Seminar: Julie Wormser and Indrani Ghosh

Join us Thursday, May 15 from 2:00-3:00pm for our May Seminar, this month featuring City of Cambridge Climate Chief Julie Wormser and Weston & Sampson Climate Resilience Practice Leader Indrani Ghosh, PhD for a preview of research on coastal flooding and flood damage in the lower Charles and Mystic River portions of Boston Harbor.

One key finding: without major on-site and regional flood resilience (such as elevating the Charles River Dam), universities along the Boston side of Charles River will incur billions in direct and business continuity damage from a .5% 2070 projected coastal flood.

Join Zoom Meeting:
https://bostonharbornow.zoom.us/j/81975802922?pwd=K1gzeUNtbW53Z241UUV3RTloeDBndz09

About Julie Worsmer

Julie Wormser is Cambridge, Massachusetts’ first Chief Climate Officer. She and her team work across City departments to eliminate fossil fuel use by 2050, ensure our people and places are prepared for extreme weather, and lower the bar for other communities to do the same. Before joining the City, she worked for the Mystic River Watershed Association where she co-founded the Resilient Mystic Collaborative. Since its launch in 2018, the 20-community effort secured nearly $140 million to pursue regional climate preparedness projects. As Executive Director of The Boston Harbor Association, Wormser was instrumental in drawing attention to Boston’s need to prepare for coastal flooding from extreme storms and sea level rise.  She coauthored Preparing for the Rising Tide and Designing With Water and co-led the Boston Living with Water international design competition with the City of Boston and Boston Society of Architects.  She has a BA in biology from Swarthmore College and an MPA from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. She lives in Cambridge with her family.

About Indrani Ghosh

Indrani leads the Climate Resiliency Practice at Weston & Sampson. She is a water resources engineer with over 20 years of experience and has been working on climate resiliency projects up and down the East Coast. She specializes in guiding interdisciplinary teams through risk-based adaptation planning and translating climate projections into engineering design criteria. Her work includes modeling climate impacts, including flooding and extreme heat risks for municipalities and public agencies. Indrani is a frequent speaker on climate resiliency and has received national recognition for her contributions to the engineering field.