Inaugural UC Disaster Resilience Day convenes key gov, non-gov, community, private and academic leadership
Date: 10/12/23
Credit: Lizzy Rager, Daily Nexus
“UCDRN invited professors and administrators from across all nine UC campuses, along with representatives from state agencies, private firms and other state and international universities, to speak about resilience in light of recent natural disasters. Panel session topics ranged from the latest climate, health, pandemic, wildfire and coastal initiatives and research to private, civil and university partnerships, data and seismic science and community-based approaches. This followed networking sessions for attendees. Around 80 participants attended in-person and 130 participated online.”
“It was just impressive. To bring all of these different representatives together and put them in one room and have this larger conversation about what’s possible, what can we accomplish, what are we seeing, how are we responding to disasters”
- Katya Armistead (UCDRN Executive Committee Member)