J11 Requirements and Strategies to Support Resilient Infrastructure Planning and Design (Joint between the 12th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise)

Wednesday, 31 January 2024: 1:45 PM-3:00 PM
Holiday 4 (Hilton Baltimore Inner Harbor)
Hosts: (Joint between the 19th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; and the 12th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise )
Submitters:
Anna M. Wilson; Jason Giovannettone, Hydromet, LLC, Alexandria, VA; Francisco Munoz-Arriola, UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN, Department of Biological Systems Engineering, Lincoln, NE and J Rolf Olsen
Cochairs:
Anna M. Wilson and Jason Giovannettone, Hydromet, LLC, Alexandria, VA

Climate data and information demand for real-world designs, operations, and decision making continue to expand. Understanding and meeting these needs requires robust partnerships between researchers, engineers, planners, resource managers, corporations, decision makers, and communities. In this session we invite presentations on assessing and meeting climate information and socio-economic needs to support equitable and inclusive engineering planning, design, operations, and decision making for a wide variety of applications. We hope to build a session that discusses these needs in addition to potential solutions towards fulfilling them(e.g., revised manuals of practice, updated engineering standards, necessary data resources, and new design and analysis methods and strategies that make our engineering and scientific practices effective for all members of our society). We welcome abstracts that highlight climate information needs for infrastructure and strategies that accelerate equitable and inclusive designs and practices for historically underserved and socially vulnerable communities.

Papers:
1:45 PM
J11.1
Adaptation to Extreme Rainfall Events: Intersection of Climate, Weather, Hazard Mitigation and Urban Planning
Elizabeth J. Tarquin, BS, International Business and Marketing, Georgetown University, CASE Consultants International, Asheville, NC; and P. Marchman

2:00 PM
J11.2
Forecast Informed Reservoir Operations at Howard Hanson Dam in the Washington Cascades
Michael Warner, US Army Corps of Engineers - Seattle District, Tacoma, WA

2:15 PM
J11.3
Modernizing NOAA's extreme precipitation guidance for high-hazard infrastructure in a changing climate
Kelly M. Mahoney, NOAA, BOULDER, CO; and J. L. Bytheway, D. R. Stovern, R. Cifelli, A. Back, T. I. Alcott, E. P. James, T. T. Ladwig, L. F. Lin, S. Murdzek, S. M. Trojniak, J. Correia Jr., R. S. Webb, S. S. Weygandt, and C. R. Alexander

2:30 PM
J11.4
Water Sector Resiliency with EPA’s Climate Resilience Evaluation and Awareness Tool (CREAT)
Geneva Marie Ely Gray, EPA, DC, DC; and J. S. Fries, N. D. B. Keyes, A. Ramming, A. Furneaux, and C. Baranowski

2:45 PM
J11.5
Examining the Use of Hurricane Forecast Information for Interdependent Critical Infrastructure Systems in Florida Metropolitan Areas
Theresia Bernadette Phoa, University of Miami, Miami, FL; and Y. Ge, R. E. Morss, and J. L. Vigh

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