May 15, 2025: CSHS Webinar: Developing and Interpreting Extreme Weather, Climate and Flood Statistics in a Changing Climate

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Presenter: Jeremy Fyke

Date: May 15, 2025, 12-1 pm EDT

Title of Presentation: Developing and Interpreting Extreme Weather, Climate and Flood Statistics in a Changing Climate

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How will floods change in my community in a changing climate?

As part of their role as effective water managers, CWRA members are now regularly expected to address this question by developing weather, climate and flood statistics that reflect not just present-day, but also future, climate conditions. Addressing the challenge of ‘climate change aware’ flood assessments involves combining standard operational flood assessment methods with new approaches and tools. Drawing from experience at the interface of climate science and hydrological methods, we aim to review this changing landscape. As part of this, we will address some key considerations for climate-change-aware flood assessments, including how to:

Develop and interpret climate and flood statistics’ in the context of future projections
Integrate future-projected model data into flood assessment project workflows
Communicate the essence of future-projected weather, climate and flood statistics to stakeholders and clients

With this webinar, we hope to increase confidence of water management practitioners to integrate climate change into their work.

Jeremy Fyke is a Coordinator with the Data Products Office at the Canadian Centre for Climate Services, within Environment and Climate Change Canada, where he works to translate insights from weather and climate data to decision making. He has worked at the interface of climate change and hydrology across multiple projects via research in Canada, the United States and New Zealand, private sector consulting projects, and as a Canada-focussed climate services provider. Jeremy has a PhD in climate modelling from Victoria University of Wellington, and is an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Geography at Simon Fraser University and an EGBG Professional Geoscientist (non-practicing). He is grateful to live and work in the traditional and unceded territory of the Syilx People of the Okanagan Nation, British Columbia