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.

Upcoming Seminars

Our seminar series has concluded for this academic year and will begin again in September 2024. Please check back in August for our new line-up.

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)

Past Seminars Academic Year 2022 – 2023

Assessing Coastal Community Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change: Pathways to resilient coastal futures

Ana Spalding (Oregon State University)

Towards More Inclusive Risk Communication and Emergency Planning: Communicating Risk to Those Living Unhoused

Jamie Vickery (University of Washington)

The Administrator’s Dilemma in Relocation as Adaptation

A.R. Siders (University of Delaware)

Topic: Data sovereignty and Institutional Review Boards: How to collaborate respectfully and inclusively with Tribal and non-Tribal governments and peoples in Cascadia coastal areas

Samantha Chisholm Hatfield (Oregon State University), Emma Norman (NWIC), Michelle Johnson-Jennings (UW)

Research on the Vulnerability to Sea Level Rise of the Humboldt Bay Spent Nuclear Fuel Site and Community-led Future Planning

Alexander Brown, (Cal Poly Humboldt)

Observations, Findings, and Recommendations from the NOAA Tsunami Science & Technology Advisory Panel (TSTAP)

Rick Wilson, (California Geological Survey); Rocky Lopes, previously at the National Weather Services – Co-Chairs on the TSTAP

Past Seminars Academic Year 2021 – 2022

Coastal compound flooding from continental to local scale

Thomas Whal (University of Central Florida)

Who cares about the Earthquake? Towards Real-Time Hazards Forecasting Systems with Machine Learning

Diego Melgar (University of Oregon)

Global and Regional Sea Level Rise Scenarios for the United States: Updated Mean Projections and Extreme Water Level Probabilities Along U.S. Coastlines

Billy Sweet (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)