Webinar | Whiplash Weather: Lessons from California’s Deadly 2023 Storms

Join the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment for a panel discussion exploring the extent to which climate change is contributing to the intensity of California’s ongoing deadly storms, what modeling is telling us to expect in the future and how residents and decision-makers can plan and prepare for those projected impacts, particularly in overburdened communities.

A panel of Stanford scientists joined by community leaders and responders will discuss the science behind this latest example of climate-fueled weather extremes, in addition to assessing implications for the state’s drought recovery and lessons for community preparedness. The discussion will also explore where resilience and adaptation or emergency planning efforts paid off at the local level and what tools and methods are available to provide solutions to both drought and flooding water storage challenges.

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Panel

Noah Diffenbaugh, Kara J Foundation Professor and Kimmelman Family Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University

Rosemary Knight, George L. Harrington Professor of Geophysics, and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University

Matt Robinson(link is external), Emergency Operations Public Information Officer (Water Resources, Drinking Water, Flooding), Sacramento County

Jenny Suckale(link is external), Assistant Professor of Geophysics and Center Fellow by Courtesy at the Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University

Moderated by Chris Field, Perry L. McCarty Director, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment