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
Noteable Reports and Blogs
By News Editor
The publication, Building Coastal Resilience for Greater US Security, is the product of a series of discussions held between June and October of 2017. These discussions centered around pathways to solutions for our climate-related coastal challenges and were hosted jointly by the Hoover Institution, the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, and the Woodrow Wilson…
October 29, 2018
Strengthening Coastal Counties Resilience Workshop
By News Editor
Haley Briel and Dave Fowler from ASFPM attended the “Strengthening Coastal Counties Resilience Workshop” Oct. 15-17, at the Weeks Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, just outside of Mobile, Alabama. The workshop was hosted by the National Association of Counties with assistance from ASFPM, Coastal States Organizations and NOAA. The goal was to kick off the…
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…