PROGRAM

PDF version of program – download here: EVAN2022_Program.pdf
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Oral presentations: Each speaker has a 15-minute time slot including Q&A. Please prepare a 12-minute presentation so that we have a few minutes for discussions afterwards.
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Poster presentations: Our poster boards are 30 x 40 inch (76.2 x 101.6 cm) and can be used in landscape or portrait format. Please keep this in mind when preparing your posters.

Day 1: Tuesday, 17th May 2022 ​

08:00 – 09:00 ​	Registration
09:00 – 09:30	Opening remarks
09:30 – 10:15 ​​	Keynote Lecture: Multi-Hazard Assessments – Moving Beyond Disciplinary Divides. Dr. Michelle (Shelby) Bensi, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, USA
10:15 – 10:45 ​​	Coffee break
10:45 – 12:15 ​​	Session 1: Applications, Chair: Ivan Haigh ​
​​	Talk 1: Julie Carreau - A spatially adaptative multi-resolution generative algorithm: application for urban flood risk assessment ​ Talk 2: Sara Santamaria-Aguilar - Uncertainties in regional coastal flood assessments associated with the variability of hydrographs of extreme events Talk 3: Katherine Serafin - Flood risk transfer as a consequence of climate change and infrastructure modifications along the San Francisquito Creek, California Talk 4: Amrit Shankar Verma - A probabilistic rainfall model to combat leading-edge erosion of wind turbine blades Talk 5: Hal Needham - Recent Innovations for Data-Driven Flood Risk Analysis: A Case Study from Biloxi, Mississippi, USA.
12:15 – 13:15 ​	Lunch break ​
13:15 – 14:45 ​	Session 2: Meteorological/Climatological, Chair: Katherine Serafin ​
​	Talk 6: Ivan Haigh - Climate-induced storminess forces major increases in future storm surge hazard in the South China Sea region Talk 7: Holli N. Capps Herron - Spatial and Temporal Variability in the Characteristics of Extreme Daily Rainfalls in Ghana Talk 8: Katherine Towey - Tropical cyclone storm surge probabilities for the east coast of the United States: A cyclone-based perspective Talk 9: Benjamin Shaby - Projecting Flood-Inducing Precipitation with a Bayesian Analogue Model Talk 10: Brian Blanton - Extreme sea levels from a 41-yr coastal reanalysis for the US East and Gulf of Mexico coasts
14:45 – 15:15	Coffee break
15:15 – 16:45	Session 3: Non-stationarity, Chair: Yasser Hamdi ​
​	Talk 11: Marco A. Öttl - Probabilistic design of river levees under consideration of time-dependent load structures Talk 12: Callum Barltrop - A novel framework for capturing non-stationarity in extremal dependence structures Talk 13: Yasser Hamdi - A non-stationary bivariate analysis of significant wave height and storm surge extremes in the English Channel, integrating teleconnection patterns and climate change Talk 14: Mitchell Krock - Nonstationary seasonal model for daily mean temperature distribution bridging bulk and tails Talk 15: Jens Bender: A linear-circular model to determine sub-annual flood probabilities  Talk 16: James Stagge - Non-stationary standardized precipitation indices (NSPI) revisited: zero handling and bias correction
16:45 – 18:15	Poster Session 1 and welcome reception  ​

Day 2: Wednesday, 18th May 2022 ​

09:00 – 09:45 ​	Keynote Lecture: Evaluation of Binary Classifiers for Environmental Extremes. Dr. Philippe Naveau, Laboratoire des sciences du climat et de l'environnement (LSCE), France
09:45 – 10:45	Session 4: Coastal 1, Chair: Marta Marcos​
​​	Talk 17: Mercè Casas-Prat - Analysis of extreme sea levels around the Canadian coastlines – the effect of temporal inhomogeneities Talk 18: Stefan Talke - Duration of Coastal Flooding and its link to Tidal Properties Talk 19: Whitney K. Huang - A Combined Physical-Statistical Approach for Estimating Storm Surge Risk Talk 20: Alejandra Enriquez - Predictable changes in extreme storm tides and coastal flood risk due to nodal and perigean cycles
10:45 – 11:15 ​​	Coffee break
11:15 – 12:45 ​​	Session 5: Coastal 2, Chair: Alejandra Rodriguez Enriquez ​
​​	Talk 21: Paula Camus - Spatial footprints of extreme storm surge events around the coastline of the UK Talk 22: Elisa Ragno - Flooding in Venice: investigating extreme water level and its components Talk 23: Steven Meyers - Extreme Vessels Meet Extreme Values, Creating Hazards Near the Coast Talk 24: Eleanor D’Arcy - Extreme Sea Level Estimation: Accounting for Seasonality and Long-Term Changes Talk 25: James Booth - Cyclone Tracks, Atmospheric Blocking, and Storm Surge Extremes for the North America Eastern Seaboard Talk 26: Soenke Dangendorf: Contributions of individual sea-level budget components to High Tide Flooding along U.S. coastlines
12:45 – 13:45 ​	Lunch break ​
13:45 – 15:15 ​	Session 6: Coastal 3, Chair: Stefan Talke​
​	Talk 27: Laurie Saint Criq - Analysis of extreme skew surges combining systematic skew surges and historical water levels Talk 28: Marta Marcos - Coastal extreme sea levels from the new GESLA-3 tide gauge data set Talk 29: Alexa Latapy - Reconstruction of the historic sea level observations at Saint-Malo/Saint-Servan (French Brittany coast): changes of extreme coastal water levels since the 19th century Talk 30: Tim Toomey - Extreme sea levels and wind-waves in the Mediterranean Sea since 1950 Talk 31: Philip Orton - Benefits and challenges of separating tropical and non-tropical cyclone data in assessing extremes Talk 32: Michael Getachew Tadesse - Global Storm Surge Reconstructions (GSSR): Changepoint Detection and Trend Analysis
15:45	Round Table (Chair: Yasser Hamdi) - “Non-stationarity in Extreme Value Analysis
15:15 – 16:30 ​	Coffee break and Posters Session 2 ​​
19:00	Gala Dinner ​

Day 3: Thursday, 19th May 2022 ​

09:00 – 10:30 ​	Session 7: Methods 1, Chair: Gabriele Villarini​
​	Talk 33: Jordan Richards - Extreme quantile regression for high-dimensional spatio-temporal applications using partially interpretable neural networks Talk 34: Yasser Hamdi - Comparison of statistical and integrated statistical/physical modeling approaches for extreme storm surge estimation Talk 35: Zina Souaissi - Probability Distributions of river water temperature in Switzerland Talk 36: Robert Andrew Jane - Can an event-based approach provide robust estimates of extreme water levels along the transition zone of the Suwannee River, Florida? ​ Talk 37: Joao Morim - Understanding uncertainty associated with global extreme wave events using a contemporary ensemble of reanalysis and hindcast products
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee break ​
11:00 – 12:30 ​​	Session 8: Methods 2, Chair: Elisa Ragno ​
​	Talk 38: Javier Tausia - Machine learning for coastal extreme storm surge predictions in New Zealand Talk 39: David Métivier - Interpretable hidden Markov model for stochastic weather generation and climate change analysis Talk 40: Miguel Agulles - Extreme sea level events in the western Mediterranean: analysis of the main contributions based on high frequency tide gauge records Talk 41: Stan Tendijck - Modelling multivariate temporal extremes for the design of offshore facilities Talk 42: Caroline Huguenin - Assessing the drivers of extreme dry spells across the Tempisque-Bebedero River Basin, Costa Rica Talk 43: Imen TURKI - On the use of climate teleconnections for investigating the non-stationary dynamics of extreme significant wave height and storm surges
12:30 – 13:30 ​​	Lunch break ​
13:30 – 15:00 ​	Session 9: Compound events, Chair: Philip Orton​
​	Talk 44: David Lucio - Compound nearshore extreme events under climate change: A long-term analysis Talk 45: Carlos Lopez Solano - Coupling numerical modeling and joint extreme analysis of wave height and storm surge for calculating coastal hazards along the shoreline of Normandy (France) Talk 46: Masahiko Haraguchi - Estimating Return Intervals for Extreme Climate Conditions Related to Winter Disasters and Livestock Mortality in Mongolia Talk 47: Javed Ali - Assessing Compound Impacts of Natural Hazards in Miami-Dade County, Florida Talk 48: Ahmed Nasr - Changes in Dependence between Compound Coastal and Inland Flooding Drivers around the Contiguous United States Coastline Talk 49: Francisco Peña - The importance of multivariate statistical analysis to simulate compound flood hazards in North Miami
15:00 – 15:30 ​	Coffee break
15:30 – 16:30	Session 10: Methods 3, Chair: Philippe Naveau​
​	Talk 50: Lee Fawcett - The accuracy of, and sensitivity to, tests for asymptotic dependence in spatial extreme rainfall models Talk 51: Jürgen Jensen - Recent floods in Central Europe in July 2021: A new challenge for extreme value analyses! Talk 52: Laura Cagigal - TESLA 2.0: Climate-Based Emulator of Met-Ocean Parameters for Extra-Tropical and Tropical Cyclone Climates Talk 53: Charlotte Love - Multivariate statistical methods for spatially compound extremes
16:30 – 16:45	Closing remarks ​

Poster Sessions 1 and 2
(All posters to be presented at both sessions.)

1. Qazi Muhammad Yasir: Identification of Potential Sites for a Multi-Purpose Dam Using a Dam Suitability Stream Model
2. Lidia Andre: Jointly Modelling the Body and Tail of Multivariate Data
3. Conor Murphy: Spatio-temporal threshold selection for induced seismicity​
4. Harald Schellander: A new methodology for the spatial estimation of snow load extremes
5. Nathalie Giloy: The impact of tidal predictions on historical extreme skew surges
6. Robert Andrew Jane: A catchment-scale assessment of the potential for compound river discharge - storm surge events
7. Gabrielle P. Quadrado: Spatial and temporal distribution of extreme total water levels drivers along the Atlantic margin of the Southeastern United States​
8. Denis Moiriat: Probabilistic assessment for liquefaction potential of a flood-protection levee​
9. Yan Ding: Extreme Shoreline Erosion Analysis Using Monte Carlo Simulations
10. Youssouph Cissokho: Estimation of cluster functionals for regularly varying time series: sliding blocks estimators
11. Mubbasher Munir: Global Impact on Human Obesity using Shrinkage Models Through Machine Learning Algorithms​
12. Md Mamunur Rashid: Global investigation of hydrologic risks from consecutive events of dry and wet extremes
13. Gloria Buriticá: Stable sums for inference of high return levels of multivariate rainfall time series
14. Whitney K. Huang: Estimating concurrent climate extremes: A conditional approach
15. Samantha Timmers: Identifying spatially variable compounding flood drivers along coastal rivers using observed and simulated data
16. Yasir Abduljaleel: Evaluation of LID practices for sustainable stormwater management under different climate change scenarios​
17. Gabriele Villarini: On the generation of high-resolution design events capturing the joint occurrence of rainfall and storm surge in coastal basins​​