[Skywarn] Fwd: [EMP SIG] EMP SIG April 16, 2013 Agenda Update

[Lloyd Colston]

Perhaps this will be of interest to our Space Weather Skywarn folks,
i.e. the amateur radio operators and emergency managers.

73

Lloyd


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From:  <charles.manto at infragard.org>
Date: Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 7:07 PM
Subject: [EMP SIG] EMP SIG April 16, 2013 Agenda Update
To: emp at listserv.infragard.org


The tentative agenda for the EMP SIG meeting at the NOAA Space Weather
Workshop at the Millennium Hotel in Boulder, CO is attached.  We also
expect to have the meeting webcast through the facilities of the DHS
network that will support approximately 400 remote attendees.  The url
will be sent by email and also posted on sustaining-people.com once it
becomes available sometime between 3-5 April.


&#65532;NOAA Space Weather Workshop
EMP-SIG / InfraGard Denver Breakout Session

&#65532;Proposed Agenda

&#65532;&#65532;Date: Tuesday, April 16
&#65532;Time: 1:00pm � 3:00pm
&#65532;Location: Boulder Millennium Hotel, Suite 231
1345 28th Street, Boulder, 80302
&#65532;&#65532;(303)443-3850
&#65532;http://goo.gl/maps/YsRmf
&#65532;Audience:
&#65532;Owner / operators of critical infrastructure, workshop
attendees, prospective or current InfraGard
&#65532;members and others with an interest in the impact of
catastrophic threats on critical infrastructure.

About the EMP-SIG:
The EMP SIG addresses any high-impact low-frequency threat that could
cause long-term nationwide collapse of critical infrastructure. These
threats include EMP, extreme space weather, cyber-attacks, coordinated
physical attacks or widespread pandemics. The EMP SIG provides trusted
communications and information for InfraGard members active in any
critical infrastructure in any community to enhance planning,
mitigation and development of sustainable infrastructure. The EMP SIG
continues to attract leading subject matter experts from a variety of
disciplines, all with a vested interested in protecting our homeland.
Liaison panels and policy groups within the EMP-SIG are forming across
various infrastructure disciplines to foster discussion and action
around any potential catastrophic threat that could cause long-term
nationwide collapse of our critical infrastructure.

Proposed Agenda
&#65532;1:00 � 1:15: Bill Murtagh or Bob Rutledge, NOAA Space Weather
Prediction Center
&#65532;Geomagnetic Impacts to the Electrical Grid: Highlights from
the Morning Workshop
&#65532;1:15 � 1:45: Steve Cohan, Joint Communications Taskforce, Denver 911
&#65532;Geomagnetic Impacts to Communications Infrastructure
1:45 � 2:30: Chuck Manto, Chair, EMP-SIG
Highlights from recent Dupont Summit, EMP-SIG updates and highlights, and
identification of future EMP-SIG engagements and sponsorship
opportunities, to include
the feasibility of hosting a catastrophic threat conference in 2014.
&#65532;2:30 � 3:00: Guest Speaker, Mr. John Kappenman (webcast),
Storm Analysis Consultants (http://solarstormconsultant.com) and Q&A:
an Updates on FERC and Maine
&#65532;legislation on GMD protection for power grids.

&#65532;Special Note: Attendance at the EMP-SIG / IDMA breakout
session does not require registration
&#65532;to the NOAA Space Weather Workshop. Webcast information will
be sent and posted at
&#65532;sustaining-people.com.

Feel free to also reach me through a non-secure email, cmanto at stop-emp.com.


-- 
Lloyd Colston   director
Altus Emergency Management
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