HARVEY-RELATED ACTIVITIES
HARVEY-RELATED ACTIVITIES
HARVEY-RELATED ACTIVITIES
Hurricane Harvey made landfall on August 25, 2017 near Corpus Christi, Texas. Over the next five days the storm devastated the Texas coast, dropping over 36 inches of rain over 2500 sq mi area and causing unprecedented levels of damage. Harvey is likely the costliest storm in U.S. history, exceeding Hurricane Katrina. Life-threatening flooding in the City of Houston and surrounding areas caught the world’s attention.
Hurricane Harvey made landfall on August 25, 2017 near Corpus Christi, Texas. Over the next five days the storm devastated the Texas coast, dropping over 36 inches of rain over 2500 sq mi area and causing unprecedented levels of damage. Harvey is likely the costliest storm in U.S. history, exceeding Hurricane Katrina. Life-threatening flooding in the City of Houston and surrounding areas caught the world’s attention.
Hurricane Harvey made landfall on August 25, 2017 near Corpus Christi, Texas. Over the next five days the storm devastated the Texas coast, dropping over 36 inches of rain over 2500 sq mi area and causing unprecedented levels of damage. Harvey is likely the costliest storm in U.S. history, exceeding Hurricane Katrina. Life-threatening flooding in the City of Houston and surrounding areas caught the world’s attention.
Severe Storm Prediction, Education, & Evacuation from Disasters Center
International SSPEED Conference
Urban and Coastal Flooding: Building a Resilient Future
October 12 & 13, 2023
Day 1 Thursday, October 12, 2023
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8:00 - 8:30 REGISTRATION & COFFEE (THE COMMONS)
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INTRO Welcome and Overview
8:30 - 8:45 Philip Bedient, Director, SSPEED Center & Professor, Rice University
8:45 - 9:00 Luay Nakhleh, Dean of Engineering, Rice University
9:00 - 9:15 Reginald DesRoches, President, Rice University
SESSION I. How Do We Build a Flood Resilient Future
9:15 - 9:35 A Resilient Future in the Time of Climate Change
Philip Bedient, Director, SSPEED Center & Professor, Rice University
9:35 - 9:55 Challenges and Opportunities for the Implementation of Flood Resilience: Reflections from England
Sally Priest, Professor, Flood Hazard Research Centre, Middlesex University
9:55 - 10:15 Harnessing Nature for a Flood Resilient Future
Mary Anne Piacentini, President and Chief Executive Officer, Coastal Prairie Conservancy
10:15 - 10:35 BREAK (THE COMMONS)
KEYNOTE Towards a Resilient Future with Nature-Based Solutions. Examples from the Netherlands and Beyond
10:35 – 11:00 Petra Dankers, Leading Professional Nature-based solutions, Royal HaskoningDHV
SESSION II. Coastal Protection for Galveston Bay
11:00 – 11:20 Infrastructure for Our Next Century
Rob Rogers, FAIA, ROGERS PARTNERS Architects+Urban Designers
11:20 - 11:40 Modeling the Galveston Bay Park Plan for Storm Surge Mitigation
Clint Dawson, J.J. McKetta Centennial Energy Chair in Engineering, University of Texas
11:40 – 12:00 Houston Ship Channel Gate Design
Charles Penland, Managing Principal, Walter P. Moore and Associates, Inc.
12:00 – 1:00 LUNCH (THE COMMONS)
KEYNOTE International Experiences of Megaprojects as Inspiration for Houston-Galveston Bay Area
1:00 – 1:25 Marcel Hertogh, Chair Infrastructure Design and Management, Delft University of Technology
SESSION III. Impact on Future Storms
1:25 - 1:45 Weather Extremes along the Gulf Coast in a Changing Climate
Sylvia Dee, Assistant Professor, Rice University
1:45 – 2:05 Tropical Cyclones in a Changing Climate: Climatology, Hazards, and Impacts
Avantika Gori, Postdoctoral Researcher, Princeton University
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KEYNOTE Flood Protection in the Dutch Delta – A Matter of Organization
2:05 – 2:30 Pieter Janssen, Chief Executive Officer, Water Authority (Hoogheemraadschap) of Delfland
2:30 - 2:50 BREAK (THE COMMONS)
SESSION IV. CONCURRENT SESSIONS
A. International Approach to Flood Mitigation (Auditorium)
2:50 – 3:15 International Approach to Flood Risk: The Netherlands
Baukje “Bee” Kothuis, Chief Representative, NBSO Texas
3:15 – 3:40 Integrated Urban Barrier Design – Opportunities for the Galveston Ring Barrier
AnneLoes Nillesen, Professor, Delft University of Technology & Founder, Defacto Urbanism
3:40 – 4:00 International Research Education for the Next Generation
Yoonjeong Lee, Associate Research Scientist, IDRT, TAMUG
B. Meteorology and Climate Change (ACC 108)
2:50 – 3:15 Communicating weather forecasts in an era of frequent extremes
Matt Lanza, Managing Editor, Space City Weather
3:15 – 3:40 Forecasts of a Warming Climate
Daniel Cohan, Associate Professor, Rice University
3:40 – 4:00 Development of Design Storms for Large Watersheds in Texas
David Curtis, Senior Technical Advisor, WEST Consultants, Inc.
RECEPTION Please Join Us for Appetizers & Drinks
4:00 – 5:30 Generously sponsored by AECOM, DEC, Institute for a Disaster Resilient Texas and Walter P. Moore.
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Day 2 Friday, October 13, 2023
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8:00 - 8:30 REGISTRATION & COFFEE (THE COMMONS)
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KEYNOTE THE MULTI-LAYER APPROACH OF DUTCH WATER PREVENTION
8:30 - 9:00 Raymond Hofer, Dutch Water Prevention
SESSION V. Governmental Flood Control & the Future
9:10 - 9:30 Meeting Opportunity with Bold Solutions
Scott Elmer, Chief Partnerships and Programs Officer, HCFCD
9:30 - 9:50 Resilience in Urban Infrastructure – Opportunities and Challenges
Carol Haddock, Director, Houston Public Works, City of Houston
9:50 - 10:10 Update on USACE Activities Related to Flood Risk and Dam Operations
Jerry Cotter, Water Resources Branch Chief, USACE
PANEL Perspectives on Flood Control & the Future
10:10 - 10:40 Moderated by Larry Dunbar, Project Manager, SSPEED Center
Tina Petersen, Executive Director, HCFCD;
Carol Haddock, Director, Houston Public Works, City of Houston;
Jerry Cotter, Water Resources Branch Chief, USACE;
Jim Blackburn, Co-Director, SSPEED
10:40 – 11:00 BREAK (THE COMMONS)
SESSION VI. CONCURRENT SESSIONS
A. Building Flood Resilient and Sustainable Communities in Texas (Auditorium)
11:00 - 11:20 Integrating Transportation and Stormwater Infrastructure for Sustainable and Smart Growth with Optimization in the Upper Trinity River Basin
Nick Fang, Robert S. Gooch Professor, University of Texas at Arlington
11:20 - 11:40 The Role of Regional Flood Planning in a Resilient Future
Glenn Clingenpeel, Executive Manager, Trinity River Authority of Texas
11:40 - 12:00 Assessment of Flood Risk in the Context of Actual Hazard Indicators
Hanadi Rifai, Moores Professor, University of Houston
12:00 - 12:20 Effects of Climate Change & Urbanization on Bridge Vulnerability to Flood Hazards in Harris County, Texas
Michelle Hummel, Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Arlington
B. Advanced Floodplain Analysis using 2D HEC-RAS (ACC 108)11:00 - 11:20
11:00 - 11:20 MAAPnext & Urban Flooding
Ataul Hannan, Director, Planning Division, Harris County Flood Control District
11:20 - 11:40 Adapting the USGS Basin Development Factor Methodology to Harris County MAAPnext Watershed Studies
Duane Barrett, Water Resources Program Manager, HDR Engineering, Inc.
11:40 - 12:00 Transitioning from a 1D to a 2D World
Laurian Cuba, WRE Team Director & Andy Yung, Principal/Chief Hydrologist, Walter P. Moore
12:00 - 12:20 ADCIRC and 2D HEC-RAS Coupled Modeling in Clear Lake, TX
Catherine Jackson, Graduate Student, SSPEED
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12:20 - 1:20 LUNCH (THE COMMONS)
SESSION VII. CONCURRENT SESSIONS
A. Machine Learning for Flood Prediction and Management (Auditorium)
1:20 - 1:40 Linking Robust Trends in Observations and Models to Develop Nonstationary Rainfall Frequency Grids for the State of Texas
James Doss-Gollin, Assistant Professor, Rice
1:40 - 2:00 AI-Empowered Digital Twin for Urban Resilience to Flooding
Ali Mostafavi, Associate Professor, Director, UrbanResilience.AI Lab, Texas A&M
2:00 - 2:20 ChatGPT in Action: An Experimental Investigation of Its Effectiveness in NLP Tasks
Xia (Ben) Hu, Director, Data to Knowledge Lab (D2K) & Associate Professor, Rice University
2:20 - 2:40 Flood Prediction with Graph Neural Networks
Arlei Silva, Assistant Professor, Rice University
B. New Approaches To Flood Resilience (ACC 108)
1:20 - 1:40 Evaluating coupled social-physical resilience metrics in Galveston using IN-CORE
Jamie Padgett, Stanley C. Moore Professor & CEE Chair, Rice University
1:40 - 2:00 Supporting Texas Communities: Predictive Tools for Compound Flooding and Compound Hazards
Paola Passalacqua, Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin 2:00 - 2:20 Geospatial Methods for Distributed Flood Attenuation
Federico Antolini, Postdoctoral Researcher, IDRT, TAMUG
2:20 - 2:40 Remote Sensing Applications in Hydrology
True Furrh, Graduate Student, SSPEED, Rice & Nick Diaz, Graduate Research Assistant, IDRT
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KEYNOTE Assessing Houston's Flood Vulnerability Six Years After Harvey
2:40 – 3:05 Jim Blackburn, Co-Director, SSPEED Center
CLOSE Thank you for attending SSPEED’s 11th Conference
3:05 – 3:10 Phil Bedient, Director, SSPEED Center
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