<em>Connecting Science and Communities: Co-Created and Integrated Approaches for Understanding and Addressing Water Hazards in a Shifting Hydroclimatic Landscape</em>

Habib, Emad

H062
Connecting Science and Communities: Co-Created and Integrated Approaches for Understanding and Addressing Water Hazards in a Shifting Hydroclimatic Landscape

Session ID#: 250193

Session Description:

The increasing frequency and severity of extreme events such as floods and droughts are producing compounding impacts on public health, economies, and infrastructure. These effects are pronounced in regions where development and infrastructure disinvestment have increased exposure to risk. This session invites abstracts that explore interdisciplinary, community-engaged approaches to address disproportionate impacts of water hazards. We welcome contributions that integrate hydroclimatic modeling, infrastructure assessment, socioeconomic analysis, and co-production frameworks to advance climate adaptation in regions facing systemic water challenges—including failing water and wastewater infrastructure, recurring flood risk and droughts, and impaired water quality. Submissions that co-produce knowledge with local partners, reveal disconnects between historical conditions and current planning, or develop tools to improve decision-making are encouraged. By fostering collaborations across hydrology-climatology, engineering, history, socioeconomics, and geography, this session aims to share research that enhances the usability of science for managing water hazards and bridges science, policy, education and lived experiences.

Co-Sponsor(s):

A - Atmospheric Sciences
GC - Global Environmental Change
NH - Natural Hazards
SY - Science and Society

Index Terms:

1817 Extreme events [HYDROLOGY]
1833 Hydroclimatology [HYDROLOGY]
1847 Modeling [HYDROLOGY]
4327 Resilience [NATURAL HAZARDS]

Primary Convener: Emad H Habib, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Civil Engineering, Lafayette, LA, United States

Conveners: Liz Skilton, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY AND PHILOSOPHY, Lafayette, United States, Mohamed ElSaadani, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Department of Civil Engineering and Louisiana Watershed Flood Center, Lafayette, LA, United States and Steven J Burian, Cooperative Institute for Research to Operations in Hydrology (CIROH), Alabama Water Institute, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, Alabama Water Institute, Tuscaloosa, United States

Student/Early Career Convener: Selena Hinojos, George Washington University, Engineering Management & Systems Engineering, Washington, DC, United States

How do Californian farmers address climate resilience? Profiling narratives on climate change awareness, perceived impacts and adaptive capacity (1848667)

Sandra Ricart, Politecnico di Milano, Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Milano, 20133, Italy, Alvar Escriva-Bou, University of California Davis, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Davis, CA, United States and Andrea Castelletti, Politecnico di Milano, Department of Electronics, Information, and Bioengineering, Milano, Italy

The role of models in community-engaged approaches to flood-risk mitigation (Invited) (1859997)

Jenny Suckale, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States and Katherine Serafin, University of Florida, Department of Geography, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States

Assessing Social Vulnerability and Land Use Change Interactions Across the Gulf Coast: A Spatiotemporal Analysis in Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi (1865464)

Annyca Tabassum, The University of Alabama, Geography & The Environment, Tuscaloosa, United States and Wanyun Shao, The University of Alabama, Geography and the Environment, Tuscaloosa, United States

Democratizing Earth Science Data for Community-Based Water Hazard Assessment: A Co-Production Platform for Hydrologic Intelligence (1868555)

Rocky Talchabhadel¹, Saurav Bhattarai¹, Sunil Bista¹, Subash Poudel², Douglas Jones² and Samuel Terrett², (1)Jackson State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Jackson, MS, United States, (2)Jackson State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Jackson, United States

Evaluating the Economic Impact of Flood Risk on Housing Prices in the U.S. Gulf Coast Using Spatial and Machine Learning Models (1883714)

Mackendy Ceragene¹, Thomas Douthat², Nazla Bushra³ and Fahmida Akhter¹, (1)Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (2)Louisiana State University, Environmental Science, Baton Rouge, United States, (3)Louisiana State University, Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences, Baton Rouge, United States

Assessing Infrastructure Vulnerability and Evacuation Routes to Flooding Using Spatial Database Management: A Case Study of City of Mobile, Alabama (1886086)

Md. Munjurul Haque¹, Wanyun Shao¹, Supath Dhital² and Dapeng Li¹, (1)The University of Alabama, Geography and the Environment, Tuscaloosa, United States, (2)The University of Alabama, Department of Geography and the Environment, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States

Predictor-Corrector Based Heterogenous Routing Model for Operational Forecasting (1887315)

Jani FATHIMA Jamal, University of South Carolina Columbia, Columbia, SC, United States, Jasim Imran, Univ South Carolina, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Columbia, United States and Hanif Chaudhry, University of South Carolina Columbia, Columbia, United States

Braiding Local, Indigenous, and Scientific Knowledge for Resilient Water Futures (Invited) (1891795)

Corinne Schuster-Wallace, University of Saskatchewan, Global Institute for Water Security, Saskatoon, SK, Canada

Evaluation of Projected Changes in Daily Precipitation Frequency Estimates from CMIP6 Climate Models Across Three U.S. Gulf States (1899595)

Mostafa Nasser, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, United States, Emad H Habib, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Civil Engineering, Lafayette, LA, United States and Mohamed Morsy, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Louisiana Watershed Flood Center, Lafayette, United States

“What we really need is...” A framework for cross-institutional partnership to co-create community-scale tools for enhancing capacity for flood resilience in Michigan watersheds. (1899824)

Wendy M Robertson, Central Michigan University, Institute for Great Lakes Research - Dept. of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Mount Pleasant, MI, United States, Roderick W Lammers, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States, Daria Kluver, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI, United States, John T Allen, Central Michigan University, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Mount Pleasant, MI, United States, Myeengan Syrette, Central Michigan University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Mount Pleasant, MI, United States and W. Jason Beasley, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, United States

Developing a Composite Flood Vulnerability Index for Puerto Rico Using a GIS-based Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Approach (1900148)

Eromosele Osuide, Department of Civil Engineering, CUNY-CREST Institute, and United Nations University (UNU) Hub on Remote-Sensing and Sustainable Innovations for Resilient Urban Systems (R-SIRUS) - UNU Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH), The City Coll, Civil Engineering, New York, United States, Reza Khanbilvardi, Department of Civil Engineering, CUNY-CREST Institute, and United Nations University (UNU) Hub on Remote-Sensing and Sustainable Innovations for Resilient Urban Systems (R-SIRUS)-UNU Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH), The City College of New York, The City University of New York, New York, United States and Tarendra Lakhankar, NOAA CESSRST, City College of New York, New York, NY, United States

Modeling Compound Flood Risk in Coastal Guyana: Impacts of Rapid Urbanization under Shifting Climate (1900908)

Gregory Williams, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, United States, Mohamed Morsy, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Louisiana Watershed Flood Center, Lafayette, United States, Emad H Habib, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Civil Engineering, Lafayette, LA, United States and Chandra Madramootoo: McGill University, Bioresource Engineering

Evaluating Two Decades of Volunteer-Led Water Quality Monitoring: Insights from the Cooperative Lakes Area Monitoring Project (CLAMP). (1901135)

Samuel KZ Taylor¹, Susan Meerdink¹, Mary Skopec², Lyndy Holdt², Dennis Heimdal³, Megan Vigdal³ and Jane Shuttleworth², (1)University of Iowa, School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability, Iowa City, United States, (2)Iowa Lakeside Laboratory, Milford, United States, (3)University of Iowa State Hygienic Laboratory, Milford, United States

The Role of Participatory Science in Community Co-Production of Flood Risk Assessment in Michigan, USA (1902531)

Myeengan Syrette, Central Michigan University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Mount Pleasant, MI, United States, Wendy M Robertson, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States, Roderick W Lammers, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States, Daria Kluver, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI, United States, John T Allen, Central Michigan University, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Mount Pleasant, MI, United States and Britt Raubenheimer, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, Woods Hole, United States

Understanding fluvial flood and environmental justice by using historical and current GIS-related data: A case study in Dayton, Ohio, USA (1916043)

Chia-Yu Wu¹, Donald Chase² and Madden Hansen¹, (1)University of Dayton, Department of Earth and Environmental Geosciences, Dayton, United States, (2)University of Dayton, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Dayton, United States

Disparities in the Identification of Vulnerable Communities Due to Design Storm Methods and Spatial Scale Selection: A Case Study in the Vermilion River Watershed, South Louisiana, USA (1918798)

Claire Orgeron¹, Mohamed ElSaadani², Selena Hinojos¹ and Emad Habib³, (1)University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, United States, (2)University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Department of Civil Engineering and Louisiana Watershed Flood Center, Lafayette, LA, United States, (3)University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Department of Civil Engineering, Lafayette, United States

From National Social Vulnerability Index Tools to Place and Hazard-Relevant Indices: A Co-Produced Flood Hazards Social Vulnerability Index Across Southern Louisiana (1920192)

Selena Hinojos, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, United States and Emad Habib, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Department of Civil Engineering, Lafayette, United States

Coastal Cascades in America: How Identifying Integrated Systems can Bridge Science and Stakeholder Needs (1924058)

Rachel Jiang, Michelle M Gierach, Rashmi Shah and Kelly Luis, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States

Understanding Hydrologic Variability and Extremes in Rhode Island Through Community Science (1929873)

Samantha Levin¹, Kim M Cobb², Tessa Di Lorenzo³, Abigail Goblick³, Sylvie Preira⁴, Briana Jaswelll⁴, Iris Yang³, Claudia Maris Leonard³, Emma Garcia⁵, Jarilyn Delgado⁵, Lia Urena Jaquez⁶, Alexa Pereira⁶, Xi-kai Wang⁷ and Lucy Bryce¹, (1)Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States, (2)Brown Univeristy, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Providence, United States, (3)Barrington High School, Barrington, United States, (4)North Providence High School, North Providence, United States, (5)Dr. Jorge Alvarez High School, Providence, United States, (6)East Providence High School, East Providence, United States, (7)Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Providence, United States

Toward improved flood hazard mapping: Lessons from mountainous flood-prone settings (1931142)

Beverley Coghill Wemple¹, Jessica Balerna², Alexander B Prescott³, David Baude³, Mirce Ivon Morales Velazquez³, Kristen Underwood⁴, Rebecca Manners Diehl³, Elizabeth M. B. Doran⁴, Nicolas Zegre⁵, Robert Nicholas⁶ and Eric Chase⁷, (1)University of Vermont, Geography & Geosciences; Water Resources Institute, Burlington, VT, United States, (2)University of Vermont, Rubenstein School of Environment & Natural Resources, Gund Institute, Burlington, VT, United States, (3)University of Vermont, Geography & Geosciences; Water Resources Institute, Burlington, United States, (4)University of Vermont, Civil & Environmental Engineering; Water Resources Institute, Burlington, United States, (5)West Virginia University, Davis College School of Natural Resources, Morgantown, United States, (6)Pennsylvania State University, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, University Park, PA, United States, (7)Penn State University, Center for Dirt and Gravel Road Studies, University Park, United States

Aligning Earth Observations with Climate Perception: Evaluating Drought and Flood Identification Methods in Nepal’s Chitwan Valley (1932207)

Thandeka Bango, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, United States, Nicolas Choquette-Levy, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, United States, Sarah Redicker, University of Exeter, Geography, Exeter, United Kingdom, Dirgha Ghimire, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States and Uttam Sharma, Institute for Integrated Development Studies (IIDS), Kathmandu, Nepal

Participatory Mapping in Guyana: An Inclusive Approach to the Co-Design and Exploration of Integrative Nature-Based Solutions (1939134)

Cody Danaher¹, Liam Kirkpatrick², Alana Norville³, Alexandra Collins², Oluwasinaayomi Faith Kasim³, Jan F Adamowski⁴ and Chandra A. Madramootoo¹, (1)McGill University, Bioresource Engineering, Montreal, QC, Canada, (2)Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, (3)University of Guyana, Geography, Georgetown, Guyana, (4)McGill University, Department of Bioresource Engineering, Montreal, QC, Canada

Living on the Waterfront: A Household Flood Vulnerability Assessment of Riverine Communities in Assam, India (1941052)

Plawana Borthakur, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Humanities and Social Sciences, West Medinipur, India and Kishor Goswami, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Humanities and Social Sciences, Kharagpur, India

From Projections to Planning: A Modular Framework for Climate-Smart Flood Risk Modeling Using R2D, BRAILS, and IN-CORE in Coastal Louisiana (1948377)

Nazla Bushra¹, Thomas Douthat², Rubayet Bin Mostafiz³, Fahmida Akhter⁴ and Mackendy Ceragene⁴, (1)Louisiana Office of State Climatology, Louisiana State University, Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Baton Rouge, United States, (2)Louisiana State University, Environmental Science, Baton Rouge, United States, (3)Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Biological and Agricultural Engineering, LaHouse Research and Education Center, Baton Rouge, United States, (4)Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States

From Scientific Experts to Applied Users and Everyone in Between: Implementing an Engagement Strategy for Modernizing NOAA’s Probable Maximum Precipitation Estimates that Serves All Users (1949099)

Sydney Luce¹, Bridget Smith¹, Kelly M Mahoney², Emily Mutkoski³, John F England Jr⁴, Bill McCormick⁵ and Will Silva⁵, (1)Cadmus Group, Inc., Waltham, MA, United States, (2)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States, (3)NOAA, Boulder, United States, (4)U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Risk Management Center, Lakewood, United States, (5)Black & Veach, Overland Park, United States

Flood Risk Perception, Institutional Trust, and Lived Experience Shape Household Preparedness in Urban Coastal Communities (1952527)

Kevin Larson Mohr^1,2, Brett F Sanders³, Douglas Houston³, Sam Lindemann⁴, Jennifer Niemann⁵, Jochen E Schubert⁶, Michael C Sukop⁷, Eva-Marie Martin⁶, Shichen Wang⁸, Isa Tavarez⁹ and Katharine J Mach¹⁰, (1)Leonard and Jayne Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy, University of Miami, Miami, United States, (2)Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science, University of Miami, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, Miami, United States, (3)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (4)Harvard University, Department of Statistics, Cambridge, United States, (5)University of Miami, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science; Leonard and Jayne Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy, Miami, United States, (6)University of California Irvine, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, United States, (7)Florida International University, Earth and Environment, Miami, United States, (8)University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States, (9)University of Miami, Environmental Science and Policy, Miami, United States, (10)Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, United States

Co-Developing Community-Driven Tools to Improve Access to NOAA’s National Water Model for Resilience Planning (1957222)

Irene Garousi Nejad¹, Anthony Castronova¹, Devin Cowan² and Kristin Raub¹, (1)Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc., Arlington, United States, (2)Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrological Science, Washington, United States

What areas of Louisiana have the highest and lowest risks to marginal changes in flood depth: A sensitivity analysis of household damages based on flood depth and continuous return periods for Louisiana’s 64 Parishes (1957781)

Nazla Bushra¹, Fahmida Akhter², Thomas Douthat³, Mackendy Ceragene², Md Adilur Rahim⁴, Carol J Friedland⁵, Rubayet Bin Mostafiz⁵ and Thomas Douthat, (1)Louisiana State University, Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences, Baton Rouge, United States, (2)Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (3)Louisiana State University, Environmental Science, Baton Rouge, United States, (4)Louisiana State University AgCenter, Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Baton Rouge, United States, (5)Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Biological and Agricultural Engineering, LaHouse Research and Education Center, Baton Rouge, United States

Assessing the Climate Resilience of Rainwater Harvesting Systems (RWHS) in Southwest Coastal Bangladesh (1958408)

Sheikh Asif Hasan¹, Muhammad Mainuddin Patwary^1,2, Mahadi Hasan¹, Sushmita Mukherjee¹, Muhammad Ramzan Ali³, Md. Foezullah Talukder⁴ and Dr. Md. Atikul Islam⁵, (1)Khulna University, Life Science School, Environmental Science Discipline, Khulna, Bangladesh, (2)Environment and Sustainability Research Initiative, Khulna, Bangladesh, (3)Christian Commission for Development in Bangladesh (CCDB）, Dhaka, Bangladesh, (4)Christian Commission for Development in Bangladesh (CCDB), Dhaka, Bangladesh, (5)Khulna University, Life Science School, Enviornmental Science Discipline, Khulna, Bangladesh

Mapping the Forgotten Floods: Historical Urban Flood Events and Exposure Disparities in Jackson, Mississippi (1962229)

Md Mozammel Hasan Chowdhury, Jackson State University, Jackson, United States and Berneece Herbert, Jackson State University, urban planning, Jackson, United States

Last Flood of a Lifetime: Causes and Consequences of the Exceptional 2020 Flood in the Peace-Athabasca Delta, Canada (1963627)

Julianne MS Davis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Earth, Marine, and Environmental Sciences, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, Tamlin Pavelsky, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences, Chapel Hill, United States, Wayana Dolan, USGS Geological Survey, Denver, United States and Angelica Maria Gomez, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Geography, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Selective Narratives, Persistent Risks: How Competing Stories Shape Flood Risk Management in Chiplun, India (1967314)

Aishwarya Borate, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, UNITED STATES

Flood risk reduction logics and politics in South Central Louisiana (1967358)

Simone Domingue, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, UNITED STATES and Marina Ruiz, Tulane University, New Orleans, United States

Who is to blame? The normative influences on blame in the wake of extreme hydroclimatic events (1968659)

Mason Majszak, New York University, Tandon School of Engineering & Department of Philosophy, New York, NY, United States and Omar Wani, New York University, Tandon School of Engineering, New York, NY, United States

Student Coursework as Collaborative Science: Development of a Flood Modeling Course to Educate Future Engineers and Support Local Stakeholders (1970486)

P J Ruess^1,2, Andre Lima², Diana Veronez², Daniel Cardona², Zeeshan Khalid¹, Amanda Mullen², Celso Ferreira², Leah Nichols¹, Alice Fox¹ and James L Kinter¹, (1)George Mason University, Virginia Climate Center, Fairfax, United States, (2)George Mason University, Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering, Fairfax, United States

Co-Producing Knowledge for Equitable Climate Mitigation in Gulf Coast Communities (1974864)

Maria Lindquist, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, United States, Emma Wills, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, History, Lafayette, United States and Anna Osland, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, KATHLEEN BABINEAUX BLANCO PUBLIC POLICY CENTER, Lafayette, United States

Comparison of 1D and 2D HEC-RAS for Dam Breach Analysis (1975742)

Aiden Griggs, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States, Venkatesh Merwade, Purdue University, Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering, West Lafayette, United States, Sayan Dey, Saint Louis University Main Campus, Department of Earth, Environmental and Geospatial Science, Saint Louis, United States and David Wilson, Purdue University, Lafayette, United States

The End of the Road: Present and Future Chronic Flood Risk Along Coastal Roadways and Impacts to Community Livability (1978913)

Ryan McCUNE¹, Katherine Anarde¹, Antonia Sebastian², James P Collins³, Lauren Elise Grimley⁴, Ebrahim Ebrahim Hamidi¹, Miyuki Hino⁵ and Casey Dietrich¹, (1)North Carolina State University, Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, Raleigh, United States, (2)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Earth, Marine, and Environmental Sciences, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, (3)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of City and Regional Planning, Chapel Hill, United States, (4)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Earth, Marine, and Environmental Sciences, Chapel Hill, United States, (5)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of City and Regional Planning; Environment, Ecology, and Energy Program, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Comparative Analysis of the Use of Local Knowledge in Climate Action Plans in the U.S. (1988873)

Donggyu Lee, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, School of Architecture and Design, Lafayette, LA, United States and Mattijs Van Maasakkers, Ohio State University Main Campus, City and Regional Planning, Columbus, United States

It’s what you say AND how you say it: how effective communication improves flood response (2000216)

Tracy Fanara, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States

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H062
Connecting Science and Communities: Co-Created and Integrated Approaches for Understanding and Addressing Water Hazards in a Shifting Hydroclimatic Landscape