“Understanding the Dynamics and Impacts of
Changing Climate Hazards”
Dr. Frances Davenport
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
4:00pm in Engineering 120
Abstract:
Climate hazards like severe precipitation, flooding, drought and extreme heat disproportionately impact society and ecosystems, but are challenging to model and predict due to their complexity and rarity. As a result, there are still many unanswered questions about the processes that affect extremes in a changing climate, and how we can design systems to make society more resilient to these changes. In this talk, I will give an overview of research questions that we are working on to study these events. Some of the projects I will talk about include: using machine learning to better understand the conditions that lead to extreme precipitation; quantifying economic costs associated with climate change, and research to identify predictability in large-scale climate patterns (like the El Niño-Southern Oscillation) that could help us forecast conditions like drought.
Bio: https://www.engr.colostate.edu/ce/frances-davenport/