STORMS, FLOODING & SEA LEVEL DEFENSE CONFERENCE 2023

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2023 at Scott’s Seafood Oakland Ca

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The Propeller Club of Northern California & The Society of American Military Engineers (SAME) Invite You to: 

STORMS, FLOODING AND SEA LEVEL DEFENSE CONFERENCE 2023 @ SCOTTS SEAFOOD, OAKLAND, CA WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 8TH 2023 

0800AM TO 500PM 

1200PM LUNCH 

530PM RECEPTION 

SPEAKERS INCLUDE 

Keynote Speaker 

Matthew Arms, Director Environmental Planning, Port of Long Beach

And… 

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 Commander 

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 

Paul Ruff, San Francisco Bar Pilot 

PORT SPEAKERS 

Port of Hueneme, Kristin Decas, Executive Director 

Port of Redwood City, Kristine Zortman, Executive Director 

Port of Long Beach, Justin Luedy, Senior Environmental Specialist 

Port of San Francisco, Brad Benson, Waterfront Resilience Program Director 

Port of Oakland, Jan Novak, Associate Planner and Scientist Environmental Programs and Planning 

AND …

Special Report: Rachael Hartofelis, Project Manager, MTC/ABAG “Sea Level Rise Adaptation for S.F. Bay Area Could Cost $110 Billion” and Dana Brechwald, Assistant Planning Director for Climate Adaptation at the Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC).

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

Summer Bundy, Climate Change Adaptation & Coastal Resilience Regional Sector Leader, Stantec

Erika Powell, Senior Project Manager, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, San Francisco District

Peter Dreyfuss, Managing Director, Watermaster North America, “The Case for Suction Dredging in California”

Brenda Goeden, Sediment Program Manager, Bay Conservation and Development Commission

Julie Beagle, Environmental Planning Section Chief, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, San Francisco District

AND MORE ..

REGISTRATION 

ONE PERSON (INCLUDES LUNCH) = $225 

SPONSOR (INCLUDES 3 GUESTS & LUNCH) = $1,500 

SEE FULL AGENDA

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

PDF form for SAME members to self-certify 


CO-SPONSORS:

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