Session Presidential Forum: Physical, Social, Cultural, and Economic Impacts: The Gulf Coast as a Microcosm of Global Change

Sunday, 12 January 2025: 4:00 PM-5:15 PM
Great Hall A (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; the 24th Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 17th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; the 24th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction; the 29th Conference of Applied Climatology; the 25th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 27th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Symposium on Careers in Operational Government Meteorology and Hydrology; the Second Symposium on Cloud Physics; the Fourth Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the 23rd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 38th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the Sixth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the New Orleans Forum on Climate Linked Economics; the 34th Conference on Education; the 41st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 16th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the First Conference on Fire Weather, Technology, and Risk; the 16th Conference on Environment and Health; the 23rd History Symposium; the 11th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the 39th Conference on Hydrology; the 21st Conference on Major Weather Impacts; the Tenth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the 29th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 13th Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Heather Lazrus Symposium; the 13th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the 12th Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; the Gerald A Meehl Symposium; the Fourth Symposium on Mesoscale Processes; the 13th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 21st Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Presidential Conference; the 15th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the Symposium on Radar Research to Operations; the 15th Conference On Transition Of Research To Operations (15R2O); the Third Symposium on Environmental Security; the 25th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 20th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 22nd Conference on Space Weather; the 24th Annual Student Conference; the Seventh Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); and the 13th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation )

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The theme of the 2025 AMS Annual Meeting addresses the impacts of global environmental changes to physical, societal, cultural, and economic systems across space and time scales.  Throughout the week of the Annual Meeting, daily Presidential Sessions will address a variety of topics to highlight actionable science for society at large that aims to chart a future course for a more resilient and thriving planet. To define the framework for the daily Sessions, and because impacts to physical and socioeconomic systems are perhaps nowhere more pronounced than the broader region of the Mississippi River Delta, the Presidential Forum will stress the effects of environmental changes across scales on the various sectors of the broad area encompassing the delta and surrounding regions.

The Mississippi River Delta and surrounding environments have endured impacts due to acute and chronic aspects of global environmental change. Impacts from acute events such as landfalling, rapidly intensifying hurricanes, and non-hurricane episodes of extreme rainfall are compounded by effects from chronic changes such as sea-level rise and increasing air temperature.  The intensifying acute and chronic impacts spread through physical, social, cultural, and economic systems at varying intensities to cause disarray across space and time scales.  Consequently, a wide range of strategies are required to increase resilience and best manage the broad physical and socioeconomic systems of the region

Although the Delta and surrounding region have withstood impacts from acute and chronic environmental changes, it is also a region with broad expertise in scholarly, policy, governance, and management approaches to understanding drivers of physical and socioeconomic impacts.  This expertise collectively allows for the identification and implementation of actions to improve resilience and adaptation such that the broad physical and socioeconomic systems of the region are minimally impacted and addressed equally throughout the region. Therefore, the Presidential Forum, which is conducted on Sunday afternoon before the start of the general sessions of the Annual Meeting on Monday, will bring experts from the broad region of the River Delta to discuss strategies and actions that have been implemented and those yet needed.  The Forum aims to bring broad attention to issues that will be addressed in more detail during individual Presidential Sessions held throughout the week and in the context of the variety of sciences addressed by members of the American Meteorological Society.

Panelists: 

 

Dr. Virginia Burkett, Chief Scientist for Climate and Land-Use Change, USGS

Dr. Marshall Shepherd, Associate Dean, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, Georgia Athletic Association Distinguished Professor and Director, Atmospheric Sciences Program, University of Georgia

Dr. Antonio Busalacchi, President, University Corporation for  Atmospheric Research

Dr. Beverly Wright, Founder and Executive Director of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice and member of the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council.

Moderator: 

 

Dr. Rebecca Morss, Senior Scientist at the U.S. National Science Foundation National Center for Atmospheric Research

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