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2020 Fall Workshop Series: Understanding Potential Life Loss from Flooding - Shining a Light into the Black Box that is HEC-LifeSim

  • 07 Oct 2020
  • 08 Oct 2020
  • 2 sessions
  • 07 Oct 2020, 9:00 AM 11:00 AM (MDT)
  • 08 Oct 2020, 9:00 AM 11:00 AM (MDT)
  • Online
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Registration

  • Any USSD 2020 Conference credit, if you have one, may be used as payment for this webinar.
  • Save 10%! Register for more than one webinar and pay before the earliest webinar’s start date. You MUST register for more than one webinar to qualify for this discounted price. Any USSD 2020 Conference credit, if you have one, may be used as payment.
  • Any USSD 2020 Conference credit, if you have one, may be used as payment for this webinar.
  • Save 10%! Register for more than one webinar and pay before the earliest webinar’s start date. You MUST register for more than one webinar to qualify for this discounted price. Any USSD 2020 Conference credit, if you have one, may be used as payment.

USSD 2020 Fall Workshop Series

Understanding Potential Life Loss from Flooding - Shining a Light into the Black Box that is HEC-LifeSim

Two, 2-hour webinars

Oct. 7 - 8, 2020, 9:00 - 11:00 am MDT

Eligible for 4 PDHs


Description

Several Federal agencies, as well as dam and levee owners have made significant efforts over the years to better understand and quantify the risk of their dam and levee portfolios. The dam and levee safety community is relatively familiar with potential failure mode analysis and estimating failure likelihoods, but there is less familiarity with estimating the consequences of failure. Quantifying consequences can be done in varying levels of detail and there are several tools available to perform these estimates, one of which is USACE’s Hydrologic Engineering Center’s (HEC) LifeSim, which provides a detailed look at flood impacts and evacuation.

The workshop will highlight how HEC-LifeSim was developed to effectively support reduction of life-safety risks associated with flooding; evaluate existing and residual risks against tolerable risk guidelines; calculate life loss and economic damages; understand life loss dynamics associated with floods; and create or improve existing emergency action plans (EAPs).

Objectives

The purpose of the workshop is to provide an overview of dam and levee safety risk assessment activities and consequence estimates used within the decision-making process at all levels, specifically using HEC-LifeSim, a software tool for estimating economic damages and life loss.

Course Agenda

Target Audience

The workshop is designed for dam and levee owners and regulators, hydraulic engineers, consequence modelers, and young professionals to get familiar with the software and its uses.

Instructors

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Woodrow "Woody" Fields, P.E.

Joanna Leu, P.E.

Jason Needham, P.E.

Paul Risher, P.E.


Registration and Cancellation Policy

No registration is confirmed until full payment is received. Seating is limited and only those with paid status are guaranteed a workshop seat. Cancellations must be received via email to info@ussdams.org in order to receive refunds as stated below:

  • By 9/23/2020 - full refund
  • After 9/23/2020: no refund, however substitutions are permitted

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