The power of data synthesis for understanding the effects of coastal hurricanes

Title: The power of data synthesis for understanding the effects of coastal hurricanes

The Southeast & Caribbean Regional Collaboration Team 2024 Hurricane Awareness Webinar Series

Presenter(s): Dr. Christopher Patrick, Director of SAV Monitoring & Restoration Program and Associate Professor at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science

Sponsor(s): NOAA’s Southeast and Caribbean Regional Collaboration Team (SECART)

Seminar Contacts: Allyssa Zebrowski, Southeast Regional Preparedness Coordinator, NOAA’s Disaster Preparedness Program (allyssa.zebrowski@noaa.gov); Katharine Egan, Southeast and Caribbean Regional Coordinator, NOAA’s Regional Collaboration Network (katharine.egan@noaa.gov)

Remote Access: Register here: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7305714245342916442this link opens in a new window

Overview: Join us for our third webinar of the Southeast & Caribbean Regional Collaboration Team 2024 Hurricane Awareness Webinar Series. The Hurricane Awareness Webinar Series highlights the information and capabilities to help communities prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters. Each webinar will explore various topics that are regionally-relevant and will focus on the latest data, tools, and services from NOAA. The webinar series is sponsored by the Southeast & Caribbean Regional Collaboration Team (SECART). This webinar will focus on the efforts of The HERS (Hurricane Ecosystem Response Synthesis) RCN (Research Coordination Network). The presentation will include rationale for the project, moving past my system, my storm case studies, summarizing the efforts so far and what has been learned through data synthesis, and where the research coordination network efforts are headed next.

Bio(s): Christopher J. Patrick, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at The Virginia Institute of Marine Science, William & Mary, where he runs the Coastal & Estuarine Ecology Lab and is the Lead PI and Director of The HERS (Hurricane Ecosystem Response Synthesis) RCN (Research Coordination Network). He is also the Director of the Submersed Aquatic Vegetation Restoration & Monitoring Program at VIMS, and lead PI of MarineGEO Virginia. He has a B.S. in Behavior, Evolution, Ecology, and Systematics from the University of Maryland, College Park and a Ph.D. in Ecology from the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana. Prior to VIMS, Chris was a Research Scientist at The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (2011-2014), an American Association for the Advancement of Science, Science & Technology Policy Fellow placed with EPA Office of Water/Office of Science & Technology (2014-2015), and an Assistant Professor of Marine Biology at Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi (2016-2019) where he developed and directed MarineGEO Texas. With over 45 peer-reviewed publications to his credit, recent relevant papers on the topic of hurricane impacts on coastal systems include papers in Estuaries & Coasts, Science Advances, Bioscience, and Frontiers in Ecology & the Environment.

Slides, Recordings, Other Materials: Webinar recordings will be uploaded to the SECART YouTube channelthis link opens in a new window with English and Spanish subtitles and made available on SECART’s website.

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