Recipe for Risk Analysis

Dr. "Hurricane Hal" Needham shares the Recipe for Risk Analysis, a methodology that he developed while helping disaster-prone communities become more resilient over the past 20 years. "The Recipe" contains three ingredients - viewing disaster risk through a Deep History Lens, understanding risk across regional risk neighborhoods, and building buffers to account for environmental change.

Date: November 12, 2026

Time: 10:00-11:00am ET

CE: 1 CE General

Speaker: Dr. "Hurricane Hal" Needham

Dr. “Hurricane Hal” Needham is Director of Extreme Weather and Disaster Science at GeoTrek, where he specializes in data-driven risk analysis for disaster-prone communities. He has conducted field work in 23 hurricanes and tropical storms, dozens of hail-producing thunderstorms, extreme winter environments with heavy snow loads and cold temperatures, extreme rainfall events in multiple states, and international field work ranging from hurricanes in Mexico to earthquakes in Greece and Morocco. Dr. Needham is the architect and developer of U-Surge, the world’s most comprehensive storm surge database, and he hosts the GeoTrek podcast, a top-rated podcast on the topic of natural disasters. 

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