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STORMS, FLOODING & SEA LEVEL DEFENSE 2024 CONFERENCE – NOV. 12
The Propeller Club of Northern California & Society of American Military Engineers Present:
STORMS FLOODING & SEA LEVEL DEFENSE 2024 CONFERENCE:
“THE THREAT TO U.S. COASTAL & PORT CITIES”
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 12, 2024 @ SCOTT’S SEAFOOD, OAKLAND CA
One in 50 people living in two dozen coastal cities in the United States could experience significant flooding by 2050, according to Virginia Tech-led research. The study provides a new comprehensive look at the flood risks for 32 cities on three coasts by 2050. (Image courtesy of Leonard Ohenhen.) Published in Nature, the study combines satellite-obtained measurements of sinking land, also known as subsidence, with sea-level rise projections and tide charts to provide a new comprehensive look at the potential for flooding in a combined 32 cities along the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts. The study projects that in the next three decades as many as 500,000 people could be affected as well as a potential 1 in 35 privately owned properties damaged by flooding. The study also highlights the racial and socioeconomic demographics of those potentially affected. [1]
SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
Kristi McKenney, Chief Operating Officer, Port of Oakland
LTC Timothy Shebesta, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Commander San Francisco District*
Captain Jordan M. Baldueza, U.S. Coast Guard, Commander Sector San Francisco
Kristine Zortman, Executive Director, Port of Redwood City
Adrienne Newbold, Assistant Chief Harbor Engineer, Port of Los Angeles
Brad Benson, Waterfront Resilience Program Director, Port of San Francisco
Jan Novak, Associate Planner and Scientist, Environmental Programs and Planning, Port of Oakland
Justin Luedy, Senior Environmental Specialist, Port of Long Beach
Giles Pettifor, Environmental Manager, Port of Hueneme
Luncheon Speaker: Suzanne Plezia, Chief Engineer, Port of Long Beach, The ‘Pier Wind’ Off Shore Wind Port
Rob Carver, Research Scientist, Google, “How Google uses AI to fast-track predicting weather catastrophes”
Brian Garcia, Warning Coordination Meteorologist, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Robert Butchart, Ports and Harbor Emergency Services Coordinator at the California Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES)
Scott Humphrey, Executive Director, San Francisco Marine Exchange
Robert Wilkins, Executive Director, The International Maritime Center and Chief Program Officer, Seafarers’ Ministry of the Golden Gate
Sarah Atkinson, Hazard Resilience Senior Policy Manager, San Francisco Planning & Urban Renewal (SPUR)*
Summer Bundy, Climate Change Adaptation & Coastal Resilience Regional Sector Leader, Stantec
Gail Payne, Project Manager, City of Alameda
Colleen Liang, Director of Environmental Programs and Planning, Port of Oakland, Rising Seas and Oakland’s Infrastructure and Frontline Communities: Climate Adaptation Planning for Neighborhood-led Resiliency Project*
Ellen Johnck, Ellen Johnck Consulting
Julie Beagle, Environmental Planning Section Chief, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, San Francisco District
Brenda Goeden, Sediment Program Manager, Bay Conservation and Development Commission
Peter Dreyfuss, Managing Director, Watermaster, North America
Randy Truby, President, RL Truby & Associates, “Desalination Strategies to Replenish Water Tables and Reduce Coastal Subsidence”
Tony Petronio, General Manager Route Analyst Operations, StormGeo
*Invited but not confirmed.
REGISTRATION:
ONE PERSON REGISTRATION (INCLUDES LUNCH) = $225
SPONSORSHIP REGISTRATION (INCLUDES 4 GUESTS & LUNCH) = $1,750
NOTE: SPONSORS WILL BE INTRODUCED AT LUNCH
STUDENTS: You can attend the conference at no cost by sending a cover letter expressing your interest and a bio of yourself to apmargaronis@gmail.com
VIEW AGENDA
PDF form for SAME members to self-certify
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HARBOR TRUCKING ASSOCIATION’S MATT SCHRAP & FORUM MOBILITY’S MATT LEDUCQ WILL FACE OFF ON TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 17
HARBOR TRUCKING ASSOCIATION’S MATT SCHRAP & FORUM MOBILITY’S MATT LEDUCQ WILL FACE OFF ON TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 17TH AT SCOTT’S SEAFOOD, OAKLAND FROM 1130-130
UP FOR DISCUSSION:
- ARE ELECTRIC TRUCK MAKERS KEEPING PRICES HIGHER IN THE US THAN IN EUROPE & ASIA?
- IS CARB MORE HINDRANCE THAN HELP?
- WILL ELECTRIC TRUCKS EVER BE AFFORDABLE FOR TRUCKERS?
- WHAT’ S HAPPENING WITH TRUCK CHARGING AT PORTS?
LUNCH IS $65
PLEASE REGISTER HERE:
REGISTRATION FOR A GROUP OF FIVE IS $300
REGISTRATION FOR A TABLE OF TEN IS $550
QUESTIONS: apmagaronis@gmail.com
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Between 2014 and 2023 cyber-attacks against the Port of Los Angeles increased from 7 million attacks per month in 2014 to 60 million monthly attacks in 2023, according to Tony Zhong, Chief Information Security Officer, Port of Los Angeles.
Zhong was speaking to the Propeller Club of Northern California on July 15, 2024 and explained that the Port had established a Cyber Operations Center to protect the Port’s digital infrastructure in 2014.
In 2017, after an attack on a major maritime company, the Port of Los Angeles and maritime stakeholders including terminals, rail, trucking and ocean carriers collaborated to develop what would become the Cyber Resilience Center (CRC) to provide a comprehensive stakeholder-based defense capability.
In 2021, IBM was selected to manage the CRC which began operations in 2022.
The establishment of the Cyber Resilience Center has made the Port of Los Angeles a leader in cyber security defense among US ports. As Zhong explained the CRC operates with an executive committee that oversees its operations and a technical committee that collaborates among the stakeholders (and the Port of LA is among them) focusing on technical issues. And when it comes to cyber security, as Zhong notes this is a case where defense has to be much better than offense as it takes only a single attack to be successful generating damage, whereas the defenders need to be able to successfully defend 100% of the time.
Zhong explained that when an attack occurs, it is reported by the stakeholder but transmitted to the other stakeholders anonymously. If another stakeholder also reports a similar attack, then those attacks will be reported to all of the stakeholders again anonymously so that they can evaluate whether they, too, have been under attack. This system preserves anonymity and proprietary information but also allows for the real time exchange of information in the event of a cyber-attack
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