Collaborative Work Sessions

Images show groups in meetings, engaging in discussions regarding emergency management and environmental policies, set in office or conference room settings.

Office of the Administrator (Stephen L. Johnson) - Tribal Operations , Environmental Protection Agency

FEMA Public Affairs Office teleconference.. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Office of the Administrator (Stephen L. Johnson) - Administrator Stephen L. Johnson in St. Louis , Environmental Protection Agency

Office of the Administrator - Open House , Environmental Protection Agency

Charleston, W.Va., Nov. 3, 2012 Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano (center, left) describes the federal assistance being provided to state residents for West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin (left), Jimmy Gianato, director of West Virginia Homeland Security (center), and Maj. Gen. James A. Hoyer, the state's adjutant general (standing, right). Multiple federal agencies are providing assistance to disaster survivors in the state. Norman Lenburg/FEMA. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano (center, left) describes the federal assistance being provided to state residents for West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin (left), Jimmy Gianato, director of West Virginia Homeland Security (center), and Maj. Gen. James A. Hoyer, the states adjutant general (standing, right). Multiple federal agencies are providing assistance to disaster survivors in the state. Norman Lenburg/FEMA. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities

Office of the Administrator (Lisa P. Jackson) - San Antonio , Environmental Protection Agency

Flooding - Fargo, N. D. , March 22, 2010 Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator W. Craig Fugate visits North Dakota to observe operations in response to Red River flooding and meets with North Dakota Governor John Hoeven, U. S. Senators Kent Conrad and Byron Dorgan, U. S. Representative Earl Pomeroy, tribal and local officials. Photo: Michael Rieger/FEMA. North Dakota Flooding. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Severe Storms, Flooding, and Tornadoes, Findlay, Ohio, September 5, 2007 FEMA Region 5 Administrator Edward Buikema (right) joins FCO Jesse Munoz (center left) during the FCO's meeting at the Joint Field Office (JFO). The FCO has periodic meetings with his staff to keep abreast of the recovery process. Mark Wolfe/FEMA.. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Queens, N.Y., Jan. 14, 2013 Federal agencies gather for a Recovery Task Force workshop to share information and develop strategies for recovery after Hurricane Sandy. The National Disaster Recovery Framework (NDRF) provides guidance for a roadmap that will help communities engage in pre and post-disaster planning. It encourages communities to ask questions, identify barriers and generate dialogue around the disaster questions ΓÇ£What would we do if...ΓÇ¥ or ΓÇ£Where do we go from hereΓÇ¥ K.C.Wilsey/FEMA. New York Hurricane Sandy. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

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Office of the Administrator (Stephen L. Johnson) - Tribal Operations , Environmental Protection Agency

Office of the Administrator (Stephen L. Johnson) - Administrator Stephen L. Johnson in St. Louis , Environmental Protection Agency

Bureau of Economic Analysis - Advisory Committee

Office of the Administrator (Lisa P. Jackson) - United Nations Foundation - Cookstoves , Environmental Protection Agency

Office of Human Resources Management - Human Resources Summit

Women's Bureau - Women's Bureau Executive Staff Meeting MCI Center Washington, DC

Flooding Severe Storm - Atlanta, Ga. , October 2, 2009 At the GEMA/FEMA Joint Field Office(JFO), Bob Tribble, President of Georgia Volunteer Organizations Active in Disasters(VOAD) meets with membership representatives to assess progress and improve coordination of arriving volunteers. Voluntary agencies are important partners in FEMA's response to this area's recent severe storms and flooding. George Armstrong, FEMA. Georgia Severe Storms and Flooding. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Office of Research and Development - Wide Area Recovery and Resilience Program Transition Ceremony , Environmental Protection Agency

FEMA EHP Training Workshop. New York Hurricane Irene. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Rhode Island Congressional Briefing at the JFO. Rhode Island Severe Storms and Flooding. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Secretary Dirk Kempthorne meeting with Bureau of Reclamation staff, including Commissioner Robert Johnson, in Reclamation headquarters offices

Office of Cooperative Environmental Management - National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology (NACEPT) , Environmental Protection Agency

Department of Interior senior officials meeting in Herndon, Virginia, for briefing by Chief Information Officer W. Hord Tipton, discussions with Secretary Gale Norton, and awards

Bureau of Economic Analysis - Advisory Committee

Bureau of Economic Analysis - Advisory Committee Meeting

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - NOAA FISHERIES CONSTITUENT MEETING WITH SECRETARY DONALD EVANS AND UNDER SECRETARY FOR OCEANS AND ATMOSPHERE LAUTENBACHER

Office of the Administrator (Lisa P. Jackson) - Louisiana State University (BP Oil Spill) - Administrator Jackson at LSU. USEPA photo by Eric Vance , Environmental Protection Agency

Senior Mitigation Planning Specialist Katie Lipiecki provides US Senate and Congressional staff members with basic information about the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). The three-hour NFIP 101 class was part of an Open House FEMA Region III hosted on March 17, 2016... Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Hurricane/Tropical Storm - Old Saybrook, Conn. , September 14, 2011 Members of state and local government and qualified non-profit agencies attend a Public Assistance Applicant briefing. The briefings are conducted with Connecticut's Department of Emergency Management and Homeland Security and FEMA. Briefings have been held throughout the state in various communities with a few more slated for both Thursday and Friday. Old Saybrook, CT, September 14, 2011--Members of state and local government and qualified non-profit agencies attend a Public Assistance Applicant briefing. The briefings are conducted with Connecticut's Department of Emergency Management and Homeland Security and FEMA. Briefings have been held throughout the state in various communities with a few more slated for both Thursday and Friday.. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Office of Human Resources Management - Human Resources Summit

Members of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Omaha District and the Voith group discuss their new collaboration project on the hydropower plant project at the Fort Randall Dam, South Dakota, June 7, 2022. The meeting allowed for discussion of the project and partnership, reviewing of outcomes from the pre-session survey, and identifying project key success factors, among other things.

Office of the Administrator (Lisa P. Jackson) - Local Farmers Market and Briefing at Tulane (BP Oil Spill) - NGO Science Briefing. USEPA photo by Eric Vance , Environmental Protection Agency

Office of the Secretary - Workforce Recovery Conference - Jobs and Skills Fair

Bureau of Industry and Security - Armenian Delegation

Secretary Gale Norton in Phoenix, Arizona, meeting with Bureau of Land Management delegation, led by Director Kathleen Clarke and Deputy Director for Operations Larry Benna, for discussions and awards

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to South Dakota for meeting with the state's tribal leaders in Rapid City, and for activities related to the 66th Annual Motorcycle Rally at Sturgis

Josh Fennel, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) chief of research, talks with family members of U.S. Army Private First Class John Breys case summary during a DPAA Family Member Update (FMU) in Phoenix, Ariz., Feb. 24, 2024. FMUs provide family members of missing Americans the opportunity to engage with government officials in person about their specific case. Air Force

Office of the Administrator - Environmental Groups Meeting , Environmental Protection Agency

Office of Enforcement and Compliance - Afghan Delegation , Environmental Protection Agency

Wildfires, Moreno, CA, November 7, 2007 March Air Reserve Base, the Center of Operations for administering the transportation, arrival and distribution of the first batch of 50 mobile homes from Hope, Arkansas. The homes will be distributed throughout Southern California to families who lost their homes in the wildfires. Two more homes are arriving today. They are being tracked en route by a special system called Total Asset Visibility.. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - Coastal America Symposium

Emergency Planning and Security - Bennington, Vt. , Aug. 17, 2012 FEMA Deputy Director, Richard Serino, (head of table) leads the FEMA Think Tank on the role of faith-based and community organizations in advancing the whole community approach to emergency management... Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Bureau of Economic Analysis - Advisory Committee Meeting

Sayre, Pa., April 27, 2013 Shickshinny Forward President Brian Phillips (middle) talks with Ron Dougherty (left), a volunteer who is helping recovery in Owego, N.Y., and Shickshinny Forward President Daniel Hinchcliff (right). The volunteers joined other community leaders during a four-hour-long meeting to discuss best practices, challenges and ideas for continued recovery. Pennsylvania Hurricane Irene. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Hurricane Katrina, Baton Rouge, LA, December 12, 2005 - Federal Coordinating Officer Scott Wells describes the impact of Hurricane Katrina and Rita as well as the levee breaks in New Orleans to an International Delegation visiting the Joint Field Office in Baton Rouge. Robert Kaufmann/FEMA

Secretary Dirk Kempthorne hosting National Park Service (NPS)-Young Presidents' Organization (YPO) luncheon at Main Interior, promoting the Centennial Challenge, part of Interior's initiative designed to prepare National Parks for another century of conservation and preservation in time for the NPS 100th anniversary in 2016

NY Hazard Mitigation Training. New York Hurricane Irene. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry drops by the Office of the Executive Secretariat (S/ES), better known as the Line, to thank them for their hard work at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on November 18, 2015.

Emergency Planning and Security - Salt Lake City, Utah, Jan. 18, 2012 Laura McClure with Housing and Urban Development in Washington, D. C. , discusses housing concerns at FEMA Region VIII's National Disaster Recovery Framework (NDRF) event Jan. 18 at Utah's Salt Lake City Marriott University Park Hotel. The meeting brought together federal, state and local partners to discuss long-term disaster recovery issues. FEMA photo by Cynthia Hunter.. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Vice Admiral Thad Allen Visits Jackson Field Office - 26-HK-11-12. VADM Thad Allen in a meeting at Jackson JFO, 05DEC05. Hurricane Katrina

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - Senator Event, Barbara Mikulski

Fort McCoy workforce members participate in an Operation Excellence training session Oct. 4, 2022, at Fort McCoy, Wis. Operation Excellence is part of Army Installation Management Command's Service Culture Campaign.

Office of Human Resources Management - Human Resources Summit

LA BEOC Conference Supported by FEMA. Louisiana Hurricane Katrina. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Office of the Secretary - Secretary Alexis Herman in Minneapolis, Minnesota

FEMA Administrator Paulison at the .. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Fort McCoy workforce members participate in an Operation Excellence training session Oct. 4, 2022, at Fort McCoy, Wis. Operation Excellence is part of Army Installation Management Command's Service Culture Campaign.

Women's Bureau - Women's Bureau Executive Staff Meeting MCI Center Washington, DC

Office of Human Resources Management - Human Resources Summit

Bureau of Economic Analysis - Advisory Committee

National Business Center-sponsored seminar on disability issues

The White House Long-Term Disaster Recovery Working Group. Louisiana Hurricane Katrina. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Fairbanks, Alaska, July 9, 2013 FEMA Federal Coordinating Officer Dolph Diemont meets with Senator Mark Begich's staff and FEMA Assistant External Affairs Officer Lettice McCoy, FEMA Tribal Liaison Wendy Stevens and Small Business Administration Public Information Officer Cynthia Cowell. Meetings with local politicians and their staff is important in creating and maintaining relations that promote recovery.. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

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Women's Bureau - Women's Bureau Staff Meeting at the Washington Court Hotel

Secretary Gale Norton meeting with staff of the Vernal, Utah field office of the Bureau of Land Management during the Secretary's visit to northeastern Utah

Tornado - Clinton, Miss. , May 24, 2011 FEMA Community Relations unit and MEMA meet regularly to compare, access and update information. FEMA provides funds to disaster survivors. Richard Cardona/FEMA. Mississippi Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Straight-line Winds, and Associated Flooding. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Fort McCoy workforce members participate in an Operation Excellence training session Oct. 4, 2022, at Fort McCoy, Wis. Operation Excellence is part of Army Installation Management Command's Service Culture Campaign.

Morning Briefing at the Joint Field Office. Florida Tropical Storm Debby. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to New Orleans, Louisiana, where he opened, and announced high bid totals for, the Minerals Management Service-sponsored federal sales of offshore oil and natural gas leases in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico (Lease Sale 224) and the Central Gulf of Mexico (Lease Sale 206). The sales, attracting a record-setting $3.7 billion in high bids, inaugurated a program of enhanced revenue sharing with oil and gas producing Gulf states, along with higher royalty rates.

Minority Business Development Agency - MBDA ANNUAL CONFERENCE SAN DIEGO, CA

NASA Wataer Forum Opening with Deputy Administrator Lori Garver

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - Senator Barbara Mikulski Visit/Press Conference

Secretary Dirk Kempthorne meeting with Fish and Wildlife Service Southeast Region staff, Atlanta, Georgia

Technology Administration - SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY COUNSELORS ROUNDTABLE

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken attends a roundtable at the Johns Hopkins University Executive Medicine Center, a center of excellence that has been treating those who have reported Anomalous Health Incidents, in Baltimore, MD, on December 21, 2021.

Public Assistance Applicant Briefings Begin in Connecticut. Connecticut Tropical Storm Irene. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

National Park Foundation meeting at Great Smoky Mountains National Park, with Acting Secretary P. Lynn Scarlett and National Park Service Director Fran Mainella among the Interior officials attending

Office of the Administrator - Children's Defense Fund , Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Darius Banaji, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) deputy director for operations, gathers with the Lao People's Democratic Republic delegation (Laos PDR) officials during Technical Talks on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, Sept. 8, 2022. Technical talks are a brief between representatives of the DPAA and Lao People's Democratic Republi, aimed to discuss continued joint field operations throughout the country for the upcoming year, address policy and operational initiatives, and explore how to increase mission effectiveness and efficiency to account for U.S. personnel who are still missing. A Memorandum for Record is the official document signed by both parties allowing the DPAA mission to continue on the search to recover the remaining 285 Americans still missing in action in Laos.

Participants at a breakout session at the the Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom at the U.S. Department of State in Washington D.C. on July 17, 2019.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - NOAA FISHERIES CONSTITUENT MEETING WITH SECRETARY DONALD EVANS AND UNDER SECRETARY FOR OCEANS AND ATMOSPHERE LAUTENBACHER

Office of the Secretary - Secretary Alexis Herman in Seattle, Washington

Office of Human Resources Management - Human Resources Summit

Office of Human Resources Management - Human Resources Summit

Flooding Severe Storm - Nashville, Tenn. , May 29, 2010 Steve Ward, FEMA Deputy Federal Coordinating Officer, joins discussions with Joint Information Center representatives as they provide media relations guidance to public assistance field inspectors and coordinators, hazard mitigation staff, and environmental and historic preservation specialists. FEMA is responding to severe storms and flooding that damaged or destroyed thousands of homes across Tennessee in May 2010. David Fine/FEMA. Tennessee Severe Storms, Flooding, Straight-Line Winds, and Tornadoes. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Altamonte Springs, FL, (Oct. 8, 2022) - A FEMA Mobile Registration Intake Center has opened at the Westmont Recreation Center where FEMA Disaster Survivor Assistants can help survivors of Hurricane Ian apply to FEMA for recovery aid. Robert Kaufmann/FEMA

FEMA DRC Open Today.. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Emergency Planning and Security - Birmingham, Ala. , August 5, 2011 Cathy Guy (right), FEMA Training Officer, opens day one of two day ESF 14 (Emergency Support Function: Long-Term Community Recovery) training held in Birmingham, AL. Ruth Kennedy/FEMA Photo. Alabama Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Straight-line Winds, and Flooding. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

FEMA's Federal Coordinating Officer Welcomes Briefing Attendees.. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Women's Bureau - Women's Bureau Staff Meeting at the Washington Court Hotel

Office of the Secretary - Secretary Alexis Herman's Labor Beat Reporters Roundtable

Mandatory Training is Provided Before Deployment. Mississippi Hurricane Isaac. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Office of Human Resources Management - Human Resources Summit

Business executives in a conference room

Jim Rose, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) disinterment historian, provides background knowledge to a MIA family member during a Family Member Update (FMU) in Denver, Colorado, Sept. 10, 2022. FMUs give family members of MIA personnel the opportunity to speak with government officials face-to-face about their specific cases. These events include formal presentations, question and answer sessions, and one-one-one discussions designed to keep family members informed of DPAAs mission to account for those still missing while addressing their individual needs.

Secretary's Open Forum session, featuring former U.S. Ambassador to Austria, and Director of the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard University, Swanee Hunt, along with: the Director of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, Vjosa Dobruna; the Director of the Preventive Diplomacy Program at Washington, D.C.'s Center for Strategic and International Studies, Joseph Montville; and Open Forum Chairman William Keppler

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken participates in the UN Security Council Open Debate on Multilateralism, from the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on May 7, 2021.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The Florida Cabinet reviews a resolution recognizing NASA Kennedy Space Center for its contributions to spaceflight and technological innovation during its meeting at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, Fla., on Oct. 18. The Cabinet, seated, is made up of Adam Putnam, left, Agriculture commissioner, Jeff Atwater, chief financial officer, Florida Governor Rick Scott and Pam Bondi, attorney general.

Views of Bureau of Administration staff in assorted work settings, for use on "What We Do" display board for April, 2004 awards ceremony

Flooding - Minot, N. D. , October 21, 2011 David Miller, Associate Administrator of the FEMA's Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration, addresses North Dakota Senators John Hoeven (second, left) and Kent Conrad (third, left), Congressman Rick Berg(first, left), and other state and local officials at a press conference at Minot's City Hall. Miller is working with state and local partners to provide assistance to those affected by June's historic Souris River flood in Minot. North Dakota Flooding. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

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