HMEI Faculty Seminar: “Projecting Flooding by Bringing the Physical Processes Back in the Flood Frequency Analysis”
Gabriele Villarini, professor of civil and environmental engineering and the High Meadows Environmental Institute, will present “Projecting Flooding by Bringing the Physical Processes Back in the Flood Frequency Analysis” in Guyot Hall, Room 10, and online via Zoom. Villarini is the third speaker in the spring 2024 HMEI Faculty Seminar Series.
The frequency and intensity of flooding and its associated risks have changed in recent decades across different parts of the contiguous United States, with climate change acting as a risk multiplier. Despite those changes, the standard practice in the design of our physical infrastructure assumes stationarity and implies that which has been experienced in the past will manifest itself again in the future. Professor Villarini will discuss work he is doing to incorporate observed changes in the historical discharge records and other flooding agents to describe flood records more accurately and to incorporate such data along with climate model outputs to enhance projections and planning. He seeks to learn from the past and to then use that information to provide better insights into future changes in flooding, with an ultimate goal of providing a scientific basis for the engineering design of flood mitigation alternatives and the management of water resources.
This seminar is free and open to the public. Lunch will be available in the Guyot Atrium at noon. All attendees can register here in advance to attend this event via Zoom livestream.
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HMEI Faculty Seminar: “Projecting Flooding by Bringing the Physical Processes Back in the Flood Frequency Analysis”
Gabriele Villarini, professor of civil and environmental engineering and the High Meadows Environmental Institute, will present “Projecting Flooding by Bringing the Physical Processes Back in the Flood Frequency Analysis” in Guyot Hall, Room 10, and online via Zoom. Villarini is the third speaker in the spring 2024 HMEI Faculty Seminar Series.
The frequency and intensity of flooding and its associated risks have changed in recent decades across different parts of the contiguous United States, with climate change acting as a risk multiplier. Despite those changes, the standard practice in the design of our physical infrastructure assumes stationarity and implies that which has been experienced in the past will manifest itself again in the future. Professor Villarini will discuss work he is doing to incorporate observed changes in the historical discharge records and other flooding agents to describe flood records more accurately and to incorporate such data along with climate model outputs to enhance projections and planning. He seeks to learn from the past and to then use that information to provide better insights into future changes in flooding, with an ultimate goal of providing a scientific basis for the engineering design of flood mitigation alternatives and the management of water resources.
This seminar is free and open to the public. Lunch will be available in the Guyot Atrium at noon. All attendees can register here in advance to attend this event via Zoom livestream.
