Webinars

OILMAP Land is a modeling system that predicts the pathway of hydrocarbon spills from pipelines and storage/processing facilities. The system calculates overland and downstream oil pathways using publicly available spatial data to define the terrestrial and surface water environments. The model has been applied to numerous hazardous liquid pipelines in North America to satisfy regulatory requirements for Integrity Management and to support Environmental Assessments for large and small pipeline construction projects. This webinar will explain how the model has been applied to hazardous pipeline and tank spills using examples from numerous case examples in the U.S. and Canada.

Date: 16 February 2016, 8am (EST) and 2pm (EST)
Webinar Length: 30 minutes
Instructor: Chris Galagan

Coastal hazards such as sea level rise, storm surge, and tsunami are significant sources of societal risk because of the concentration of both population and critical infrastructure (i.e., ports, maritime terminals, nuclear power plants, oil refineries) along the coasts. Assessing tsunami hazard requires modeling impact and inundation from all possible extreme near- and far-field tsunami sources (e.g., earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, submarine mass failures) in a given ocean basin. This webinar will describe tools for modeling and assessing tsunami hazard, with examples of their application to specific case studies.

Date: 8 March 2016, 8am (EST) 2pm (EST)
Webinar Length: 30 minutes
Instructor: Dr. Tayebeh Tajalli Bakhsh