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Appendix E: Florida International University: Disaster Resilience and Hurricane Matthew
Appendix E: Florida International University: Disaster Resilience and Hurricane Matthew
Pages 399-408
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The FIU Office of Research and Economic Development provides leadership in research administration, supports the endeavors of the university's research community, and ensures the responsible stewardship of research activities. The university's research facilities include 950 research and wet research laboratory services (469,579 square feet)
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The most important of these are the Advanced Mass Spectrometry Facility; the Aquarius Reef Base and its support services (e.g., pressure chambers and four large vessels) ; the Center for Imaging Science, which houses a 3T Siemens MAGNETOM Prisma MRI; the Forensic DNA Profiling Facility and Trace Evidence Analysis Facilities; the Nutrient Analysis Lab; the Peripython Analysis Facility; the Soil and Sediment Biogeochemistry Lab; the Plant Tissue and Soil Analysis Lab; and a Stable Isotope Lab.
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This advisory instructs principal investigators and lab managers to prepare to suspend experiments involving hazardous materials and to not begin new experiments; to coordinate with the Office of Research and Economic Development and Environmental Health and Safety to update all hazardous materials inventories in the Environmental Health and Safety database; to autoclave or inactivate infectious waste; and to make any necessary changes to shipments of laboratory items ordered. The on-campus chemical supply store is also advised to delay or reroute receipts of chemicals or other research materials ordered.
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Ensuring sufficient lead time to complete these actions is a prime consideration. Upon notification that the National Hurricane Center has issued a hurricane warning, FIU follows this process regarding its research operations: The Office of Research and Economic Development advises principal investigators and lab managers to suspend all experiments, to remove all hazardous materials from fume hoods and store them in alternative storage, to shut down and unplug all nonessential machines requiring electricity, to ensure that hoods and biosafety cabinets are left on, to set refrigeration equipment to its coldest settings, to open doors to freezer bays in areas prone to overheating due to operation of freezers plugged into electrical power and to set fans in the area, and to secure compressed gas cylinders.
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Companies holding FIU service contracts are notified so that they may access the campus after the storm, if necessary. For example, the service provider for the Siemens MAGNETOM Prisma MRI inspects imaging equipment and refills the helium the day before the expected arrival of the storm; the day after the storm, the service provider determines the impact to the equipment.
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Many of the same scenarios and situa tions featured in that exercise occurred during Hurricane Matthew, which enabled FIU to exercise its emergency plans in real time for a real-world event. • FIU maintains a comprehensive emergency management plan that outlines university guidelines regarding preparation for, response to, mitigation against, and recovery from any emergency.
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Before a storm, the FIU Office of Research and Economic Development, FIU Facilities staff, and principal investigators document all safety steps taken to mitigate damage so that any necessary claims can be made to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) , insurance carriers, and the State of Florida.
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406 PROTECTING THE NATION'S INVESTMENT FIGURE E-1 FIU's disaster preparedness checklist for research laboratories.
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