 11:15-11:45 | Presentation: From Ashes to Insights: Uncovering Long-term Health Effects and Solutions After the West, Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion | Presentation: Willingness to Pay for Improved Hurricane Transit Service | Presentation: Cohesive Cities and Resilient Cities: Are They the Same? | |
| 11:45-1:00 | Lunch with Robert Osten, CEO / Managing Director, fernao business resilience GmbH Rm 122AB |
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| 1:00-2:00 | Poster Session | |||
| 2:00-2:30 | Presentation: ASSUREd Safe: UAS First Responder Training | Panel: Exploring Information Boundaries: Opportunities & Challenges of Hazards Data Access in Under-resourced Communities | Panel: Preparing Future Nurses by Incorporating Hospital Emergency Response Training (HERT) in Their Education Curriculum | Presentation: Developing Resilience Guidance for Rural Gulf Coast Communities |
| 2:30 - 3:00 | Presentation: Inclusive Wildfire Evacuation: The Role of Transit and Paratransit | Presentation: Rural Community Recovery Awareness Training | ||
| 3:00-3:15 | Break | |||
| 3:15- 3:45 | Professional Development Workshop: Implementing a Simple Strategic Planning Process to Elevate Local Leadership Initiatives Related to Disaster | Presentation: Best Practices of Highly Infectious Decedent Management: Consensus Recommendations from an International Expert Workshop | Presentation: Where do we go? Reunification in a small rural community | |
| 3:45-4:15 | Presentation: Providing help and hope for animals and people impacted by disaster: The Role of the Texas A&M VET in disaster response | Presentation: Partnering in Repair: The Daunting Complexities of Longer-term Housing Recovery for Vulnerable Households | ||
| 4:15-4:30 | Daily Wrap Up and Messages Rm122AB | |||
| 5:00-6:00 | Career Fair Room 122AB | |||
February 28, 2024 - HD Smith Building - Brayton Fire Training Field |
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Tracks |
Innovation 1 |
Innovation 2 |
Preparedness / Response |
Mitigation / Recovery |
| 7:30-8:30 | Coffee/Breakfast/Check-in | |||
| 8:30-9:00 | Welcome Back and Housekeeping @Rm 122AB | |||
| 9:00-9:45 | Plenary Presentation - Heirs Property & Disasters - Heather Way, J.D. and Dr. John T. Cooper, Jr. | |||
| 9:45-10:00 | Break | |||
| 10:00-10:30 | Panel Discussion: Multijurisdictional Planning and Response: Some Best Practices in Planning, Coordination, Communications and Operations | Presentation: Planning to Recover: Thinking Beyond the Disaster Kit | Panel Discussion: Resilience in Rural Texas: A Panel Discussion on Disaster Recovery Experiences, Lessons Learned, and Best Practices | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Presentation: Energy Equity's Role in Disasters | Presentation: Texas Dairy Farmer's Preparedness and Resposne to the 2021 Winter Storm Uri | ||
| 11:00-11:30 | Presentation: Assessing Flood Resilience in Miami, Florida: Evaluation of Comprehensive and Hazard Mitigation Plans Quality | Presentation: A Dynamic Digital Twin Framework for Resilient Electric Power Restoration after Hurricanes | Presentation: Implementing Localized Solutions to Mitigate Climate-Induced WEF Resource Shortages | |
| 11:30-12:00 | Presentation: Unoccupied Aircraft System (UAS) Response. To the Vermont July 2023 Floods | Presentation: Exploring Community Resilience Imaginaries: from Hurricane Maria to the Luguna Heights Tornado | ||
| 12:00-1:30 | Closing Keynote - April Taylor - Collaborations and Working with Tribal Nations | |||
Lodging and Accomodation Information:
Due to a number of events in the BCS area, several limited room blocks have been created for PRIMR attendees. PRIMR attendees are responsible for lodging costs. The room blocks will be available through February 13, 2024.
Homewood Suites - College Station - PRIMR Rate: 107.00 / night
950 University Drive E,
College Station, TX 77840
Phone: (979) 846-0400
Registration Link for Homewood Suites
Residence Inn- College Station - PRIMR Rate: 119.00 / night
720 University Drive E,
College Station, TX 77840
Phone: (979) 268-2200
To make reservations, please call the hotel and request the PRIMR rate.
Texas A&M Hotel and Conference Center - PRIMR Rate: 139.00 / night
177 Joe Routt Boulevard
College Station, Texas 77840
Phone: (979) 260-2235
Registration Link for the Texas A&M Hotel & Conference Center