Research Seminar Series: Visualization Tools to Communicate Riverine Erosion Hazards and Improve Flood Resiliency in Headwater Communities of the Lake Champlain Basin
Date/Time:
Wednesday, April 28, 2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location:
Online - Registration required
Speakers: Kristen Underwood, Research Assistant Professor, and Lindsay Worley, PhD Candidate, Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Vermont
Registration: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3h2EaSFDTtm5JGXP09V0OA To request a disability-related accommodation to participate in any of these programs, please contact Lake Champlain Sea Grant / Julianna White at 802-777-7017 or seagrant [at] uvm.edu no later than three weeks before your chosen date so we can assist you.
Water resource managers are in need of science-based tools to identify and prioritize river reaches for conservation and restoration to mitigate erosion and flooding hazards. Kristen Underwood and Lindsay Worley will provide an update on their research to develop a smart classifier of reach-based sediment erosion, transport and deposition that relies on existing stream geomorphic assessment data stored in the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources online database. They will preview visualization tools to communicate erosion hazards to communities, and will highlight how this research is supporting Vermont’s broader Functioning Floodplains Initiative.
The project Visualization Tools to Communicate Riverine Erosion Hazards and Improve Flood Resiliency in Headwater Communities of the Lake Champlain Basin is funded by the Lake Champlain Sea Grant, and leverages previous work of the investigators funded in part by the National Science Foundation under Vermont EPSCoR Grant Nos. EPS-1101317 and NSF OIA 1556770.
Participants should expect approximately 30 minutes of presentation followed by a facilitated, 20-minute Q&A period.
This seminar is part of the Lake Champlain Sea Grant Seminar Series.
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