Transportation and the Built Environment in a Changing Climate: Findings from the Fourth National Climate Assessment

OneNOAA Science Seminar Series

Title:
Transportation and the Built Environment in a Changing Climate: Findings from the Fourth National Climate Assessment

Speakers:
Libby Larson, Support Scientist, Carbon Cycle and Ecosystems Office, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and Jennifer Jacobs, Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of New Hampshire

Sponsors:
US Global Change Research Program and NOAA's National Ocean Service Science Seminar; coordinators are Katie Reeves <kreeves@usgcrp.gov> and Tracy.Gill@noaa.gov

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Abstract:
The Nation’s authoritative assessment of climate impacts, the Fourth National Climate Assessment Vol. II: Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States (NCA4 Vol. II) was released in November 2018. This presentation will address the impacts of climate change on transportation and the built environment in the United States.

About the Speakers:
Libby Larson is a support scientist in the Carbon Cycle and Ecosystems Office at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, a role she took on after her AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowship in the Terrestrial Ecology Program, Earth Sciences Division, NASA Headquarters. In her work at NASA, Dr. Larson focuses on facilitating stakeholder interactions and knowledge co-production for the Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE), is a member of the Carbon Cycle Science Interagency Working Group, and co-chairs the Social Sciences Coordinating Committee at US GCRP. She is also Coordinator of the North American Carbon Program (NACP). Dr. Larson has a B.A. from Haverford College (1996) and a Ph.D. from Arizona State University (2010). An urban ecologist by training, Dr. Larson's work is related to incorporating humans into our understanding of ecological processes. Rather than thinking of humans as external factors that mainly disturb the ecosystem, people are internal agents that both drive and respond to changes in the system. Developing this kind of ecological understanding requires an interdisciplinary perspective, including the fields of urban planning, sociology, economics, anthropology, history, engineering, etc.

Jennifer Jacobs is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of New Hampshire. She has a Sc.B. from Brown University, an M.S. from Tufts University, and a Ph.D. from Cornell University. She has over 25 years of experience using novel weather and climate information to enhance infrastructure design and practice with a specialty in cold weather and snow. She has over 80 published journal articles on these topics. She is the Director of the National Science Foundation funded Research Coordination Network: The Infrastructure and Climate Network (ICNet). ICNet brings together climate scientists and civil engineers to accelerate research for climate resilient infrastructure. Dr. Jacobs has provided expertise on design and managing transportation infrastructure under a changing climate to numerous national and international organizations and was the Lead Author for the Transportation Sector Chapter of the 4th National Climate Assessment. 

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(Libby Larson, Support Scientist, Carbon Cycle and Ecosystems Office, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and Jennifer Jacobs, Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of New Hampshire)