ASBPA's National Coastal Conference: Chicago 2008 "Sustainable Shorelines"
Wednesday, October 15, 2008 1:00 pm - Friday, October 17, 2008 12:00 pm

Holiday Inn Chicago Mart Plaza
350 West Mart Center Drive
Chicago, IL 60654
USA

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Wednesday, Oct. 15
Plenary Session

Time Session Presenter(s)
8:30- noon.
ASBPA Board of Directors Meeting
 
10:00 a.m. Conference Registration  
1:00 p.m. Opening of the 2008 Conference
• Conference Co-chairs Michael Chrzastowski and Charles Shabica
• ASBPA President Harry Simmons
1:15 p.m.

Welcome Address

1:30 p.m. Jan Miller
USACE Coastal Programs in the Great Lakes
2:00 p.m. Nicholas Kraus
Accommodating Sea Level Rise in Coastal Engineering Functional Design
2:30 p.m. Philip King
The Impact of Global Warming on Beaches in Los Angeles and Orange County
3:00-3:30 p.m. Break
3:30 p.m. Thomas Campbell
Reintroduction of Coastal Structures into a National Beach Nourishment Program
4:00 p.m. Russ Boudreau
Beaches 101
4:30 p.m. Reinhard Flick
Shore & Beach: A 75-Year Look at the Shores and Beaches of America
5:00 p.m. Michael Chrzastowski
The Chicago Lakefront: A Centennial Celebration; A Potential International Spotlight
6:30 p.m. Grand Opening Reception

Thursday, Oct. 16
Concurrent sessions morning and afternoon

1A - State Policy: Programs

Time Session Presenter(s)
8:30 a.m.
9:00 a.m. Michael Barnett
Florida’s Beach Management Program
9:25 a.m. Scott Geis
North Carolina's approach to evolving ocean and coastal policy

9:50a.m.
Amanda Wenczel
Development of Ohio’s Lake Erie Shore Erosion Management Plan

1B - Water Quality

Time Session Presenter(s)
8:30 a.m.
9:00 a.m. Mindy Granley
A Regional Approach to Stormwater Education and Outreach: Combining Resources to Reach Multiple Audiences
9:25 a.m. Kate Nierenberg
Florida Red Tide and Human Health: A Beach Conditions Reporting System to Minimize Exposure

9:50a.m.
Tomoyuki Shibata
Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment of Beach Sand Contaminated with Wastewater

1C - Sustainable Coastal Management

Time Session Presenter(s)
8:30 a.m.
9:00 a.m.

William Seitz
Geospatial Tools and Homeland Security: Democratic vs. Autocratic Applications

9:25 a.m. Richard Davis
What Can We Learn From Water Level Changes in the Great Lakes About Coastal Management?

9:50a.m.
Elizabeth Livermont
Evidence of a Recent Increase in Storminess along the New Jersey Coast?

1D - Field Trip
8:30-12:00

10:15 – 10:45 Break

2A - State Policy: Issues

Time Session Presenter(s)
10:45 a.m
Patrick Krechowski
Trying to Reason with Hurricane Season: Florida’s Lessons Learned in the Pursuit of Coastal Property Protection
11:10 a.m. Mack Paul
Sandbags, Groins and the North Carolina’s Struggle for a Comprehensive Beach Management Strategy
11:35 a.m. Daniel Injerd
A Moratorium on Private Shore Protection: The Illinois Experience
12:00 p.m. Lee Weishar
The Reluctance of Massachusetts to Embrace Beach Nourishment; Are They Right?

2B - Water Quality

Time Session Presenter(s)
10:45 a.m
11:10 a.m. Russ Boudreau
Trouble in Paradise – Shoreline Erosion Threatens Maui Infrastructure – Problems And Solutions
11:35 a.m. Brian Caufield
Field Data Collection In Support of the Design of Silt Curtain Massena, NY
12:00 p.m. Maynard Riley
Stabilization of Urbanized Coastal Ravines to Reduce Sediment and Non-point Source Pollution Entering Lake Michigan

2C - Sustainable Coastal Management

Time Session Presenter(s)
10:45 a.m
11:10 a.m. Charles Shabica
Sustainable Great Lakes Beaches: The Illinois Experiment
11:35 a.m. Dan Veriotti
Shoreline Rehabilitation in Highland Park, Illinois
12:00 p.m. Adam Hosking
Planning For a Sustainable Coast

12:25-2:00 LUNCHEON
Speaker: Tab Brown (WRDA and Principles & Guidelines Revisions)
Peer to Peer Session

3A - Federal Policy 101

Time Session Presenter(s)
2:00 p.m.
2:25 p.m. John Furry
NEPA 101
2:50 p.m. Let Mon Lee
Corps of Engineers 102: Budgeting and Funding Process
3:15 p.m. Steve Dye
How to be an Effective Advocate

3B - Sand Resources

Time Session Presenter(s)
2:00 p.m.
2:25 p.m. C. Finkl
Sand Resources on the Florida Continental Shelf: Evaluation of the Potential of Seafloor Sediments for Beach Nourishment
2:50 p.m. Stephen Keehn
Finding the second 12 million cy of sand: Where do you go after the easiest sand sources are used up? Panama City Beaches, Florida Erosion Control Project
3:15 p.m. Syed Khalil
Sand Prospects and Hydrodynamic Implications of Dredging an Offshore Shoal in Southern Louisiana, USA

3C - Modeling

Time Session Presenter(s)
2:00 p.m.
Scott Douglass
A Portable Wave Flume
2:25 p.m.
Dennis Trizna
A Coherent Marine Radar for Decametric-Scale Current Mapping and Direct Measurements of Directional Ocean Wave Spectra
2:50 p.m. Julio Zyserman
Optimization of Shoreface Nourishment Performance using Coastal Area Morphological Modeling Tools
3:15 p.m. Peter Seidle
Advanced Wave Modeling of Inlets


3D - Field Trip

2:00-5:50

3:40 – 4:10 Break

4A - How to…

Time Session Presenter(s)
4:10 p.m.
4:35 p.m. Tina Haisman
Media Relations 101: Why is Media Relations so Important, Anyway?
5:00 p.m. John Lee
Texas Chapter of the ASBPA - Starting From Zero

5:25 p.m.
Richard Adams
Seeing Beaches in a different light

 

4B -Sand Resources

Time Session Presenter(s)
4:10 p.m.
4:35 p.m. Cameron Perry
Sand Source Investigations at South Padre Island, Texas
5:00 p.m. Shelby Tucker, Steve Aceti
Regional Beach Replenishment in the San Diego Region: Rebuilding the RBSP

5:25 p.m.
Harley Winer
Restoring the Louisiana Coastline

4C - Extreme Storms

Time Session Presenter(s)
4:10 p.m.

4:35 p.m.

Alicia Mahon
A Joint Distribution to Calculate Extreme Water Levels
5:00 p.m. Quin Robertson
Determination of Event Depth of Closure (EDOC) for the South Florida Atlantic Coast Using Airborne Laser Bathymetry

5:25 p.m.
Jeffrey Tabar
Slope Stability for Analyzing Shoreline Vulnerability And Coastal Structures Following Storm Activity

6:30 Evening Reception featuring Karen Melander-Magoon (Developing Awareness of the Coastline for Families through use of Song and Story) and Awards Banquet

FRIDAY Oct. 17
Concurrent sessions morning

1A - Inlet Management

Time Session Presenter(s)
8:30 a.m.
9:00 a.m. Karyn Erickson
Re-Opening of Midnight Pass: Design Goals, Objectives & Challenges
9:25 a.m. Michael Walther
Case Study: Lake Michigan Inlet-Beach Interaction

9:50a.m.
Rob Nairn
Using Science to Clarify Sand Rights Litigation, St. Joseph Harbor, Michigan

1B - Nourishment

Time Session Presenter(s)
8:30 a.m.
9:00 a.m. John Ramsey
Shore Protection Needs vs. Environmental Protection: An Example Restoration Program at Winthrop Beach, MA
9:25 a.m. Lester Smith
Beach Nourishment as the “Least Environmentally-Damaging Practicable Alternative” for Protection at Sconset: The Importance of Collaboration for Facilitating Soft Shoreline Protection

9:50a.m.
Jennifer Bistyga
Boca Raton North Beach Nourishment Project: Long Term Success of a Best Restored Beach

 

1C - Local Management

Time Session Presenter(s)
8:30 a.m.
9:00 a.m. Mark Wagstaff
Beaches along Chicago’s Lake Michigan Shoreline: A Case Study

9:25 a.m.

Joanne Bauer
Morgan Shoal: Planning for a Sustainable Ecosystem and Shoreline Protection for the Lake Michigan Shoreline

9:50a.m.
John Winkelman
Nantasket Beach, Hull, MA Beach Characterization Study

1D - Structures

Time Session Presenter(s)
8:30 a.m.
9:00 a.m. Timothy Kana
Design and Performance of Groins at Hunting Island (SC)

9:25 a.m.

Erik Olsen
Geosynthetic Marine Mattress Applications in Coastal Engineering
9:50a.m. Kevin MacIntosh
Barbados Coastal Infrastructure Project

10:15 – 10:45 Break

2A - General

Time Session Presenter(s)
10:45 a.m
11:10 a.m. Mark Rits
A Multi-Parameter Approach to Nearshore Subtidal Habitat Assessment and Replication
11:35 a.m. Karen Melander-Magoon
The Coastal Environment and the Human Psyche

2B - Nourishment

Time Session Presenter(s)
10:45 a.m
11:10 a.m. Kristen Odroniec
The Ft. Pierce, FL Shore Protection Project: History, Performance, and Future
11:35 a.m. Russ Joffrion
Pass Chaland to Grand Bayou Pass Barrier Shoreline Restoration Project, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana

2C – Surfing

Time Session Presenter(s)
10:45 a.m
11:10 a.m. John Hearin
Hybrid Solutions for Coastal Protection and Amenity Enhancement
11:35 a.m. Tom Pierro
Incorporating Surfing Concerns into Federal Projects

2D - Structures

Time Session Presenter(s)
10:45 a.m
11:10 a.m. Stuart Seabrook
Hydraulic Model Investigation of Revised Plan for the Fort Pierce Marina Reconstruction
11:35 a.m. Gordon Thomson
Sediment Transport Considerations in Long Breakwater Fields

 

12:00 Adjourn
*Program and speakers subject to change