{"id":24230,"date":"2019-02-17T16:35:05","date_gmt":"2019-02-17T21:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sciencescosmaincms.cm.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=24230"},"modified":"2019-02-17T16:46:42","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T21:46:42","slug":"helping-the-united-nations-understand-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/helping-the-united-nations-understand-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Helping the United Nations to Better Understand Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_24231\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24231\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24231\" src=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/ThomasWahl_76034086_Full-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-24231\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomas Wahl is providing his expertise to the United Nations.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Thomas Wahl, core faculty member for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/faculty\/feature\/national-center-for-integrated-coastal-research\/\">National Center for Integrated Coastal Research<\/a>\u00a0and assistant professor in the UCF College of Engineering and Computer Science, is helping the United Nations better understand and communicate climate change to the world.<\/p>\n<p>Wahl, who also is a member of UCF\u2019s Sustainable Coastal Systems Cluster, will serve as a contributing author to the UN\u2019s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which in 2007 earned a Nobel Peace Prize for its work on one of its previous assessment reports.<\/p>\n<p>The panel is an international collection of experts who assess the science related to climate change and its potential environmental and socio-economic impacts. The report is compiled every six years and is shared with scientists, stakeholders and policy makers around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Wahl will contribute to a chapter about sea-level rise. His area of expertise is extreme sea levels from high tides, storm surges and\/or waves leading to coastal flooding and erosion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is quite the recognition for Dr. Wahl,\u201d says Debra Reinhart, associate vice president for research and scholarship. \u201cThe report is considered\u00a0<em>the<\/em>\u00a0reference document for policymaking related to climate change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The IPCC and former Vice President Al Gore earned the prize in 2007 \u201cfor their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change,\u201d according to the Nobel Peace Prize website.<\/p>\n<p>Wahl says he\u2019s honored and humbled to be working with the team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a very active research field where great progress has been made in the last few years,\u201d he says. \u201cThe challenge will be to pull all this information together and present it in a comprehensive, yet concise way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wahl joined UCF in 2017. He has a doctorate in civil engineering from the University of Siegen in Germany and has been studying sea-level rise, storm surges and the resulting impacts for years,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/today.ucf.edu\/new-data-advanced-modeling-technique-suggest-extreme-coastal-sea-levels-likely\/\">publishing papers and giving presentations around the world<\/a>. Other areas of his research include multi-hazards, coastal engineering design concepts, and climate adaptation and resilience.<\/p>\n<p>He is a member of the\u00a0<a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/faculty\/feature\/national-center-for-integrated-coastal-research\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Center for Integrated Coastal Research<\/a>, which conducts research to support coastal communities. The center aims to link the ecological security of coastal ecosystems with the economic security of coastal communities, ensuring the sustainability of coastlines and economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Wahl, core faculty member for the National Center for Integrated Coastal Research\u00a0and assistant professor in the UCF College of Engineering and Computer Science, is helping the United Nations better understand and communicate climate change to the world. 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