STORMS, FLOODING & SEA LEVEL DEFENSE CONFERENCE,
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2022 VIA ZOOM
0800 TO 1345 U.S. PACIFIC COAST TIME
NOTE: ALL TIMES ARE U.S. PACIFIC COAST TIMES
0745 CALL TO ORDER
Stas Margaronis, Propeller Club of Northern California
0800 WELCOME
Danny Wan, Executive Director, Port of Oakland
Charlie Perham, President-elect SAME National; Vice-President, Matrix Design Group
Jim Patti, President, International Propeller Club
LTC Kevin P. Arnett, PhD, PE, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Commander, San Francisco District
Arvind Acharya, President, Society of American Military Engineers- San Francisco Post, Sr. Project Executive, GES-AIS
0900 KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Eugene Seroka, Executive Director, Port of Los Angeles, “Ports of Los Angeles & Port of Shanghai Collaboration Green Ships Corridor & Beyond”
0930 IMPACT OF FLOODING & SEA LEVEL RISE ON PORTS & INFRASTRUCTURE
PORT OF ROTTERDAM
Joost de Nooijer, Project Engineer at Port of Rotterdam, “Resiliency Interactive Website for Port of Rotterdam Terminals”
CALIFORNIA
Brad Benson, Waterfront Resilience Program Director, Port of San Francisco, “San Francisco Seawall Update”
Adrienne Newbold, Port Engineer, Port of Los Angeles, “Resilience Upgrade Report”
LOUISIANA
Justin R. Ehrenwerth, President & CEO, The Water Institute of the Gulf “SmartPort: A Crowd-Sourcing Method to Predict the Movement of Sediment and Available Draft on the Mississippi River”
1045 BREAK
1100 NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS
Dr. Todd S. Bridges, U.S. Army Senior Research Scientist, Environmental Science U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, “Developing a National Strategy for Nature-Based Solutions”
Colonel Estee Pinchasin, USACE, Baltimore District Commander, “Maryland Sustainable Solutions: Restoring Mid-Chesapeake Bay Islands”
Matthijs Bouw, Founding Principal, One Architecture & Urbanism & Weitzman School of Design/University of Pennsylvania, “Building with Nature in the United States.”
Tim Barrett, Environmental Conservation Manager, Port of San Diego, “Nature-Based Solutions Protecting North and South San Diego Bay.”
1200 FLOOD & STORM SURGE & SEA-LEVEL DEFENSE RESPONSES
LOUISIANA
Mark Wingate, P.E. Deputy District Engineer for Programs and Project Management, New Orleans District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, “A Systems Approach to Storm Damage Risk Reduction in South Louisiana”
Rudy Simoneaux, Engineering Chief at Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority “CPRA Master Plan to Address Flooding and Land Loss Coastwide”
TEXAS
Kelly A. Burks-Copes, PhD, Chief, Program Support Branch, Mega Project Division U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District, “Challenges Facing Texas Coastal Spine”
1230 BREAK
1240 FLOOD & STORM SURGE & SEA-LEVEL DEFENSE RESPONSES (CONT.)
HAWAII
Moderator: Derek Chow, Pacific Islands Business Development Manager, Burns & McDonnell Engineering Company, Inc. “Hawaii’s Sea Level Defense Strategy”
Justin Goo, Acting Deputy Chief, Engineering and Construction Division for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Honolulu District , “Navigation and Sea Level Change Considerations for Navigation and Coastal Storm Damage Reduction Projects in the State of Hawaii”
Sarah Chang, Project Analyst at State of Hawaii, Office of Planning, “An overview of statewide initiatives to address impacts of sea level rise and coastal hazards on state infrastructure”
CALIFORNIA
Kathleen Schaefer, PhD student in Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis, former FEMA engineer and flood insurance specialist, “New Ideas for Reducing Flood Risk Through Collaboration, Coordination and Insurance”
Raghuveer Vinukollu, SVP, Climate Resilience and Solutions Lead at Munich Reinsurance America, Inc., “Insurance as an Underappreciated Tool in Meeting Climate Resilience Challenges.”
Gary Bardini, P.E. Director of Planning, Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency, “Successfully Working with the USACE: Challenges and Opportunities.”
Nicholas Pinter, PhD, Associate Director, Center for Watershed Sciences, UC Davis. “World Water: a new international network for water- related education, research, and engagement “
1345 CONCLUSION
Stas Margaronis, Propeller Club of Northern California