CONFERENCE AGENDA:
STRATEGY FOR STORMS, FLOODING & SEA LEVEL DEFENSE INVESTMENTS
Tuesday, April 13, 2021 @ 08:45-12:30 U.S. Pacific Time Via Zoom
08:45 CALL TO ORDER
Stas Margaronis, Propeller Club of Northern California
09:00 WELCOME
John Cullather, executive vice president, International Propeller Club of the United States
Arvind Acharya, president, Society of American Military Engineers, San Francisco
Brigadier General Joseph Schroedel, executive director, Society of American Military Engineers
09:15 KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Melissa Roberts, executive director, American Flood Coalition, Federal Investment In Flood-Resilient Infrastructure
09:30 INVESTING IN FLOOD RESILIENCY
Victoria Sclafani, senior policy associate, American Flood Coalition, Highlights from “The Local Economic Impact of Flood-Resilient Infrastructure Projects” and Tools for Entities Seeking Federal Funding for Resilience
Mike Kaminski and Sharai Lewis-Gruss, lead and senior adaptation specialists, First Street Foundation, “First Street Foundation and the Flood Factor Assessment Tool”
Kathleen Schaefer, PhD candidate and former FEMA engineer, “Natural Disaster Risk: Liability or Asset?”
10:00 STATE RESPONSES
Louisiana
Jeff Varisco, Senior Project Manager, Programs & Project Management Division, Projects and Restoration Branch, United States Army Corps of Engineers – New Orleans District “Proposed Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion”
Alexander Kolker, associate professor, Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, “Sea Level Change in Coastal Louisiana: Implications for Coastal Resilience and the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion.”
California
Jonathan Camp, acting chief, Office of Smart Mobility & Climate Change, California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) Division of Transportation Planning, “Climate Adaptation Planning and Investment on the State Highway System”
Jeremy Lowe, coastal geomorphologist, San Francisco Estuary Institute, “Integrating Landscape Resiliency and Transportation Planning in the San Pablo Baylands of San Francisco Bay”
South Carolina
Kathryn Roscoe, senior flood risk and adaptation specialist, Deltares, “Coastal Flood Resilience Support System for Coastal Communities across the U.S”, demonstrated through a pilot project in the City of Charleston.
Texas
Meri Davlasheridze, assistant professor, Department of Marine Sciences, Texas A&M University at Galveston, “The Price of Not Investing in the Texas Coastal Spine System”
10:45 BREAK
11:00 LESSONS FROM THE NETHERLANDS
Jeroen Aerts, director, Department of Water and Climate Risk, VU University of Amsterdam, “ Lessons From Shanghai and the Netherlands”
Dirk-Jan Walstra, director of the Hydraulic Engineering Department, Deltares “Advanced Flood Protection Research & Design”
Matthijs Bos is lead climate adaptation & flood resilience for Royal Haskoning, DHV “Software Aids to Calculating Port of Rotterdam Cost/Benefit Defenses”
11:45 SALTWATER THREATS TO U.S. ATLANTIC, GULF & PACIFIC COASTS WATERSUPPLY
Gracie Todd and Bill Lambrecht, co-authors, “Saltwater Threats to U.S. Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific Coasts Water Supply”
Kyle Hopkins, partner, Oisann Engineering, “Offshore desalination to mitigate flooding and saltwater threats”
12:20 CONCLUSION & SENDING THE MESSAGE TO CONGRESS
Stas Margaronis, Propeller Club of Northern California
12:30 END
References
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE COST OF CLIMATE AMERICAS GROWING FLOOD RISK
State by State Analysis: Property Value Loss from Sea Level Rise
