Florida Water & Climate Alliance Webinar

Climate Change Impacts on Wastewater & Stormwater Management 

September 20, 11:00am – 1:00pm

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  Agenda:

• Welcome and Introduction to the Florida Water & Climate Alliance
• FloridaWCA Project Updates on Integrating NASA Earth Systems Data into Decision-Making Tools of Member Utilities
  • Monitoring of the 2021 Rainy Season Over Florida’s Water Management Districts
    • Vasu Misra, Ph.D., Professor of Meteorology, Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies, Florida State University
• Climate Change Impacts on Wastewater & Stormwater Management
  • Vulnerability Analysis of Onsite Wastewater Treatment Systems in Low-Lying Coastal Communities to Multiple Climate Related Threats
    • Jessica Beach, P.E., Chief Resilience Officer, City of St. Augustine
    • Tricia Kyzar, Ph.D. Candidate, Urban and Regional Planning, University of Florida
  • Using Logistic Regression to Model the Risk of Sewer Overflows Triggered by Compound Flooding with Application to Sea Level Rise
    • Steve Meyers, Ph.D., Chief Scientist, Center for Maritime and Port Studies, University of South Florida
    • Mark Luther, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Physical Oceanography, University of South Florida
    • Shawn Landry, Ph.D., Research Associate Professor & Director, University of South Florida Water Institute
  • The Importance of Risk-Based Decision Making for Total Maximum Daily Loads in a Changing Climate
    • Ebrahim Ahmadisharaf, Ph.D., Senior Research Associate, Resilient Infrastructure and Disaster Response (RIDER) Center, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University-Florida State University
  • Future Rainfall Depth-Duration-Frequency Curves for South and Central Florida Based on Downscaled Climate Model Data
    • Michelle Irizarry-Ortiz, P.E., CC-P, Hydrologist, USGS Caribbean-Florida Water Science Center
• Q & A and Discussion
• Close

Facilitator: Karen Schlatter, Research Coordinator, University of Florida Water Institute