Schedule

Program Information

(all times in Eastern/ Toronto Time; Ending times are estimated)
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October 30

Session 1 - Northern Hail Project I – 2023 field programs and project partners’ research [IBHS, Weatherlogic, Instant Weather, and ICLR]

Oct 30th , 9:00 – 12:30hrs

  • 9:00-10:00. Check-in at ACEB 1410. Coffee available (all morning).
  1. 10:00–10:10. Dr. Gregory Kopp - (NHP) - Welcome
  2. 10:10-10:40. Dr. Julian Brimelow - (NHP) - NHP Year in Review - Download the presentation
  3. 10:40-11:10. Mr. Scott Kehler (Weatherlogics) - Monitoring and Forecasting Hail at Weatherlogics - Download the presentation
  4. 11:10-11:30. Mr. Simon Eng (NHP) - NHP Hail Damage Surveys
  5. 11:30-12:00. Dr. Keith Porter - (NHP) - Hail Benefit/Cost Analysis - Download the presentation
  6. 12:00-12:30. Dr. David Sills - (NTP) - Detection of hail swaths with UAVs - Download the presentation
  7. 12:15-12:30. Dr. Connell Miller - (NHP) - Calgary disdrometer network
  • 12:30-1:30. Lunch. ACEB 1410. (All participants)

Session 2 - Northern Hail Project II –Research progress at Western

Oct 30th , 13:30 – 15:45hrs

  1. 1:30-2:00. Dr. Ian Giammanco (IBHS) - IBHS Hail Research Program
  2. 2:00-2:15. Mr. Adam Skinner - (Instant Weather Inc) - Instant Weather: Pro Radar Updates & Roadmap - Download the presentation
  3. 2:15-2:30. Dr. Daniel Michelson - (Environment and Climate Change Canada) - Canadian weather radar network renewal and the southern Ontario lidar mesonet - Download the presentation
  4. 2:30-2:45. Mr. Sudesh Boodoo - (Environment and Climate Change Canada) - Improving hail detection and hail size estimates from polarimetric radar - Download the presentation
  5. 2:45-3:00. Mr. Issam Mohamed - (Western University) - Analyzing Concurrent Hail, Extreme Wind, and Heavy Rainfall Events in Alberta, Canada: A Multivariate Statistical Approach
  6. 3:00-3:15. Mr. Yao Li - (Western University) - Statistical Analysis of CoCoRaHS database and future prospect for hail risk modeling
  7. 3:15-3:30. Mr. Mark Gartner - (NHP) - Preliminary statistics from Calgary's new hail disdrometer network
  8. 3:30-3:45. Mr. Xiao Ma - (University of Saskatchewan) - High-resolution WRF simulation of extreme winds in Canada: Present and Future scenarios
  • 3:45-4:15. Coffee
  • 4:15-5:15. NHP PIs meet with Advisory Committee. (ICLR BoardRoom in ACEB)

 

October 31

Session 3 - Hydroclimate Extremes and Infrastructure Resilience  
Oct 31st, 9:00 – 10:20hrs

  1. Dr. Xuebin Zhang - (Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium) - Download the presentation
  2. Dr. Mercè Casas-Prat - (Environment and Climate Change Canada)- Coastal compound flooding and the role of internal climate variability - Download the presentation
  3. Ms. Natalie Salkauskis - (City of Toronto) - Toronto Water: Building Resilience - Download the presentation
  4. Dr. Alex Cannon - (Environment and Climate Change Canada) - Stronger evidence for increases in short-duration extreme rainfall in Canada: observed trends and links with warming

Session 4 - Smart and Resilient Infrastructure
Oct 31st,  10:40 – 12:00hrs

  1. Dr. Ayan Sadhu - (Western University) - AI-enabled smart infrastructure management
  2. Dr. Oya Mercan - (University of Toronto) - Real-Time Hybrid Simulation: Challenges, Innovations, and Applications
  3. Dr. Katherine Flanigan - (Carnegie Mellon University) - Enhancing Railroad System Resilience: An Automated Approach to On-Board Broken Rail Detection

 

Student Poster Session/Display (during lunch)
Oct 31st,  12:00 – 13:30hrs

 

Session 5 – Digital Twinning (DT) for climate-resilient and sustainable built environments
 Oct 31st, 13:30 – 15:30hrs

  1. Dr. Girma Bitsuamlak - (Western University) - Introduction to climate-resilient and sustainable built environments
  2. Dr. Wael El-Dakhakhni - (McMaster University) - Digital Twin for Flood Risk Quantification
  3. Dr. Connell Miller/Simon Eng - (NHP) - The Didsbury EF4 Canada Day Tornado Survey
  4. Mr. Dagimawi Eneyew - (Western University) - Digital Twin for Smart and Sustainable Buildings

Session 6 - Quantitative Disaster Risk Assessments for Communities and Infrastructure
Oct 31st , 15:40 – 17:00hrs

  1. Dr. Solomon Tesfamariam - (University of Waterloo) -Seismic vulnerability assessment of substations and power transmission network - Download the presentation
  2. Dr. Carmine Galasso - (University College London, UK) - Forward-looking catastrophe risk modeling for resilience: recent advances and perspectives
  3. Dr. Rodrigo Costa - (University of Waterloo) - Human-centred disaster risk assessments as a tool to inform pre-disaster planning

Social Dinner - at the Grad Club
Oct 31st , 17:30

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