INSTRUCTORS: 
Dan Walker, Ph.D., A.M. ASCE
Mari Tye, Ph.D., C.Eng., MASCE, MICE
Joseph Barsugli, Ph.D.

Purpose and Background

It is broadly recognized that nonstationarity in the weather and climate system especially on timescales greater than 20 to 30 years presents significant challenges for civil engineering design and system operations. This challenge underlies the motivation behind the emerging partnership between ASCE and NOAA. This webinar will attempt to relay the lessons learned and planned next steps developed during a workshop organized by the ASCE NOAA Task Force on Climate Resilience in Engineering Practice (Task Force), and is intended to be the first of a series of three exploring in detail how NOAA data collection, modeling efforts, and research could be leveraged to develop actionable information needed by civil engineering practitioners to address various climate related hazards during the design phase of projects. Specifically, the webinar will provide an overview of the efforts of the Task Force to shape the new ASCE NOAA Partnership (as described in the recently signed memorandum of understanding between ASCE and NOAA), discuss the impacts and current scientific understanding of changes in temperature extremes and intense rainfall, and provide insights into current or emerging tools and data products of use in civil engineering design. The webinar will also provide insights into how ASCE members can help inform the development of actions that could be taken by NOAA to improve the development and delivery of actionable information needed to characterize loads due to temperature and rainfall extremes in a manner consistent with standard engineering practice as manifest in ASCE Codes and Standards or relevant manuals of practice.

This webinar (which is the first in a series of 3 webinars) will itself be divided into four parts:

• Part 1 (10 minutes), presented by Dan Walker, will provide an overview of the entire effort, including involvement by authoring committees of various ASCE standards and manuals of practice;
• Part 2 (20 minutes), presented by Mari Tye, will present an overview of challenges presented by changes in rainfall intensity, lessons learned during the ASCE NOAA workshop, and discuss tools and service currently available or expected to be available to support civil engineering practice;
• Part 3 (20 minutes), presented by Joe Barsugli, will present an overview of challenges presented by changes in extreme temperatures, lessons learned during the ASCE NOAA workshop, and discuss tools and service currently available or expected to be available to support civil engineering practice; and
• Part 4 (10 minutes) will be made up of Q and A with the live participants.

Benefits and Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Describe the implications of nonstationarity with respect to temperature and rainfall extremes for project design,
• Apply and explain to why the use of climate projections is an important element of designing and constructing climate resilient infrastructure,
• Define ways to make fuller and more effective use of NOAA or other federal tools and data products (such as ATLAS 14 and 15) to characterize future design conditions, and
• Identify efforts by ASCE to help prioritize and shape climate services under development by NOAA and other federal agencies to best address the needs of civil engineers.

Assessment of Learning Outcomes

Learning outcomes are assessed and achieved through participation in the live Q/A with our speakers, and by responding to the post- session survey. If the course is taken OnDemand, there will also be a 10 multiple choice question post-test.

Who Should Attend?

• Geotechnical, structural and water resource engineers
• Project managers
• Design engineers
• Research engineers

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