Hazard Mitigation Pocket Card Photo

The UHH Conference Center, in collaboration with the Hawai‘i Island Chamber of Commerce, and Dr. Walter Dudley, will be releasing the first printing of the “Hazard Preparedness Pocket Card.” This innovative educational tool will be distributed to UHH students, the community and to visitors on the Big Island in a limited release edition at the end of March.

The first such tool of its kind, the Pocket Card, and this accompanying website, will provide vital information on “HOW TO AVOID BECOMING A VICTIM” during a natural disaster. Dudley, and the UHH Conference Team (Judith Fox-Goldstein, Jules Ung and Brent Norris) have spent the better part of the year researching, editing and compiling the data which is included in this card.

Information on disaster preparedness, in the occurrence of tsunamis, earthquakes, hurricanes, windstorms, rainfall, flooding, storm surge, high surf and volcanic hazards has been included. Specific instructions are recommended and the guide also contains a listing of medical facilities, fire stations, tsunami evacuation zones, emergency radio stations and offers information on supplies for basic disaster kits.

With input and oversight from Civil Defense, NOAA and the USGS, Dr. Walter Dudley, (professor of oceanography, director of the Kalakaua Marine Education Center and author of Tsunami!), and the UHH Conference Center, have undertaken this project to provide comprehensive and extremely useful information in this convenient Pocket Guide.

The initial grant, secured by the UHH Conference Center, was provided by the Hawai‘i County Department of Research & Development. With invaluable support from the Big Island Visitors Bureau, excited by the slogan of “We Prepare Because We Care”, KGMB, Hui Ka Ua and Green Collar Technologies, this informational pocket guide will, hopefully, set a model for innovative disaster preparedness delivery methodologies throughout the nation.