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 2 Friday, October 13, 2023
8:00 - 8:30 REGISTRATION & COFFEE (THE COMMONS)
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
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
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