Time | Program | Speaker(s) |
8:30 – 9:00am | Registration and Refreshments | |
9:00 – 9:15am | Welcome | Marie Lynn Miranda,
Provost, Rice University |
9:15 – 9:30am | Houston Recovery
“City of Houston Recovery Program and Harvey” |
Niel Golightly
City of Houston |
9:30 – 9:50am | Evaluating the Impact of Recent Precipitation Events on Rainfall Risk Estimates through Updated Extreme Value Analysis Methods | Katherine B. Ensor, Carly Fagnant, Avantika Gori, Antonia Sebastian, Philip B. Bedient
Rice University |
9:50 – 10:10am | Effect of Climate Change on Future Harvey-like Hurricanes and the Implications for Houston | Pedram Hassanzadeh, Philip Bedient, Daniel Cohan, Laurence Yeung, Ebrahim Nabizadeh, Tim Thomas, Vincent Gonzales
Rice University |
10:10 – 10:30am | Break | |
10:30 – 10:50am | Microbial Contaminants in Harvey’s Wake: Bacteria and Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Floodwaters and Sediments | Lauren Stadler
Rice University |
10:50 – 11:10am | Learning from Harvey: Temporal Evolution of Flooding and Transportation Accessibility | Jamie Padgett, Philip Bedient, James Elliott
Rice University |
11:10 – 11:30am | Highways + Waterways: A Diachronic and Iconographic Map of Houston | Melissa Kean, Farès el-Dahdah,
Rice University |
Co-Investigators: David Alexander, Dominic Boyer, Anne Chao, Jim Elliott, Kathy Ensor, Stephen Fox, Cymene Howe, Jan Odegard, Albert Pope, Moshe Vardi, Gordon Wittenberg
Collaborators: Jim Blackburn, Technical Support: Bruno de Castro Sousa, Christian Hauser, Maddie Shen Consultants: Jean Aroom, GIS Support Specialist, Bryan Evans, GIS Developer, Hien Le, Claire Osgood, Monica Rivero, |
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11:30– 11:50am | Post-Harvey Perspectives on Population, Land-use, and Neighborhoods (PLAN) | Tony Brown, James Elliott, Stephen Klineberg
Rice University |
11:50 – 1:00pm | Lunch | |
1:00 – 1:20pm | Look for the Helpers, Listen for the Stories: Supporting Prekindergarten and Kindergarten Students Post-Harvey | Karen Capo, Jennifer Gigliotti, Jordan Khadam-Hir and Debra Paz
School Literacy and Culture, Glasscock School of Continuing Studies Rice University |
1:20 – 1:40pm | HUES HONOR (Houston Urban English Study: Harvey Oral Narratives on Record | Robert Englebretson, Nancy Niedzielski, Suzanne Kemmer
Rice University |
Research Coordinator: Natalie Grothues
Student Assistants: Meredith Church, Rachel Carlton, Natalia Salazar, Elise Tan, Taylor Williams |
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1:40 – 2:00pm | Harvey Memories Project | Caleb McDaniel
Rice University |
2:00 – 2:15pm | Houston Harvey Registry | Marie Lynn Miranda, Kathy Ensor
Rice University |
2:15 – 2:30pm | Houston Solutions Lab and Urban Data Platform | Bill Fulton, Kathy Ensor
Rice University |
2:30 – 4:00pm | Reception |