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See one of our awesome graduate students present on Global Lessons in Disaster Management: Two Decades of Reflections from Aceh to Turkey. Register for in person or online

Global Lessons in Disaster Management: Two Decades of Reflections from Aceh to Turkey Charles Ham takes stock of 20 years of disaster management experience working in response and recovery efforts from 10 countries, spotlighting changing approaches and future opportunities.

Please join us on Thursday, January 26 from 12 - 1 PM HST / 2 - 3 PM PST / 5 - 6 PM EST for our January 2023 Third Thursday Brown Bag Event titled "TRB23AM: Takeaways and More". In this session, the NDPTC team will discuss lessons learned, insights, and takeaways from the 2023 Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting. Please contact rmash*[email protected] to attend in person or register on Zoom at

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NDPTC Executive Director, Dr. Karl Kim, Ms. Juli Chun, and two of our Ph.D. students are participating in the 2023 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting. Mr. David Marasco is presenting research conducted titled Promoting Porosity: Adaptation of Urban Roadways for Flooding and Climate Change, and Ms. Farnaz Kaviari is presenting research titled Simulating the Spread and Containment of COVID-19 in an Urban Resort District with Agent-Based Modeling.

The Pacific Risk Management Ohana (PRiMO) conference is back in 2023. Please join us on April 3-6, 2023 by submitting a proposal. Proposal submission deadline is December 16, 2022.
The 2023 PRiMO Conference is inviting proposals for the following session types:
Full-length Session Types (90 minutes):
Talk Story Session: Session leaders provide an overview of the topic, question, or problem, followed by facilitated discussion (e.g., brainstorming, idea generation, sharing).
Working Session: Focus on developing tangible outputs to specific issues/challenges. This includes, but is not limited to, scenario planning, tool critique, needs assessment, or soliciting feedback on prototypes.
Panel Session: Convene a small group of speakers (2-4) to present on a topic or issue followed by open question and answer with the audience.
For all session types, please plan sufficient time for engagement with participants.
Individual Presentation (15 minutes): Presentation or tool demonstration on a topic relevant to PRiMO and its hui. Conference organizers will group accepted individual presentations into 90-minute sessions or recommend a poster presentation. Presentations on relevant research topics are encouraged.
Academic Posters: Abstracts for papers and posters focused on the thematic areas. Abstracts will be reviewed by a research committee.
Training Session (full or half day): Training and professional development opportunities can be full or half day and will be scheduled for Monday, April 3, 2023, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
See the following website for instructions on proposal submission.

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Research Connection: 10 Takeaways from the Pandemic for Transportation Planners Recorded 9/7/2022

If you missed the Caltrans Webinar featuring Dr. Karl Kim discussing the "Ten Takeaways from the Pandemic for Transportation Planners," you can watch the video at

Research Connection: 10 Takeaways from the Pandemic for Transportation Planners Recorded 9/7/2022

Executive Director Dr. Karl Kim shared "Ten Takeaways from the Pandemic for Transportation Planners" on DRISI Research Connections

Sept. 7 Research Connection Recording Now Available! Research Connection Recording Now Available! Ten Takeaways from the Pandemic for Transportation Planners Presented by Dr. Karl Kim View Slides View Recording View Research Research Connections Overv

Executive Director Karl Kim will present "Ten Takeaways from the Pandemic for Transportation Planners" on a Caltrans DRISI Webinar. Date: Wednesday, September 7, 2022
Time: 11am-12pm PST / 8am-9am HST. To register, go to https://bit.ly/3CKTd7y

Read the article this webinar is based on: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03611981221090515

Ten Takeaways from the COVID-19 Pandemic for Transportation Planners - Karl E. Kim, 2022 The COVID-19 pandemic has created significant challenges but also unprecedented opportunities for transportation researchers and practitioners. In this article,...

The Seminar on Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance is being offered in the Fall 2022 semester at UH Manoa. See the flyer.

The Seminar on Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (Plan670) is offered in Fall 2022. The Instructor is Dr. Karl Kim.
See the Flyer.

NDPTC Executive Director, Dr. Karl Kim's recent publication on 10 Takeaways from the Pandemic is available for download and review at:

Ten Takeaways from the COVID-19 Pandemic for Transportation Planners - Karl E. Kim, 2022 The COVID-19 pandemic has created significant challenges but also unprecedented opportunities for transportation researchers and practitioners. In this article,...

A paper authored by Professor Karl Kim, Jason Chun and Eric Yamash*ta on the recovery from the 2018 flooding and landslides on Kauai was just published in Transportation Research Record:

Building Back Better: Transportation Recovery Challenges From the 2018 Kaua`i Flooding Disaster - Karl Kim, Jason Chun, Eric Yamash*ta, 2022 This study describes and analyzes the recovery of transportation systems damaged by flooding and landslides in 2018 on the island of Kaua’i, Hawai’i. Following ...

CalTrans DRISI is hosting a webinar titled "Ten Takeaways from the Pandemic for Transportation Planners," Featuring Dr. Karl Kim, Executive Director of NDPTC.

Date: Wednesday, September 7, 2022
Time: 11am-12pm PST / 8am-9am HST
Presented by: Dr. Karl Kim | Moderated by Tyler Monson

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Elsevier announces a significant increase in the Citescore metrics for the journal, TRIP (Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives). The founding editor is NDPTC Executive Director, Professor Karl Kim of the University of Hawaii.

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Read the latest article published by Dr. Suwan Shen and Dr. Karl Kim, and Executive Director. Challenges to maintaining disaster relief supply chains in island communities: disaster preparedness and response in Honolulu, Hawai’i.

Challenges to maintaining disaster relief supply chains in island communities: disaster preparedness and response in Honolulu, Hawai’i - Natural Hazards Due to global warming and rising sea levels, Honolulu, Hawai’i—a city on a remote island in the Pacific Ocean—is becoming more vulnerable to climate disasters. This article utilizes a mixed-method approach to investigate the challenges of maintaining disaster relief supply chains in the face o...

Executive Director, Dr. Karl Kim recently published an article with Dr. Fatma Lestari and others in the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board. The article titled "Improving Service Coverage and Response Times for Three-Wheeled Mobile Fire Units on Pari Island, Indonesia" examined the response times of Three-Wheeled fire fighting units on Pari Island in Indonesia.

Improving Service Coverage and Response Times for Three-Wheeled Mobile Fire Units on Pari Island, Indonesia - Fatma Lestari, Karl Kim, Andrio Adiwibowo, Devie Fitri Octaviani, Micah Fisher, Eric Yamash*ta, 2022 Improved service area coverage and response times by mobile fire response units is key to successful fire suppression and risk reduction. In this paper, the cha...

Dr. Karl Kim, PURL and National Disaster Preparedness Training Center staff share highlights from the UN with American Planning Association- Hawai'i Chapter

Highlights from University of Hawai‘i’s Participation in the United Nations Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction From May 23-28, 2022, the United Nations Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GPDRR) took place in Bali, Indonesia. The meeting is a global, multi-stakeholder forum to review progress on the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. Scholars, researchers, and practi...

Dr. Karl Kim, NDPTC Executive Director, recently participated in the 2022 United Nations Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in Bali, Indonesia. He reflects on the meetings and identifies five research topics in need of more theoretical work as well as practical guidance emerging from the Bali meetings. To read the article go to

Dispatches from the field: The 2022 United Nations Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in Bali, Indonesia Transportation Research Interdisciplinary PerspectivesAvailable online 18 June 2022, 100644In Press, Corrected ProofWhat are Corrected Proof articles?Dispatches from the field: The 2022 United Nations Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in Bali, IndonesiaAuthor links open overlay panelKarlKi...

We are conducting a survey on misinformation problems during disasters. Please complete the survey and forward the link to your networks. The survey link is http://go.hawaii.edu/2tx. It closes on July 1 and takes 10 minutes to complete. The research has been reviewed and approved by the University of Hawaii Office of Research Compliance, Human Subjects Program.

Professor Karl Kim with his graduate students - Dr. Sequoia Riley and Farnaz Kaviari, MURP at the University of Hawaii Spring 2022 Commencement. Sequoia studies green infrastructure and Farnaz builds agent-based models for transportation. Both have been supported by NDPTC and other research projects led by Dr. Kim. We acknowledge the support of many agencies and individuals in helping to educate our students and support workforce development!

The University of Hawaii, Pacific Urban Resilience Lab (PURL), and NDPTC are conducting research for the University of Colorado at Boulder's Natural Hazards Center. The purpose of this project is to collect and compile data to support disaster recovery and mitigation from the December 2021 Boulder wildfire disaster. NDPTC's team is conducting 360 panoramic imagery capture to examine damages pre-and post-disaster, and why some areas were destroyed and others not. Imaging expert Mike Vorce of NDPTC and Site Tour 360 (https://www.sitetour360.com/) was in Colorado to collect and compile the panoramic imagery. CBS Denver covered the story of our study. To see the news story, go to https://denver.cbslocal.com/2022/05/12/marshall-fire-boulder-county-homes/

Study To Determine Why Some Homes Burn, Others Still Standing In Marshall Fire One part of the research is into how some homes are still standing while others around them are gone.

Read NDPTC Executive Director, Professor Karl Kim on the Red Hill disaster.

Column: Planning for the recovery of Red Hill requires commitment As one who has made a career of studying disaster response and recovery, the Red Hill crisis is shaping up to be the most significant disaster in Hawaii. The harm to people, businesses, water supply system and the natural environment is significant. The cleanup, recovery and restoration from this di...

Dr. Karl Kim and the team, including Dr. Jiwnath Ghimire, Dr. Lily Bui, and Graduate Assistants Farnaz Kaviari and Jaeho Choi are interviewed in Waikiki as part of the Benchmarking Study for the Waikiki Business District Association.

NDPTC Executive Director, Dr. Karl Kim will be giving a public lecture at Florida Atlantic University's Frontier of Science Lecture Series on March 4, 2022. To see the entire program go to http://science.fau.edu/frontiers/
To register for this lecture on "The (Social) Science of Disasters and Community Resilience go to https://fau-edu.zoom.us/.../reg.../WN_OOiZ01JyRCq_iKWzzdXSlg

Frontiers in Science Public Lecture Series : Florida Atlantic University - Charles E. Schmidt College of Science Welcome to the 2022 season of our public lecture series, “Frontiers in Science,” hosted by the Florida Atlantic University Charles E. Schmidt College of Science. This season will be fully virtual, yet just as interactive as past years, with live talks and question and answer sessions. We invite ...

The Pacific Southwest Region University Transportation Center (PSR-UTC) is hosting its 2022 Emerging Scholars Transportation Research Symposium on March 4, 2022. Karl Kim, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, Director of Pacific Urban Resilience Lab, and Executive Director of the National Disaster Preparedness Training Center will be the Keynote Speaker. Several of our Ph.D. students will also be presenting, including Farnaz Kaviari, Ratul Debnath, and Sequoia Riley. For more information and to register go to https://www.metrans.org/events/spring-2022-speaker-series-emerging-scholars-transportation-research-symposium

METRANS | Events | Spring 2022 Speaker Series: Mobility, Accessibility and Disadvantaged Neighborhoods Join us for presentations from both academics and emerging scholars from our PSR partner universities,including USC, UCLA, University ofHawai’i at Mānoa, UC Davis, and others.The event will take place from 8:30am to 4pm. The event will be hosted both in-person at RGL 308on USC’s campus and on z...

NDPTC Executive Director and PURL Director, Dr. Karl Kim will present a webinar with the authors of the National Park Service guidelines on flood protection of historic structures at 10 AM HST today.

https://historichawaii.org/2022/01/21/floodadaptation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=floodadaptation

Preservation in Practice Webinar: Flood Adaptation for Historic Buildings Hawai‘i Preservation Webinar: Flood Adaptation for Historic Buildings Historic Hawai‘i Foundation, in partnership with the Department of the Interior’s National Park Service, will offer a free webinar on Guidelines for Flood Adaptation for Rehabilitating Historic Buildings. Date: Wednesday, Ma...

Recently Published! Greening Roadway Infrastructure with Vetiver Grass to Support Transportation Resilience by Karl Kim, Ph.D., Sequoia Riley, Elizabeth Fischer, and Sadik Khan, Ph.D.
https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4109/3/1/10

Greening Roadway Infrastructure with Vetiver Grass to Support Transportation Resilience With flooding and other weather events intensifying, more cost-effective erosion and flood control systems are needed. Vetiver (Chrysopogon zizanioides (L.) Roberty), is part of an arsenal of sustainable, low cost, and green infrastructure tools to reduce the risks of erosion, landslides, and floodi...

Please join us Wednesday, January 19th, at 3pm Hawaii Standard Time (1/20/22 0100 UTC) when the Pacific International Training Desk will be holding its first webinar of the 2022 season. This webinar will focus on new approaches to short- and long-term weather related disaster management in the Pacific. Our speakers, Jennifer Stewart Manu and Deborah Koon Wai You, are, respectively, the Climate and Resilience Delegate of the Country Cluster Delegation for the Pacific (IFRC, Vanuatu) and Youth Representative on the National Board of the Samoa Red Cross Society as well as Steering Committee member of the Red Cross Pacific Youth Network. Please see the attached flyer and remember to register for the webinar in advance here.

REGISTER: https://uhtasi.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAude6urDorGtIbrz4P7uIzTO4Sd2gOF2_D

For those who are unable to join via Zoom, we will be streaming live on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PacificDesk

Pacific International Training Desk Partnership between NOAA-NWS Pacific Region and University of Hawaii TASI to develop the technical capacity of meteorologists in the Asia-Pacific region.

Karl Kim, Ph.D. presents at the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board on research being conducted on the Rapid Integrated Damage Assessment (RIDA) process. https://youtu.be/PFrBxijYotE

TRB AMR20 - RIDA Overview - Karl Kim This video is of a presentation made by NDPTC Executive Director Karl Kim for the AMR20 committee at the 2022 Transportation Research Board Meeting held in W...

Sharing During Disasters: Learning From Islands Preliminary Findings and Initial Implications for Action. Read about the results of a study conducted for the Natural Hazards Center, the University of Colorado at Boulder by Dr. Karl Kim, Dr. Jiwnath Ghimire, and Eric Yamash*ta.
https://hazards.colorado.edu/public-health-disaster-research/sharing-during-disasters-learning-from-islands-preliminary-findings-and-initial-implications-for-action

Sharing During Disasters Kim, K., Ghimire, J., & Yamash*ta, E. (2021). Sharing During Disasters: Learning From Islands Preliminary Findings and Initial Implications for Action. Natural Hazards Center Public Health Grant Report Series, 11. Boulder, CO: Natural Hazards Center, University of Colorado Boulder. Available at:...

Call for Papers: TRIP (Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives) on Urban Cycling: Sustainable Mobility, Transport, and Planning. https://www.journals.elsevier.com/transportation-research-interdisciplinary-perspectives/call-for-papers/urban-cycling-sustainable-mobility

Call for Papers: TRIP (Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives) on Urban Cycling: Sustainable Mobility, Transport and Planning - Call for papers - Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives - Journal - Elsevier The Transportation Research family of journals forms the most cohesive and comprehensive reference of current research in transportation science…

Investing in Human Capital for Disaster Management (INVEST DM): Planning Education and Training for Risk Reduction in Indonesia and Hawai’i is featured on the American Planning Association (APA) Hawaii Chapter's newsletter. The project is funded by an award from Mercy Corps and the Bureau of Humanitarian Affairs (BHA) at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and led by Principal Investigator and Project Director: Dr. Karl Kim (PURL Director and NDPTC Executive Director), and the University of Hawai’i Team: Dr. Lily Bui, Dr. Jiwnath Ghimire, Charles Ham. The University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa’s key focus in INVEST-DM 2.0 is to facilitate opportunities for knowledge exchange, workforce development, and capacity building for improved national and subnational coordination in disaster management.
To read more, go to: https://hawaii.planning.org/about-apa-hawaii/news/investing-human-capital-disaster-management-invest-dm-planning-education-and-training-risk-reduction-indonesia-and-hawaii/

Investing in Human Capital for Disaster Management (INVEST DM): Planning Education and Training for Risk Reduction in Indonesia and Hawai’i Indonesia is a nation of islands. It shares this geographical attribute with the archipelago of Hawai’i. Both places also share something else in common: they are susceptible to the same hazards: sea-level rise, volcanoes, flooding, landslides, wildfires, earthquake, tsunami, drought, storms, and ...

Dr. Karl Kim (PURL Director, NDPTC Executive Director) will be presenting at the Transportation Research Board AMR10 (Standing Committee on Critical Transportation Infrastructure Protection) quarterly meeting on December 1, 2021 (12 PM EST / 9 AM PST / 7 AM HST). The title of the presentation is Seatbelts, Seawalls, Airport Screeners, and Social Distancing: Connecting Transportation Resilience Research and Practice and will be moderated by Laurie Radow (FHWA-DOT). After the presentation, Dr. Sybil Derrible (University of Illinois-Chicago), Dr. Brian Wolshon (Louisiana State University), and Ms. Nicole Boothman-Shepard (AECOM) will provide comments and feedback. Its FREE. To register go to: https://nasem.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcldeqprDMvHN0Xh7FDQBSvEydwjfG2V2ql

Wendy Meguro, Associate Professor, UH School of Architecture and Sea Grant College Program, and Karl Kim, Professor and Executive Director, UH Department of Urban and Regional Planning, National Disaster Preparedness Training Center (NDPTC), and Director of the Pacific Urban Resilience Lab (PURL) recently wrote a chapter titled in the "Designing Resilient Coastal Communities with Living Shorelines" in the book Climate Adaptation and Resilience Across Scales From Buildings to Cities Edited By Nicholas B. Rajkovich, Seth H. Holmes.

https://www.routledge.com/Climate-Adaptation-and-Resilience-Across-Scales-From-Buildings-to-Cities/Rajkovich-Holmes/p/book/9780367467333

Climate Adaptation and Resilience Across Scales: From Buildings to Cities Climate Adaptation and Resilience Across Scales provides professionals with guidance on adapting the built environment to a changing climate. This edited volume brings together practitioners and researchers to discuss climate-related resilience from the building to the city scale. This book highligh...

Director and University of Hawaii, Department of Urban and Regional Planning professor, Dr. Karl Kim has received a $400,000 award to boost efforts to conduct work on disaster risk-reduction initiatives in Indonesia.
https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2021/10/29/disaster-risk-reduction-indonesia/

$400K award to support disaster risk reduction in Indonesia | University of Hawaiʻi System News Karl Kim will lead the partnership on behalf of UH Mānoa.

The National Disaster Preparedness Training Center (ndptc.hawaii.edu) and Pacific Urban Resilience Lab (PURL) at the University of Hawaii have launched the Airline Travel Risk Survey. It is an international study evaluating the impacts of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) on commercial airline travel. The PI of the project is Dr. Karl Kim. We want to hear from communities across the Pacific. Please take the survey and spread the word in your personal and professional networks.

Survey link: https://tinyurl.com/573ywj3n

The survey is reviewed and approved by the Human Studies Program of the University of Hawaii. It takes 15 minutes to complete, and the survey closes on Oct 31st.

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9/11: Transformation of transportation research Transportation Research Interdisciplinary PerspectivesVolume 12, December 2021, 1004729/11: Transformation of transportation researchAuthor links open overlay panelKarlKim(Editor-in-chief)Show moreShareCitehttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.trip.2021.100472Get rights and contentUnder a Creative Commons licen...