- June 2017: Flooding (Featuring Philip Orton) | Transcript (.pdf)
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About the guest interviewee:
Philip Orton is a research assistant professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ, and specializes in coastal physical oceanography and storm surges. He holds a PhD in physical oceanography from Columbia University, has published over twenty-five peer-reviewed articles, as well as three New York Times op-eds on climate change, coastal ecosystem health and coastal flooding. He is a member of the NYC Panel on Climate Change (NPCC), the NOAA-RISA funded Consortium for Climate Risk in the Urban Northeast (http://ccrun.org), and the Executive Council of the Science and Resilience Institute at Jamaica Bay. He has been contributing to New York City’s flood adaptation planning after Hurricane Sandy, working with New York City on the Special Initiative on Rebuilding and Resilience, and as a member of the winning Living Breakwaters team for the Rebuild By Design competition. His other research interests include flood risk assessment, ensemble forecasting, air-sea interaction, sediment transport, and coastal and urban meteorology.
