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Campus resiliency through community design
- 1. may 9.2016 Julie Newman Director, Office of Sustainability Brent D. Ryan Assoc. Prof. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning & Head of City Design & Dev't Group Maryanne Kirkbride Clinical Director for Campus Life, MIT Medical Lawrence Susskind Prof. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning campus resiliency through community design
- 2. Complete a climate vulnerability assessment of the MIT campus that assesses the impacts from increasing temperatures, extreme storms, flooding, storm surge, sea level rise, and the interaction of these factors Building on the work of the City of Cambridge MIT Climate Resiliency Committee may 9.2016 23 Heat Index - 2030sScenario for Social Environment “Feels-like” temperature variability on a day when heat index is 96° F (90oFwith relative humidity 50 – 55%) 4 Consecutive Days With Heat Index At 96oF 25 Update on Sea Level Rise / Storm Surge • 2030s: Charles River Dam unlikely to be overtopped, unlikely impact on Cambridge • 2050-2070: Charles River Dam becoming more likely to be overtopped, likely impact on Cambridge • Preliminary findings: Modeling being finalized for 2070s Preliminary findings: Boundaries of MassDOT study (Source: MassDOT, Woods Hole Group, UMass Boston, March 2015) 16 Inland Flooding– 2070s High Scenario (11.7 inches over 24 hours) Manhole flooding by MWH, Riverine flooding by VHB
- 3. 17 (8.9 inches over 24 hours) Manhole flooding by MWH, Riverine flooding by VHB Replace with 10 yr flooding – same zoom-in Inland Flooding/ Eastern Cambridge – Present Low Scenario 10 yr 24 hr baseline– Total FloodingABand CRAreas (4.9 inches over 24 hours) 19 Manhole flooding by MWH, Riverine flooding by VHB Inland Flooding/ Eastern Cambridge – 2030s High Scenario 100 yr 24 hr by2030s– Total FloodingABand CRAreas (10.2 inches over 24 hours)
- 4. brent slides go here Order: Brent Maryanne Larry
- 5. 2INTRODUCTION Map: 6 Feet of Sea Level Rise By2100,Massachusettswill experiencebetween1.5 and 6ft of sea level rise.At 6ft,theCommonwealth standsat risk of having309,220 individualsdisplaced fromtheir homes.
- 8. 7SENDINGTOWNS LAND INVENTORYLANDINVENTORY Map: Land Inventory Open Space+ LowDensity Parcels Public Open Space Federal,State, County, Municipal, PublicNon-Profit Land Trust & Conservation Open Space PrivateOpen Space CandidateParcels <15%lot coverageOR>1acreof unbuilt land
- 12. • How does MIT define Resiliency? • What can we do? How can the built environment influence health and wellbeing? • How can we measure success?
- 14. Forging Consensus on Local Climate Risk Management
Editor's Notes
- As many of you know, the MIT Climate Resiliency Committee was launched in Fall 2015 through a coordinated faculty and staff effort to come together around a shared desire to prepare MIT for the impacts of climate change, and utilize MIT resources to harness new research and thinking for regional preparation. Broadly, when we speak about climate resiliency, we mean “the ability to prepare for, respond to, and prevent disruption from climate impacts’. One might also expand the definition of resiliency to include a more human element, for instance adding “the ability for people to thrive, even in uncertain conditions.” Our panelists today will be touching particularly on this human element, but first let me give a brief overview of MIT’s current activities around assessing climate impacts.
- As many of you know, the MIT Climate Resiliency Committee was launched in Fall 2015 through a coordinated faculty and staff effort to come together around a shared desire to prepare MIT for the impacts of climate change. The charge of this group was to complete a campus climate vulnerability assessment which assesses the impacts from climate change in five areas: increasing temperatures, extreme storms, flooding, storm surge, sea level rise, AND, the interaction of these factors, for of course we know that we will see for instance extreme hurricaines in a future where sea levels have risen. If you remember from last year’s presentations, the City of Cambridge released a climate vulnerability assessment, and our efforts builds on this process. The goals of the group, in addition to completing an assessment which takes the work of the city and downscales it to the campus, also included: Identifying opportunities for research and living laboratory projects to improve regional knowledge and action Playing a leadership role in convening regional partners for shared planning Continuing to integrate climate vulnerability assessment components and outcomes with the City of Cambridge and City of Boston
- Here is one slide from the City of Cambridge’s assessment, showing flooding impacts. In this diagram, one or several in the full report released by the City, we can see that flooding today (transition) will look quite different than flooding tomorrow. What we don’t see in this map is how the flooding will impact people – how they move through the City, how they get to work, how they adapt their daily lives to deal with change. I show this to set the context for our panel today. As MIT embarks upon a trajectory of both completing research for a more resilient future, and plans for a more resilient campus in the future, it can be easy to fall into the habit of thinking of “campus” or “community” resiliency as only pertaining to physical systems like buildings, energy support, or roads. Our panelists today (Brent, Maryanne, and Larry), will be discussing ways in which their research, our work on campus, and our work in the city, explores the full range of the word “resiliency” to ensure MIT is undertaking design and practice which is grounded in not only preparing our infrastructure, but our people for a changing planet and emerging challenges today. Panelist Introductions