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Climate Conversations on Sea Level Rise Across U.S. Coastlines
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and The Climate Communications Initiative present Climate Conversations: Sea Level Rise. The online event features a conversation about “how to respond to the rising seas already threatening people, infrastructure and property on U.S. coastlines.” Climate change models project sea level rise across our nation’s coasts by an additional one foot on average in the next 30 years — coastal managers and communities must plan now!
Participants in Climate Conversations: Sea Level Rise include the following industry experts: Tancred Miller, the Policy and Planning Manager for the North Carolina Division of Coastal Management; Christina Toms, a Senior Environmental Scientist and Ecological Engineer at the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board; and, Robert Kopp, a Professor in the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences and codirector of the University Office of Climate Action at Rutgers University.
About Climate Conversations
Climate Conversations: Pathways to Action is a monthly webinar series from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine that aims to convene high-level, crosscutting, nonpartisan conversations about issues relevant to national policy action on climate change.
About the Climate Communications Initiative
In 2018, the National Academies launched the Climate Communications Initiative (CCI) to better leverage and unlock the storehouse of climate-related work from across the institution in order to more effectively meet and anticipate the needs of decision makers at all levels of society. An external Advisory Committee, together with a large internal staff team, developed a strategic plan for the CCI to guide the National Academies’ efforts moving forward.
(Source: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering)
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The Climate Communications Initiative on Sea Level Rise Across U.S. Coastlines
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and The Climate Communications Initiative present Climate Conversations: Sea Level Rise. The online event features a conversation about “how to respond to the rising seas already threatening people, infrastructure and property on U.S. coastlines.” Climate change models project sea level rise across our nation’s coasts by an additional one foot on average in the next 30 years — coastal managers and communities must plan now!
Participants in Climate Conversations: Sea Level Rise include the following industry experts: Tancred Miller, the Policy and Planning Manager for the North Carolina Division of Coastal Management; Christina Toms, a Senior Environmental Scientist and Ecological Engineer at the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board; and, Robert Kopp, a Professor in the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences and codirector of the University Office of Climate Action at Rutgers University.
About Climate Conversations
Climate Conversations: Pathways to Action is a monthly webinar series from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine that aims to convene high-level, crosscutting, nonpartisan conversations about issues relevant to national policy action on climate change.
About the Climate Communications Initiative
In 2018, the National Academies launched the Climate Communications Initiative (CCI) to better leverage and unlock the storehouse of climate-related work from across the institution in order to more effectively meet and anticipate the needs of decision makers at all levels of society. An external Advisory Committee, together with a large internal staff team, developed a strategic plan for the CCI to guide the National Academies’ efforts moving forward.
(Source: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering)
ClimaTwin™ empowers infrastructure stakeholders to mitigate climate risks and assess adaptation actions across the total asset lifecycle.
© 2022 ClimaTwin Corp. ClimaTwin™, ClimaTwin Basic™, ClimaTwin Enterprise™, and the ClimaTwin logo are trademarks of ClimaTwin Corp. All rights reserved.
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Adaptation Actions to Future-Proof California Highway from Sea-level Rise
In a recent article in the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Civil Engineering Magazine and Civil Engineering Source “Key Northern California Highway to Be Protected from Sea Level Rise,” author Jay Landers highlights how the State of California plans to protect a critical coastal highway from climate change and sea-level rise. Landers explains that California State Route 37 (SR 37) links east-west transportation in the North Bay Region, a subregion of the San Francisco Bay Area. As a result, the California Department of Transportation or Caltrans and local partners are assessing adaptation actions for safeguarding SR 37 from high water across both short-term and long-term time horizons. Early estimates of the cost of future-proofing range from hundreds of millions of dollars in the short-term to billions in the long-term. Given its low elevation and close proximity to tidal waterways, the key highway is subject to flooding — with higher probability when strong storm events coincide with high tide conditions. During past flood events, Caltrans implemented numerous emergency measures: deploying flood walls, raising pavement levels, improving adjacent drainage, and restoring nearby levees.
(Source: Landers, Jay. “Key Northern California Highway to Be Protected from Sea Level Rise.” Civil Engineering Magazine, American Society of Civil Engineers, https://www.asce.org/publications-and-news/civil-engineering-source/civil-engineering-magazine/article/2022/03/key-northern-california-highway-to-be-protected-from-sea-level-rise.)
© 2022 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Utility Planning and Future Proofing for Climate Change and Sea-Level Rise
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 2022 John R. Freeman Lecture Utility Planning for Climate Change: Boston Water and Sewer Commission’s Role in Boston’s Future features speaker John P. Sullivan, PE, the Chief Engineer of the Boston Water and Sewer Commission (BWSC). Sullivan presents innovative tools and long-term plans that the BWSC is currently developing to future-proof the city’s water, sewer, and stormwater infrastructure. As an historic coastal city with extensive filled land, Boston is in the process of implementing a broad spectrum of adaptation plans to protect the coastal city from sea-level rise (SLR). The lecture on utility infrastructure and climate change is co-sponsored by the ASCE Environmental and Water Resources Institute (EWRI) and the Freeman Committee.
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ClimaTwin™ empowers infrastructure stakeholders to mitigate climate risks and assess adaptation actions across the total asset lifecycle.
© 2022 ClimaTwin Corp. ClimaTwin™, ClimaTwin Basic™, ClimaTwin Enterprise™, and the ClimaTwin logo are trademarks of ClimaTwin Corp. All rights reserved.
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