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
Danny Wan – Executive Director Port of Oakland
*Maria Conaster, President International Propeller Club
Charles Perham, President Society of American Military Engineers
LTC Timothy Shebesta, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, San Francisco District
Arvind Acharya, President Society of American Military Engineers, San Francisco Post
Scott Humphrey, Executive Director San Francisco Marine Exchange
9:00 KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Mario Cordero, Executive Director 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
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
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
*California Senate Majority Leader Mike McGuire invited not confirmed
2:00 SPECIAL REPORT
Rachael Hartofelis, Project Manager, MTC/ABAG “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
Mike Mierzwa, Technical and Policy Advisor, California Department of Water Resources
Scott Humphrey, Executive Director, San Francisco Marine Exchange
Pooja Mahajan, Product Manager, Digital Solutions, Stantec
3:30 BENEFICIAL USE & NATURE BASED SOLUTIONS
Moderator: 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
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
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1 https://abag.ca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023-07/SLR_Framework_Final_Report.pdf