TRB Webinar: Planning for Climate Change Adaptation at Airports

TRB conducted a webinar on Tuesday, December 1, 2015, from 2:00 to 3:30 PM ET that featured research conducted by TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP). The research discussed the need for conducting climate change risk assessments at airports, and how to plan for adaption and resilience to mitigate such potential risks.

This webinar provided 1.5 Continuing Education Units for Accredited Airport Executives. This webinar has met approval by the American Institute of Certified Planners for 1.5 Certification Maintenance Credits. 




Here are the slides from the presentation.

Webinar Presenters

• Matthew Mampara, Dewberry
• Chris Baglin, PPC

Moderator: Jennifer Salerno, Booz Allen Hamilton


Webinar Outline

1. Overview of TRB's Environmental Impacts of Aviation Committee
2. ACRP Project 02-40, Climate Change Risk Assessment and Adaptation Planning at Airports
• Background information about understanding the need for all size airports to conduct climate change risk assessments
• Guidance for managing related uncertainty, development of a prioritized action plan, and implementation of the actions plan as an adaptive management process
3. ACRP Synthesis 33, Airport Climate Adaptation and Resilience
• Potential risks, common practices, and climate change and extreme weather impacts “right-size” approaches for different levels in the airport organization
• Tools for tracking such risks
4. Question and answer session

The first 60 minutes of the webinar will be for presentations and the final 30 minutes will be reserved for audience questions.


Learning Objectives
At the end of this webinar, participants were able to:

• Understand how to conduct climate change risk assessments
• Understand how to develop and implement action plans for adaptive management
• List the approaches for introducing and integrating resiliency planning into the airport organization, with a particular emphasis on addressing climate change and extreme weather risks

Registration Information
This webinar is sponsored by the Airport Cooperative Research Program. There is no fee to attend this webinar.


Continuing Education Units for Accredited Airport Executives
The American Association of Airport Executives (AAAE) is making 1.5 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) available for A.A.E. If you are an A.A.E. and would like to apply for CEUs for this webinar, visit www.aaae.org/ceu. For questions about A.A.E. continuing education units, please contact accreditation@aaae.org.


American Institute of Certified Planners Certification Maintenance Credits
This webinar is pending approval by the American Institute of Certified Planners for 1.5 Certification Maintenance Credits. Please make sure that you register for this session and log-in using the link that TRB provides to your email account. We use this as your record that you attended this session. TRB only maintains the records of attendees who use their email address to log into the webinar, and cannot verify attendance of individuals who view the webinar without personally logging into the session.

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Registration questions? Contact Reggie Gillum at RGillum@nas.edu.