Virtual Seminar Series

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

Upcoming Seminars

Science-based coastal management: examples from Washington’s Applied Coastal Research and Engineering team

Michelle Gostic, George Kaminsky, Hannah Drummond (WA Dept. of Ecology)

Coming soon!

How Changing Tidal Properties Impacts Coastal Flood Hazards

Stefan Talke (Cal Poly)

Coming soon!

Coming soon!

Past Seminars- Click on the title for the meeting recording

Increasing preparedness for intensifying climate change

Katie Mach (Univ. of Miami)

Increased flood exposure in the Pacific Northwest following earthquake-driven subsidence and sea-level rise

Tina Dura (Virginia Tech)
Seminar chat with answers here

Pacific Northwest Climatology Panel

Guillaume Mauger (UW)
Larry O’Neill (OSU)

Monitoring and modeling driftwood transport in coastal systems to guide design of nature-based solutions

Enda Murphy (UBC)

Large-scale Evolution of Sandy Beaches in the U.S. Pacific Northwest: Understanding and Hindcasting the Past and Forecasting the Future

Mohsen Taherkhani (Oregon State University)
Seminar chat with answers here

Past Seminars Academic Year 2024 – 2025

Research Highlights from the Cascadia CoPes Hub

Peter Ruggerio (OSU), Ann Bostrom (UW), Clara Riggio (CalPoly Humboldt), Alex Horner-Devine (UW), Harold Tobin (UW)

Co-production of Coastal Hazards Research

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

Modeling Coastal Erosion, Deposition, and Scour from Tsunamis Impacting the Pacific Northwest

Dan Cox, Erick Velasco, Carly Ringer (OSU), Yong Wei (NOAA)

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

Rachel Davidson (UDel), Ertugrul Taciroglu (UCLA), Meghan Millea (ECU), Brian Colle (Stony Brook), Julie Elliott (UDel), and A.R. Siders (UDel)

Virtual Reality tsunami evacuation visualization

Pat Lynett (University of Southern California)

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)

Arctic, Climate, and Earthquakes (ACE): Seismic resilience and adaptation of arctic infrastructure and social systems amid changing climate

Majid Ghayoomi (University of New Hampshire)

Co-production of coastal climate research in a sprawling urban megaregion: Insights from the Megalopolitan Coastal Transformation Hub (MACH) Research Hub

Robert Kopp (Rutgers University)

Disasters & Disability: An Anthropological Framework and Field Application for the Community

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

Optimizing Nonmarket Ecosystem Service Flows from Coastal Landscapes Under Climate Change

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)

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)

Virtual Seminar Series

Upcoming Seminars

Coming soon!

How Changing Tidal Properties Impacts Coastal Flood Hazards

Coming soon!

Coming soon!

Past Seminars Academic Year 2024 – 2025

Past Seminars Academic Year 2023 – 2024

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

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

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

Vertical Evacuation Structures – Successes and challenges in the Pacific Northwest

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

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

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

Geohazards Monitoring and Risk Management in Southeast Alaska

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

Past Seminars Academic Year 2022 – 2023

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

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

The Administrator’s Dilemma in Relocation as Adaptation

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

Near-trench Deformation from Seafloor Geodesy on the Cascadia Subduction Zone

Advancing Social Science Research Strategies for Earthquake Preparedness

Mainstreaming Disaster Preparedness

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

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

Past Seminars Academic Year 2021 – 2022

Coastal compound flooding from continental to local scale

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

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

Assessment of Vertical Evacuation on the outer coast of Washington

Modeling maritime tsunami hazards in Washington

The Future of the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program

Rethinking disaster risk mitigation for a changing world

Introduction to the Cascadia Coastlines and peoples hazards research Hub