This course is part of the National Emergency Management Basic Academy being offered in FY26.
Additional courses are:
L0101: Foundations of Emergency Management (March 23-27, 2026) at Cullman County EMA
L0103: Planning: Emergency Operations (April 16-17, 2026) at Marshall County EMA
L0105: Public Information Basics (May 4-6, 2026) at Colbert County EMA
L0146: Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program Training Course (May 7-8, 2026) at Colbert County EMA
It is not necessary to attend all of the courses in this sequence.
Course Description:
This course provides the participants with an overview of how scientific principles can be used before, during and after a disaster; including a basic understanding of scientific terminology as it applies to Emergency Management. The contents of the course include the following:
- Overview of scientific principles and the relationship between science and disasters
- Overview of climatological principles and weather-based threats and hazards
- Overview of earth science principles and geologic threats and hazards
- Overview of chemical and biological science and the scientific basis of those threats
- Overview of explosive, radiological, and nuclear science and the scientific basis of those threats
Course Objectives:
- Indicate how earth science principles and processes influence natural hazards
- Indicate how climatological principles and processes influence natural hazards
- Indicate how chemical and biological principles and processes influence natural and human-caused hazards and impact society
- Indicate the scientific basis for explosive, radiological, and nuclear hazards and their impact on society
- Indicate how scientific understanding can improve emergency preparedness
Prerequisites:
Recommended:
- IS-100.C: An Introduction to the Incident Command System, ICS 100
- IS-120.C: An Introduction to Exercises
- IS-200.C: Basic Incident Command System for Initial Response
- IS-230.E: Fundamentals of Emergency Management
- IS-700.B: An Introduction to the National Incident Management System
- IS-800.D: National Response Framework, An Introduction