01/22/2021
Use this link to register: https://waterurbanism.net/geodesign-games-for-adaptive-futures/
The magnetic field of the Earth has been weakening at an alarming rate. This suggests that a polar reversal is overdue. A weakening magnetic field makes the Earth more vulnerable to the impacts of solar activities. The intensity and frequency of solar activities are likely to increase from now until 2025 to make the Earth more vulnerable to three major instantaneous flooding scenarios.
There will be more intense and frequent hurricanes to make more coastal areas flood-prone. In the event of a solar storm, an extreme amount of solar radiation can melt all ice on Earth to inundate a large area from the Gulf of Mexico to the confluence of Mississippi River and Ohio River. Polar reversal can cause large tidal waves to flood most of the eastern half the United States.
We will cocreate a job-centric climate adaptation plan to enhance our adaptive capacity to respond to these instantaneous threats while maximizing our hydrological, ecological, social, and economic resilience. We invite you to participate in online mobile geo-surveys at you pace between February 1 and 10. The results of the mobile geo-surveys will be used to inform three online geodesign games on March 1, March 3, and March 5 from 1:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. Please register for each geodesign game you would like to attend so we can assign you to a geodesign game team!
The adaptive water urbanism initiative intends to facilitate the creation of job centers for green, blue, and space economies as mobile space transit and planetary surface habitats to catalyze proactive relocation from areas vulnerable to instantaneous flooding due to polar reversal or rapid sea level rise in the event of catastrophic solar storms. The third geodesign game intends to locate these relocation destinations within the South Central Water Resources Region while exploring site-specific climate adaptation strategies for a science and technology cooperative zone north of the Bryan-College Station area as an extension of Texas A&M University. The science and technology cooperative zone will have town-gown components to support a residential campus as a civilian conservation corps and a free trade zone that hosts facilities for space tourism and research, makers of electrical cars, autonomous vehicles, fuel cells, solar panels, biofuel, and other green-, clean-, and high-tech companies displaced from areas impacted by fire and flooding as well as in-state companies interested in collaborating with Texas A&M University as a research and development and job training partner. The proposed Texas bullet train route between Dallas and Houston will make it possible for all population centers between these two cities to commute to the Brazos Valley station for job training and employment opportunities to facilitate job-based proactive relocation and to build our capacity for adapting the increasingly more space-like adverse environment on Earth to circumvent the impacts of extreme space weather events and a weakening magnetic field on Earth.
Use this link to register: https://waterurbanism.net/geodesign-games-for-climate-adaptation/We will cocreate a job-centric climate adaptation plan to enhance...
