Built and natural infrastructure on military installations and lands face threats from long-term changes in climate and ocean conditions. In the future, there is the potential for changing sea levels and climate to increase both the severity and frequency of more acute conditions, such as those produced by extreme weather events. These threats can directly impact the availability of the installation to train and deploy the force. For example in 2018, Hurricanes Michael and Florence cost DoD a combined $6.6 billion (GAO). This technical session examined on-going research efforts to develop tools and approaches to improve DoD built and natural infrastructure resilience.

 

Session Chair: Dr. Kate White, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Introduction by Session Chair

Dr. Kate White, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Keynote Address: Growing Resiliency Through Increasingly Actionable Climate Knowledge

Mr. Will Veatch, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

The Incorporation of Future Climate Change into IDF Curves

Dr. Ken Kunkel, North Carolina State University

Useful Prediction of Climate Risk

Dr. Simon Wang, Utah State University

DoD Screening-level Climate Exposure Assessment

Dr. Kate White, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Assessing Coastal Flood Exposure for Installation Resilience Planning

Dr. John Marra, NOAA

Army Installation Climate Resilience

Dr. Stephen Dombos, AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow