ASCE-NOAA Task Force News Blast

As a reminder, the full ASCE-NOAA Task Force newsletter will be issued every other month, 2 to 3 weeks after the bimonthly ASCE-NOAA Task Force meeting. To ensure timely sharing of relevant information to its subscribers during the intervening months, the ASCE-NOAA Task Force will distribute a shortened News Blast to all subscribers. If you already subscribe to the Task Force Newsletter, you don’t need to do anything to receive the News Blast.

The ASCE-NOAA Task Force highlights activities and resources that may be of interest to civil engineers, climate scientists, and other resilience professionals. If you have suggestions for news items that may be of interest to the community, email Meghan Edwards at meghane@umd.edu.

ASCE-NOAA Actions and Opportunities  

• Contribute towards ASCE-NOAA Task Force on Climate Resilience in Civil Engineering supported sessions at ASCE2027. The first deadline is for the abstracts on March 4, 2026. More information on the deadlines and guidance on abstracts are available here.
• Call for Papers: The Committee on Adaptation to a Changing Climate’s (CACC’s) joint series of special issues across multiple ASCE journals that will highlight the importance of climate resilience in civil engineering practice. Contributions encompass a diverse range of topics, including adaptive design strategies, resilient infrastructure planning, performance-based design, risk modeling, and lifecycle analysis. Open call for papers began on January 5, 2026, and will close January 5, 2027. More information is available at: https://ascelibrary.org/cfp-climate-adaptation-resilience-buildings-infrastructure.
• Read the fourth Climate Adaptation Engineering Bulletin in ASCE’s Source that focuses on rising groundwater due to sea level rise. These bulletins will feature actionable information on the effects of climate change that engineers can put into practice: collaborate.asce.org/blogs/committee-on-adaptation-to-a-changing-climate/2026/02/18/rising-groundwater-due-to-sea-level-rise-and-its-e.

Climate Resilience in the News

• Read the expected losses due to physical climate risk: https://firststreet.org/research-library/the-new-cost-of-doing-business-report.
• Review progress and growing risks found from analyzing almost 2,000 extreme events: https://news.uchicago.edu/story/what-decades-data-reveal-about-climate-disaster-deaths.
• Learn how infrastructure vulnerability is a critical global risk according to the World Economic Forum: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2026/01/critical-infrastructure-global-risks-2026-zurich-insurance/.