Monday, May 12, 2014

Region 6 Transportation-Climate Summit


SAVE THE DATE!
for the
Region 6 Transportation-Climate Summit
Sept. 30, 2014          9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
National Weather Center
Norman, Okla.

You are invited to a one-day regional symposium on the mounting challenges facing this country’s transportation system due to extreme weather and climate variability, hosted by Southern Plains Transportation Center (SPTC) and the South Central – Climate Science Center (SC-CSC). Transportation officials, engineers, and scientists must come together with the weather and climate community to develop viable solutions to such complex and costly challenges as rising seas, increasingly severe storms, extreme temperature cycles and droughts, which are creating tremendous demands on infrastructure and operations.

         The purpose of this summit is to bring together weather and climate and transportation specialists to educate one another, spur new ideas, and promote fruitful collaborations for research at and between our regional universities, transportation departments and government research institutions. We have an exciting program planned, with noted experts from the climate, weather and transportation sectors setting the stage for productive discussions. There will be ample networking time, with breaks and lunch held in the beautiful National Weather Center Atrium.
 
       Details of the program and local accommodations will be announced later in May. Please contact Sonya Brindle (SPTC) at sbrindle@ou.edu or Aparna Bamzai (SC-CSC) at aparna@ou.edu for more information.

Thursday, May 1, 2014


SPTC Center Director Musharraf Zaman and Financial/Outreach Associate Colleen Wilhelm, will be  attending the CUTC 2014 Summer Meeting on June 2-5. Hosted by the Mid-America Transportation Center at The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the meeting will focus on the sharing of state-of-the-art ideas and methods to advance research, education, and development in the transportation field.

Conference sessions will be held in the Grand Manse, a former U.S. Post Office and Federal Courthouse located in the heart of downtown Lincoln. A historical building surviving from the city’s early years, the Grand Manse was built in 1904, renovated in 2004 and remains an important landmark in Lincoln’s bustling city center. Guests will also have the opportunity to visit landmarks that make Lincoln and the state of Nebraska unique such as the Strategic Air and Space Museum, Union Pacific's Harriman Dispatching Center, Union Pacific’s Bailey Yard and the University Nebraska-Lincoln campus.

Learn more.