Sea Level Hotspots from Florida to Maine: Drivers, Impacts, and Adaptation Workshop Agenda
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| 07:30 |
Registration & Light Breakfast |
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| 08:30 | Opening Remarks and Workshop Objectives | Ricardo Domingues & Klaus Keller | Download |
| 08:45 | Welcome from Norfolk | Councilwoman Andria McClellan, City of Norfolk | |
| 09:00 |
Session 1: Current Efforts and Plans to Improve Coastal Sea Level Resilience (Framing the Challenges and Needs) |
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| 09:00 | Resilient Norfolk: Designing the Coastal Community of the Future (Norfolk Case Study) | Kyle Spencer, City of Norfolk | Download |
| 09:20 | Adapting to Sea Level Rise in Miami-Dade County (Miami Case Study) | Katie Hagemann, Miami Dade County Office of Resilence | View |
| 09:40 | Virginia Beach Case Study | Brian Batten, Dewberry | Download |
| 10:00 |
Break |
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| 10:30 | Maine Case Study | Susie Arnold, Island Institute | Download |
| 10:50 | Building Resilience in an Urban Coastal Environment: Technical Analysis Is the Easy Part | Debra Knopman, RAND Corporation | Download |
| 11:10 | Coastal Adaptation and Prediction in Virginia | RDML Ann Phillips, Commonwealth of Virginia / Coastal Adaptation & Protection - The Center for Climate & Security Board | Download |
| 11:30 |
Questions / Discussion Facilitators - Larry Atkinson & Klaus Keller |
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| 12:00 |
Lunch |
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| 13:00 |
Session 2: What can the natural sciences provide? What are open research questions? |
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| 13:00 | Mechanisms of Sea-Level Change from Florida to Maine and Their Predictability | Christopher Piecuch, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | Download |
| 13:20 | Coastal Change Hazards: Understanding What's at Stake and Planning for the Future | Erika Lentz, USGS | Download |
| 13:40 | Synthesizing Climate Uncertainties and Decision Making in Complex Interdependent Coastal Systems | Nathan Urban, Los Alamos National Laboratory | Download |
| 14:00 |
Q&A with Panel of Speakers |
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| 14:30 |
Break |
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| 15:00 |
Session 2 Questions/Discussion Facilitators - Gary Mitchum & Phil Thompson |
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| 15:30 | NASA Presentation | Benjamin Hamlington | Download |
| 15:50 |
Lightening presentations for evening poster session |
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| 17:00 |
Poster Session & Networking Opportunity |
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| 18:30 |
End of Day 1 |
| Time | Agenda | Presenter | Presentation |
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| 07:30 |
Light Breakfast |
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| 08:30 |
Goals for the day & charges to the breakout groups |
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| 08:45 |
Breakouts by Region: NE, Mid-Atlantic, SE/Gulf of Mexico |
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| 10:00 |
Break |
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| 10:30 |
Session 3: What are the tools currently available? What are the needed innovations, and observations? |
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| 10:30 | NASA & NOAA Tools Overview | Carmen Boening and Bill Sweet | Download |
| 11:00 | Tools and Resources Currently in Place and in Development to Help Planning Adaptation to Sea Level Rise in South Florida | Jayantha Obeysekera, Florida International University | Download |
| 11:30 | Engaging and Activating the Local Community on Sea Level Topics | Nicholas Deffley & Kim Cobb, City of Savannah & Georgia Tech | Download |
| 12:00 |
Questions/Discussion |
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| 12:30 |
Lunch |
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| 13:30 |
Breakouts by Region (continued) |
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| 15:00 |
Break |
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| 15:30 |
Breakouts by targeted topics determined from discussions |
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| 17:00 |
End of Day 2 |
| Time | Agenda | Presenter | Presentation |
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| 07:30 |
Light Breakfast |
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| 08:30 | Summary of key findings and recommendations | Ricardo Domingues | Download |
| 08:45 |
Discussion of findings and recommendations |
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| 10:30 |
Adjourn Workshop |