NH31D:
Natural Hazards and Climate Change: Relation, Vulnerability, Risk, and Adaptability I


Session ID#: 10999

Session Description:
The magnitude and frequency of natural hazards such as droughts, hurricanes, landslides, heatwaves, forest fires, tsunamis, and floods are strongly affected by climate change. Often the case, the severity and recurrence of natural disasters, at local, regional and global scales, have been cited as corroborative evidence for climate change.

This session aims at bringing together experts from various disciplines who are investigating the relation between climate change and natural hazards, assessing the vulnerability of various natural and anthropogenic systems to natural hazards associated with ongoing and projected climate change, or exploring the adaptability measures to past and future rates of change.

Primary Convener:  Racha Elkadiri, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, United States
Conveners:  Adam Milewski, University of Georgia, Department of Geology, Athens, United States and Richard Becker, University of Toledo, Environmental Sciences, Toledo, OH, United States
Chairs:  Racha Elkadiri, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, United States, Adam Milewski, University of Georgia, Department of Geology, Athens, United States and Richard Becker, University of Toledo, Environmental Sciences, Toledo, OH, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Racha Elkadiri, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • H - Hydrology
  • IN - Earth and Space Science Informatics
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • IGBP: International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme -
Index Terms:

1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4306 Multihazards [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4313 Extreme events [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4343 Preparedness and planning [NATURAL HAZARDS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Possible Weakening Processes Imposed on California’s Earthen Levees under Protracted Drought (61118)
Joe Dylan Robinson, Mississippi State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mississippi State, MS, United States, Farshid Vahedifard, Tufts University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Medford, United States and Amir AghaKouchak, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
Incorporating Climate Change Projections into a Hydrologic Hazard Analysis for Friant Dam (83224)
Kathleen D Holman, Bureau of Reclamation Denver, Denver, United States, Nicole Novembre, Bureau of Reclamation Denver, Denver, CO, United States, Victoria Sankovich-Bahls, Denver Boulder American Meteorological Society, Denver-Boulder, CO, United States and John F. England, USACE, Risk Managment Center, Denver, United States
Past, Present, and Future Threat of Tropical Cyclones and Coastal Flooding in New York City (Invited) (64841)
Andra Jenn Garner, Rowan University, Department of Environmental Science, Glassboro, NJ, United States, Michael E Mann, Pennsylvania State University, Philadelphia, United States, Kerry Emanuel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, Ning Lin, Princeton University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, United States, Benjamin Peter Horton, Rutgers University New Brunswick, Marine and Coastal Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, Andrew Kemp, Tufts University, Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Medford, United States, Richard B Alley, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States, Robert E Kopp, Rutgers University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, New Brunswick, United States, David Pollard, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States and Jeffrey P Donnelly, WHOI, Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole, United States
Shallow Landslides Hazards in a Changing Climate (83955)
Dino G. Bellugi, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Geography, Berkeley, United States, J Taylor Perron, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, & Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States, Paul A O'Gorman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States and David Milledge, University of Durham, Durham, United Kingdom
Watershed erosion estimated from a high-resolution sediment core reveals a non-stationary frequency-magnitude relationship and importance of seasonal climate drivers (68097)
Daniel Girard Gavin, University of Oregon, Department of Geography, Eugene, OR, United States, Daniele Colombaroli, University of Bern, Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, Bern, Switzerland and Ann E. Morey, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
Analysis of Extreme Heat in Historical and Projected Climate Simulations for Regional Climate Planning Purposes in the U.S. (82979)
Kerrie Geil1, Xubin Zeng2, Ben McMahan3 and Daniel B Ferguson1, (1)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)University of Arizona, Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States, (3)University of Arizona, Arizona Institutes for Resilience, Tucson, United States
A Brazilian Vulnerability Index Towards Natural Disasters and Climatic Change - Flashfloods and Landslides. (65278)
Nathan S. Debortoli1, Pedro Ivo Camarinha Sr2, Jose A Marengo3 and Regina Rodrigues1, (1)UFSC Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil, (2)INPE National Institute for Space Research, Earth System Science, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, (3)CEMADEN National Center for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters, Research and Development, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil
Historical study of the Rhône river floods (France) and their consequences on the land use evolution (66021)
Gwenael Jouannic, Center for expertise and engineering on risks, urban and country planning, environment and mobility - Cerema, Laboratoire Régional de Nancy, TOMBLAINE, France and Julien Gargani, Univ. Paris-Sud, Laboratoire GEOPS GEOsciences Paris-Sud, Orsay, France

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