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Life In Hampton Roads Survey No. 4: Neighborhood Flooding And Insurance, News @ Odu Dec 2019

Life In Hampton Roads Survey No. 4: Neighborhood Flooding And Insurance, News @ Odu

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Epa Bus Tour Showcases Hampton Roads Region Is A Living Laboratory For Coastal Resilience, News @ Odu Nov 2019

Epa Bus Tour Showcases Hampton Roads Region Is A Living Laboratory For Coastal Resilience, News @ Odu

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Odu Researchers' Flood Adaptation Study Honored At International Conference, News @ Odu Oct 2019

Odu Researchers' Flood Adaptation Study Honored At International Conference, News @ Odu

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Community Outreach For The Virginia Beach Comprehensive Flooding Response Plan (Sea-Level Wise), Michelle Covi, Wie Yusuf, Gail Nicula, Daniel Richards, Afi Anuar Oct 2019

Community Outreach For The Virginia Beach Comprehensive Flooding Response Plan (Sea-Level Wise), Michelle Covi, Wie Yusuf, Gail Nicula, Daniel Richards, Afi Anuar

Presentations, Lectures, Posters, Reports

[From Introduction]

In partnership with the City of Virginia Beach, the Old Dominion University research team of Drs. Michelle Covi, Wie Yusuf, Gail Nicula, Daniel Richards and Afi Anuar developed and executed a program for public engagement meetings using the ASERT (Action-oriented Stakeholder Engagement for a Resilient Tomorrow) framework to solicit resident engagement with and input into the City’s Comprehensive Sea Level Rise and Recurrent Flooding Response Plan, now known as Sea Level Wise.


Odu's Blue Line Project To Illustrate The Future Of Flooding In Norfolk, News @ Odu Oct 2019

Odu's Blue Line Project To Illustrate The Future Of Flooding In Norfolk, News @ Odu

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Disaster Resilience = Recreational Opportunities, Kimley- Horn Oct 2019

Disaster Resilience = Recreational Opportunities, Kimley- Horn

October 11, 2019: Measuring and Evaluating Resilience

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Incorporating Resiliency Into Jlus: The Monmouth County- Nws Earle Partnership Experience, Linda J. Brennen Oct 2019

Incorporating Resiliency Into Jlus: The Monmouth County- Nws Earle Partnership Experience, Linda J. Brennen

October 11, 2019: Measuring and Evaluating Resilience

No abstract provided.


Resilient Hampton, David Imburgia, Lucy Stoll Oct 2019

Resilient Hampton, David Imburgia, Lucy Stoll

October 11, 2019: Measuring and Evaluating Resilience

No abstract provided.


Living With Water: Creating Opportunities To Advance Resilience In New Orleans, Bernadette Callahan Oct 2019

Living With Water: Creating Opportunities To Advance Resilience In New Orleans, Bernadette Callahan

October 11, 2019: Measuring and Evaluating Resilience

No abstract provided.


2018/2019 Rise Coastal Community Resilience Challenges, Paul A. Robinson Oct 2019

2018/2019 Rise Coastal Community Resilience Challenges, Paul A. Robinson

October 11, 2019: Measuring and Evaluating Resilience

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Promoting Resilience Through Military-Locality Coordination, Benjamin J. Mcfarlane Oct 2019

Promoting Resilience Through Military-Locality Coordination, Benjamin J. Mcfarlane

October 11, 2019: Measuring and Evaluating Resilience

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Evaluating Resilience: Insights From Florida, Hannah Torres Oct 2019

Evaluating Resilience: Insights From Florida, Hannah Torres

October 11, 2019: Measuring and Evaluating Resilience

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Measuring Resiliency: It's More Than Just Math, Lynette Cardoch Oct 2019

Measuring Resiliency: It's More Than Just Math, Lynette Cardoch

October 11, 2019: Measuring and Evaluating Resilience

No abstract provided.


The Raft: Resilience Adaptation Feasibility Tool, Rhiannon Bezore Oct 2019

The Raft: Resilience Adaptation Feasibility Tool, Rhiannon Bezore

October 11, 2019: Measuring and Evaluating Resilience

No abstract provided.


Spatiotemporal Downscaling Rainfall Predictions Of North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program For Entire Virginia, Zhaoyi Cai Oct 2019

Spatiotemporal Downscaling Rainfall Predictions Of North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program For Entire Virginia, Zhaoyi Cai

Civil & Environmental Engineering Theses & Dissertations

This thesis developed a statistical downscaling approach, which consists of a series of linear regression equations, to spatiotemporally downscale the rainfall predictions from North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program (NARCCAP) in accordance with the 15-min observed rainfall data at the rain gauges across the state of Virginia. NARCCAP has generated twelve different region-global climate models (RCM-GCMs) with a temporal resolution of 3 hr and a spatial resolution of 50 km over the entire America. Although it has been downscaled already, such resolutions are still too coarse to represent the rain gauges. This means that the RCM-GCMs’ predictions need to …


Life's Passion For Odu Alum Is To Be "Water's Voice", Joe Garvey Aug 2019

Life's Passion For Odu Alum Is To Be "Water's Voice", Joe Garvey

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Odu Launches Open Seas Technology Innovation Hub, News @ Odu Aug 2019

Odu Launches Open Seas Technology Innovation Hub, News @ Odu

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Philanthropic Gifts And New Partnerships Highlight President Broderick's 12th State Of The University Address, Noell Saunders Aug 2019

Philanthropic Gifts And New Partnerships Highlight President Broderick's 12th State Of The University Address, Noell Saunders

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Odu Expert Invited To Testify At Legislative Hearing On Coastal Resilience, Sarah Huddle Jul 2019

Odu Expert Invited To Testify At Legislative Hearing On Coastal Resilience, Sarah Huddle

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The Evolution Of The El Niño-Southern Oscillation And Tropical Pacific Climate Across The Last Deglaciation, Ryan Hunter Glaubke Jul 2019

The Evolution Of The El Niño-Southern Oscillation And Tropical Pacific Climate Across The Last Deglaciation, Ryan Hunter Glaubke

OES Theses and Dissertations

The El Niño – Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is the largest interannual component of Earth’s climate system, capable of exerting significant influence over global climate patterns that affect communities around the globe. Nevertheless, a comprehensive understanding of the ENSO system and its relationship to tropical Pacific climate dynamics remains unclear. Although new paleoceanographic proxies have shown promise in in their ability to constrain past ENSO change, little is known about how ENSO varied in response to millennial-scale climate events over the last 25,000 years. Here, I present new records of tropical Pacific mean state and ENSO variability over the last 25,000 …


Odu Study Puts The Estimated Price Tag Of A Major Hurricane In Hampton Roads At $40 Billion Or More, News @ Odu Jun 2019

Odu Study Puts The Estimated Price Tag Of A Major Hurricane In Hampton Roads At $40 Billion Or More, News @ Odu

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Science Pubs Will Focus On Climate Related Resilience And Communication, Amy Matzke-Fawcett Jun 2019

Science Pubs Will Focus On Climate Related Resilience And Communication, Amy Matzke-Fawcett

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Estuarine Dissolved Organic Carbon Flux From Space: With Application To Chesapeake And Delaware Bays, Sergio R. Signorini, Antonio Mannino, Marjorie A.M. Friedrichs, Pierre St-Laurent, John Wilkin, Aboozar Tabatabai, Raymond G. Najjar, Eileen E. Hofmann, Fei Da, Hanqin Tian, Yuanzhi Yao Jun 2019

Estuarine Dissolved Organic Carbon Flux From Space: With Application To Chesapeake And Delaware Bays, Sergio R. Signorini, Antonio Mannino, Marjorie A.M. Friedrichs, Pierre St-Laurent, John Wilkin, Aboozar Tabatabai, Raymond G. Najjar, Eileen E. Hofmann, Fei Da, Hanqin Tian, Yuanzhi Yao

CCPO Publications

This study uses a neural network model trained with in situ data, combined with satellite data and hydrodynamic model products, to compute the daily estuarine export of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) at the mouths of Chesapeake Bay (CB) and Delaware Bay (DB) from 2007 to 2011. Both bays show large flux variability with highest fluxes in spring and lowest in fall as well as interannual flux variability (0.18 and 0.27 Tg C/year in 2008 and 2010 for CB; 0.04 and 0.09 Tg C/year in 2008 and 2011 for DB). Based on previous estimates of total organic carbon (TOCexp) exported by …


Next-Generation Rainfall Idf Curves For The Virginian Drainage Area Of Chesapeake Bay, Xixi Wang, Xiaomin Yang, Zhaoyi Cai Jun 2019

Next-Generation Rainfall Idf Curves For The Virginian Drainage Area Of Chesapeake Bay, Xixi Wang, Xiaomin Yang, Zhaoyi Cai

Civil & Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications

Probability-based intensity-duration-frequency IDF curves are needed but currently lacking for Department of Defense DoD to construct and manage its infrastructure in changing climate. The objectives of this project were to 1 develop an innovative approach for considering rainfall non-stationarity in developing such IDF curves and 2 apply this approach to the state of Virginia. In this regard, the observed data on 15-min rainfall at 57 gauges and the precipitations projected by twelve pairs of Regional Climate Model RCM and Global Circulation Model GCM were used. For a given gauge or watershed, in terms of fitting the empirical exceedance probabilities, a …


Fostering University Collaboration And Building Capacity To Respond To Coastal Resilience Challenges In Virginia: Findings From The Rotating Resilience Roundtables Workshop Spring 2019, Wie Yusuf, Michelle Covi, Anamaria Bukvic, Tom Allen, Taiwo Oguntuyo Apr 2019

Fostering University Collaboration And Building Capacity To Respond To Coastal Resilience Challenges In Virginia: Findings From The Rotating Resilience Roundtables Workshop Spring 2019, Wie Yusuf, Michelle Covi, Anamaria Bukvic, Tom Allen, Taiwo Oguntuyo

Presentations, Lectures, Posters, Reports

[from Background and Overview]

Communities in coastal Virginia, particularly in the urban region of Hampton Roads and the rural Eastern Shore peninsula, are experiencing the impacts of climate change as part of everyday life. Among the most apparent impacts are sea level rise and associated flooding, but increasingly residents of the region are observing changing ecosystems, health impacts and complex social challenges are made more difficult. The region is experiencing the fastest rate of relative sea level rise on the U.S. east coast due to interactions between ocean currents, global sea level rise, high-water tables and ground subsidence (Adapt Virginia …


Rates Of Relative Sea Level Rise Along The United States East Coast, Jesse N. Beckman, Joseph E. Garcia Apr 2019

Rates Of Relative Sea Level Rise Along The United States East Coast, Jesse N. Beckman, Joseph E. Garcia

Virginia Journal of Science

Recent studies have indicated that some coastal areas, including the East Coast of the United States, are experiencing higher rates of sea level rise than the global average. Rates of relative sea level rise are affected by changes in ocean dynamics, as well as by surface elevation fluctuations due to local land subsidence or uplift. In this study, we derived long-term trends in annual mean relative sea level using tide gauge data obtained from the Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level for stations along the United States East Coast. Stations were grouped by location into the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Southeast …


Detecting Change: Observations Of Temperature And Precipitation Across Virginia’S Climate Divisions, Jeremy S. Hoffman, Michael J. Allen, Christopher F. Labosier Apr 2019

Detecting Change: Observations Of Temperature And Precipitation Across Virginia’S Climate Divisions, Jeremy S. Hoffman, Michael J. Allen, Christopher F. Labosier

Virginia Journal of Science

Modern global climate change is primarily attributable to human activities and the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Climate change impacts span a range of sectors, including agriculture, forestry, public health, and water resource management. The Commonwealth of Virginia has already and will continue to deal with many of these impacts, yet lacks concentrated effort to detect, document, and adapt to local climate changes. This study documents observed changes in temperature and precipitation across Virginia’s six climate divisions. Mean seasonal anomalies of minimum temperature, maximum temperature, and precipitation from 1986 to 2016 are examined relative to a long-term 1895-2000 …


Precipitation Trends Across The Commonwealth Of Virginia (1947 – 2016), Michael J. Allen, Thomas R. Allen Apr 2019

Precipitation Trends Across The Commonwealth Of Virginia (1947 – 2016), Michael J. Allen, Thomas R. Allen

Virginia Journal of Science

Water is an important resource for the Commonwealth of Virginia. Too much water increases runoff, disrupt transportation networks, and contributes to school closures. Too little water may adversely impact agricultural operations. To improve climate-related information to Virginia citizens, this study assesses means and changes in precipitation across the Commonwealth of Virginia (1947 – 2016). Using daily station-level precipitation data from the Global Historical Climate Network (GHCN), descriptive statistics were calculated for 43 locations in terms of total precipitation (inches decade-1), precipitation days (x>0”), and heavy precipitation days (x>1.0”). On average, locations showed an overall increase in …


Nbc Today Show Features Odu Researchers On Location In Arctic Circle April 1 And 2, Betsy Hnath Mar 2019

Nbc Today Show Features Odu Researchers On Location In Arctic Circle April 1 And 2, Betsy Hnath

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Life In Hampton Roads: Local Residents Concerned About Sea Level Rise And Flood Risks, News @ Odu Feb 2019

Life In Hampton Roads: Local Residents Concerned About Sea Level Rise And Flood Risks, News @ Odu

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