{"id":543,"date":"2014-12-12T17:38:26","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T17:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/?p=543"},"modified":"2014-12-12T17:40:57","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T17:40:57","slug":"geospatial-in-grenada-ivan-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/2014\/12\/12\/geospatial-in-grenada-ivan-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Geospatial in Grenada &#8211; Ivan 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; } -->From the 1<sup>st<\/sup> &#8211; 3<sup>rd<\/sup> of December I visited a very sunny Grenada attending the <a href=\"www.cdema.org\/ivan10\/\">10<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of Ivan symposium<\/a>. This looked at the lessons learnt from the fallout of hurricane Ivan across the Caribbean region and how different sectors could help to prevent a future hurricane having a similar affect. I was there representing the <a href=\"http:\/\/cariwig.org\">CARIWIG<\/a> project, along with Professor Michael Taylor and Jayaka Campbell from UWI, Jamaica. Michael Taylor brilliantly outlined the project and demonstrated elements of the portal site that I have been putting together over the past year. The presentation was very well received with myself and Jayaka Campbell being asked to demo the storm model element of the portal to a number of delegates.<\/p>\n<p>The CARIWIG portal site is likely to go live following a workshop event in February so watch this space for more details.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_545\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-545\" style=\"width: 695px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/files\/2014\/12\/storm6.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-545\" alt=\"storm6\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/files\/2014\/12\/storm6-1024x518.png\" width=\"695\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/files\/2014\/12\/storm6-1024x518.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/files\/2014\/12\/storm6-300x151.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/files\/2014\/12\/storm6.png 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-545\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CARIWIG Storm tool<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I would like to thank the members of of CDEMA for putting on this event, the conference was well run and contained many interesting talks about hurricane Ivan, including a opening address from the Prime minister of Grenada, as well as plenty of Caribbean food as lunch times. Plus December in Grenada beats December in the north east of England<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_546\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-546\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/files\/2014\/12\/gre.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-546\" alt=\"Whitley Bay eat your heart out\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/files\/2014\/12\/gre.jpg\" width=\"960\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/files\/2014\/12\/gre.jpg 960w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/files\/2014\/12\/gre-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-546\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Whitley Bay eat your heart out<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Neil &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Neil_py_harris\">@neil_py_harris<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the 1st &#8211; 3rd of December I visited a very sunny Grenada attending the 10th anniversary of Ivan symposium. This looked at the lessons learnt from the fallout of hurricane Ivan across the Caribbean region and how different sectors could help to prevent a future hurricane having a similar affect. I was there representing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/2014\/12\/12\/geospatial-in-grenada-ivan-10\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Geospatial in Grenada &#8211; Ivan 10&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4972,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4972"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":548,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions\/548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}