NJ Office of Homeland Security & Preparedness 2014 Planning Summit Student Poster Submission Guidelines

Call for Research Posters: First Annual New Jersey Office of Homeland Security & Preparedness Student Poster Presentation The New Jersey Office of Homeland Security & Preparedness would like to announce the first annual Student Poster Presentation at its 2014 Planning Summit. Poster presentations will provide students with an opportunity to share and discuss their work and research interests with a diverse group of professionals ranging from emergency managers, preparedness planners and state/federal/non-profit agency representatives. Posters can present any topic closely related to the homeland security/resiliency planning/resilient design/hazard mitigation fields and should represent original research or design. If accepted, presenters will display their posters at the 2014 Planning Summit on June 25th, 2014 at the Middlesex County Fire Academy. Poster abstracts and presenter bios will be published in the summit agenda and in the subsequent Summit Report. During the summit, participants will be given the opportunity to view the posters and converse with the presenters. Please note that presenting a poster at our summit is voluntary and OSHP cannot pay expenses for participation. If your submission is accepted you are responsible for producing the poster and traveling to the summit. Submission Process Please submit all poster applications via email to the OHSP Planning & Project Management Bureau ([email protected]) no later than Friday May, 16th at 5:00pm. Applicants will be notified of their acceptance by Friday May, 30th. For more information please contact Chace Cottrell ([email protected]). All submissions must contain the following elements: Poster Title Abstract describing the poster (75 words maximum) Supporting summary of research/design (500 words maximum) Brief bio of the presenter (University affiliation, degree, research areas) Contact information (name, email, phone number) Research and analyses presented in the poster submission must be completed or near completion (research proposals will not be considered) and represent subject matter appropriate for at least a masters project or thesis. Please be sure to provide enough relevant detail in the submission so that reviewers can adequately asses the originality of the work, the quality of the analyses/design and the appropriateness of the conclusions. For a guide on poster design visit: http://www.pitt.edu/~etbell/nsurg/PosterGuide.html http://www.cns.cornell.edu/documents/ScientificPosters.pdf