CONFERENCE AGENDA:
Tuesday, April 13, 2021 @ 08:45-12:30 U.S. Pacific Time Via Zoom
08:45 Call To Order
Propeller Club of Northern California, Stas Margaronis
09:00 Welcome
• Brigadier General Joseph Schroedel, executive director, Society of American Military Engineers
09:15 Keynote Speaker
• Melissa Roberts, executive director, American Flood Coalition, “The Flooding Threat’s Economic Impact to the United States”
09:30 Investing in Flood Resiliency
• Victoria Sclafani, senior policy associate, American Flood Coalition, “The Local Economic Impact of Flood – Resilient Infrastructure Projects”
• Sharai Lewis-Gruss and Mike Kaminski, Lead and Senior Adaptation Specialists, First Street Foundation, “Flood Factor and Our National Adaptation Database”
• Kathleen Schaefer, PhD candidate and former FEMA engineer, “Natural Disaster Risk: Liability or Asset?”
10:00 State Responses
• Colonel Stephen Murphy, District Commander New Orleans, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
“Flood Challenges Facing the Mississippi River” *
• Elaine Forbes, executive director, Port of San Francisco, “Rebuilding the San Francisco Seawall” *
• 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”
• Rachel Haney, communications director Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, “Mid Barataria Sediment Diversion”1*
*Invited
10:45 Break
11:00 Lessons from the Netherlands
• Jeroen Aerts, director, Department of Water and Climate Risk, VU University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands’ Contribution to Flood & Sea Level Defense Initiatives”
• Dirk-Jan Walstra, director of the Hydraulic Engineering Department, “Flood Risk Modeling for U.S. Department of Homeland Security & Delta Flume: Implications for Advanced Flood Research”
• 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” 2
• Gracie Todd and Bill Lambrecht, co-authors, “Saltwater Threats to U.S. Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific Coasts Water Supply” 2
12:20 Conclusion & Sending the Message to Congress
12:30 End
