BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:179@researchweek.unc.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231023T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231023T130000 DTSTAMP:20231106T154515Z URL:https://researchweek.unc.edu/events/lunch-learn-flooding/ SUMMARY:Lunch &\; Learn: Flooding and Our Future DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research\, t he Lunch & Learn series brings together Carolina researchers to share thei r work addressing and mitigating the impact of climate change in North Car olina. Each session will feature a distinct theme and panel of experts pre senting their latest research in that area.\n\n\n Monday\, October 23: Flo oding and Our Future\n Tuesday\, October 24: Health and Heat\n Wednesday\, October 25: Economics and Environment\n Thursday\, October 26: Communitie s and Climate\n Friday\, October 27: Climate Change and Global Health\n\nC lick the session title above for more information\n\nCLE credit is availab le for this event.\n\nEvent Recording\n\n\nClick Here for Event Presentati on Slides\n\n\n\nFlooding and Our Future: The Impact of Flooding on Coasta l Ecosystems\nMonday October 23rd\nPresented by: UNC Institute for the Env ironment & NC Collaboratory\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPanelists\n\nMike Piehler\, Profe ssor and Director\, UNC Institute for the Environment\; Chief Sustainabili ty Officer and Special Assistant to the the Chancellor\, Sustainability \n \nMike Piehler is a professor\, director of the UNC Institute for the Envi ronment\, chief sustainability officer and special assistant to the chance llor for sustainability at UNC-Chapel Hill. He holds faculty appointments in the Earth\, Marine and Environmental Sciences Department\, Department o f Environmental Sciences and Engineering\, and the Environment\, Ecology a nd Energy Program at UNC.\nDr. Piehler received his Ph.D. in environmental science and engineering from UNC. His research and teaching focus on the connection between human activity and the function of natural systems\, pa rticularly at interfaces between land and water. His recent studies have e xplored the impacts of land use change on stream and reservoir water quali ty\, the effects of coastal habitats (oysters\, sea grass\, and marshes) o n nutrient dynamics and the role of natural systems in coastal resilience. Dr. Piehler advises a variety of governments\, non-government organizatio ns\, and private sector organizations. His research program is supported b y a diverse portfolio of federal\, state and regional sponsors.\n\nAntonia Sebastian\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Earth\, Marine and Enviro nmental Sciences and Environment\, Ecology and Energy Program\n\nAntonia S ebastian is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she holds a joint appointment in the Department of Earth \, Marine and Environmental Sciences and the Environment\, Ecology and Ene rgy Program (E3P). Sebastian’s primary research interests involve the ap plication of interdisciplinary methods to understand how flood risks are e volving in response to changing human and environmental conditions. Her re cent work investigates the combined impacts of climate and land use change on flood hazards in Eastern North Carolina and Southeast Texas\, as well as the financial risks posed by flooding to households and communities loc ated in coastal plain watersheds. Sebastian is currently engaged in projec ts funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)\, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)\, Texas General Land Office and the State of North Carolina.\n\nPrior to joining UNC\, Sebastia n spent two years as an Associate Research Scientist at Texas A&M Universi ty at Galveston where she served on the Governor’s Commission to Rebuild Texas after Hurricane Harvey and helped to establish the Institute for Te xas Disaster Resilience. Sebastian holds a Ph.D. and B.S. in Civil and Env ironmental Engineering from Rice University and is a former Netherlands-Am erica Foundation (NAF)/Fulbright Fellow in Flood Management.\n\nGreg Chara cklis\, William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor\, Department of Envir onmental Sciences and Engineering\; Director\, Center on Financial Risk in Environmental Systems\n\nGreg Characklis is the William R. Kenan Jr. Dist inguished Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engine ering at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also serves a s the Director of the Center on Financial Risk in Environmental Systems\, an entity that bridges the Gillings School of Global Public Health and the UNC Institute for the Environment. His primary research interests involve developing integrated models of natural\, engineering and economic system s\, and using them to assess financial risk while also developing novel to ols and strategies for managing that risk. \n \nPrior to joining UNC\, Ch aracklis served as Director of Resource Development and Management at Azur ix Corp. (a division of Enron Corp.)\, where his responsibilities centered around assessing the technical and financial merits of water-related inve stments. Before entering the private sector\, he spent two years in Washi ngton\, D.C. as a fellow with the National Academy of Engineering. Charack lis holds a Ph.D. and an M.S. in Environmental Science and Engineering fro m Rice University and a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Joh ns Hopkins University.\n\n\nPanel Emcee\nGreer Arthur\, Research Director\ , North Carolina Collaboratory\n\nGreer Arthur serves as Research Director for the North Carolina Collaboratory\, which was established by the North Carolina General Assembly in 2016 and is headquartered at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Here\, she works with the Collaboratory team and strategic partners in public and private sectors to fulfill the o rganization’s mission of transforming academic research into practical i nformation for use by State and local governments and the communities they serve. \n \nArthur joined the Collaboratory in 2022. Throughout her car eer\, she has been committed to advancing research to achieve tangible\, r eal-world impact through a variety of communication\, administration and m anagement roles both within and outside academia. Originally from the UK\, Arthur is a molecular biologist by training\, with a bachelor’s degree from Sheffield Hallam University and doctoral degree from the University o f Leicester. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://researchweek.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/ 2023/09/Lunch-Learn-flooding-color-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Featured Event,Institute for the Environment,Lunch and Learns,North Carolina Collaboratory,Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research,Virtual Event LOCATION:https://unc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZmCRugUpRIC6bxzuf7rO_A%20% 20 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230312T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR