Conferences – Peter Watson, PhD

Battelle’s Innovations in Climate Change Resilience Conference 2022

I was honored and privileged to be able to present some of the work related to weather-related power outage prediction that I’ve contributed to at Battelle’s Conference on Innovations in Climate Resilience on March 29th (Agenda).

They had an excellent lineup of speakers and presenters, and it was great to be at conference where COVID-19 was becoming less and less of a concern.

2022 Battelle Innovation in Climate Change Resilience Conference

Although the challenge before us is quite intimidating, there were a lot of dedicated people at this conference working hard on helping us develop new technologies that will help improve society’s ability to adapt to Climate Change. I certainly hope that empirical impact modeling can be part of that solution.

Recordings of Session Presentations

AGU 2021 Fall Meeting

The AGU 2021 Fall meeting just wrapped up in New Orleans, and it was quite interesting to be there. It was a ‘hybrid’ conference with both in-person and online elements. It was a great chance to present our work in-person and online, and connect with other people in the field.

Jackson Square, New Orleans

Check out the video below of what we presented. It describes the process of developing a machine learning-based weather-related power outage prediction model specifically for high impact storms. These storms are generally difficult to get right because they’re so rare and diverse, but our model seems to be able to understand the pertinent processes well enough to accurately predict the impacts of the biggest storms that have affected the Northeastern US in the past decade.

Extreme Weather Event Outage Prediction Presentation