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Katie Hirschboeck, chairwoman of the Global Change Graduate Interdisciplinary Program and associate professor of climatology in the University of Arizona's Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, will discuss "Floods, Climate and 'Cuisinart' Hydrology: A Recipe for Disaster?"

What causes flooding in the desert Southwest? Why do we need to worry about floods in Arizona when our rivers are dry most of the time? What is a “100-year flood?" What can we learn from large floods of the past? Will climate change make floods more extreme? These and many other questions about the phenomenon of flooding will be addressed in a presentation covering the flood hydroclimatology of the rivers and streams of Arizona.