Thursday, February 26 - 1:00 PM PST
Educational talk + panel discussion
What works, what doesn’t, and lessons learned from recent atmospheric river events.
Many of the challenges described in our recent blog - thresholds that don’t quite fit, alerts that require interpretation, and decisions made under time pressure - come down to how flood monitoring programs are designed and operated in practice.
To dig deeper into what actually works, we’re hosting an upcoming educational panel-style webinar focused on the realities of setting up and running an effective flood monitoring program.
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What we’ll cover - Program setup principles that scale from simple to sophisticated - Threshold selection realities—and why “standard” return periods are only a starting point - Common failure modes, from false confidence to alert fatigue - First-hand field perspectives from the middle of recent atmospheric river events |
• Host: Sarah Davidson, Ph.D., P.Geo, P.L.Eng.
• Program design: Chad Sutherland, P.Eng.
• Panel (field, operations, and community perspectives):
Alex Baumgard, Ph.D., P.Eng, P.Geo.
Gerry Ferris, Ph.D., P.Eng.
Carie-Ann Hancock, M.Sc., P.Geo.
This session is designed for engineers, operators, and decision-makers who want to move beyond theory and understand how flood monitoring supports risk management during extreme events.

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