Resiliency News

1. Brown And Caldwell Joins HASSELL+ Team To Present South San Francisco Resiliency Plan
   6/7/2018

   HASSELL+, a multidisciplinary resilience team that includes Brown and Caldwell, presented their Resilient by Design|Bay Area Challenge proposal for the Colma Creek Watershed in San Mateo County, South San Francisco, at the Resilient Bay Summit.

2. Black & Veatch: Data Analytics, Resilience And Sustainability Drive Water Discussion
   6/5/2018

   Collecting data from our water systems is one thing. Acting on that information is game-changing, and a Black & Veatch survey shows that the water space is taking note.

3. ISA Delivers On-Site Industrial Cybersecurity Training And Technical Support At US National Guard Exercise Designed To Prepare For And Defend Against Industrial Cyberattack
   5/25/2018

   For the third year in a row, the International Society of Automation (ISA) provided operational technology (OT) training and on-site technical assistance in support of the US National Guard’s national cyber-operations exercise, Cyber Shield.

4. Hurricanes: Stronger, Slower, Wetter In The Future?
   5/21/2018

   New analysis compares 22 named storms with possible hurricanes of the future.

5. Report: Facing $1T In Water Infrastructure Costs, States Aren’t Leveraging Federal Dollars To Weather Coming Storms
   5/15/2018

   With water infrastructure costs expected to exceed $1T, a new report shows that only a few states are adequately leveraging federal dollars to shrink the infrastructure funding gap. 

6. Water Main Break, Sinkhole Hit Philly Airport
   5/9/2018

   The Philly airport was dry for several hours this week in the latest major sign that U.S. water infrastructure needs some upgrades.

7. US And UK Join Forces To Understand How Quickly A Massive Antarctic Glacier Could Collapse
   4/30/2018

   The collapse of the Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica could significantly affect global sea levels. As part of a new $25M research collaboration, the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the United Kingdom's Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) announced recently that teams of scientists at U.S. institutions will deploy to Antarctica to gather the data needed to understand whether the glacier could begin to collapse in the next few decades or centuries from now.

8. New Research To Predict How Global Sea Levels Will Rise
   4/30/2018

   Researchers at the University of St Andrews have won two major grants of £438,000 and £540,000 to discover whether the collapse of a huge Antarctic glacier could raise global sea levels by as much as a metre by the end of this century.

9. Louisiana Receives Over $82M Under Gulf Of Mexico Energy Security Act Of 2006
   4/26/2018

   U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke announced the Department will disburse over $82M to Louisiana and its coastal political subdivisions (CPS).  This represents the first disbursement under Phase-II of the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006 (GOMESA). 

10. Many Low-Lying Atoll Islands Will Be Uninhabitable By Mid-21^st Century
    4/25/2018

    Sea-level rise and wave-driven flooding will negatively impact freshwater resources on many low-lying atoll islands in such a way that many could be uninhabitable in just a few decades.