UCAR

Strategic investments into research and technology are imperative as we seek to improve forecasts for America's densely populated coastlines and low-lying areas.

The threats to lives, livelihoods, coastal infrastructure, and military assets from hurricanes, flooding, and other natural disasters — and our ability to respond — require an integration of science in real time to address sea level rise in the near and long term and to determine how best to plan for future changes to our coasts. 

Experts in meteorology, storm surge, flooding, national security, and other disciplines are working together to improve forecasts and better communicate the threats to those at risk.

— November 2018

Predicting Coastal Impacts: Where the Atmosphere, Ocean and Land Collide

Panel members

Kyle Mandli, Assistant Professor of Applied Physics and Mathematics, Fu Foundation School of Engineering, Columbia University

From university labs to coastal readiness

Sally Yozell, Senior Fellow and Director of the Environmental Security Program, The Stimson Center

Coastal resiliency and the national and global security implications of climate change

Christopher D'Elia, Professor and Dean of the College of the Coast and Environment, Louisiana State University

The coastal triple whammy

 

Use of the briefing room was sponsored by Senator Cory Gardner of Colorado.