Visualizing Flood Risk

Meeting

Visualizing Flood Risk: Scoping Meeting

April 17, 2020

10:00 AM - 1:12 PM (EDT)

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Scoping Meeting

Every year, people, businesses, and communities are caught off guard by flooding, in part because they do not understand their flood risk. Over the years, considerable effort has made to develop better flood maps, for example by adding information such as inundation depths, or color-coding the riskiest areas. But what if a map is not the best way to communicate flood risk?

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is taking an innovative approach to generate fresh ideas for visualizating flood risk. The approach involves 1 or 2 hackathons to generate visualizations and a substantial public engagement effort to determine which visualizations are the best understood. A hackathon is a design event in which computer programmers, software developers (including graphic designers), and subject-matter experts collaborate for one to several days to produce software or simulations on the spot. The visualizations are planned to be posted for public feedback and analyzed to determine which visualizations best communicate flood risk. Although a final report is planned to be produced, the primary objective is to achieve practical results that demonstrably improve public understanding of flood risk.

The entire presentation slide deck from this meeting will be available soon.

Lightning Talks from Participants

FEMA
Peter Herrick
NOAA
Miki Schmidt, Doug Marcy, Fernando Salas, and Gina Eosco
USACE
Jason Sheeley, Nancy Blyler, and Chandra Pathak
USGS
Robert Mason, Sophia Liu, and MIchael Tischler
NASA
Lori Schultz, Shanna McClain, and David Green

Poll Results

1. What type of vizualization should we pursue?

Planning: 6%
Flood Warning: 32%
Emergency Response: 8%
Recovery: 3%
Risk Assessment and Management: 29%
Resilience and Mitigation: 22%

2. Who's in?

Yes: 60%
It's complicated: 40%
No: 0%

Lightning Talks on Succeeding at Public Engagement

National Association of Insurance Commissioners
Jeff Czajkowski
Aquarium of the Pacific
Jerry Schubel

Lightning Talk on Creating a Successful Hackathon

Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery
Simone Balog-Way

Contact

Anne Linn

alinn@nas.edu

Disclaimer

It is essential to the National Academies mission of providing evidence-based advice that participants in any of our meetings or events avoid political or partisan statements or commentary and maintain a culture of mutual respect. The statements and presentations during our meetings or events are solely those of the individual participants and do not necessarily represent the views of other participants or the National Academy of Sciences, which is a non-partisan, tax exempt organization that includes under its Charter the National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Medicine, and that operates the National Research Council.

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