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DefenceYasaman Taleghani defends her MESc thesis on compound storm surge and wave extremes across North American coasts, co-supervised with Mercè Casas-Prat (ECCC)

NewsletterLaunch of The Return Period, a monthly newsletter on water extremes, infrastructure and communities

TeamTianze Pang joins as a postdoctoral associate to lead physical coastal process research

TalkInvited speaker at the Ontario Water Consortium Innovation Showcase on AI for hydroclimate and water management

ReportCanada's Changing Climate Report 2026 is released, with Reza Najafi as a co-lead author of Chapter 5, Changes in the water cycle

LabReza Najafi is promoted to Professor and named a Western Faculty Scholar for 2026 to 2028

DefenceIssam Mohamed completes his PhD on compound hail, wind and rain extremes and stays on as a postdoctoral associate

DefenceMd. Robiul Islam completes his PhD on climate-informed design flood estimation

PaperAtmospheric rivers as triggers of compound flooding, published in Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

TalkLeveraging geospatial data and climate models for urban flood risk, City of London and Western geospatial partnership event

TalkInvited seminar at the Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, during a JSPS Invitational Fellowship

KeynoteClimate-driven cascading risks, Global Congress on Climate Change, Berlin

WorkshopCIRCLE living-lab workshop and science talk in Tofino, BC

AwardThe York Region flood risk model led by LEA Consulting, with climate analysis by the lab, receives a 2025 Ontario Engineering Project Award

KeynoteDynamic risk assessment of critical infrastructure networks, World Summit on Engineering and Civil Infrastructure, Rome

KeynoteDynamic assessment of compound flood risks, Global Congress on Climate Change, Lisbon