Massachusetts Maritime Academy

1. Massachusetts Maritime Academy FEMA Higher Education Conference June 2011 GIS in Emergency Management

2. Massachusetts Maritime Academy • Founded in 1890 • One of nine Massachusetts State Colleges • Originally for education of merchant mariners • Marine Engineering • Marine Transportation • Expanded programs into • Marine Environmental Protection • Facilities Engineering • Emergency Management • International Maritime Business • Technical Educational Programs • Regimental Life Style MMA Emergency Management

3. GIS in Emergency Management • EM Curriculum components using GIS • Introduction to GIS (Sophomore) • Risk Management (Junior) • Natural Hazards (Junior) • Emergency Management Operations (Senior) • IT in Emergency Management (Senior) MMA Emergency Management

4. Introduction to GIS • ArcGIS • Minimum Essential Data Set (MEDS) map • Town Base Map (projected and geographic coordinates) • Town Boundary (selected from the state town map) • Roadway Data • Public Safety Sites • Population ( blocks and 3 types of block group populations) • USGS GNIS Infrastructure • Aerial Photographs • Hillshaded Digital Elevation Maps • GPS data (electrical tansformers, buildings, gas lines, etc.) MMA Emergency Management

5. Newburyport Massachusetts Flood Zones Spanish speaking Income less than $10000 Aerial Photograph Flood Data County Hillshade Introduction to GIS Maps MMA Emergency Management

6. Risk Management • Hazardous materials transportation spill simulation • Using ALOHA and ArcGIS • Creating a chemical plume • Varying meteorological conditions • Linking the plume to the ArcGIS MEDS Base Map • Map Triage location, Incident Command Post, Decon area • Investigate Population effected • Investigate Road Closures • Add as a component to the Risk Management Plan MMA Emergency Management

7. Aloha Propane Toxic Vapor Plume

8. Aloha Propane Toxic Vapor Plume MMA Emergency Management

9. Newburyport Massachusetts Propane Toxic Plume Propane Explosion Risk Management MMA Emergency Management

10. Newburyport Massachusetts Population effected by vapors MMA Emergency Management

11. Newburyport Massachusetts Road Closures MMA Emergency Management

12. Natural Hazards • ArcGISMEDS Base Map • Flooding Scenario • Apportion population to census block level • Attach HAZUS daytime population distribution • Evaluate population vulnerability at census block level • Determine evacuation criteria • Locate shelter • Determine evacuation routes and shelter requirements • Add as a component to the Risk Management Plan MMA Emergency Management

13. Newburyport Massachusetts Population effected by floods MMA Emergency Management

14. Natural Hazards • HAZUS level 1 Hurricane and Earthquake scenario • Probabilistic hurricane and earthquake • Damage assessment • Mitigation • Compare with and without mitigation • Develop white paper to community leaders illustrating cost/benefits of hurricane mitigation • Farsite 4 GIS Wildfire Simulator • Perform tutorial • Wildfire simulation using spatial analysis MMA Emergency Management

15. Barnstable County Massachusetts Probabilistic Hurricane MMA Emergency Management

16. Barnstable County Damage and Shelter Assessment MMA Emergency Management

17. Barnstable County Apply 100% Mitigation Measures Rerun the Model MMA Emergency Management

18. Barnstable Massachusetts Mitigation for Probabilistic Hurricane Non Mitigated Compare tabulated data Mitigated MMA Emergency Management

19. FARsite 4 Simulation MMA Emergency Management

20. Information Technology in Emergency Management • Adding Public Safety Data to Google Earth • CAMEO system • Add Tier II data to CAMEO and MARPLOT • Transportation accident simulation • Linking a hazardous chemical transportation route • ALOHA plume release linked to CAMEO/MARPLOT MMA Emergency Management

21. Google Earth Connections from a server to iphones MMA Emergency Management

22. Aloha plume in MARPLOT Link to CAMEO MMA Emergency Management

23. Information Technology in Emergency Management • ArcGIS • Network Analysis • Emergency Response service areas • Shortest route to triage • Emergency evacuation routes • 3D Analysis • 3D view of town center • Raster Analysis • Model Builder Viewsheds and Contours • Population vulnerability analysis MMA Emergency Management

24. Network Analysis MMA Emergency Management

25. Network Analysis Delivery Route Service Areas MMA Emergency Management

26. Viewshed from 2 points Hillshade draped with a DEM at 50% transparency MMA Emergency Management

27. Raster Analysis Rasterized Flood Zones Rasterized Vulnerable Population Combine MMA Emergency Management

28. Resulting flood areas of maximum vulnerability MMA Emergency Management

29. Massachusetts Maritime AcademyMarine Safety and Environmental Protection Department I will be happy to address any questions you have during this session or via email. Please feel free to offer any suggestions or comments. Professor Malcolm MacGregor mmacgregor@maritime.edu MMA Emergency Management