Épisodes

  • California Wildfires and Disaster Messaging

    California Wildfires and Disaster Messaging
    Jan 10 2025
    On this week's episode, Dan DePodwin joins us to discuss the unique weather implications surrounding the widespread wildfires hitting the Los Angeles area this week. We discuss Santa Ana winds and the source in the mountain deserts around the Four Corners region of the Southwest.
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    36 min
  • 2024 on the Disaster Podcast Episode Retrospective

    2024 on the Disaster Podcast Episode Retrospective
    Jan 4 2025
    Our amazing Disaster Podcast team got together this week to share their favorite episodes from 2024. We covered a lot of topics and disaster responses over the previous year but there were a few standouts for each of us.
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    41 min
  • Holiday and Winter Weather Travel Preparedness Update

    Holiday and Winter Weather Travel Preparedness Update
    Dec 20 2024
    With the approaching holidays here at the end of December, along with the accompanying winter storms tracking across the midwest and into the northeast, it's important to review preparedness and travel warnings for your region. Becky DePodwin, our disaster emergency management expert, joins us to cover some of the weather and preparedness concerns.
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    30 min
  • Colorado Avalanche Rescue Dog Training with Carl Kishbaugh

    Colorado Avalanche Rescue Dog Training with Carl Kishbaugh
    Dec 13 2024
    Our ski patrol and disaster meteorology expert, Kyle Nelson, comes by the episode tonight with fellow snow and mountain rescue expert Carl Kishbaugh. Karl is a ski-patroller with years of experience in mountain and ski-lift rescue as well as avalanche dog handling. Ruby, his avalanche search and rescue dog, recently trained with he and Kyle on helicopter acclimation and landing zone handling.
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    46 min
  • Disaster Pre-Planning and Community and Responder Preparedness

    Disaster Pre-Planning and Community and Responder Preparedness
    Nov 29 2024
    Henry Mitchell joined the show and we switched gears to discuss emergency planning and management of diverse community resources to prepare to respond to emergencies and disaster situations. Henry is Deputy Director Office of Emergency Preparedness Response in the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. He holds an MS Emergency Response and Biosecurity and specialized for a time in Disaster Behavioral Health.
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    49 min
  • Connecting Public-Private Sector Partnerships with Healthcare Ready

    Connecting Public-Private Sector Partnerships with Healthcare Ready
    Nov 22 2024
    Tom Cotter, MPH, serves as executive director of Healthcare Ready, bringing more than a decade of global health readiness and response expertise to expand nonprofit’s mission-driven work addressing health equity. Healthcare Ready is a nonprofit organization established in 2007 to help strengthen the US healthcare system and assist all communities in planning for, responding to, and recovering from disasters and disease pandemics.
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    36 min
  • NHERI Deploys Resources in Advance of Hurricanes with Dan Zehner

    NHERI Deploys Resources in Advance of Hurricanes with Dan Zehner
    Nov 15 2024
    The National Science Foundation NHERI (Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure) organization had teams out in advance of the recent hurricanes to strike Florida. They set up for the Sentinel Program from the University of Florida to use sensor platforms to detect all the various forces from incoming storms. This was the first full deployment of the Sentinel system.
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    43 min
  • Zeroeyes Active Shooter Detection/Prevention Software

    Zeroeyes Active Shooter Detection/Prevention Software
    Nov 1 2024
    ZeroEyes technology delivers a proactive, human-verified visual gun detection and situational awareness solution. It integrates into existing digital security cameras on a site to stop mass shootings and gun-related violence. Jonathan Norton, VP of Commercial Sales for ZeroEyes comes on the show to talk about their ground-breaking software and human verification service that completes the process to eliminate false positives causing needless lockdowns.
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    40 min