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.