STORMS, FLOODING AND SEA LEVEL DEFENSE CONFERENCE 2023 @ SCOTTS SEAFOOD, OAKLAND, CA WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 8TH 2023
8:00 CALL TO ORDER
Stas Margaronis, Propeller Club of Northern California (MC)
8:10 WELCOME
Kristi McKenney, Chief Operating Officer, Port of Oakland
Maria Conatser, President International Propeller Club
Jim Carter, SAME Regional Vice President, California Region
LTC Timothy Shebesta, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, San Francisco District
Captain Taylor Q. Lam, Commander, Sector San Francisco, United States Coast Guard
Arvind Acharya, President Society of American Military Engineers, San Francisco Post
Scott Humphrey, Executive Director San Francisco Marine Exchange
9:00 KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Matthew Arms, Director Environmental Planning, Port of Long Beach
9:30 CALIFORNIA PORT REPORTS
Kristin Decas, Executive Director, Port of Hueneme
Kristine Zortman, Executive Director, Port of Redwood City
Justin Luedy, Senior Environmental Specialist, Port of Long Beach
Brad Benson, Waterfront Resilience Program Director, Port of San Francisco
Jan Novak, Associate Planner and Scientist, Environmental Programs and Planning, Port of Oakland
Paul Ruff, Pilot, San Francisco Bar Pilots
10:45 – 11:00 BREAK
11:00 PREPARING CALIFORNIA FOR STORMS, FLOODING & SEA LEVEL DEFENSE
Tom Ducker, Critical Infrastructure Lead, California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services
Brian Garcia, Warning Coordination Meteorologist, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Emery Roe, Senior Research Associate, Center for Catastrophic Risk Management, U.C. Berkeley
Maya Hayden, Director of Outreach, U.S. Geological Survey
Brett Sanders, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, U.C. Irvine
Kevin Roche, Research Engineer & Quantum Ambassador, IBM Research Almaden
12:00 STATE OF HAWAII REPORT
Derek Chow, Pacific Islands Business Development Manager, Burns & McDonnell Engineering Company, Inc. “Hawaii’s Sea Level Defense Strategy”
12:30 LUNCH
Luncheon Speaker Warner Chabot, Executive Director, San Francisco Estuary Institute and sponsor introductions
2:00 SPECIAL REPORT
Rachael Hartofelis, Project Manager, MTC/ABAG and Dana Brechwald, Assistant Planning Director for Climate Adaptation at the Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) will discuss the findings of their report “Sea Level Rise Adaptation for S.F. Bay Area Could Cost $110 Billion”
2:30 IMPACT ON DAMS & LEVEES
Moderator: J.R. Gregory, Senior Geomatics Analyst / Project Surveyor, Towill
Patrick Sing, Water Manager / Hydraulic Engineer, USACE SPN
Mehdi Mizani, P.E., Deputy State Floodplain Manager, Floodplain Management Branch, Department of Water Resources
Scott Humphrey, Executive Director, San Francisco Marine Exchange
Martha Farella, Data Scientist, Stantec
Rebecca Verity, Program Manager, Climate Adaptation & Resilience, GEI Consultants
3:30– 3:45 BREAK
3:45 BENEFICIAL USE & NATURE BASED SOLUTIONS
Moderator: Summer Bundy, Climate Change Adaptation & Coastal Resilience Regional Sector Leader, Stantec
Andy Chamberlain, PE, PMP, Chief, Civil Design Section, USACE San Francisco District Engineering Branch
Erika Powell, Senior Project Manager, 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, “The Case for Suction Dredging in California”
Janelle Kellman, Executive Director, Center for Sea Rise Solutions
5:00 CONCLUSION
Stas Margaronis, Propeller Club of Northern California
5:30 NETWORKING & RECEPTION
*Invited but not confirmed