Webinar: Helping Communities Assess Risk and Design for the Future (April 2025)

Contact: 

Jessica A. Kuonen, Hudson Estuary Resilience Specialist, NYSG E: jak546@cornell.edu, P: (845) 340-3990 x323


Kingston, NY, April 4, 2025 - In this webinar — "Translating Rainfall Intensity and Duration to Streamflow: Helping Communities Assess Risk and Design for the Future" — the SLR Team provide an overview of overview flood risk terminology (e.g. recurrence intervals) and how to determine streamflow and rainfall for a given location. They then walk us through a four-step approach to estimate a range of potential future peak discharges and evaluate flood risk at specific locations in the Catskills Region of Ulster and Greene Counties, New York, and how the results were used to evaluate future flood risk under a range of time scales and emissions pathways, and reflect the uncertainty associated with these projections.

This webinar references an earlier webinar recording that can be accessed here: Predicting and Preparing for Extreme Precipitation: Lessons for the Ashokan Reservoir Basin from the Delaware River Basin with Dr. Art Degaetano.

Presenters: Mark Carabetta, PWS, CFM and Matt Trueheart, SLR

This program is a partnership between New York Sea Grant, the Ashokan Watershed Stream Management Program, and individual members of the Ashokan Release Working Group Technical Committee including Catskill Mountainkeeper, Hudson 7, and the Lower Esopus Creek Advisory Council.

Notable Moments:

0:00 Introduction

3:27 AWSMP Program

8:13 Main presentation

52:22 Audience Q&A


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