13 Feb 2014
In 2009, three earthquakes struck the South Pacific Ocean, causing a tsunami that struck the U.S. island territory of American Samoa less than 12 minutes later... Read More
10 Feb 2014
NDPTC’s Third Thursday presentation and pau hana for January drew a large audience, as many guests came to our event, hosted at nearby Lyon Associates, Inc., to learn about Unmanned Aerial Vehicles/Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAV or UAS) from presenter and Hawaii resident Ted Ralston... Read More
4 Feb 2014
NDPTC presents Social Media for Natural Disaster Response and Recovery in LaCrosse, WI for fire, police and EMS personnel in a cross-disciplinary course delivery... Read More
4 Feb 2014
NDPTC delivered Coastal Community Resilience to communities in Monmouth New Jersey to refocus on the region's vulnerabilities and highlight what needs to be done to address the issues... Read More
30 Jan 2014
The National Disaster Preparedness Training Center (NDPTC), together with faculty from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UHM), participated in an international disaster risk reduction symposium on January 30th and 31st with Tohoku University’s International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS) faculty from Japan... Read More
27 Jan 2014
Owen Shieh is the Weather and Climate Program Coordinator at the National Disaster Preparedness Training Center (NDPTC) in Honolulu. As a meteorologist, his fascination with weather and storms began at an early age in Florida... Read More
22 Jan 2014
Current state of Yolanda in Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan... Read More
3 Jan 2014
Owen Shieh, NDPTC's Weather and Climate Program Coordinator, along with colleagues at NOAA's Earth Research Laboratory, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center, and the University of Hawaii's Department of Meteorology have recently published an article entitled "Extreme Rapid Intensification of Typhoon Vicente (2012) in the South China Sea" in the American Meteorological Society's (AMS) journal Weather and Forecasting (Volume 28, December 2013).... Read More
23 Dec 2013
NDPTC instructors Christopher Tarantino and Kevin Sur successfully delivered “Social Media for Natural Disaster Response and Recovery” courses... Read More
27 Nov 2013
Rev. M. Kalani Souza, NDPTC’s Community Outreach Specialist, was in Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands... Read More