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Barotse floodplain Zambia Tom Willis 1 Mark Smith 1 Donall Cross 2 Andrew Hardy 3 Georgina Ettritch 3 Happiness Malawo 4 Mweemba Sinkombo 4 Cosmas Chalo 4 Elizabeth Mroz. Phys. Accuracy and Precision. The . accuracy. of a measurement tells you how close the measurement is to the “true” or accepted value. . The . precision. of a measurement tells you something about the . By. Chi . Bemieh. . Fule. August 6, 2013. THESIS PRESENTATION . Outline. . of. . today’s. presentation. Justification of the study. Problem . statement. Hypotheses. Conceptual. . framework. Research . Elco. . Koks. & Hans de Moel . Brief overview. What is flood risk?. Modelling the . hazard. Preparing the exposure data. Maximum damages and depth-damage curves. The damage assessment. Applying mitigation measures. Presentation Outline. Introduction to the Topic. 10/27/09 Richmond, CA — Twenty present at gang rape outside school dance. 10/4/13 Philadelphia, . PA . — Two . teens wounded in shooting after high school football . “The . Human Factor in . Risk”. London. 8–9 . September 2012. The Philosophy of . Risk. Martin . Sewell. Risk. In my (Bayesian) mind, . risk. . is . uncertainty.. U. ncertainty. . is best described using a probability distribution, and the broader the distribution, the greater the uncertainty. …some points for discussion. J. Huston. Michigan State University. 1. Start with Stewart-. Tackmann. c. learly, scale uncertainty for. e. xclusive cross sections . d. on’t vanish, so naïve scale. -8.2/2013 -. Marcello La Rosa. Queensland University of Technology. Brisbane, . 12 September 2013. Mid-semester survey: your words, our actions…. Generally, very positive comments. A few notes worth commenting:. Stephanie Yard, . P.E. . & Allen Haden, Aquatic Ecologist. Natural Channel Design, Inc., Stephanie@naturalchanneldesign.com, Allen@naturalchanneldesign.com. Montezuma Creek watershed has been substantially disturbed . Richard H. Grumm. NOAA/NWS Weather Forecast Office, State College, Pennsylvania. and . Charles Chillag. NOAA/NWS Middle Atlantic River Forecast Center, State College, Pennsylvania. Contributions by. Alaina MacFarlane and Ron Holmes. 1 R&q crs R&Q COMMERCIAL RISK SERVICES LTD BIBA Commercial Facility Including Flood Learning objectives R&Q CRS LTD – Who we are Overview of the BIBA Scheme Review of the products available and the policy benefits that Basins. ---------. Giovanni D. Musolino. Crop photos. to “shape”. Increasing number of extreme flood events and their impact on society lead to the need of a better assessment of flood hazard.. www.wisecdt.org. and Assessments for Downstream Communities of Koka Dam , Ethiopia Prepared by Katherine Chambers, PhD Student University of Colorado Boulder Environmental Engineering and Engineering for Developin Extreme Events. . Robert Black, Yi Deng, . Katherine Evans*. Yun-Young Lee, Tae-Won Park, . Rebecca . Westby . School . of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, . Richard J. Nugent III, Ph.D. . Economist, HEC-FDA Lead. Hydrologic Engineering Center . Davis, CA. agenda. What is flood risk, and how do we describe it?. How do we assess flood risk?. What goes into the uncertainty about flood risk?.