Motivating Local Climate Adaptation and Strengthening Resilience: Making Local Data Trusted, Useful, and Used (2021)
Chapter: Appendix B: Agenda
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Agenda
Committee on Applied Research Topics for Hazard Mitigation and Resilience
Workshop 2: Motivating Local Action to Mitigate Climate Threats and Build Resilience
Tuesday, May 25, 2021
| 11:00AM-11:10AM | Welcome |
| Charles Branas, Chair, Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University | |
| 11:10AM-12:15PM | Panel 1: Climate and Data Science for Hazard Mitigation and Resilience at the Local Level |
Speaker 1: Victoria Keener, Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow, East-West Center | |
Speaker 2: Mark Shafer, Ph.D., Associate Professor, University of Oklahoma Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability, and Director of the Southern Climate Impacts Planning Program | |
Speaker 3: Aashka Patel, Resilience Specialist, FernLeaf Interactive | |
Speaker 4: Arthur DeGaetano, Ph.D., Professor, Cornell University Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, and Director of the NOAA Northeast Regional Climate Center. | |
Moderator: Mark Abkowitz, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Vanderbilt University | |
| 12:30PM-1:30PM | Panel 2: Translating Data for Motivating Local Resilience Action |
Speaker 1: Abigail Sullivan, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Earth & Environment, Boston University | |
Speaker 2: Jennifer Helgeson, Ph.D., Research Economist, National Institute of Standards and Technology | |
Speaker 3: Amy Snover, Ph.D., Director, Climate Impacts Group, University of Washington |
Speaker 4: Tancred Miller, Policy & Planning Section Chief, North Carolina Division of Coastal Management | |
Speaker 5: T.J. McDonald, Technology Coordinator, City of Seattle Emergency Management | |
Moderator: Ann Lesperance, Director, Northwest Regional Technology Center for Homeland Security, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Director, College of Social Sciences and Humanities Programs, Northeastern University–Seattle | |
| 1:45PM-2:45PM | Panel 3: Environmental Justice and Impacts of Historical Inequities: Lessons for Climate Adaptation and Resilience |
Speaker 1: Cate Mingoya, Director of Capacity Building, Groundwork USA | |
Speaker 2: David B. Abraham, Ph.D., Faculty member, Natural Sciences, Rice University; Principal Investigator, Houston Sustainability Indicators Project | |
Speaker 3: Rose Whitehair, Diné Nation, Disaster Response & Recovery | |
Speaker 4: Scott Gabriel Knowles, Ph.D., Professor, Graduate School of Science and Technology Policy, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology | |
Moderator: Monica Sanders, Associate Professor, University of Delaware; Adjunct, School of Continuing Studies, and Adjunct Professor, Law Center, Georgetown University | |
| 3:00PM-4:00PM | Panel 4: Reactive and Proactive Local Actions and Data Translation for Decision-Makers |
Speaker 1: Tonya Graham, City Councilor, City of Ashland, Oregon | |
Speaker 2: Ann Phillips, Special Assistant to the Governor of Virginia for Coastal Adaptation and Protection | |
Speaker 3: Chad Berginnis, Executive Director, Association of State Floodplain Managers, Inc. | |
Speaker 4: Harriet Festing, Executive Director, Anthropocene Alliance | |
Moderators: Linda Langston, President, Langston Strategies Group, and Robin McGuire, Senior Principal, Lettis Consultants International, Inc. | |
| 4:00PM-4:15PM | Recap and Closing |
Charles Branas, Chair, Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University |
