Events
2020 Workshop
iCAR Phase VI: Tech Fix: How can technology help us investigate, communicate and solve climate problems and foster resilience?
Workshop Scope: How can/do we use tech to examine and understand the problem, how can/do we use tech to present the problem, and how can we use tech to deal with / solve the problem? Problems we are interested in includes social, economic and environmental impacts of climate change, extreme weather events and resilience. Click here for Details.
Event Details: November 12 & 13 , 9:00 am - 4:45 pm - See agenda for more details.
Format: Virtual prerecorded and live sessions
Fees: FREE
RSVP Link: https://forms.gle/QHCJ3uRY7kkLFSqy9
Agenda: Click here to download
Instructions to Join Meeting: Detailed instructions to attend a Zoom meeting
Speaker Bio: Click here to read biographies of our speakers
iCAR workshop ETA Update:
While the November 12 and 13th iCAR annual workshop will proceed as planned, please be aware that tropical storm Eta is in the Gulf of Mexico and may come ashore near USF late this week. It is always a possibility that we will lose power due to Eta. If a power loss disrupts the hosting of the workshop, we will post an update as soon as possible.
Schedule and Session Access Links at a Glance
Day 1: November 12, 2020
9:00 am - 11:00 am
9:00 am - WELCOME by Thomas Frazer, Dean, College of Marine Science, USF
Overview of iCAR: Barnali Dixon, iCAR Executive Director
Overview of the Workshop: Rebecca Johns, iCAR Director of Education and Outreach
9:15 am - Keynote Address: Vision of Resilience and Adaptation
• Rob Moore (Natural Resources Defense Council)
10:00 am - Panel Discussion: Technology Applications for Climate Change Modeling and Resiliance
• Thomas Wall (Engineering & Applied Resilience Argonne Lab) Climate Modeling
• Shannon Carroll (AT&T) Overview of AT&T’s Initiatives on Climate Change and Resilience
• Andrea Brands (AT&T) AT&T Foundations’ Efforts to Build Partnership to Promote Resilience
11:00 am - 11:15 am: Break
11:15 am - Noon
11:15 am - Keynote Address: NASA Disasters Program: Risk Reduction and Resilience Applications
• David Borges (NASA Applied Sciences Disasters Program)
Mark Rains (USF), moderator
Noon - 1:00 pm: Break
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
1:00 pm - Panel Discussion: Role of Social Media in Resiliency and Disaster Response
• Neil Dufty (Molino Stewart Pty Ltd, Australia) Using Social Media to Build Community
Disaster Resilience
• Can Aydin (Dokuz Eylul Universi, Turkey) Improving Disaster Resilience Using Mobile
Based Disaster Management System
• Amir Forati & Rina Ghose (UWM) Examining Environmental Inequalities Through Social
Media Analysis: Case Study Hurricane IRMA
Amber Boulding (City of St. Pete, EMS), moderator
2:00 pm - Panel Discussion: Technology-enhanced Community Engagement and Data Viewing Tools & Strategies
• Barnali Dixon & Rebecca Johns (USF- iCAR) Community Resiliency Information System
(CRIS)
• Monica Schoch-Spana (Johns Hopkins University) Self-Assessment Toolkit
• Margaret Palmsten (USGS) Total Water Level and Coastal Change Forecast Viewer
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm: Break
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
3:30 pm - Panel Discussion: Technology Applications: Tracking Sea Level Rise, Extreme Wet Weather, and Sanitary Sewer Overflows
• Steven Meyers (USF) Hindcasting/Forecasting Future SSOs
• Marcus Beck (TBEP) Open Science Tools to Inform Utilities Operators
• Kira Barerra (St. Pete) Flow Metering, Dogs, & Lateral Rebates
• Sara Isaac (Marketing for Change ) Private Lateral Maintenance Behavior Change Campaign
Maya Burke (TBEP), moderator
4:30 pm - Adjournment
Day 2: November 13, 2020
9:00 am - 10:45 am
9:00 am - Welcome to Day 2
Overview of the Workshop: Rebecca Johns, iCAR Director of Education and Outreach
9:05 am - Keynote Address: Review of Smart Technologies and Geospatially Integrated Technologies to Assist Communities Plan, Prepare and Adapt and be Resilient
• Bandana Kar (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
10:00 am - Panel Discussion: Smart Technologies and Communities
• Phillip Bane (Smart Cities Council), Overview of Smart Cities and Smart Technologies
• Cassandra Borchers (PSTA) Smart Transit and Evacuation Plan
10:45 am - 11:00 am: Break
11:00 am - Noon
11:00 am - Panel Discussion: Ensuring Access: Opportunities and Limitations through Technology
• Alison Barlow (St. Pete Innovation District) Digital Inclusion and Inequity
• Sharon Wright (City of St. Pete) Desktop Environmental Justice
• Brother John Muhammad (Childs Park) Community-based Initiative for Environmental
Justice
Noon - 1:00 pm: Break
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
1:00 pm - Panel Discussion: Regional Resilience Action Plan Report from TBRPC
• Cara Serra (TBRPC) Regional Resilience Action Plan and Metroquest
• Simone Chapman (TBRPC) Integrating Equity Goals into the RRAP and the REACH
Polling by Cara Serra
1:30 pm - Integrative Coastal Vulnerability Assessment and Modeling
• Steven Fernandez (USF) King Tide Modeling
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm: Break
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
2:30 pm - Panel Discussion: Technology for Coastal Assessment, Climate Solutions & Fostering Resilience
• Alvan Karlin & Raymond Miller Jr. (Dewberry) New Technologies for Coastal Topobathymetric
Lidar Data Collection
• Jeff Gangai (Dewberry) New Technologies for Coastal Storm Surge Modeling
• Siddharth Pandey & Raymond Miller Jr. (Dewberry) Using Advanced GIS Technologies
for Post-disaster Recovery
• Sue Kriebel (City of Virginia Beach) Sea Level Rise in Virginia Beach
• Evacuation planning
• Infrastructural Issues (Including Power Restoration, Cooling Rooms, Heat Island)
• Environmental and health hazards
Bandana Kar (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), moderator
4:30 pm - Closing Remarks By Barnali Dixon, Executive Director of iCAR