CANCELED: The Past, Present, and Future of Rainstorms and Floods in Wisconsin and Around the World
press release: Dear alumni, donors, and friends,
Our highest priority is the health and well-being of our constituents, staff, and campus community. We, alongside campus leadership, have been monitoring rapidly changing conditions and new information about the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). We’ve announced some new steps that we believe are in the best interest of those we serve.
Following recent recommendations from public health officials and guidelines announced by UW–Madison chancellor Rebecca Blank, we have decided to suspend or cancel all alumni events through April 30, 2020. Officials have recommended drastically limiting nonessential travel and suspending or canceling events. We apologize for any inconveniences this may cause but are taking this proactive measure out of consideration for your health and well-being.
Consistent with recommendations from campus, our staff will also not be traveling out of Dane County for business purposes until after April 10. We value our relationship with all of our alumni and friends and certainly will continue to reach out by phone and email. Please know that we will remain available to discuss university-related opportunities and/or address any questions you may have.
We are also aware that we have alumni and friends traveling with WAA Travel. You can find more information about that here.
Finally, we have pulled together content that illustrates what UW researchers are doing to fight the virus today and to provide guidance and perspective on how we can all be best prepared. We hope you find this useful as you navigate the evolving media coverage of the virus. We will continue to update this page in the coming weeks.
Thank you for your concern and assistance, and we hope you will be well.
About the event: While climate change has affected extreme rainfall, its impact on floods is more complex and not well understood. This is because floods are “recipes” that consist of multiple ingredients — not just rain but also landscape and river characteristics. Learn what researchers know and don’t know about how these ingredients are changing, and explore the implications for the future of rainstorms and floods in urban and rural areas of Wisconsin and beyond.
The speaker: Daniel Wright, assistant professor, UW–Madison College of Engineering, Wright earned a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in civil and environmental engineering from the University of Michigan before he served with the U.S. Peace Corps in Bolivia and as a hydropower consultant in Chile. He then earned his doctorate from Princeton University, where he studied urban rainfall and flooding. Prior to joining the UW–Madison faculty in 2016, Wright worked as a disaster risk-management consultant at the World Bank, and in 2014 he became a NASA Postdoctoral Program fellow at Goddard Space Flight Center. He received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in Hydrologic Sciences in 2018, is a member of NASA’s Precipitation Measurement Mission Science Team, and is on the Science Advisory Board of the Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts.
Free and open to the public, registration is required
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