December 19, 2018
What’s the ASFPM Foundation been up?
By News Editor
Heartfelt Thanks to Our Donors and Sponsors Thank you to our donors for making #GivingTuesday on Nov. 28 a big success! This year the ASFPM Foundation set an ambitious goal—to raise $5,000 on #GivingTuesday—with all proceeds going to its Future Leaders Scholarship fund. And to up the ante, George Riedel, the foundation’s donor coordinator, offered
December 17, 2018
News about ASFPM annual national conference & Coastal GeoTools
By News Editor
Flood Fest 2019: The Mitigation Resilience Tour ASFPM’s 43rd Annual National Conference Cleveland, Ohio May 19-23, 2019 Getting excited about ASFPM’s 2019 conference in Cleveland? While conference registration doesn’t open until February, one thing you can do now is book your hotel room. This year we’ve contracted with three different hotels (each with different rates).
December 12, 2018
ASFPM Leadership Reflects on ASFPM’s First Employee
By Larry Larson, P.E., CFM
Diane Brown retires after 36 years of service Diane A. Brown started helping ASFPM with some tasks in 1981 when I met her through one of my Wisconsin DNR staff. She had several years of experience planning, organizing and running events and activities with a statewide nonprofit membership association. At the time, ASFPM had no
December 11, 2018
Story Maps Highlight Second Annual CTP Award Winners
By News Editor
The Kentucky Division of Water Resources and Georgia Department of Natural Resources have been recognized by FEMA as outstanding Cooperating Technical Partners. Their award-winning work have been featured in story maps located on FEMA’s GeoPlatform: KDOW: https://arcg.is/1nqua0 GADNR: https://arcg.is/8uzTO First place recipient, KDOW, was recognized by FEMA for excellence in Communications, Outreach and Program Management…
December 10, 2018
International Partnerships Elevate the Role of Floodplain Managers
By News Editor
Written by Phetmano Phannavong, P.E., CFM, DCNFIP Coordinator and Floodplain Manager, Member of ASFPM’s InternationalCommittee I am often asked what other countries do toward flood risk management that we inthe United States have not done already. Since the U.S. is very large and hassuch geographic diversity, it may be difficult to compare and apply the
December 7, 2018
Midwest Flood Conference Spurs Formation of a Quad Cities Flood Alliance
By News Editor
Sometimes a conference convenes, but not much comes of it. That was not the case after River Action’s 11th annual Upper Mississippi River Conference held in October. Read the full story here.
November 28, 2018
FEMA Releases Draft Policy on Ag Structures in the Floodplain
By News Editor
FEMA’s draft policy on agricultural and accessory structures is available here. The public comment period opened Nov. 21 and will close Dec. 21, 2018. Provide comments on the draft policy by emailing FEMA at FEMA-Floodplain-Management-Division@fema.dhs.gov.
November 26, 2018
Everything ASFPM does impacts the flood-risk profession
By News Editor
How does ASFPM benefit communities, states and members? ASFPM hears this question a lot (especially in regards to our work on The Hill). We work for our members’ interests to secure federal funding for programs that are critical for floodplain managers to do their jobs (flood mapping, pre-disaster mitigation, floodplain management, stream gauges, LIDAR, Silver
November 13, 2018
Recent changes to senior FEMA leadership positions
By News Editor
Nick Shufro, who served as the assistant administrator for risk management with Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration, will now serve as chief learning officer and director of strategic alliances, Office of Chief Component Human Capital Officer. Shufro has leveraged partnerships across the public and private sector to empower communities to take ownership of their developing
October 29, 2018
2018 – The Year of Hazard Mitigation?
By Chad Berginnis, CFM
Of course in the flood business, a lot has happened in 2018. But a decade or two down the road, I wonder if looking back at 2018 we would conclude that this year we turned the page and made hazard mitigation a priority at least at the federal level. Let’s look back on a few