Fwd: [Cascadiacopeshub_friends] Reminder! Bob Kopp's seminar is this Thursday November 7th at 9am PST- Co-production of coastal climate research in a sprawling urban megaregion - Insights from the Megalopolitan Coastal Transformation Hub (MACH)
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From: Ruggiero, Peter <Peter.R...@oregonstate.edu>
Date: Mon, Nov 4, 2024 at 11:06 AM
Subject: [Cascadiacopeshub_friends] Reminder! Bob Kopp's seminar is this Thursday November 7th at 9am PST- Co-production of coastal climate research in a sprawling urban megaregion - Insights from the Megalopolitan Coastal Transformation Hub (MACH)
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Hi all,
Please join us on Thursday, November 7th at 9am PST for our next Cascadia CoPes Hub—Cascadia Coastal Hazards RCN virtual seminar:
Co-production of coastal climate research in a sprawling urban megaregion: Insights from the Megalopolitan Coastal Transformation Hub (MACH)
Speakers:
Dr. Robert Kopp - Rutgers University
When: Thursday, November 7th, 9:00 -10:00 AM PST (US and Canada)
Please use this link to register for the seminar series. - Once you've registered, you will have a personal zoom link in your calendar that will work for all seminars this year (first Thursday of every month at 9am).
Abstract:
The New York City-New Jersey-Philadelphia megaregion is home to nearly 20 million people. Much of the population is exposed to coastal and compound flooding, which is being aggravated by sea-level rise, intensifying rainfall, and intensifying hurricanes. Long-term planning requires consideration of these growing hazards, as well as other climate-related hazards. However, both future physical changes (e.g., sea-level rise) and social changes (e.g., population and policy changes) are subject to deep uncertainty. Further, social changes are also influenced by multiple, sometimes conflicting, social values. Designing flexible, equitable, and robust long-term strategies for climate adaptation thus requires science-informed approaches for decision- making under deep uncertainty.
The Megalopolitan Coastal Transformation Hub (MACH) is one of the National Science Foundation’s large-scale Coastlines and People hubs. MACH’s goals are to: (1) conduct science that is useful, usable, and used to facilitate flexible, equitable, and robust long-term management of climate risks within the megaregion; (2) advance understanding of how changing coastal climate hazards and human decisions at household, municipal, market and policy scales interact to shape climate risk; (3) train the next generation of leaders in transdisciplinary climate research and engagement; and (4) build a replicable, sustainable academic/stakeholder partnership model for just, equitable, and inclusive climate action in diverse coastal, urban megaregions.
Central to MACH’s approach is the co-design of research with stakeholders. MACH’s original co-production strategy focused on using stakeholder-identified decision problems as points of research integration. This approach has evolved over MACH’s first three years in response to several challenges. These challenges include timescale challenges associated with the simultaneously conducting usable science, advancing fundamental understanding, and training students and postdocs. They also include the diffuse, polycentric nature of adaptation decision-making in the region, where no single entity has primary control over decisions related to long-term climate adaptation planning. This talk explores the evolution of MACH’s strategies and insights for similar projects.
Speaker bio:
Robert Kopp is a climate scientist who serves at Rutgers University as a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences. He directs the Megalopolitan Coastal Transformation Hub (MACH), a National Science Foundation-funded consortium that advances coastal climate adaptation and the scientific understanding of natural and human coastal climate dynamics. He is also a founding principal investigator of the Climate Impact Lab, a multi-institutional collaborating advancing data-driven approaches to estimating the social and human costs of climate change, as well as co-lead for applications for the NASA Sea-Level Change Team. Professor Kopp’s research focuses on past and future sea-level change, the interactions between physical climate change and the economy, the use of climate risk information to inform decision-making, and the role of higher education in supporting societal climate risk management. He has authored over 150 scientific papers and is a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 2021 Sixth Assessment Report. Professor Kopp received his Ph.D. in Geobiology from the California Institute of Technology and his undergraduate degree in Geophysical Sciences from the University of Chicago. He is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow.
Please share this invitation with others you think might be interested.
Looking forward to seeing you all Thursday morning,
Peter Ruggiero, David Schmidt, Ann Bostrom, Ali Burgos, and the Hub and RCN Seminar Subcommittees*
Mark your calendars for our upcoming seminars!
· December 5, 2024 - Earthquake Resilience and Adaptation in the Arctic (EDeN) - Majid Ghayoomi (University of New Hampshire)
*Funding from the National Science Foundation for the Cascadia Coastal Hazards RCN and the Cascadia CoPes Hub is gratefully acknowledged (NSF Awards 1940034 and 2103713). Please contact Cascadia CoPes Hub Project Manager Alessandra Burgos if you have any questions, cascadi...@oregonstate.edu.
Previous Cascadia CoPes Hub/CoPe RCN recorded webinars can be found here.
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Peter Ruggiero
Co-Director and Principal Investigator, Cascadia Coastlines and Peoples Hazards Research Hub
Professor, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences
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Oregon State University
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