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This is group picture with Dr. Paul Kovacs, Dr. Karl Kim and the NDPTC Team

This is a picture of the NDPTC team that hosted the PSR UTC Congress and the CA-HI Transportation Symposium on March 21-23, 2022

This is a picture of the NDPTC Staff on a Zoom webinar for the Third Thursday Lecture Series

This is a picture of Dr. Lori Peek with NDPTC Faculty, Staff, and Students

This is a picture of the participants at the 2019 PRiMO Meeting in American Samoa

This is a picture of Dr. Karl Kim awarding Mr. Fuapopo Avegalio the 2019 NDPTC Community Resilience Award

This is a picture of 21 International Emergency Managers

This is a picture of Dr. Pradip Pant accepting the ESGR Patriot Award

This picture is of Jeff Payne accepting the NDPTC Community Resilience Award for Margaret Davidson posthumously from Karl Kim

This is a map of the number of disaster declarations by U.S. counties from 2010 to 2019, cities where NDPTC has trained, and cities of those agencies who received training.

This is a group shot of all the participants that attended the first day of the Pacific Risk Management Ohana Conference

This is a map of the impacts to Hawaii Island's Roads from Hurricane Lane

This a picture of a map of the Kilauea East Rift Zone Volcanic Eruption as of May 15, 2018

This is a picture of Dr. Karl Kim handing the NDPTC Community Resilience Award to Papali'i Dr. Failautusi Avegalio at the PRiMO 2017 conference

This is a photo of the Karl Kim giving Jim Fernandez an award for all his service to the National Domestic Preparedness Consortium

This is a photo of Dr. Dolores Foley receiving the NDPTC Community Resilience Award from NDPTC Executive Director, Karl Kim

This is a photo of the NDPC members posing at the NDPC Quarterly Meeting at TEEX

This is a photo of Dr. Karl Kim and Dr. Dolores Foley with the Sultan of Tidore

This is a picture of FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate with the Service Academy Interns, NDPTC Executive Director Karl Kim and NDPTC Weather and Climate Program Manager , Mr. Owen Shieh

This is a picture of NDPTC Executive Director Karl Kim posing with individuals from the Indonesian government

This is a picture of NDPTC staff posing with the class at FEMA's EMI to Deliver Executive Academy Training

This is a picture of NDPC members posing at the 2014 National State Administrative Agency Symposium in Anniston Alabama

This is a picture of FEMA Deputy Administrator of the National
Preparedness Directorate, Tim Manning on the lava fields of Kilauea, Hawaii

This is a photo of Dr. Karl Kim presenting on "Learning from Disasters at the International Conference on the Indian Ocean Tsunami

This is a picture of Dr. Karl Kim, Dr. Dolores Foley, and Dr. Bruce Houghton posing with the faculty from Universitas Gadja Mada and Universitas Islam Indonesia and participants from USAID sponsored program on the lava fields in Indonesia

This is a photo of NDPTC SME Ted Ralston demonstrating a UAV to a member of the 97th Civil Affairs at SOPAC

This is a photo of Dr. Karl Kim in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture after the 2011 Tsunami in Japan

This is a picture of the NDPC members posing while attending the NDPC quarterly meeting in Honolulu

This is a photo of NDPTC staff posing with the American Samoa male youth leaders.

This is a photo of NDPTC's Karl Kim posing with the USAID training workshop class in Bandung, Indonesia

This is a photo of Adam Stein and Jeff Payne presenting an award to Dr. Karl Kim

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Dr. Paul Kovacs of the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction met with NDPTC Executive Director Karl Kim and the University of Hawaii team.

NDPTC hosted the PSR UTC Congress and the CA-HI Transportation Symposium

NDPTC Staff at the Virtual Third Thursday Webinar

Students, faculty and staff of NDPTC welcome Dr. Lori Peek, Director of the Natural Hazards Center to Honolulu.

2019 PRiMO Meeting in American Samoa

Mr. Fuapopo Avegalio, American Samoa's EMS Director, receives the NDPTC Community Resilience Award at the 2019 PRiMO Meeting in American Samoa

NDPTC Executive Director, Dr. Karl Kim meets with emergency managers from 21 different countries to share knowledge, research and training on resilience.

Dr. Pradip Pant receives the ESGR Patriot Award.

Margaret A. Davidson receives NDPTC Community Resilience Award Posthumously

NDPTC Training and Disaster Declarations (2010 - 2019)

Pacific Risk Management Ohana (PRiMO) Conference on August 6-9, 2018 at the Hawaii Convention Center

Flooding and Landslide Impacts

Kilauea East Rift Zone Fissure Eruption Map

Papali'i Dr. Failautusi Avegalio receives NDPTC Community Resilience Leadership Award

Dr. Karl Kim gives Mr. Jim Fernandez award for all his service to the NDPC

Professor Dolores Foley of the University of Hawaii receives the 2016 NDPTC Community Resilience Award at the PRiMO conference from Executive Director Karl Kim

The NDPC Quarterly Meeting ( January 26 - 28, 2016) at TEEX

Executive Director Karl Kim and Professor Dolores Foley host the Sultan of Tidore, His Excellency Husain Alting Syah at College Hill, University of Hawaii.

NDPTC Executive Director Karl Kim welcomed FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate and service academy interns to our downtown office.

NDPTC Executive Director delivers a talk on collective risk management and planning for resilient cities to the Jakarta, Indonesia government.

NDPTC works with FEMA's EMI to Deliver Executive Academy Training

NDPC Hosts 2014 National State Administrative Agency Symposium in Anniston Alabama

Tim Manning, Deputy Administrator of the National Preparedness Directorate of FEMA, walks along the lava fields of Kilauea, Hawaii.

Dr Karl Kim presents on "Learning from Disasters" at International Conference on the Indian Ocean Tsunami, 10 years after, in Banda Aceh, Indonesia.

UH faculty Dr. Karl Kim, Dr. Dolores Foley, and Dr. Bruce Houghton, along with faculty from Universitas Gadja Mada and Universitas Islam Indonesia and participants from USAID sponsored program.

Members of NDPTC along with members of the 97th Civil Affairs at SOCPAC orient with Ted Ralston on X-UAS system.

NDPTC Executive Director, Karl Kim in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan after the 2011 Tsunami.

The University of Hawaii's NDPTC (National Disaster Preparedness Training Center) hosted the National Domestic Preparedness Consortium in Honolulu, October 14-19.

NDPTC in American Samoa.

NDPTC Executive Director Karl Kim leads USAID training workshop in Bandung, Indonesia.

Adam Stein, Executive Director of PRiMO and Jeff Payne, PRiMO Navigator Council Chair, present an award to Karl Kim.