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2020 Coastal Summit Program

The program has been updated to reflect the Coastal Summit moving to an ONLINE-ONLY format. The ASBPA mobile online program is sponsored by the Galveston Island Park Board of Trustees.

Log-in and call-in information for the online Coastal Summit will be sent to registered attendees on Monday, March 23rd.

Tuesday, March 24

9:00 – 11:00 a.m. ASBPA Board of Directors’ Meeting. We will hold the board meeting by Zoom meeting on Tuesday, March 24 beginning at 9 a.m. ET until 11 a.m. ET.  We will send connection information along with the board packet on March 19.

Read Bios for all the Speakers.

“Coastal funding and economics”

1:00 – 1:15      Welcome

Brian Caufield, Margarita Kruyff, Mike McGarry, Coastal Summit co-chairs

Derek Brockbank, ASBPA Executive Director, Kate Gooderham, Managing Director

 

1:15 – 1:45     ASBPA’s Science & Technology Agenda and Government Affairs Agenda

Nicole Elko, Ph.D. & Derek Brockbank, ASBPA

 

1:45 – 2:15      The Corps’ Benefit Cost Ratio: How it works, how it drives projects and planning.

Martin Durkin, USACE, Jacksonville District

Jeff Strahan, USACE, Headquarters

 

2:15 – 2:30      Federal Appropriations update

Michael Brain, House Appropriations Committee

 

2:30 – 3:25       Local Funding – Reviewing ASBPA new report and case studies on how different communities fund their beach projects.

Moderator: Annie Mercer, ASBPA

Ken Willson, Coastal Protection Engineering (Dare County)

Marc Beyeler, BEACON

Shannon Cunniff, ASBPA

 

3:25 – 3:30          Break

 

3:30 – 3:45      National Coastal Conference preview

Cesar Espinosa, Los Angeles County and ASBPA

 

3:45 – 4:45    “Valuing, Funding, and Designing Natural Infrastructure”

Moderator: Margarita Kruyff, Miami Beach, Florida

Dr. Moushumi Chaudhury, The Nature Conservancy

Katie Carpenter, Resilient Enterprise Solutions

Dr. Stewart Farrell, Stockton University Coastal Research Center

 

4:45 – 5:15      Keynote from NOAA

RDML Tim Gallaudet, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere (Deputy NOAA Administrator)

 

Wednesday March 25

“Federal agencies and policy”

8:30 – 9:15      Stories from the Shoreline: Best Restored Beaches 2019

Lee Weishar, Peter Seidle

  • Caminada Headland, Louisiana: Brad Miller, Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA)
  • Duval County, Florida: Geoffrey Klug, US Army Corps of Engineers
  • South Padre Island, Texas: Kristina Boburka, City of South Padre Island
  • Bellingham, Washington: Jim Johannessen, Coastal Geological Services

 

9:15 – 9:45  DUNEX/USCRP update

Hilary Stockdon, USGS

 

9:45 – 10:15  Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) – Water/Beach program

Lisa Larimer, Team Lead, National Branch, Office of Water, EPA

 

10:15 – 11:00  Offshore energy and how it impacts coastal resilience funding

Greg Grandy, Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA)

Jill Hamilton, Legislative Assistant, Office of Senator Sheldon Whitehouse

 

11:00 – 11:30  Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA’s) Building Resilient infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program

Tucker Mahoney, FEMA

 

11:30 – 12:00  US Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) – Coastal Program

Samantha Brooke, USFWS

 

12:00 – 12:45  Hill briefing with Congressional Committee Staff:  What’s Happening on the Hill

Moderators: Bradley Watson, Coastal States Organization, and Derek Brockbank, ASBPA

Camille Touton, Transportation & Infrastructure Committee

John Kane, Environment & Public Works Committee

Alexis Rudd, Commerce Committee

Bill Ball, Natural Resources Committee

 

Wednesday Afternoon

Hill Advocacy Visits

Will be conducted via conference call on webinar.

Agency Visits (Reservation required. Leaders will contact registered attendees with information)

2:00 – 4:00 USACE                                   Julie Rosati, Katie Brutsché, leaders

12:30 – 1:30 FEMA                                    Doug Bellomo, leader

2:00 – 3:00 BOEM                                     Dan Adams, leader

2:15 – 3:30 NOAA (OCM)            Margarita Kruyff, Lynette Cardoch, leaders

 

Thursday, March 26

All of Thursday’s sessions have been moved to Tuesday or Wednesday, or cancelled.

Short Course:

The short course has been cancelled.

 

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