Conférence de Jacob Stolle le 28 février 10h30
Monsieur Jacob Stolle, finissant au doctorat à l'Université d'Ottawa en cotutelle avec la Technical University of Braunschweig en Allemagne (voir sa bio ci-dessous), présentera une conférence le 28 février 2019 à 10h30, à la salle 2422 du Centre Eau, Terre Environnement de l'INRS.
Sa conférence s'intitule Hazards and Impacts of Extreme Coastal Flood Events / Future focus on Quebec’s case (voir le résumé ci-dessous)
Bienvenue à tous !
Résumé : Human interaction with extreme flood events has shaped engineering, environmental and social progress throughout history. This has been further exacerbated by climate change as rising sea levels and increased occurrence of extreme weather events had a major influence on vulnerable coastal communities. In this presentation, these interactions will be examined through the lens of a recent major flooding event, the 2018 Indonesian Palu Tsunami. The presentation will illustrate why this event was so unique while also providing insight into the hazards that extreme flooding events pose to coastal communities in Canada. The presentation will further show how the lessons from the field survey of this event, along with similar surveys from the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and 2011 Tohoku Tsunami, have informed ongoing collaboration between research groups in Canada, Germany and Japan into the design of flood-resilient structures.
Quebec and Canada experience a unique and challenging coastal environment due to the interaction between ice, wave, tidal, and current forces. Additionally, with changes to the mean weather patterns, the northern systems have been forced to react, causing the accelerated retreat of shorelines. Drawing upon experience in extreme flooding events, research programs and objectives will be outlined addressing these forces. The design of economical, sustainable coastal protection structures in this complex, fragile ecosystem will be critical in ensuring the viability of Quebec and Canadian communities into the future.
Biographie : Jacob Stolle is a NSERC CGS-D PhD student at the University of Ottawa in a cotutelle agreement with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Technical University of Braunschweig (Germany) soon finishing his studies. His research focuses on the design of resilient coastal and riverine infrastructure in extreme flooding events, with an emphasis on the physical modelling of associated design conditions. He is currently performing research at TU Braunschweig, under a DAAD Fellowship, examining methodology for the accurate modelling of structural responses under long-wave loading. He is the winner of several research fellowships (NSERC Michael Smith, MITACS Globalink, JSPS) and has spent research internships at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, Leibniz Universität Hannover and TU Braunschweig (both in Germany). To date, Jacob Stolle published 16 peer-reviewed journal publications, mainly focusing on experimental and numerical modelling of extreme events on infrastructure and conducted a post-tsunami forensic engineering field survey in Palu, Indonesia (2018).
