Schedule

Program Information

(all times in Eastern/ Toronto Time; Ending times are estimated)
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November 3

Session 1 - Wind and Hail hazards and risks

Nov 3rd , 9:30 – 11:10hrs

  1. Dr. Peter Groenemeijer - (ESSL)
  2. Dr. Alan Gerard - (NSSL) [presentation available]
  3. Dr. Julian Brimelow - (NHP) [presentation available]
  4. Dr. Dave Sills - (NTP) [presentation available]

 

Session 2 - Wildland fire hazards and risks

Nov 3rd , 11:30 – 13:10hrs

  1. Dr. Devan Becker - (Wilfrid Laurier University)
  2. Aaron Stacey - (Aviation, Forest Fires, and Emergency Services, Ontario MNRF)
  3. Dr. Mike Wotton - (Canadian Forest Service/U. Toronto)  

Session 3 - Natural hazards and disaster risk reduction for British Columbia

Nov 3rd , 14:00 – 15:30hrs

  1. Kevin Potoczny, Yao Li, Parva Shoaeifar, Mahmoud Bagheri - (Western University) [presentation available]
  2. Dr. Sergio Sepúlveda - (Simon Fraser University)
  3. Sujan Adhikari - (Western University)
  4. Dr. Steve Evans - (University of Waterloo)

 

Session 4 - Geological and Geosocietal hazards - Mixed

Nov 3rd , 16:00 – 17:50hrs

  1. Yongjun He (Western University) [presentation available]
  2. Nafiseh Ghasemian Sorboni (Western University)
  3. Farshad Jalili Pirani (Western University)
  4. Mohammad Fereshtehpour  (Western University) [presentation available]
  5. Dr. Wooyoung Na (Western University)
  6. Reza Rezvani (Western University)
  7. Amaya Ballate Delgado (CUJAE (Cuba), Western University) [presentation available]
  8. Jin Yang (Western University)
  9. Arnold Yuxuan Xie (Western University) [presentation available]

 

November 4


Session 1 - Infrastructure management and risk mitigation (ICLR)  
Nov 4th, 9:30 – 11:10hrs

  1. Dr. Dan Frangopol - (Lehigh University, USA) - KEYNOTE
  2. Dr. Babak Moaveni - (Tufts University)
  3. Dr. Mustafa Gul - (University of Alberta)

 

Session 2 - Climate change and society (ClimateCentre)
Nov 4th,  11:30 – 13:20hrs

  1. Dr. Rosalind Warner - (Okanagan College, BC) [presentation available]
  2. Dr. Hanson Nyantakyi - Frimpong - (University of Denver, Colorado)
  3. Dr. Gordon McBean - (Western University)
  4. Dr. Eliane Ubalijoro - (McGill University)
  5. Dr. Yuyu Zhou - (Iowa State University, US)

 

Session 3 – Hydroclimatic extremes in a changing climate (Parts I & II)
 Nov 4th, 14:30 – 15:45 & 16:00 - 17:30hrs

  1. Dr. Ed McBean - (U. Guelph)
  2. Dr. Hamid Moradkhani - (U. Alabama)
  3. Dr. Hamidreza Shirkhani - (NRC)
  4. Dr. Xuebin Zhang - (ECCC)
  5. Nick Martyn (RiskLogik & U. Toronto)
  6. Markus Schnorbus (PCIC)
  7. Dr. Raj Shrestha (ECCC)
  8. Dr. Mohamed Ben Alaya (PCIC)