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Education
Stanford University
Doctorate of Philosophy in Civil Engineering, 2023
Dissertation title: “Characterizing Hydrologic and Economic Risk from Flooding driven by Atmospheric Rivers”
2020 NSF Graduate Fellow: Full tuition and stipend, 2020-2023
Master of Science in Structural Engineering, 2020
2018 Gabilan Fellow (Stanford Graduate Fellowship): Full tuition and stipend, 2018-2021
Northeastern University
Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering, Minor in Mathematics, 2018
Summa Cum Laude & Honors in the Discipline
Northeastern University Scholar: Full tuition scholarship, 2013-2018
Completed an Honors in the Discipline undergraduate thesis titled “Predicting Hurricane Risk and Resilience in the Boston Area”
publications
Rittelmeyer, P., Guan, B., and Bowers, C. (2024, under revision). Coupling of Atmospheric Rivers and Levee Failure Events in California’s Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, 1980-2022. Weather, Climate, and Society.
Costa, R., Bolte, E., Sharp, C., and Bowers, C. (2024, under revision). After the Flood: How Presidential Disaster Declarations Affect Long-Term Well-Being and Recovery for Homeowners. Nature Cities.
Bowers, C., Serafin, K.A., and Baker, J.W. (2024). Uncovering Drivers of Atmospheric River Flood Damage using Interpretable Machine Learning. Natural Hazards Review, 25(3), https://doi.org/10.1061/NHREFO.NHENG-1995.
Bowers, C., Serafin, K.A., and Baker, J.W. (2024). Temporal Compounding Increases Economic Impacts of Atmospheric Rivers in California. Science Advances, 10(3), https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adi7905.
Bowers, C., Serafin, K.A., Tseng, K.-C., and Baker, J.W. (2023). Atmospheric River Sequences as Indicators of Hydrologic Hazard in Historical Reanalysis and GFDL SPEAR Future Climate Projections. Earth’s Future, 11, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023EF003536.
Bowers, C., Serafin, K.A., and Baker, J.W. (2022). A Performance-based Approach to Quantify Atmospheric River Flood Risk. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 22, 1371–1393, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-1371-2022.
presentations
Bowers, C., Serafin, K.A., Tseng, K.-C., and Baker, J.W. “Temporal Compounding Amplifies Hydrologic and Economic Impacts of Atmospheric Rivers in California.” Oral presentation, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 2023, San Francisco, CA.
Melville-Rea, H., Bowers, C., Schaefer, K., and Suckale, J. “Levee Accreditation: An Overlooked Source of Inequitable Flood Risk Transfer in California.” Oral presentation, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 2023, San Francisco, CA.
Rittelmeyer, P., Guan, B., and Bowers, C. “Are Our Levees Getting Riskier? An Examination of Levee Failures, Flood Mitigation Efforts, and Atmospheric Rivers in California’s Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, 1980-2022.” Conference poster, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 2023, San Francisco, CA.
Webb, M., Sumargo, E., Ogle, S., and Bowers, C. “Hydrologic Impacts of Atmospheric Rivers: Understanding and Managing a Variable Hydroclimate.” Session organizer, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 2023, San Francisco, CA.
Bowers, C., Serafin, K., and Baker, J. “Interpretable Machine Learning for Flood Damage Estimation: Challenges and Opportunities.” Invited speaker, 13th International Workshop on Statistical Hydrology, November 2023, Boston, MA.
Bolte, E., Sharp, C., Costa, R., and Bowers, C. “Assessing the Impact of Presidential Declarations on Post-Flood Housing Recovery.” Oral presentation, Natural Hazards Workshop, July 2023, Boulder, CO.
Bowers, C., Serafin, K., Baker, J. and Filipek, E. “Occurrence and Impacts of Atmospheric River Sequences.” Oral presentation, International Atmospheric Rivers Conference, October 2022, Santiago, Chile (attended virtually). Abstract available here.
Bowers, C., Serafin, K., and Baker, J. “A Performance-Based Approach to Quantifying Atmospheric River Flood Risk in Northern California.” Conference poster, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 2021, New Orleans, LA. Poster available here.
Bowers, C., Serafin, K., and Baker, J. “Identifying Key Damage Drivers of Atmospheric River-Induced Flooding in California.” Oral presentation, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 2020, Virtual. Recording available here.
Bowers, C., Serafin, K., and Baker, J. “A Performance-Based Framework to Quantify Atmospheric River-Induced Flooding.” Oral presentation, International Atmospheric Rivers Conference, October 2020, Virtual.
Bowers, C., Amaral, S., and Hajjar, J. “Hurricane Risk Predictions in the Boston Area.” Conference poster, Northeastern Research, Innovation, and Scholarship Expo (RISE), April 2018, Boston, MA. Selected as one of two finalists in the Undergraduate Engineering & Technology category.