Webinars

HDIAC hosts live online technical presentations featuring a DoD research and engineering topic within our technical focus areas.

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Upcoming Webinars

U.S. Army Medics perform first aid on simulated casualties. And ambulance is pared in the background.

Tactical Grief-Processing: The Cornerstone of Unconventional Resilience

This presentation will explore the central hypothesis of an ethnographic study examining how U.S. Air Force Special Operations Surgical Teams (SOSTs) build and sustain resilience against catastrophic injury exposure. Moving beyond conventional trauma-based resilience frameworks,…

EMP over city

Electromagnetic Pulse Hardening of Critical Infrastructure

An electromagnetic pulse (EMP) can have devastating consequences for electronic components, electrical systems, and the nation’s critical infrastructure.  While EMPs can be both natural and man-made, the events can damage and/or disrupt significant portions of…

Many buildings which are partially submerged by flood waters.

Barometric Extremes: Amplified Weather Hazards Impacting Energy and IT Sector Operations

Extreme weather trends over the past 85 years have indicated a major swing in lower lows, and longer lasting highs which is wreaking havoc on weather systems at the surface. When systems and practices were…

A map of the world with colors overlayed representing the height of clouds.

Machine-Learning Weather Prediction

Machine learning (ML) is revolutionizing weather forecasting because it can identify complex patterns in vast amounts of weather data. It provides accurate predictions, fast updates, and the ability to capture subtle details that traditional methods…

Past Webinars

A Detailed Global Map of the Hydro-Economy: Water Footprints, Teleconnections, and Indirect Security Risks of Drought

The global hydro-economic network creates vulnerabilities for distant drought and water conflicts through trade connections. The water footprint maps this water supply chain network. This…

A digitally colorized scanning electron micrograph depicts numerous filamentous Ebola virus particles in green, budding from a chronically infected VERO E6 cell in orange at 25,000X magnification. (Courtesy of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases/Released)

Biosurveillance

This webinar focuses on available biosurveillance data and data sources, preparation, and attributes. The recent Ebola outbreak in West Africa is one example of using…

Current High Throughput Cytogenetic Techniques for Radiation Biodosimetry

Ionizing radiation is considered a potent carcinogen. Therefore, determining absorbed radiation dose in humans, due to either occupational or accidental exposure, is critical for health…

Applying Risk and Crisis Communication Principles to HDIAC Focus Areas

Although governments are conducting research on technical approaches regarding emerging infectious diseases, especially those that could morph into bioterrorism, developing response plans and procedures, and…

Advancements in Solar Photovoltaics

Articles containing the words CadTel, CIGS, Dye Sensitized, Tandems, Nanostructures, and Perovskites often appear in tech news outlets announcing a breakthrough from solar cell companies….

A white chrysanthemum (left) compared with a ZnO nanoflower developed by ultrasonication method (right). (Released)

Nanotechnology and Society: Philosophical, Religious, and Cultural Aspects

Nanotechnology is the manipulation of matter on a scale of 1 to 100 nanometers. Modern science has given us the ability to influence individual atoms…