Flood watches, severe weather in Michigan: U-M experts available to comment
EXPERTS ADVISORY
With “ongoing historic flooding in parts of northern lower Michigan,” as reported by the National Weather Service, University of Michigan experts are available to discuss related health, climate, weather and infrastructure issues.
Jonathan Overpeck, professor and dean of the School for Environment and Sustainability, is an expert on climate and weather extremes, sea-level rise, and the impacts of climate change and options for dealing with it. He served as lead author on the authoritative Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2007 and 2014 reports.
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Andrew Gronewold, associate professor at the School for Environment and Sustainability, is the lead investigator for the U.S. contribution to the Global Center for Understanding Climate Change Impacts on Transboundary Waters. He and his team explore methods for quantifying and communicating uncertainties within long-term hydrological monitoring networks and data, and incorporating those uncertainties into models and risk-based water resources management decisions.
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Tiantian Yang, associate professor at the School for Environment and Sustainability, explores how we can better understand and predict weather and climate, as well as manage fresh water resources in a rapidly changing world. His team combines modern artificial intelligence methods with traditional physical models and understanding of hydrologic processes to support real-world water and infrastructure decision-making.
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Tony Reames is an associate professor at the School for Environment and Sustainability, where he founded the Urban Energy Justice Lab and Energy Equity Project. He directs the U-M SEAS Detroit Sustainability Clinic and served as deputy director for energy justice and principal deputy director for state and community energy programs at the U.S. Department of Energy in the Biden administration.
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Abby Hutson is a research scientist at the School for Environment and Sustainability and Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research. Her research models weather and climate in the Great Lakes Region to assist with long-term climate projections. Part of her work focuses on identifying extreme precipitation variability and anomalies associated with large-scale atmospheric patterns.
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Julie Arbit is a researcher with the Center for Social Solutions who focuses on projects that bridge practitioners with communities in disasters, water infrastructure and the water workforce. She co-authored a report advocating for improving the infrastructure the National Weather Service uses to model and predict floods.
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Jacob Napieralski, professor of geology at UM-Dearborn, uses spatial statistical tools and pattern analyses to study trends within and between natural and social sciences in a number of areas, including flood equity and urban hydrology. He is also the director of the Environmental Interpretive Center.
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Carina Gronlund is an environmental epidemiologist and research associate professor at the School of Public Health and Institute for Social Research. Her climate vulnerability research helps cities understand how to protect people from extreme weather events and adapt to changing climate, including extreme precipitation. She has expertise in how social, economic, health and built environment characteristics affect vulnerability to extreme precipitation—and air quality, extreme heat and pollen.
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Richard Rood is a professor emeritus of climate and space sciences and engineering at the College of Engineering and professor emeritus at the School of Environment and Sustainability.
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Glen Daigger, professor of civil and environmental engineering, is co-director of the Michigan Center for Freshwater Innovation—a partnership between U-M, Wayne State University and Michigan State University researchers focused on Michigan’s critical water challenges, including flooding. His research focuses on using natural assets as a means of mitigating major flooding impacts.
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Valeriy Ivanov is a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the College of Engineering. His research touches on land surface hydrology, ecohydrology, floods and climate impact assessments, with an emphasis on uncertainty quantification.
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Sue Anne Bell is a nurse practitioner and associate professor at the School of Nursing. Her research focuses on the long-term impact of disasters and public health emergencies on health. She is clinically active in disaster response through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service’s National Disaster Medical System with over a dozen recent deployments.
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