1:00 pm: ASBPA-CSO Partnership and Joint Policy on Beach and Inlet Management
Read the full Joint Policy: https://asbpa.org/get-involved/policy/joint-policy-cso/
Read the full Joint Policy: https://asbpa.org/get-involved/policy/joint-policy-cso/
Tony Pratt is the retired Administrator of the Shoreline and Waterway Management Section within the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control where he oversaw programs related to beach nourishment, beach construction regulation, coastal hazards mitigation, waterway management, and flood mitigation.
Derek Brockbank is Executive Director of Coastal States Organization (CSO), which represents the nation’s Coastal States, Territories, and Commonwealths on ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes issues. With two decades of experience in Washington DC on coastal adaptation policy and organizational development, Derek is connecting state coastal management programs with federal agencies and resources in order to address the greatest coastal challenges facing society.
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Join moderator Tiffany Roberts-Briggs, Florida Atlantic University, to discuss: What funding is available? What pots of funding are not explicit to coastal, but could be better utilized for coastal?
Join moderator Scott Douglass, South Coast Engineers, to discuss: What is your community doing to prepare for rising seas? What support do you need from the federal government or federal agencies?
Join moderator Lynette Cardoch, Moffat & Nichol, to discuss: what can each of us be doing to make the coastal community more inclusive and diverse? What should ASBPA be doing?
Join Moderator Ken Willson, Coastal Protection Engineering, to discuss: what are the local impediments to beneficially using sediment? Regulations? Policies? Stakeholder opposition?
Join the moderator to discuss: what can federal agencies be doing to help promote TLP? What Congressional response is needed?
Join moderator Kim Garvey, Moffat & Nichol, to discuss: what should be included and how we can help USACE set this up?
Get ready to put your drawing skills to the test in this coastal themed Pictionary competition.
Sponsored by Moffat & Nichol
Nicole Elko, Ph.D. has 20 years of experience managing/assisting with more than 20 beach preservation projects along the U.S. Southeast and Gulf coasts. Dr. Elko received her Ph.D. (Geology) from the University of South Florida after working with the USGS Coastal Marine Geology Program, St. Petersburg, and while serving as the coastal coordinator for Pinellas County, FL.
Kevin Frenzel is a Texas registered professional geologist and is currently the CEPRA Program Manager in Coastal Resources at the Texas General Land Office. In this position, he provides technical review and oversight of erosion response projects along the Texas coast.
Kevin began his career in the U.S. Coast Guard where he conducted search and rescue operations out of Port Isabel, Tx, and Marine Safety operations out of Corpus Christi, Tx.
Following the Coast Guard, Kevin received his Geology degree from the University of Texas at Austin and has over 30 years of experience working in environmental, geological, and mineral exploration.
Jesse Hayden is an Engineer Program Manager in the Delaware Department of Natural Resourced and Environmental Control’s Shoreline and Waterway Management Section.
Jon is an attorney and scientist/engineer with well over 40 years of expertise in the environmental field, including in private law practice, with the U.S. EPA, and now with the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
Jon earned his law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center, and MS and BS degrees in water resources engineering and environmental science, both from Rutgers University. Jon is a member of the District of Columbia and Virginia Bars.
Lora Snyder is the staff director for the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife in the House Natural Resources Committee. Prior to joining the committee, Snyder was a campaign director at Oceana, the largest international advocacy group working solely to protect the world’s oceans.
Lora Snyder is the staff director for the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife in the House Natural Resources Committee. Prior to joining the committee, Snyder was a campaign director at Oceana, the largest international advocacy group working solely to protect the world’s oceans. Snyder worked to defend the Magnuson Stevens Act, protect critical ocean habitat, minimize bycatch in U.S. fisheries, as well as raise awareness of the threats facing sharks and sea turtles.
Before Oceana, Snyder spent several years at a bipartisan consulting firm, specializing in energy, human rights and environmental issues, among others. In this role, she worked with Oceana on its seafood fraud campaign, gaining expertise in ocean and fisheries issues. Ms. Snyder also served as principal advisor to former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator, Carol M. Browner. Ms. Snyder’s portfolio included staffing Ms. Browner in her role as Commissioner to the Global Ocean Commission.
Join Tom Herrington of Monmouth University to discuss adaption planning!
Join Derek Brockbank, Executive Director of Coastal States Organization, to discuss WRDA and other Congressional policy issues!
Join Annie Mercer, ASBPA Program Coordinator, to talk about the who, what, where and how of the Blue Flag Program.
Join Katie Brutsche, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, to talk about Regional Sediment Management!
Join Gary Jones, Los Angeles County, to talk about Coastal Management!
Join Nicole Elko, ASBPA Science Director, to discuss coastal water quality and the upcoming water quality white paper!
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