Virtual Seminar Series

The Cascadia CoPes Hub and  Cascadia Coastal Hazards RCN holds joint seminar series on the first Thursday of every month
9:00 – 10:00 am Pacific Time. Recordings of past seminars are below



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Upcoming Seminars

Quantifying Coastal Total Water Levels: Importance, Contributing Processes, and Predictions

Philippe Tissot (Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi), Margaret Palmsten (USGS), and Katy Serafin (University of Florida)

Virtual Reality tsunami evacuation visualization

Pat Lynett (University of Southern California)

Disaster Research Center: Coastal Hazards, Equity,Economic Prosperity & Resilience (CHEER) Hub

Rachel Davidson, Ertugrul Taciroglu, Meghan Millea, Sarah DeYoung, Brian Colle, and A.R. Siders

Perspective on tsunami research coordination in the PNW

Corina Allen (NOAA)

Co-production with a citizen science lens ( COASST)

Maria Carmen Lemos (University of Michigan), Lisa Dilling (Environmental Defense Fund), Julia Parris (University of Washington)

Previous Seminars

Majid Ghayoomi (University of New Hampshire)

Robert Kopp (Rutgers University)

Elizabeth Davis (EAD & Associates, LLC and National Emergency Management Resource Center) and Annika Doneghy (Case Western Reserve University)
Presentation slides here
Meeting chat with answers here

Steven Dundas (Oregon State University)
Presentation slides here

Past Seminars Academic Year 2023 – 2024

Rising Voices, Changing Coasts: The National Indigenous and Earth Sciences Convergence Hub

Daniel Wildcat (Haskell Indian Nations Univ.), Melissa Moulton (NCAR), Paulette Blanchard (Absentee Shawnee Citizen & Kickapoo descendant), Jennifer Santos (Esuela Graduada de Planificación Salvador Padilla Escabí) 

Islanding – How coastal communities will be isolated after The Big One

Marc Eberhard (UW), Dan Cox (OSU), Amina Meselhe (OSU), Joe Louis (OSU)

The Future of Coastal Monitoring Using Satellite Remote Sensing

Sean Vitousek (USGS)
Presentation slides here
Meeting chat here

Sea Grant 2024-2027 strategic plans and research for coastal hazards resilience in Cascadia

Rebecca Briggs (NOAA), Carrie Garrison-Laney (Washington Sea Grant), Felicia Olmeta Schult (Oregon Sea Grant), and Laurie Richmond (California Sea Grant)

Vertical Evacuation Structures – Successes and challenges in the Pacific Northwest

Kevin Goodrich (City of Westport), Cinamon Moffett (OSU Hatfield), and Laura Gabel (DOGAMI)

The new FEMA National Risk Index (NRI) and opportunities to build resilience to coastal hazards in Cascadia

Casey Zuzak (FEMA), Nathan Wood (USGS), and Hannah Rabinowitz (FEMA)
Meeting chat here

Coastal Flooding and the Built Environment: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Implications

Sam Brody (Texas A&M University Galveston)

Looking Forward and Backward at Soil Liquefaction in the Cascadia Subduction Zone

Brett Maurer (University of Washington)

Geohazards Monitoring and Risk Management in Southeast Alaska

Rachel Dryden (Rand corporation) and Annette Patton (Sitka Sound Science Center)

Supporting coastal resilience with the Coastal Storm Modeling System (CoSMoS)

Patrick Barnard (USGS) 

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