Forum: "Bringing Home Climate Change"

Tuesday March 29, 2011

Wolf Performance Hall,
London Central Public Library

251 Dundas St., London, Ontario

Join us to hear internationally-recognized local scientists present the most current global
and local information about Climate Change.

Agenda
6:00 p.m. Informal Poster Presentations of Recent Research Results
• How Uncertain are the Future Extreme Precipitation Events ?: An Upper Thames River Basin Context by Tarana A. Solaiman and Slobodan P. Simonovic
• Moving towards Probability based Intensity-Distribution-Frequency (IDF) Curves under Climate Change by Tarana A. Solaiman and Slobodan P. Simonovic
• Climate Change Uncertainty and Water Resources Decision Making – Probabilistic Approach by Dejan Vucetic and Slobodan P. Simonovic
• Climate Change Uncertainty and Water Resources Decision Making – Fuzzy Set Approach by Dejan Vucetic and Slobodan P. Simonovic
• An Approach to Quantifying Uncertainty in Estimates of Intensity-Distribution-Frequency (IDF) Curves by Fahad Alzahrani and Donald H. Burn
7:00 p.m. Climate Change – Global Prospective – Dr. Gordon A. McBean
• what is climate change
• what are the main global problems
• how to deal with climate change (global and local issues)
• mitigation and adaptation
8:00 p.m. Climate Change – Challenges at the Local Level – Dr. Donald H. Burn
• how is climate change manifesting at the local level
• what are the main issues (scales, uncertainties, communication)
• temperature, precipitation, extremes
• Upper Thames River Watershed experience
8:30 p.m. Climate Change – The Local Experience – Dr. Slobodan P. Simonovic
• review of work done in the Upper Thames River Watershed
• impacts of climate change in the Upper Thames River Watershed
• from impacts to adaptation action
• City of London precipitation and risk to infrastructure work

For more information contact
Teresa Hollingsworth
Upper Thames River Conservation Authority, at
hollingswortht@thamesriver.on.ca
http://thamesriver.on.ca