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
20 Nov 2013
The National Disaster Preparedness Training Center successfully conducted the first two demos of their new Tornado Awareness course in Oklahoma... Read More
15 Nov 2013
Owen Shieh was interviewed on November 15, 2013 by Beth-Ann Kozlovich of Hawaii Public Radio about his upcoming TEDxHonolulu presentation “Untamed Skies: Where Science Meets Humanity” which will take place on Saturday, November 16, 2013 at the Hawaii Theatre in Downtown Honolulu.... Read More
12 Nov 2013
Owen Shieh is presenting a talk at the TEDxHonolulu event, “Untamed skies: Where science meets humanity," on Saturday, November 16, 2013, at the Hawaii Theatre in Downtown Honolulu.... Read More