Adapting Stormwater Management to a Changing Climate in the Mid-Atlantic and Urban Northeast Regions

  • On March 6, 2020
  • Workshops
Because extreme rainfall events have exposed critical gaps in planning, the Consortium for Climate Risk in the Urban Northeast (CCRUN) and the Mid- Atlantic Regional Integrated Science and Assessment (MARISA) focused this workshop on urban stormwater management. This workshop examined the challenges of integrated planning within today’s regulatory context, discussed decision support needs for climate […]
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Promoting Successful Local Coastal Resiliency Policies and Programs: Addressing Key Knowledge Gaps

  • On June 25, 2019
  • Workshops
CCURN hosted a series of workshops entitled Promoting Successful Local Coastal Resiliency Policies and Programs: Addressing Key Knowledge Gaps. They were held at Stony Brook University in Suffolk County, New York, and another at Monmouth University in New Jersey. The objective of the workshops was to bring together local practitioners and policy makers in the […]
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At What Point Managed Retreat? Resilience Building in the Coastal Zone

  • On June 19, 2019
  • Workshops
CCRUN and partners organized a conference on managed retreat, entitled “At What Point Managed Retreat? Resilience Building in the Coastal Zone”, hosted by the Climate Adaptation Initiative at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, which took place on June 19- 21, 2019. As one of the first major academia-led conferences on the subject, the event convened diverse […]
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Workshop on Correlated Extremes at Columbia University

  • On May 29, 2019
  • Workshops
The last few years have seen emerging recognition of the societal impacts associated with climate extremes that occur close together in space or time. There is also growing evidence that we may be approaching critical “tipping points” in the climate system. The close interconnectivity of systems and networks makes certain combinations of events especially hazardous […]
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National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS) Workshop

  • On October 18, 2018
  • Workshops
CCRUN’s public health and social science teams assisted with the planning of, and participated in, a heat-health workshop in Massachusetts as part of NOAA’s NIHHIS program. NIHHIS works to understand how decision-makers in many disciplines are working to manage heat-health risks, and to improve and integrate the information available for this purpose. The goal of […]
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New York State Community Risk and Resiliency Act Workshop

  • On September 29, 2017
  • Workshops
CCRUN hosted a workshop on the New York State Community Risk and Resiliency Act (CRRA) in White Plains, New York. The focus of the workshop was on local planning for flooding and sea level rise, as the CRRA requires communities to . Team researchers presented data tools and climate science. There were also presentations from […]
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Eastwick Workshop

  • On May 14, 2017
  • Workshops
CCRUN organized a community presentation titled “Using Modeling to Evaluate Flood Mitigation Strategies in Eastwick, PA. This event was part of ongoing work that is focused on flooding on this neighborhood in South Philadelphia. It is a collaborative research project with IUAV University from Venice, Italy, Stevens Institute of Technology, the University of Pennsylvania and […]
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Data Tool Training Workshop

  • On September 30, 2016
  • Workshops
On September 30, 2016, CCRUN team members and partners co-led a training workshop on the use of the Jamaica Bay Water Quality Data Visualization and Access Tool. Stakeholders that participated in the workshop included the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. The data tool […]
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