PRESENTATIONS AT A GLANCE

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LOCATION HALIFAX A HALIFAX B/C ACADIA A ACADIA B/C
THU SEPT 12 10:30-12:00 PLENARY - SAR IN ATLANTIC CANADA
12:00-13:00 LUNCH
13:15-14:15 Oil & Gas Industry Offshore Emergency Planning
Erland
National Criteria for Ground Search and Rescue
Chaffey
Weather- Before, During and After the Event
Hamilton
Maximizing Search Team POD Utilising Sound and Light
Gordon
14:15-14:45 BREAK
14:45-15:45 Multi-Jurisdictional Exercise in the Arctic
Finney/Maillet
Ground SAR Town Hall Chaffey
SAR Preventions Best Practice Review
McGaraughty/Villeneuve
At Sea and in the Air - Common Challenges for SAR Volunteers
Strong/Davidson
16:00-17:00 ICE-SAR: Volunteers in SAR and Accident Prevention Eiriksson/ Thorkelsson (Iceland)
Maritime Activity and Risk Investigation Project for SAR Planning
Pelot/Kendrick
NIF & the Bluenose
M. Thomas/K. Walker
 
FRI SEPT 13   HALIFAX A HALIFAX B/C ACADIA A ACADIA B    ACADIA C
08:15-09:15 Leadership in SAR
Long
  Evidence Search
Butt/Crowe
Hurricanes- Canadian Style Bowyer Advancing Pilot Understanding of Aviation Weather
Foottit
09:30-10:30 SAR Tech Tales
Weir
Lost Person Behavior in the UK
Perkins/Roberts (UK)
Sea Kayaking Prevention & Security-Mingan Archipelago Malouin SNOWSMART: Communicating Snow Risk Management to Canada's Youth
Mills
Safety Management Systems - Concepts and Principles
Fisher
10:30-11:00 BREAK
11:00-12:00 Police & Volunteers: Finding Common Ground Nicholson/Strickland Recent Developments in SAR Management & Training in the UK
Roberts/Perkins (UK)
The Future of COSPAS-SARSAT
Howe/Steward
The Cold Exposure Survival Modes (CESM) - A SAR Decision Aid to Predict Casualty Survival Times in Cold Environments
Keefe
Laser Light Applications in Search and Rescue
Burke
12:00-13:00 LUNCH
13:15-14:15 Searching for a Lost Child: What Have we Learned Since Andy Warburton?
Hill
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution and Its Contribution to Search and Rescue
Price (UK)
e-Warnings - Wireless Weather Warning Dissemination
Jensen
Dementia Walk-A-Way Information Kit
Strickland
Make SAR Prevention Fun - An Overview of a New SAR Prevention Initiative in the NWT
Van Tighem
14:15-14:45 BREAK
14:45-15:45 Alzheimer's and Related Dementia
Koester
SAR Craft Operations and the Required Training For Crew
McDonald (Scotland)
Operational Monitoring of Arctic Ice Floe Edge Break-Up
Lumsden
Sea State Forecast in the Gulf of St. Lawrence & the St. Lawrence River
Frenette
Maritime SAR in the 21st Century
Stow
The FEMA Canine Readiness Evaluation Program
Cooper
16:00-17:00 Critical Stress Incident Debriefing
Hicks
Lost in the Woods:Awareness of the Physiological Signs in Survival, for Children and Adults
Sepp (Sweden)
Flight Testing the Infrared Eye
Chevrette/Ricard
Simulating the On-Scene Coordinator Role for Volunteers
Patterson
Certified Search and Rescue Civilian Dog Program in Nova Scotia
Veinot/Bushey
 
SAT SEPT 14 08:15-09:15 Considerations in the Design of a Legally Defensible Training Program
A. Thomas
Low Cost High Tech Searching - Linking GPS with Digital Maps
Hughes/Strickland
Fishing Vessel Safety - Newfoundland and Labrador Perspective
Wiseman
How Air Search Contributes to Ground Search
Davidson
09:30-10:30 Fatigue
Koester
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) for Search and Rescue (SAR) of Crashed Aircraft
Lukowski
The CAA Recreation Avalanche Course Program: A Success Story for Canadian Avalanche Accident Prevention
Israelson
New SAR Initiatives Fund (NIF) Tutorial
K. Walker/M. Thomas
10:30-11:00  
11:00-12:00 The Art of Survival in the Wilderness
Snow
Education Through Enforcement
Leblanc
Youth Safe Outdoors: Risk Management on School Field Trips
Hanna
Volunteer Emergency Responder
Communications in Nova Scotia
Bower
The Cook-Rees
Memorial Fund
McKennitt/Standefer
12:00-13:00 LUNCH