Presenter(s):
Honggao Liu, Texas A&M University
Shaowen Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Huilin Gao, Texas A&M University
Ximing Cai, University of Illinois
Samantha Arundel, United States Geological Survey

Primary Convener:
Zhe Zhang, Texas A&M University College Station

Disasters become prominent global issues that simultaneously pose a threat to multiple countries or regions around the globe. The dynamics of a multi-scale networked society are inextricably entangled with geographical and built environments, where human-environmental interactions shape community resilience under different disaster events. Disaster management is gradually empowered by increasing geospatial big data awareness and growing computing capabilities to produce spatial vulnerability and situational understanding for supporting timely decisions. This Town Hall shed light on high-performance geocomputational educational concepts important in understanding human-environment interactions in disaster management. In the Town Hall, we will conduct training activities and presentations to educate participants in using advanced cyberinfrastructure to analyze spatial data for disaster management. This project was funded by the National Science Foundation CyberTraining program (award number #2321069). In this project, we formed an International CyberTraining for Disaster Management (CTDM) network among academic institutions, governmental agencies, hazard research centers, industry, and educational organizations to leverage the expertise of pertinent communities in developing training materials for preparing the next-generation workforce in geospatial and disaster science.