Join Dr. Jim Stagge, an assistant professor at the Ohio State University, as he explores how climate change is reshaping Ohio's weather. Dr. Stagge will describe how climate change impacts the hydrologic cycle, affecting the seasonality of precipitation and intensifying extremes like drought and flood. He will describe how centuries of reconstructed climate using tree rings can be linked with modern observations and climate model simulations to show how precipitation and streamflow have changed over the last century. His talk will ultimately focus on climate in Ohio and the Midwest, describing the “new normal” under climate change.
Dr. Stagge leads the Hydrologic Extremes Research Laboratory in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering. His research focuses on modeling and quantifying hydrologic extremes, for example, droughts and floods, under climate change, with the goal of decreasing social, environmental, and economic impacts.
