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USGS officials to give lecture on ARkStorm potential at Tahoe

Published: January 15, 2013  By: admin, In: Lifestyle,  4 Comments
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Dale Cox and Michael Dettinger with the U.S. Geological Survey will discuss ARkStorm impacts at Lake Tahoe on Jan. 31 at the Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences in Incline Village.

The no-host bar opens at 5:30pm, with the presentation begins 6pm. Cost is $5.

The USGS is working with local communities to use the science, technology, expertise and meteorological data behind the ARkStorm scenario to test the resiliency of communities and expose vulnerabilities usually only realized following catastrophic events. Modeling such an extreme event allows officials at all levels to be prepared when disaster strikes.

For more information, contact Heather Segale at (775) 881.7562 or tercinfo@ucdavis.edu.

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  1. Tim says - Posted: January 15, 2013

    What is an ARkStorm?

  3. Michael Thompson says - Posted: January 15, 2013

    I guess its a Super Storm.
    Google seems to describe the big storm we had around Chirstmas as an ARkstorm. Or they we predicting it was going to be?
    Interesting its a USGS term.
    “An ARkStorm (for Atmospheric River 1000 Storm) is a hypothetical but scientifically realistic “superstorm” scenario developed and published by the United States Geological Survey, Multi Hazards Demonstration Project (MHDP). It describes an extreme storm that may impact much of California causing up to “

  4. Irish Wahini says - Posted: January 15, 2013

    Ask USGS to give another talk at So. Lake Tahoe… at LTCC. I don’t travel at night during winter….