The Times, They Are A-Changin': Waterborne Transportation Resilience in a Changing Great Lakes | North Coast Chronicles

American Shoreline Podcast Network

On this episode, host Helen Brohl speaks with Katherine Chambers, Physical Research Scientist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory. Climate scientists often summarize projected trends with the statement, “wet places will get wetter and dry places will get drier.” These changes are likely to have both positive and negative effects on water-based transportation along rivers, in lakes, and in the oceans. [Toolkit.climate.gov]. The Great Lakes is no exception. While climate impact factors may differ between regions, the methodologies for understanding the ability to prepare for, recover from, and adapt to the symptoms of a changing climate are consistent. Katherine Chambers walks us through the probable impacts to waterborne transportation and how the industry in cooperation with communities, can develop strategies to address them.