Geological Remote Sensing Group – GRSG

The November 22nd EED seminar will be collaborative with the London Trainee and Student GIS Community  (TS-GIS) and will be on: 

Geographical Information Systems for Natural Hazards Preparedness and Response 

Fri, November 22, 5:15pm – 6:45pm in the Pyramid room, Department of Geography, King’s College London 4th floor, King’s Building, Strand, WC2R 2LS

The format is two speakers (30 mins each) 

Dr Richard Teeuw, University of Portsmouth. title Low-cost Geoinformatics for Disaster risk Reduction

Matthew Hogan London Resilience Network. GIS and London Hazards: Where are we now? 

Followed by questions and a short panel discussion on GIS in disaster preparedness and response: how is it being used and could it help in the Philippines. 

Panel: Richard Teeuw, Matthew Hogan, Faith Taylor, Benjamin Smith, Bruce Malamud 

Followed by the usual EED drinks and snacks 

Since this event is open to all institutions in London we need to keep track on numbers for the refreshments and to change to a larger room if necessary).  Therefore please indicate your intention to attend here http://goo.gl/LiZD4: 

Speaker Bios: 

Matthew Hogan 

Matthew joined London Resilience Team in 2011 after 6 years working in resilience in various parts of the National Health Service. Currently he takes a lead role in London for coordinating multiagency work on flooding, pandemic disease and developing situational awareness to support decision making. Since joining the Team, he has developed the first London Risk Register and has developed the innovative Anytown project to map resilience interdependencies. During 2012, 

he was seconded to Olympic Resilience Manager (Cabinet Office), responsible for providing Government with assurance that partner agencies in London had appropriate arrangements in place to mitigate and respond to risks during the Olympic period. His career has been punctuated by response to a variety of incidents including the radiological poisoning of Alexander Litvenenko, the 2009 Swine Flu and multiple weather related incidents including the recent UK storms.  

Richard Teeuw

Richard is a lecturer at Portsmouth University, where he runs an MSc course in Crisis & Disaster Management.  He gained his PhD at Stirling University, studying the diamond deposits in Sierra Leone. He has run many projects involving technology transfer and low-cost applications of GIS/remote sensing, e.g. groundwater exploration in West Africa; deforestation surveys in Guyana; soil erosion mapping in Zambia; geohazard and vulnerability mapping in Dominica.