OC EWRI Presents Communicating Coastal Flooding Risk with Street-Level Data
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| Calendar | Orange County |
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| Location | Dave and Busters Irvine Spectrum, 71 Fortune Drive Irvine, 92618 |
| Date | Thursday, October 8, 2015 at 10:30am - 12:00pm |
| Duration | 1 hours, 30 minutes |
| Details | _____________ Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/oc-ewri-presents-communicating-coastal-flooding-risk-with-street-level-data-tickets-18690421554?ref=ebapi _____________ Topic: Communicating Coastal Flood Risk with Street-Level Data Speakers: Professor Brett F. Sanders, Ph.D., Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine Dr. Sanders is an expert in flood modeling and leads the National Science Foundation funded FloodRISE project at UC Irvine which is focused on increasing coastal resilience to extreme flooding events and sea level rise. Dr. Sanders earned his Ph.D in Civil Engineering at the University Michigan developing 2D flood inundation models, and graduated from UC Berkeley with B.S. in Civil Engineering. He has been on the faculty at UC Irvine since 1997 and is currently Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He is a recipient of the prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award and numerous campus awards for excellence in teaching. Synopsis: The projected impacts of climate change on flood damages are staggering. Coastal areas are primarily at risk due to a combination of rising sea levels, population migration to coastal areas, and decaying civil infrastructure, but urban flood risk in inland areas is also a concern. Around the world, there is a need to increase flood resilience and manage retreat at an unprecedented pace to avoid the type of catastrophic losses to communities that have occurred in places like New Orleans as a result of Katrina and parts of New York and New Jersey as a result of Sandy. Hydraulic engineers have powerful tools at our disposal to characterize flooding scenarios, but to date our efforts have had relatively little success educating the public about flood hazards and promoting the type of behavioral changes, policy changes, and infrastructure that offers enhanced resilience to extreme events. The FloodRISE project aims to co-design models of flood risk with communities to test the hypothesis that a more deliberate process of community engagement can work to expedite action and promote a higher level of equity among community members. In this presentation, Dr. Sanders will share work by his modeling team to advance street-level flood risk modeling technology, work by colleagues in social sciences to improve flood risk communication, and community engagement activities. Time: Lunch @ 11:50 am; Program ends @ 1:15 pmLocation: Dave and Busters' at Irvine Spectrum, 71 Fortune Drive, Irvine, CA (949) 727-0555 Cost: $35 at the door, $28 advance payment by mail, PayPal or credit card, $30 registered but pay at the door, Students $15 at the door with school ID For PayPal payment, please send payment to: HHTG_OC@yahoo.com Mail checks payable to "ASCE HHTG" and RSVP to: Bita Sadri, EWRI Treasurer 14725 Alton Parkway, Irvine, CA 92618 Confirm: Call (714) 906-9095, or e-mail to: ewri@asceoc.org |
| Repeats? | No |