Presenters Slides 2024

Michael McCormick, Director, Bay Area Climate Adaptation Network (BayCAN) & Neena Mohan, Staff, Bay Area Climate Adaptation Network (BayCAN)

Randy Truby, President, RL Truby & Associates, California-based desalination consultant and former President of the International Desalination Association

Kristine Zortman, Executive Director, Port of Redwood City

Adrienne Newbold, Assistant Chief Harbor Engineer at Port of Los Angeles

Adam Varat, Deputy Program Manager – Planning, Waterfront Resilience Program, Port of San Francisco

Justin Luedy, Senior Environmental Specialist, Port of Long Beach

Giles Pettifor, Director of Sustainability and Environment, Port of Hueneme

Sarah Atkinson, Hazard Resilience Senior Policy Manager, SPUR (San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research)

Carly Finkle, Senior Policy Manager, Canal Alliance

Osvaldo Macias, Environmental Justice Fellow, Nuestra Casa

Zoe Siegel, Senior Director of Climate Resilience, Greenbelt Alliance

Jessica Fain, Director of Planning BCDC

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

Suzanne Plezia, Chief Harbor Engineer, Port of Long Beach, ‘Pier Wind’ Offshore Wind Project

Henry Ruhl, Director of CENCOOS (Central & Northern California Ocean Observing System)

Alexander Parker, Dean, School of Letters and Sciences & Professor of Oceanography, California State University, Maritime Academy

Paul Schulman, UC Berkeley Professor Infrastructure Resiliency

Brian Garcia, Warning Coordination Meteorologist, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

Stendert Laan, Environmental Hydrodynamics, Deltares, Introducing FloodAdapt

Kevin Roche, Research Engineer & Quantum Ambassador, IBM Research Almaden

Emily Parker, Senior Route Analyst, Storm Geo

Tami Church, 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