Please join us for the Geo-Extreme daily keynote lectures streamed live on our YouTube channel.
Register free of charge on our Eventbrite page to receive the link and reminders.
Monday, November 8
8:00 – 9:30 am EST
ASCE Update and Bridge Scour During Extreme Events
Jean-Louis Briaud, Texas A&M
Extreme Weather Event Preparedness
Ed McCarthy, Georgia Ports Authority
1:00 – 2:30 pm EST
Realizing Resilience: Living with Extreme Events
Lauren Alexander Augustine, Gulf Research Program
Rethinking Extreme Event Probability and Risk
Michael E. McMahon, HDR, Inc.
Tuesday, November 9
8:00 am – 9:30 am EST
USACE R&D Tackling the Climate Crisis
David Pittman, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC)
Updating the Site-Specific PMP and PMF for the Coosa & Tallapoosa River Basin Hydro Projects Using Modern Techniques
Richard L. Mickwee, Southern Company Generation
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm EST
Geo-Engineering, Reversing the Resilience Divide
William Craig Fugate, the former administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
EDS Reconnaissance Trips: Edenville and Sanford Dam Failures
Daniel Pradel, Ohio State University, and Dimitrios Zekos, University of California, Berkeley
Wednesday, November 10
8:00 am – 9:30 am EST
Delivering Science for Extreme Events: The USGS Role Before, During, and After Disaster Strikes
Dave Applegate, USGS
Spatial Inequalities in Disaster Risk
Susan Cutter, University of South Carolina