Welcome to www.disasters.au.com

This site contains links and information on disasters in Victoria.
Select from the links below to enter the disaster information site.

This link will take you to the Index Page for disasters in Victoria:
DISASTERS on the Web Victoria

OR ... go straight to New and recent events

A link to a site on volcanic risk and hazard in southeastern Australia. - here


Welcome to users of DISASTERS on the Web Victoria:

Welcome to participants in the AusDIN (Australian Disaster Information Network) meeting held in Melbourne on 1st March 2002, where this site was discussed.


Welcome to readers of the Winter 2001 issue of "The Australian Journal of Emergency Management" in which this web site is described on p.62.


And a welcome to teachers who attended the Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria Inc 35th Annual Geography Conference at Camberwell High School on Sunday 12th August 2001. A page outlining session S206 at the conference with some links to follow-up is here


A history of access to this site:

Late March 2001
A poster describing this Web site was on display at the GDIN 2001 conference,
held in Canberra from the 21st to the 23rd March 2001. (See conference details)
The site will be promoted to the general public following the GDIN 2001 conference.

Early March 2001
Press / media release to The Age & The Australian.

November 2000
First links established from the EMA Web site and this site mentioned in Emergency Management School Education News, Volume 1, Issue 4 November 2000

November 2000
Demonstration to participants at the Australian Disaster Information Management Workshop held at Mt Macedon 6-8 November 2000 - first access by emergency managers.

October 2000
First school users of this disaster index Web site with teacher Pam Mancell at Northcote High School, Melbourne. They reported that the site "was fantastic" and "The kids found it really helpful (and really interesting)."

August 2000
First undergraduate users of this disaster index Web site, with lecturer Dr John Webb at Earth Sciences at LaTrobe University, Melbourne.

July 2000
First post-graduate users of this disaster index Web site by students in the reading group on natural disasters at the Department of Geography at The University of Melbourne.

November 1999
Paper on this new Web site presented at the Australian Disaster Conference 1999, Canberra, 1-3 November 1999.

E. B. Joyce
Senior Research Fellow
School of Earth Sciences
The University of Melbourne
VIC 3010
AUSTRALIA
Tel: 0427 330 117 Fax: 03 8344 7761
Email: Bernie Joyce

Updated: 5th March 2003