Webinars & Events
Webinars & Events
The Institute seeks to strengthen awareness of the risks associated with natural hazards. Each month, ICLR hosts a Webinar centring on current research and industry issues related to natural hazards. Slides from the webinars are then posted on the Institute’s website and recordings of the sessions are uploaded to ICLR”s YouTube Channel.
Friday Forum Archive
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An Uninsurable Country
Rob Moore
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Turning Wildfire Intelligence Into Homeowner and Community Action
Jason Brooks, Dave Winnacker, and Ralph Bloemers
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Resilient Homes Task Force Wildfire Resilience Field Trial
Dan Sandink
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ICLR Forecast: 2026 Hurricane Season
Bob Robichaud
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Basement Flood Incentive Programs: How to Increase Participation
Emilia Cameron
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ICLR Forecast: 2026 Wildfire Season
Richard Carr
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New Canadian Catastrophe History & Its Place in Broader Practice
Dr. Keith Porter
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Disaster and Climate Risk and Resilience Assessments
Dominique Sigg
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Building Costs and House Prices
Brian Potter, Chad Syverson, Dan Sandink and Kevin Simmons
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Climate Resilience in Canadian Insurance & Construction
Dan Sandink
Conferences
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2nd Basement Flood Symposium Agenda
Symposium overview – Dan Sandink, Manager, Resilient Communities & Research, ICLR
Keeping basements dry: It’s all in the risk – Prof. Ted Kesik, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, University of Toronto
Flood reduction strategies in Ottawa – Eric Tousignant, Senior Water Resources Engineer, City of Ottawa
Basement flooding: Windsor’s approach to floodingA presentation of our city’s reduction measures and successes – Mario Sonego, City Engineer & Corporate Leader of Public Works, Parks and Facilities, City of Windsor
Basement flood risk reduction in Winnipeg – Charles Boulet, Senior Project Engineer, City of Winnipeg
The perfect storm: New development, high infiltration/inflow and a 1,000+ year storm – Chris Gainham, Senior Project Manager, City of Hamilton
Damage is in the details – Murray Pound, President, Gold Seal Homes, Carstairs, Alberta
Weeping tile disconnection to reduce the impact of basement flooding – Kyle Chambers, Environmental Service Engineer, City of London
Reducing risk and building resiliency: The Credit River Watershed story – Christine Zimmer, Senior Manager, Watershed Protection and Restoration, Credit Valley Conservation
Giving incentives to save: Kitchener’s stormwater credit program – Matt Wilson, Engineering Technologist, City of Kitchener
Assessing climate change risk to stormwater and wastewater infrastructure – Marvin Ingebrigtsen, Technical Analyst Infrastructure Programs, City of Welland
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Agenda: Protecting Canadian homeowners and communities from wildfire in a changing climate (PDF)
Future Canadian fire regimes under a changing climate; Mike Flannigan, Univ. of Alberta/Canadian Forest Service (PDF)
Lessons learned from 2003 and 2011; Peter Fuglem, Dir., B.C. Protection Program (ret.) (PDF)
Preparing for the unexpected: pre, during and post-wildfire event strategies; Karl Brondell, Assist. VP, Claims, State Farm (PDF
Slave Lake: Response and recovery; Coutts & Missal, Town of Slave Lake (PDF)
Fire-resilient communities and an empowered public; A. Gossell, Gov’t of Ab. & K. O’Shea, Partners in Protection (PDF)
Climate change adaptation strategies; Paul Gray, Senior Program Advisor, Applied Research and Development Branch, MNR (PDF)
National Wildfire Response Plan/Canadian Wildland Fire Strategy (CWFS); Kim Connors, Director, Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (CIFFC) (PDF)
Workshop synoposis and group discussion; Alan Westhaver, Parks Canada (Jasper) (ret.) (PDF)
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CSRN workshop agenda Jan 2012 (PDF)
Progress related to the Canadian Seismic Risk Network; Denis Mitchell, McGill (PDF)
Seismic hazard maps for the National Building Code of Canada – past, present and future; John Adams, Geological Survey of Canada (PDF)
Seismic hazard assessment for Canadian Urban Centres; Gail Atkinson, UWO (PDF)
Short- and intermediate-term earthquake hazard in Eastern Canada; Kristy Tiampo, UWO (PDF)
Seismic microzonation studies for the City of Ottawa; Darisuh Motazedian, Carleton University (PDF)
Seismic microzonation studies for the Montreal region; Luc Chouinard, McGill – Part One (PDF)
Seismic microzonation studies for the Montreal region; Luc Chouinard, McGill – Part Two (PDF)
Regional seismic damage assessment and interdependencies of critical infrastructure during earthquakes; Carlos Ventura, UBC (PDF)
Quick seismic screening of buildings; Murat Saatcioglu, University of Ottawa (PDF)
Important Links
Canadian Seismic Risk Network
Earthquakes Canada – Natural Resources Canada
Working group on Seismic Hazard Microzonation in the Ottawa Region
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Basement flood symposium agenda
The problem of basement flooding: An overview (Dan Sandink, Manager, Resilient Communities & Research, ICLR)
A climate change adaptation strategy to address urban flooding: The City of Toronto’s basement flooding protection program (Michael D但ndrea, Director, Water Infrastructure Management, Toronto Water)
Mandatory weeping tile disconnection to reduce the impact of basement flooding (Kyle Chambers, Wastewater and Drainage Engineering Division, City of London)
The Saskatoon superpipe solution to basement flooding (Galen Heinrichs, Stormwater Utility Manager, City of Saskatoon)
Utilization of zoom camera technology in municipal sewer system maintenance (Loris Busnello, Project Manager, Water Distribution and Wastewater Collection Section, City of Hamilton)
City of Stratford: Rethinking storm water management standards (Ron Shaw, Chief Administrative Officer, City of Stratford)
What a nuisance: Municipal liability for sewer backup (William Blakeney & Dan Hartrell; Blakeney, Henneberry, Murphy & Galligan)
Homeowner involvement in urban flood reduction: Survey results from Toronto, Edmonton, London & Peterborough (Dan Sandink, ICLR)
Assessment of climate change induced flood risk to buildings: City of London case study (Dr. Slobodan Simonovic, ICLR and University of Western Ontario)
Municipal Risk Assessment Tool (Robert Tremblay, IBC)
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Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society 54th Congress, Session 11 – Interdisciplinary and Climate Research on Resilience
The global climate is changing, and Canada is warming at about twice the rate of the planet. The World Economic Forum 2020 Global Risk Report, for the next 10 years, ranked extreme weather events and climate action failure to mitigate and adapt as two of the most likely and impacting risks. In addition, all WEF reports over the past decade have identified water crises, food and human security as risks of highest concern into the future. To reduce the impacts on Canadians and all societies there is need to address these issues through interdisciplinary and climate research to inform the development of resilient societies. This session will have presentations on the extreme events in the future climate and an example of fundamental science on greenhouse effects. Presentations will address the need to understand our interactions with the natural environment including water and ecosystem services, and how the knowledge of Indigenous and Western science can work together to effectively address these issues. The importance of ensuring that Canadian National Climate Archives preserve reliable historical records and provide better access to and the communications of climate information and how the utilization of novel methods like machine learning that use new sources of data like social media can enhance weather and climate communication will be examined in other presentations. As the extreme events increase, there is need to go from risk to resilience and use science to build resilient communities. In addressing these issues effectively, estimates of the costs of climate change for Canada and a Canadian perspective on achieving net zero emissions and impacts are essential. The Session will provide interesting and varied scientific perspectives on Building Societal Resilience to Changing Weather, Climate and Environment, the overall theme of CMOS Congress 2020.
Presentations Part 1
Gordon McBean – Session Chair – Introduction
Francis Zwiers – Extremes in the future climate
Dawn Martin-Hill – Ohneganous: Water as the first environment.
Charles Lin – Climate Change, Energy, and Net Zero: A Canadian Perspective
Dale Beugin – Estimating the Costs of Climate Change for Canada
Natalie Carter – Collaborative survey development and training to understand Inuit uses and needs for weather, water, ice and climate informationPresentations Part 2
Roger Pulwarty – Going to extremes: from risk to resilience
Paul Kovacs – Using science to build resilient communities
Anna Deptuch-Stapf – Canadian National Climate Archive – Ensuring Reliable Records
Renee Sieber – Communicating Winter Storms via Natural Language Processing of Social Media
Paul Godin – Collision-Induced Absorption of CH4-CO2 and H2-CO2 Complexes and Their Effect on the Ancient Martian AtmospherePlease acknowledge these presentations and their publication and reference them as: for example:
Zwiers, F., 2020: Extremes in the future climate. CMOS Congress 54. https://www.iclr.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Francis_Zwiers.pdfGordon McBean
Anna Deptuch-Stapf
Charles Lin
Dale Beugin
Dawn Martin-Hill
Francis Zwiers
Natalie Carter
Paul Godin
Paul Kovacs
Renee Sieber
Roger Pulwarty