Massachusetts Maritime Academy

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

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. Massachusetts Maritime Academy • Emergency Management Program Components • Educational Program • Scientifically based curriculum • Common 2 year curriculum • Common with Marine Safety and Environmental Protection • Provides for Community College articulation • 6 week Sea Term in the first year • Two Coops 6 weeks each • Various Certificate Programs MMA Emergency Management

4. Emergency Management Education Program • Program sequences • Natural Hazards • Societal Hazards • Public Health • Emergency Management • GIS in Emergency Management • Emergency Management Exercises MMA Emergency Management

5. Massachusetts Maritime Academy Emergency Management Educational Challenges Coops Exercises MMA Emergency Management

6. Emergency Management Coops MMA Emergency Management

7. Emergency Management Coop Experience • Current Requirements • Six week coop after semester 5 • Practicum or an additional coop • Concerns • Relevancy to Major • Evaluations MMA Emergency Management

8. What is the optimum coop experience? • Past and current coops • FEMA • MEMA • Oak Ridge Nuclear • Local Fire and Police • State police • Boston Hospitals • Mass DPH • Red Cross • USCG • NOAA • International • Haiti (3 students) • Panama (possible) • China( Possible) • Current coop evaluation • Letter form the supervisor • Daily Log • Evaluation by a professor • Presentation MMA Emergency Management

9. International Experience Haiti Haiti: 9 million Location: 4.5 hours from Boston by air. PAP: 3-4 million NGOs: < 10,000 NGO pers: < 100,000 Ile-a-Vache: 7 hours from PAP; 20k people; no lights, no cars, no water, no sewage, no hospital. MMA Emergency Management

10. International Experience Haiti Goal: Conduct an Emergency Management assessment for Ile-a-Vache, Haiti in preparation for the development of a written emergency management plan. Method: Perform an on-site emergency management assessment using Disaster Risk Management principles, processes and methodologies developed through various emergency management organizations including The Red Cross, FEMA, CDEMA, CDERA, OAS, USAID, CARICOM and the Canada’s OCIPEP. MMA Emergency Management

11. International Experience Haiti Future: Repeat July/Aug; Jan/Feb;Who: 3-5 Emergency Management Environmental Protection Facilities Engineering students Challenges: Student volunteers; Staff Support time; Student costs; Value to School/Students: Moderate to high; Risks: Safety & Health: (Low to moderate). MMA Emergency Management

12. All Coop Concerns • Relevancy • Approve coops based on program and some course outcomes. • Coop must relate to a minimum number of program and course outcomes • Evaluations • Evaluate results to appropriate course and program outcomes. • Evaluate results on basic principles MMA Emergency Management

13. Proposed Coop Sequence for advanced students • 1st Year • January/February Sea Term port city EM systems • 2nd Year • January/February Volunteer/Social Service Agency • July/August Social Service Full Time • 3rd Year • January/February Government Agency Full Time • July/August Private Organization Full Time • 4th Year • January/February International Public or Private MMA Emergency Management

14. Proposed Coop Concerns • Choosing Students • Top five or six students ? • Awarding Credit • Overall Program? • Individual Coops? • Evaluation • Evaluate results to appropriate course and program outcomes. • Evaluate results on basic principles MMA Emergency Management

15. Emergency Management Exercise/Drill Experience MMA Emergency Management

16. Current Experience Exercises or Drills woven throughout the Emergency Management curriculum • Courses • Introduction to Emergency Management • Introduction to GIS • Risk Management • Natural Hazards • Emergency Management Operations • IT in Emergency Management • Emergency Management Capstone MMA Emergency Management

17. Exercise Types  Incident Commander • Incident Commander Objectives • Teams of eight • Tactical Simulation • Players within a group find themselves facing one of several crises that have to be resolved by the proper application of the assets at their disposal. • Training tool for ICS • A training tool intended to generate a good understanding of the Incident Command system (ICS)/National Incident Management System (NIMS). • Players need to pursue objectives that lead to success in both of these avenues, in order to achieve success as defined by the NIMS. • After Action reports are required with both aspects being evaluated. • Training scenarios • Risk Management  Chemical Spill Scenario • Natural Hazards  Hurricane Scenario • Operations School Shooting Scenario MMA Emergency Management

18. Exercise Types  Incident Commander • Incident Commander Objectives • After Action reports are required with both aspects being evaluated. • Training scenarios • Risk Management  Chemical Spill Scenario • Natural Hazards  Hurricane Scenario • Operations School Shooting Scenario • Locations • 24 computer laboratory stations  initial runs • Emergency Management Simulator  final run • 6 closed rooms • Helicopter • Incident Command Post • Evaluations based on After Action Reports MMA Emergency Management

19. Exercise Types  WebEOC • Carried out in the MMA Emergency Management Simulator in concert with the simulator program. • WebEOC prescripted scenarios • Simulator programming designed to mesh with WebEOC MMA Emergency Management

20. Exercise Types  WebEOC • Advantages • Easily customizable • Develop system-generated inputs that are automatically injected at specified intervals based on E Time • Develop contingency inputs whose E Times cannot be determined, but may be input later as exercise play unfolds • Disable an entry from being posted • Delay inject of a scheduled entry • Selectively remove entries already posted to status boards • Pause the simulation if drill play is temporarily suspended and then restart once drill play is again underway • Generate hardcopies of the timeline • Archive the exercise intact • Evaluation Student evaluator decide on a team grade?? MMA Emergency Management

21. Exercise Types  Community Exercises and Drills • Participation in Local Exercises • Junior and Senior Emergency Management students acted as scribes in the HERMES Tabletop exercise which was in Boston, MA September 15 2010. • HERMES Functional Exercise - One hundred and six MMA cadets played various roles in this exercise. Ten students were scribes, ten students were in the Terrorist Group X and the remaining students were the General Public. • Forty students participated in a Cape Cod Evacuation Exercise administered by the National Guard. It was joint training exercise at the Massachusetts Military Reserve with many participants. • The HHS (Department of Health & Human Services) / ASPR (Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness & Response) / OPEO (Office of Preparedness & Emergency Operations/ NDMS (National Disaster Medical System) MA-1 DMAT (Disaster Medical Assistance Team) had a joint mass casualty training exercise at the Massachusetts Military Reserve on June 4-6, 2010. Mass Maritime supplied many victim participants. • Evaluations: none MMA Emergency Management

22. 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