Yale Alumni Academy Climate Change Conversations | Drought, Flooding, and Adaptation in the Age of Climate Change
Abstract
Yale Alumni Academy and the Yale School of the Environment have assembled a distinguished roster of expert faculty to address the leading climate change issues facing our wondrous planet. Please join us as we discuss Drought, Flooding, and Adaptation in the Age of Climate Change with Dr. Shimon Anisfeld. What happens when a society built around a certain level of water availability finds itself facing a climate-change-induced megadrought? What happens when stormwater infrastructure designed to handle the 100-year storm is faced with sea-level rise and more intense flood events? This talk will discuss the ways that climate change is affecting the hydrologic cycle, and the ways that planners and water managers are adapting to those changes.
Speaker Information
Dr. Shimon Anisfeld, known to his students and colleagues as Shimi, sees himself as an educator first and a researcher second. Dr. Anisfeld has three primary areas of interest: freshwater management, coastal ecosystems, and synthetic organic pollutants. These inter-linked topics have driven his teaching and research at Yale over the last 2+ decades, including his 2010 book Water Resources, his forthcoming water management textbook, and his research on the response of salt marshes to sea-level rise and other stressors. Besides courses in coastal ecology, water management, and organic pollutants, Anisfeld also teaches Physical Science Foundations for Environmental Managers. Anisfeld sees water issues as central to the challenges facing the world in the coming decades, and hopes to help train environmental professionals who are well-equipped to face these challenges.
Yale Alumni Academy and the Yale School of the Environment have assembled a distinguished roster of expert faculty to address the leading climate change issues facing our wondrous planet. Please join us as we discuss Drought, Flooding, and Adaptation in the Age of Climate Change with Dr. Shimon Anisfeld. What happens when a society built around a certain level of water availability finds itself facing a climate-change-induced megadrought? What happens when stormwater infrastructure designed to handle the 100-year storm is faced with sea-level rise and more intense flood events? This talk will discuss the ways that climate change is affecting the hydrologic cycle, and the ways that planners and water managers are adapting to those changes.