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Attributing Flood Hazards to Anthropogenic Change: Insights from Hurricane Harvey and Southeast Texas
February 10, 2022 @ 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Geospatial Forum with Dr. Antonia Sebastian (UNC-Chapel Hill)
Join us virtually for this Thursday’s Geospatial Forum!
Hosted by: Dr. Helena Mitasova, Professor in NC State’s Dept. of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, and Assoc. Director of Geovisualization at the CGA
Forum summary: Insured flood loss in Texas has risen rapidly since 1978, totaling nearly $16.4 billion USD by the end of 2021. These losses have been predominantly concentrated in coastal and urban areas where changes in extreme precipitation coupled with rapid population growth at the coastal margin and in upland areas have dramatically altered the hydrologic response of local catchments. This forum presentation will highlight recent findings from urban flood studies in the Houston-Galveston region with a specific emphasis on attributing changes in runoff patterns to climate and land use dynamics using hydrologic and hydrodynamic models.
About the speaker: Dr. Sebastian is an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she holds appointments in both the Department of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences and the Environment, Ecology and Energy Program (E3P). Sebastian’s primary research interests involve the application of interdisciplinary methods in socio-hydrology and (View Full Event Description Here: https://cnr.ncsu.edu/geospatial/event/geospatial-forum-with-dr-antonia-sebastian-unc/)
Watch and listen live at: go.ncsu.edu/geospatial-forum-live or https://ncsu.zoom.us/j/92924935335.
Meeting ID: 929 2493 5335