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AIH Webinar: Low and Behold: Extreme Weather Impacts to the Water Sector

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AIH Webinar: Low and Behold: Extreme Weather Impacts to the Water Sector

June 26 @ 9:00 am - 10:00 am PDT

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AIH and AWRA members = $0.00 (contact admin@aihydrology.org or (540) 500-1933 for the promotion code)
Lapsed/non-members = $35.00

WEBINAR SUMMARY:
Extreme weather trends over the past 55 years have indicated a major swing in lower lows, and longer lasting highs which is wreaking havoc on weather systems at the surface. When systems and practices were established off the trends of the early 1900s or prior, the considerations for worsening events were not anticipated to ever reach the events we are seeing at both an increasing frequency and greater intensity. Planning for stronger, persisting drying winds more often, heavier onsets of rain and/or snow, faster moving wildfires, subsidence risks, sea level rise triggering saltwater intrusion, extreme temperature fluctuations, and of course erratic changes to our tropical weather.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

  1. Understand what kind of weather threats are on the horizon that we haven’t planned for.
  2. Identify which best practices have already been implemented and which ones stick.
  3. Build a repository of interconnected indicators and international comparables.

SPEAKER:

Sunny Wescott
Chief Meteorologist
Federal Emergency Response

Chief Meteorologist Sunny Wescott specializes in extreme weather events impacting emergency response, supply chain, and critical infrastructure. During her time in the US Air Force as a Lead Meteorologist, Ms. Wescott trained on continental and oceanic weather as the Top Forecaster for her support region and is considered a subject matter expert for multiple climatological events such as drought, subsidence, wildfires, tropical cyclones, and winter storms. Ms. Wescott also graduated top of her class for her degrees in Homeland Security Management, Public Safety Administration, and Atmospheric Sciences. Ms. Wescott focuses on operational forecasting by providing focused impact reports for regions, sites, security, and key interdependencies such as energy and telecommunications before, during, and after disasters.

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Participating in this webinar qualifies as a continuing education credit for professional hydrologists. 1 Contact hour = 1 PDH/PDC. Learn more about AIH’s continuing education guidance online here.

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Details

Date:
June 26
Time:
9:00 am - 10:00 am PDT
Event Category:

Venue

Virtual