We invite you to join the January meeting of the Environment-Vulnerability-Decision-Technology (EVDT) Community. The purpose of the EVDT Community meetings is to share research approaches led by the Space Enabled Research Group and our collaborators that combine insights into social, environmental and policy challenges that can be addressed with geospatial information systems. Learn more about the EVDT Framework here; and read publications from past EVDT projects here.
The meeting will take place on Tuesday, February 10th from 11:00am to 12:00pm ET. Join the Zoom link here. If you missed the previous meeting, you can find the recording here.
Here is the time-zone information for various locations: Mexico City - 10:00 am to 11:00 am; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm; Luanda, Angola - 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm; Benin - 5.00 pm to 6.00 pm; Ghana - 4.00 pm to 5.00 pm; Jakarta, Indonesia - 11:00 pm to 12:00 am; Los Angeles, USA - 8:00 am to 9:00 am.
If you are planning to attend the EVDT Meeting on February 10th, please fill out this form in advance.
We are also collecting ideas and volunteers for side events (discussions, longer talks, workshops, teaching sessions, etc.). Want to get feedback and advice on some project idea that you have? Want to learn how to use ArcGIS StoryMaps or Google Earth Engine but don't know who to ask?
Whether you want to host an event or want to suggest an event for someone else to host, please fill out this form with your ideas! These can be short, 30 minute events or long multi-hour workshops. The format and topics are very open.
Agenda:
All times are in ET
Introduction | 11:05 AM
Opening remarks from Sharif Islam
Presentation | 11:10 AM
Speaker name: Dr. Ryan McGranaghan
Presentation Title: Risk science for a complex world: Characterizing multi-hazard risk and resiliency for the power grid and cultivating a new collective
Abstract: We exist in a world of interdependent systems whose entanglement gives rise to difficult to quantify vulnerabilities and extreme uncertainties that make their deterministic management impossible. The interdependence of our 21st century world is not merely economic nor solely technological, but extends into the social realm as well. Complexity science, not a discipline but a paradigm of scientific discovery, has produced a profound shift in scientific thought and concomitant understanding, perhaps most effective in its ability to evolve scientific disciplines toward new foci. Although in no way new, revisiting *risk science* through the lens of complexity science, and with explicit attention to the normative commitments that shape risk research reveals underexplored possibilities for the field.
Nowhere is this re-examination more critical than in the evolving energy systems that underpin societal stability amid accelerating climate, political, and economic change. We share details of a new NASA Disasters Program project examining how the multi-hazard system of space weather, terrestrial weather, and wildfire stresses the US power grid in unpredictable and often non-intuitive ways.
We share event-based storylines, statistical analyses of complex networks built on enriched historical records, and insights from direct engagement of power grid operators. Our findings provide new knowledge into how intersecting hazards and vulnerabilities shape resilience across socio-technological-ecological systems.
We also outline an emerging global initiative aimed at collective, transdisciplinary action toward complex risk science. By translating multi-hazard insights into actionable knowledge, we offer both methodological tools and institutional pathways for advancing risk analysis under conditions of deep uncertainty and systemic interdependence.
Organizational Affiliation: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Q&A | 11:45 am
Meeting Adjourn | 12:00 pm