Jim Hall, Oxford
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news-and-events/find-an-expert/professor-jim-hall
Talk details:
https://sites.google.com/modelingtalks.org/entry/modeling-climate-risks-to-infrastructure-and-supply-chains
Abstract:
Critical infrastructure (including power, water and transport) depends upon interconnectivity to deliver essential functions for society and the economy. There has been rapid progress in using Earth Observation and crowd-sourced datasets to map and model critical infrastructures. These models of infrastructure exposure can be intersected with models of extreme climatic hazards to identify hotspots of vulnerability and prioritize resilience action. This talk will overview the framework for climate risk analysis developed in the Oxford Programme for Sustainable Infrastructure Systems https://global.infrastructureresilience.org/ and will present new insights into tropical cyclone risks to power networks and multi-hazard risk analysis to ports, shipping networks and supply chains.
Bio:
Professor Hall addresses how much we need to adapt to climate change, and the risks to infrastructure systems. He is internationally recognised for his research on risk analysis and decision making under uncertainty for water resource systems, flood and coastal risk management, infrastructure systems and adaptation to climate change.
He is a member of the Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology, Expert Advisor to the National Infrastructure Commission, and Chair of the Science Advisory Committee of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). He was a member of the UK independent Committee on Climate Change Adaptation from 2009 to 2019, and was a Contributing Author to the Nobel Prize-winning Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Professor Hall’s group in the University of Oxford is at the forefront of risk analysis of climatic extremes and their impacts on infrastructure networks and economic systems, from local to global scales. He led the development of the National Infrastructure Systems Model (NISMOD), which was used for the UK’s first National Infrastructure Assessment and for analysis of the resilience of energy, transport, digital and water networks in Great Britain. His group developed the first national water resource systems simulation model for England and Wales.