Speaker: Antonia Sebastian, assistant professor, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
This seminar highlights recent work focused on advancing process-based understanding of how flood risk evolves over time, from land use/land cover change and climate-driven shifts in extreme events to community and household decision-making and outcomes.
Emphasis will be placed on emerging frameworks that integrate physics-based hydrologic and hydrodynamic models with observational datasets and machine learning approaches to better characterize compound hazards, reconstruct flood histories, and quantify downstream financial risk and household outcomes.