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MTS-Sponsored Seminar: Natural Hybrid Infrastructure for Coastal Resilience in the Pacific
POST 723 1680 East-West Road, HonoluluThis seminar is sponsored by our Marine Technology Society Student Section! Michael Foley, Ph.D., P.E. Senior Coastal Engineer - EA Engineering, Science and Technology *In-person ONLY (POST 723)* *request Zoom Link here for extenuating circumstances by Wednesday (2/4) @ 11:59 pm HST Coastal communities are facing accelerating hazards that threaten public spaces, roadways, utilities, homes, and businesses. Traditional development strategies such as hardened shorelines, graded coastal plains, and armored channels often fail to capture the value provided by natural systems. Drawing on 20 years of experience addressing coastal hazard risks in Hawaiʻi, Dr. Foley will discuss the importance of a
Seminar: FEMA’s Hazus Tools for Estimating Tsunami and Coastal Flood Losses
ORE ZoomDoug Bausch Director of Data Science, Niyam IT, Fairfax, Virginia dbausch@niyamit.com *Online only* Zoom Meeting Link Meeting ID: 963 5962 3640 Passcode: OREseminar https://hawaii.zoom.us/j/96359623640 The seminar will highlight 3 tools developed by FEMA https://www.fema.gov/flood-maps/products-tools/hazus that enable the estimation of impacts to buildings and economic losses based on tsunami and coastal hazard data. The tools will be demonstrated highlighting the data, methods and results for several Oahu scenarios. Hazus 6.1: Is FEMA’s Hazus platform that supports tsunami, flood, hurricane and earthquake losses in Esri’s ArcMap 10.8.2 platform: https://msc.fema.gov/portal/resources/hazus. The overview will demonstrate a tsunami model case study based on UH provided
Seminar: Modeling sea level rise impacts: compound flooding, groundwater inundation, storm drain failure, and coastal erosion
Bilger Hall 150 2545 McCarthy Mall, HonoluluKayla Yamamoto Climate Modeling Analyst Climate Resilience Collaborative (CRC) School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology University of Hawai’i at Mānoa Shellie Habel Research Specialist Sea Grant & Climate Resilience Collaborative (CRC) School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology University of Hawai’i at Mānoa Chloe Obara Graduate Assistant Earth and Planetary Sciences School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology University of Hawai’i at Mānoa Anna Mickelson Geospatial Analyst Climate Resilience Collaborative (CRC) School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology University of Hawai’i at Mānoa Richelle Moskovich Geospatial Analyst Climate Resilience Collaborative (CRC) School of Ocean and