Planning Information Exchange

Project Overview

With a new award agreement granted by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the successful Planning Information Exchange (PIE) webinar series has been extended for two additional years, starting October 1, 2022. APA will continue to lead in an agreement with FEMA, with the Association of State Floodplain Managers (ASFPM) as a partner. The quarterly webinars will continue to revolve around four central themes:

• The information exchange focuses on all hazards.
• The information exchange focuses on mitigation planning and its connections with recovery planning and preparedness.
• APA and ASFPM act as co-conveners of all planning exchange webinars. This means both will use their respective web-based meeting platforms to set up, register, drive, facilitate, record, and provide technical support for all webinar meetings.
• Planning exchange hosts select topics and commit to moderating, presenting, and leading the planning exchange webinars.

Recent Webinars

sourcing and utilizing data for hazard mitigation planning

July 17, 2025

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This PIE webinar will feature guidance from NOAA staff from the Office of Coastal Management on the effective use of tools developed for Digital Coast that have wide-ranging applications for improving mitigation planning outcomes on the ground. NOAA's Digital Coast maintains a significant collection of data resources that are highly relevant to effective hazard mitigation planning. These resources include economic data, satellite imagery, advanced flood and inundation models, and a series of flood visualization and predictive tools intended to be highly relevant for local practitioners.

Learning Outcomes:

• Discover tools that can assist planners, particularly those dealing with hazard mitigation.
• Understand the importance of quality data in planning and how it can be applied to a variety of contexts.
• Learn about efforts from the Digital Coast and NOAA to expand access to resources for hazard mitigation planning.

Josh Murphy is the Learning Product Development Manager at the NOAA Office for Coastal Management. Kevin Currie is a Training Coordinator at the Association for State Floodplain Managers.

Meet the Presenters

Presenter

Josh Murphy

Josh Murphy is the Learning Product Development Program Manager at NOAA's Office for Coastal Management. He's assumed a variety of roles in his two decades of service to the NOAA Coastal Services Center and Office for Coastal Management. However, one aspect of his career that has remained constant is a focus on developing products and services that provide place-based information to coastal communities. This has included the development and delivery of in-person classes that integrate geospatial tools and methods with coastal issues, and the leadership of teams that develop web-based mapping tools. Josh works with local communities to better understand their information needs and then leverages collaborative partnerships and teams to co-develop products that provide targeted information to address these needs.

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Moderator

Kevin Currie

Kevin Currie, ASFPM's training coordinator since July 2018, works with staff, volunteer leadership, members and chapters to identify training needs. He is responsible for managing, developing and deploying ASFPM's comprehensive training program. This is his second term of employment with ASFPM, having previously worked for the association from 2012-2015 as their membership coordinator. He received his BA in political science from the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire in 2010.

Past Webinars

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Previous webinars are available to be viewed anytime and from any place shortly after their debut.

• The Role of Community Foundations in Disaster Mitigation (September 18, 2024) CM | 1
• National Risk Index Applications in Hazard Mitigation Planning: Practitioner Case Studies (May 15, 2024) CM | 1
• Cross-Agency Coordination for Effective Hazard Mitigation and Recovery (December 15, 2023) CM | 1.5
• The Only Constant is Change: Hazard Mitigation Updates (May 18, 2023) CM | 1.5
• Foresight and Scenario Planning for Hazard Mitigation and Climate Adaptation (October 31, 2022) CM | 1
• Lost In Planning: Interdependent Vulnerabilities And Compounding Climate Threats (September 27, 2022) CM | 1
• Equitable Hazard Mitigation: Practice-Informed Recommendations for Change (July 25, 2022) CM | 1
• New Research on State Resilience Planning Practices (May 26, 2022) CM | 1
• The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act: A Primer for Planners and Floodplain Managers (December 15, 2021) CM | 1
• Addressing Urban Heat at Regional and Local Scales (October 15, 2021) CM | 1
• The Law's the Limit: Sea Level Rise Adaptation and Local Government (September 3, 2021) CM | 1.5
• Linking Conservation and the FEMA Community Rating System: Tools to Protect Habitat, Enhance Coastal Resilience and Reduce Flood (April 15, 2021)
• USACE Inundation Mapping (December 18, 2020)
• Planning for Wildfire: From Assessing Risk to Long-Term Mitigation (November 20, 2020)
• Visualization and Datasets for Flood Loss Reduction (October 27, 2020)
• Increasing Our Resiliency to Urban Flooding (November 21, 2019)
• Planning for Drought and Cascading Hazards (August 15, 2019)
• Go Green with GASB62! (April 25, 2019)
• Flood Economics (February 13, 2019)
• Current Research Topics in Disasters, Hazard Mitigation, and Resilience (October 9, 2018)
• Flood Risk Reduction: Putting Planning Into Practice (July 18, 2018)
• The Fire/Flood Dynamic: Linkages, Tools, and Actions (May 15, 2018)
• Flood Hazard Mitigation in Historic Districts (January 31, 2018)
• Planning Integration for Resilience Scorecard (October 4, 2017)
• Naturally Resilient Communities (May 30, 2017)
• Post-Disaster Temporary Housing: Urban Planning Considerations (March 23, 2017)
• Subdivision Design and Flood Hazard Areas (December 2, 2016)
• State Resiliency Initiatives: From Issue to Action! (September 22, 2016)
• Combining Climate Adaptation and Hazard Mitigation Plans (July 7, 2016)
• Know Your Dam Risk! (May 6, 2016)
• Adapting Urban Vacant Land to Mitigate Hazards (February 26, 2016)
• Hazard Mitigation Implementation (December 10, 2015)
• Hazards Planning and Resilience: The Elected Official's Perspective (October 19, 2015)
• Climate Change Adaptation & Resilience (June 30, 2015)
• The Role of Hazard Mitigation in Post-Disaster Recovery (May 6, 2015)