Future-Proofing Watersheds — Integrating Climate Resilience Planning with Modern Engineering

Webinar Summary

Across the country, infrastructure owners and managers are confronting a new reality: increased extreme weather events, aging assets and rising demand for reliability. The nation’s most innovative owners are now blending climate resilience strategies with cutting-edge engineering to create stormwater infrastructure that overcomes these challenges. This webinar will explore how an integrated approach between climate resilience and civil engineering helps public and private agencies future-proof infrastructure. Key topics will include:

• Using climate projection models to anticipate rainfall intensities, drought cycles and hydrologic extremes
• Vulnerability and risk assessment best practices
• Leveraging these climate insights to inform engineering design standards for more resilient water systems
• Nature-based solutions to complement gray infrastructure and reduce long-term maintenance costs

Engineers, program managers and watershed districts will learn actionable strategies to rethink infrastructure through a resilience lens to help safeguard communities, reduce risk and maximize investment.

Speaker Profiles

Matt Huddleston serves as Principal Consultant with Resilient Analytics, a Stanley Consultants company. As a Professional Engineer, Matt combines more than 10 years of engineering and technical acumen with climate resilience planning experience to actionable adaptation strategies for clients. He has led climate resilience projects for a variety of clients, including municipalities, institutions and private entities. Matt’s work encompasses a broad range of asset types, including transportation, water and energy infrastructure and building systems.

Walter Eshenaur serves as Principal Water Resources Engineer with Stanley Consultants. With nearly 40 years of experience in water resources engineering, Walter is a respected leader in water, wastewater and water resources planning. His extensive experience includes municipal and irrigation well design, groundwater treatment, drinking water distribution, transient analysis and advanced pumping systems. Walter has led the design of surface water conveyance and storage systems, flood storage solutions and stormwater drainage systems, including green infrastructure Best Management Practices (BMPs) for watershed, roadway and site projects. He has also completed a wide range of municipal and campus stormwater master plans and drainage studies, making a significant impact on communities and organizations throughout his career.

Webinar Format

This webinar will include a moderated Q and A session following the speaker’s presentation. The session is open to environmental engineering and science professionals across all sectors and career stages. Our objective is to offer special insights on leading edge solutions for graduate and undergraduate students as well as early to mid-career environmental professionals who are considering specialty certification.

AAEES Board Certified Individuals: Attend this event and earn 1.5 PDHs towards your PDH requirements for maintaining your specialty certification.

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