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Floods, Droughts and Money: A Water Engineer Thinks Through Climate Change

Presented by Patrick Ray, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Cincinnati

Presentation Overview

We need to plan for future global warming of unknown magnitude, with precious little understanding of the impacts of that warming on our water, agricultural, energy, ecological, and urban systems. This talk will introduce concepts of deep uncertainty, and use a simple stylized example of water system planning under uncertainty to demonstrate robustness concepts, and tie together conceptual frameworks built on robustness, sustainability, and resilience. Professor Ray will share what he is learning about rural-urban water transfers and distributional equity aspects using a case study of Mexico City. He will share what he is learning about climate change and river water quality using a case study of machine learning and remote sensing on the Ohio River. And he will share, time permitting, what he is learning about climate change and the hydropower sector using findings from a global survey his team conducted two years ago.

Biography

Patrick Ray is an Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering at the University of Cincinnati. His research focuses on increasing the resilience of water systems to climate variability and change through the use of advanced climate science and coupled hydrologic-human system simulation. He aims at pragmatism, and decision relevance in a highly uncertain world. In 2018 he was named the A. Ivan Johnson Outstanding Young Professional of the American Water Resources Association. He is a past chair of the of the Environmental and Water Resources Systems Committee of the American Society for Civil Engineers, and served in 2022 as the Climate Resilience Lead for the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa.