Panel I: Framing Climate Challenges & Responses/Solutions: What are early adopters doing today…

Thursday, May 25, 2023

8:10 AM – 9:20 AM PDT

Room: La Sirena I & II

Moderator(s)

Robert G. Traver, Ph.D.,P.E., D.WRE, F. ASCE

Professor and Director
Villanova University

Panelist(s)

Michael Anderson, Ph. D., P.E.

State Climatologist
California Department of Water Resources
Rosanna La Plante, P.E., F.ASCE (she/her/hers)

Engineering & Environmental Services Division Leader, Engineering & Construction
Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission
Lewis Linker

Chesapeake Bay Program Office
US Environmental Protection Agency

Civil infrastructure design must be resilient consistent with the climate associated with its location. In a dynamic climate environment, the design needs to either have a progression from overdesign to right-design with increasing extremes and have the ability to be adapted periodically as impacts from change manifest themselves. Scalable solutions connecting local to regional add benefit as supply reliability and hazard mitigation increasingly overlap with increasing extremes and variability. The panel will focus on current approaches – what are our initial responses to these challenges and what are we not able to address?