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City of St. Augustine, FL: Lessons Learned from Hurricanes Matthew & Irma
Martha Graham, Public Works Director & City Engineer, City of St. Augustine, FL
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Resilient Rhody: Going Above & Beyond in the Ocean State
Shaun O’Rourke, Stormwater & Resiliency Director & Chief Resilience Officer, State of Rhode Island
What’s New in the World of Floodplain Management
Molly Kaput, Natural Hazards Specialist & Bob Desaulniers, Regional Insurance Specialist, FEMA
Update from the Association of State Floodplain Managers (ASFPM)
Chad Berginnis, Executive Director, ASFPM
Folder Materials
Aquidneck Island Resilience Strategy: Overview and
key recommendations for regional planning
Abby Burrows, Aquidneck Island Planning Commission &
Pam Rubinoff, URI Coastal Resources Center/RI Sea
Grant
Bayside Adapts: Effective Planning Starts with Good
Information
Kelly Knee, RPS & Mary McCrann, Woodard and Curran
Do Hazard Mitigation Plans Drive Community Action
and Increase Resilience?
Gabriella Spitzer, Michael Baker International
Maintaining Green Infrastructure -- tools and tips
Meg Kerr, Audubon Society of Rhode Island
Morning
Afternoon
Historic Resources in the High Risk Flood Zones:
Practical Lessons from a Newport Case Study
Arnold Robinson, Roger Williams University
Providing Resilience Education for Planning in RI
Jennifer West, Narragansett Bay Research Reserve & Pam Rubinoff, URI Coastal Resources Center/RI Sea Grant
Ignite Panel: Storm Mitigation for Coastal Buildings Rob
Lambert, Burgin Lambert Architects; Senior Resiliency
Project: Preparing Senior Living Facilities for Extreme
Weather Events Laura Bozzi, RI Department of Health;
Proactive Planning with Rapid PACE, a Coastal Property
Assessment Tool Pam Rubinoff, URI Coastal Resources
Center/RI Sea Grant
Coupling local scale, high resolution, qualitative data to
interface with numerical storm models
Robert Witkop, University of Rhode Island
Moving Beyond 1D: 2D Rain-on-Grid Approaches for
FEMA Floodplain Mapping
Alex Sirotek, CDM Smith
Workshop: Green Infrastructure Case Studies &
Lessons Learned
Peter M. Hanrahan, Everett J. Prescott, Inc.
Decision Support for Resilient Communities: EPA’s
Watershed Management Optimization Support Tools
Dr. Naomi Detenbeck, U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, Atlantic Ecology Division
Digital Coast: Building Resilience Through Partnerships
Jamie Carter, The Baldwin Group at NOAA Office for
Coastal Management
Risk-Informed Decision-Making Approach for Flood
Risk Assessment and Management
Bin Wang & Dan Stapleton, GZA GeoEnvironmental Inc