8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

Plenary: 2011 Flood Recovery - The Benefits of Collaboration

Moderator: Scott D. Whitney, USACE Mississippi Valley Division

Speaker(s): Bob Hainly, Office of Surface Water, U.S. Geological Survey & Mississippi River Recovery Task Force; Beth Freeman, FEMA Region VII Regional Administrator; Missouri River Recovery Task Force; Northeast Flood Recovery (invited)

2011 Flood Recovery - The Benefits of Collaboration

Presentations:

• 2011 Flood Recovery The Benefits of Collaboration (pdf, 1.61 MB)
• Integrating Silver Jackets into the JFO and EOC (pdf, 213 KB)
• Mississippi River Recovery Task Force (pdf, 723 KB)
• Silver Jackets Conference (pdf, 541 KB)
• Silver Jackets in Disasters (pdf, 386 KB)

9:15 AM - 10:15 AM

Concurrent Breakout Sessions: 2011 Experiences and Lessons Learned from the Field

The Workshop’s Final breakout sessions will focus on the experiences and lessons learned from the field during the 2011 flood season.

2011 Missouri River Flooding: Preparation & Recovery

Speaker(s): Randall Behm & Colleen Horihan, USACE–Omaha District; Steve Bredthauer, USACE - Northwestern Division

• 2011 Missouri River Flood and the Development of Miles of Inundation Maps as a Risk Reduction Tool (Behm & Horihan)

• Value Engineering for Missouri River Emergency Levee Repairs (Bredthauer)

Presentations:

• 2011 Missouri River Flood Event (pdf, 7.0 MB)
• Value Methodology Applied to Levee Repairs (pdf, 214 KB)

Irene and Lee, An Experience in the Northeast

Speaker(s): USGS New Jersey Water Science Center; William J. Marosi, NOAA National Weather Service, Middle Atlantic River Forecast Center

• USGS New Jersey Water Science Center Preparation and Response to Irene and Lee (USGS New Jersey Water Science Center)

• An Assessment of Forecast Challenges During the Floods of Irene and Lee (Marosi)

Presentations:

• Flood Forecast Challenges in the Middle Atlantic Region During Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee (pdf, 25.31 MB)

Responding to the 2011 Mississippi River Floods

Speaker(s): Scott D. Whitney, USACE–Mississippi Valley Division; Robert (Bob) A. Hainly, USGS

• Operation Watershed – Recovery: Responding to the Historic Mississippi River Flood of 2011 (Whitney)

• A Retrospective of the USGS Flood-Response Activities for the 2011 Mississippi River Basin Floods (Hainly)

Presentations:

• Floods of 2011: U.S. Geological Survey Response and Activities in the Mississippi and Red/Souris River basins (pdf, 6.7 MB)
• Mississippi Valley Division’s Featuring: MR.T (aka Mississippi River and Tributaries Project) Costarring: 2011 Epic Flood & Operation Watershed (pdf, 9.0 MB)

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

How to Integrate Silver Jackets into the Joint Field Office and the Emergency Operations Center

Moderator: Mr. Mark Slauter, State of Virginia Department of Emergency Management

Speaker(s): Mr. John Forr, Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency; Ms. Kelli Higgins-Roche, New York Silver Jackets; Mr. Don Keldsen, Office of Federal Disaster Coordination, FEMA

Many States have an interagency group to address hazards, mitigation or recovery. While the group may be a Silver Jackets Team or a Hazard Mitigation Work Group, it is sometimes not closely connected with emergency management. At issue is how members of interagency teams can integrate into a state Emergency Operations Center (EOC) or the Joint Field Office (JFO). How do you engage the experts in your partnership? Part of the answer lies within understanding the purpose and structure of each. This session will briefly discuss the operational construct of an EOC and the recovery structure of a JFO, including how an EOC augments before a flood, responds during a flood, how the activities transition to the JFO for recovery, and how the JFO disbands. Areas of activity that may benefit from interagency team participation will be identified.

11:15 AM - 12:00 PM

Wrap Up and Regional Group Future Initiatives

Speaker(s): Ray Alexander, Deputy Chief, Office of Homeland Security, USACE

Wrap - Up

Presentations:

• Observations & Wrap up (pdf, 7.43 MB)