With the summer of 2021 still fresh in many people’s minds, NYC’s practitioners and researchers are still navigating the challenges of extreme rain events like Hurricane Ida, which brought record-shattering amounts of rainfall causing severe flooding, loss of life, and damages to property/infrastructure. Shortly before Ida, the City released its first-ever Stormwater Resiliency Plan. With the plan, pluvial (rainfall) flood risk maps were made publicly available, filling a critical data gap. However, other types of data that are still missing may be needed to support urban resilience against flash flooding such as social media, on-site sensor networks, and other crowdsourcing tools to allow communities to report their own experiences and advocate for new interventions. The use of new data types also surface new questions regarding their potential benefits and challenges. This event will convene a conversation between researchers and practitioners concerning the challenges, needs, and opportunities presented by novel data sourcing, processing, and visualization techniques to advance urban climate resilience.

Quantifying the effects of climate change can be a daunting task to even the brightest scientific minds! To help demystify this complex topic, GreenHomeNYC is bringing leading climate change experts together to discuss their most recent efforts around quantifying our changing environment, and what it means for New York City.

Speakers for this event include:

Susan Golden /// Environmental educator and member of the Climate Reality Project Leadership Corps

Luis Ortiz /// Postdoctoral research fellow with the Urban Systems Lab at The New School

Peter Marsters /// Research Associate at the Columbia Center on Global Energy Policy