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Dear all, Greetings! You are cordially invited to join the fourth webinar of the UCGIS webinar series in Spring 2023. Title: Modeling weather-related power outages: Applying analytics to inform electrical utilities Presenter: Dr. Steven Quiring<https://geography.osu.edu/people/quiring.10> (The Ohio State University) Moderator: Dr. Lei Zou<https://geography.tamu.edu/people/profiles/faculty/zoulei.html> (Texas A&M University) Time: Friday, March 31, 2023, 11am-12pm Pacific (2-3pm Eastern) Registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5qbLNNyaSVq44lPIkrlYVQ Abstract: Storms can cause significant damage to the electrical power system, leading to prolonged power interruptions to a large number of customers. The number of weather-related outages has increased significantly in recent years. This presentation summarizes the data-driven power outage models that we have developed for investor-owned electrical utilities in the United States. These models are used to support pre-storm preparation and longer-term planning. The development and validation of our models will be presented and our approach for quantifying uncertainty will also be discussed. Presenters Bio: Dr. Steven M. Quiring is a Professor in the Atmospheric Sciences Program, Department of Geography at The Ohio State University. He is also a Fellow at The Risk Institute at The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business and a member of the Translational Data Analytics Institute and the Sustainability Institute at Ohio State University. Dr. Quiring is the President and Co-Founder of StormImpact, an OSU technology startup that provides data-driven machine learning models to electrical utilities to support their pre-storm preparation and long-term hardening activities. His research focuses on hydroclimatology, weather data analytics and modeling the impact of storms on electrical infrastructure. Specifically, he is interested in examining land-atmosphere interactions, drought monitoring, seasonal climate forecasting and soil moisture. He is also interested in examining the impacts of climate change on businesses and organizations (physical risks and transition risks). His research uses in situ observations, remote sensing, and models. He also leverages AI/ML methods to model climate processes and impacts. Dr. Quiring has published more than 110 journal articles and has received more than $15M in funding from federal (DOE, NSF, NOAA) and state (TWDB and TXDEM) agencies, including an NSF CAREER award in 2010. Dr. Quiring is an Editor of Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology and an Associate Editor for Physical Geography. Dr. Quiring received a BA(Hons.) in geography from the University of Winnipeg in 1999, a MA in geography from the University of Manitoba in 2001, and a PhD in climatology from the University of Delaware in 2005. More details are available at: https://stormimpact.com/ https://geography.osu.edu/people/quiring.10 https://u.osu.edu/quiring.10/ Qiusheng Wu, PhD Assistant Professor of Geography 309 Burchfiel Geography Building University of Tennessee, Knoxville Knoxville, TN 37996-0925 [log in to unmask] | 865-221-8824 https://wetlands.io -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- To review the archives of CLUBGGY or Join/Leave the list go to: http://listserv.utk.edu/archives/clubggy.html