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MARINE TECHNOLOGY SOCIETY 'TECHSURGE'
More than 230 civic leadership, municipal employees, planners, Navy, NOAA, industry partners and students from across the region attended the 2014 TechSurge, Technical Support for Coastal Resiliency held on June 3-4, 2014 at ODU in Norfolk, VA. The event was opened with the announcement by the President of ODU, John Broderick, that ODU established the Mitigation and Adaptation Research Institute (MARI) and followed by a high-level panel discussing a Hampton Roads pilot project aiming to explore options for a “Whole Government” approach to adaptation to sea level rise and other climate change impacts in the region. The technical presentations gave insight into the observational efforts, data available and services aiming at environmental intelligence. The conference was closed by a speech given by the Administrator McCarthy of E.P.A., whom commented on federal efforts in climate mitigation. Read a summary ... |
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TECHNICAL SUPPORT FOR COASTAL RESILIENCYJune 3-4, 2014 |
The Hampton Roads Section of the Marine Technology Society teamed with MARI in organizing a 'TechSurge' focusing on the theme of “Technical Support for Coastal Resiliency.” The event took place at ODU's Ted Constant Conference Center in Norfolk, Virginia. This event built upon the successful Hampton Roads Sea Level Rise/Flooding Adaptation Forum, which is funded by a grant from the Virginia Sea Grant to ODU and the Hampton Roads Planning District Commission (HRPDC) and on OCEANS 2012 MTS/IEEE Hampton Roads which was held in October 2012 in Virginia Beach. More than 203 civic leadership, municipal employees, planners, Navy, NOAA, industry partners and students from across the region attended. More information is available here. In case of questions, please contact the conference lead Ray Toll (rtoll at odu.edu). Conference Focus To investigate the technical capabilities required to increase coastal resiliency — Announcement of a sea level rise pilot project for Hampton Roads — A combined government-industry approach for mitigating and adapting to sea level rise Rationale for Conference Sea level rise is causing increased flooding along much of our coastline. To adapt to this, engineers and decision makers need many types of information. This conference focuses on the technical capabilities required to produce the needed information. Who Should Attend
Desired Outcome Document the sense of the conference - covering the stakeholder requirements, the research needed, and the emerging tools soon to be available to address sea level rise and increase coastal resiliency - as a summary report. Potentially, this documentation will support the creation of a regional task force to address sea level rise. |
AGENDA
(presentation)Tuesday, June 3, 2014
0730 - 0830 | Registration and Exhibit Setup. |
0830 - 0850 | Conference Goals and Introductions Ray Toll, Toll, Chair-MTS Hampton Roads Section and Navy Liaison-Old Dominion University |
0850 - 0900 | Welcome John Broderick, President, Old Dominion University |
0900 - 1200 | Hampton Roads “Whole of Government” Plus Industry Sea Level Rise Pilot Project Announcement |
Eric Letvin - White House National Security Staff RADM Kevin Slates, Director, Chief of Naval Operations Energy and Environmental Readiness Division | |
Break and Exhibits | |
Hampton Roads Pilot Project - Leadership Team Panel Moderator: VADM David Architzel (ret.), Director of Military Affairs, Old Dominion University Federal: RADM Dixon Smith, Commander, Navy Region Mid-Atlantic CAPT John Korka, Commanding Officer, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Mid-Atlantic COL Paul Olsen, Commander, Norfolk District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers State: Evan Feinman, Deputy Secretary of Natural Resources, Commonwealth of Virginia Regional: Randy Keaton, Prospective Acting Executive Director, Hampton Roads Planning District Commission City: James Redick, Director, Office of Emergency Preparedness and Response, City of Norfolk Industry: Robert Fallon, Director, Facilities and Waterfront Support, Newport News Shipyard Building, Huntington Ingalls Industries | |
1200 - 1300: | Lunch/Keynote Address Dr. Russell Callender - Deputy Director, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)/National Ocean Service (NOS) (presentation) |
1300 - 1700: | Technical Session: Integrated Observations. Each 20-minute session is followed by a 5-minute Q&A. |
1300 - 1320 | Water Level Observing Technologies Overview - Sutron Corporation representative (presentation) |
1325 - 1345 | Tracking Sea Level Rise and Coastal Inundation Dr. William Sweet, National Ocean Service/Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (presentation) |
1350 - 1410 | NOAA's Storm Surge Roadmap and Storm Surge Modeling Portfolio Dr. Jesse Feyen, Coastal Survey Development Laboratory (presentation) |
1415 - 1435 | Impacts of Sea Level Change and Vertical Land Movement on Tidal Datums Stephen Gill, National Ocean Service/Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (presentation) |
1440 - 1510 | Break and Exhibits |
1510 - 1530 | Using Continuous GPS Observations to Observe Land Subsidence Dr. Hans-Peter Plag, Director, Mitigation and Adaptation Research Institute, Old Dominion University (presentation - keynote) |
1535 - 1555 | Microwave Water Level Sensors Robert Heitsenrether, National Ocean Service/Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (presentation) |
1600 - 1620 | Virginia Beach Project to Install Eleven Water Level Gauges Jeffrey Waller, PE, Project Manager, Virginia Beach Public Works/Engineering/Water Resources Dr. Seshadri Iyer, PE, Senior Water Resources Engineer, URS Corporation (presentation) |
1625 - 1645 | Why are Sea Level Rise and Flooding Accelerating along the U.S. East Coast? Dr. Tal Ezer, Old Dominion University Department of Ocean, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences and Mitigation and Adaptation Research Institute (presentation) |
1650 - 1700 | Closing Remarks of the Day |
1900 - 2100 | Social at Nauticus |
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
0730 - 0830 | Breakfast and Exhibit |
0830 - 0840 | Welcome Dr. Carol Simpson, ODU Provost |
0840 - 0905 | Data Integration Dr. Richard Spinrad, Vice President for Research, Oregon State University and prospective Chief Scientist, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (presentation) |
0910 - 1200 | Technical Session Resumes |
0910 - 0930 | Sea Level Rise Vulnerabilities at Navy Installations in Norfolk and Worldwide Dr. Kelly Burks-Copes, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Research and Development Center, Vicksburg, Mississippi (presentation) |
0935 - 0955 | Achieving Total and True Commonality with Collaboration Across Stakeholder Common Operating Pictures (COPs) Dave Jones, Rafael Ameller, StormCenter Communications, Inc. (presentation) |
1000 - 1020 | Risk Considerations for Water Level Stations Richard Edwing, Director, National Ocean Service/Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (presentation) |
1025 - 1100 | Break and Exhibit |
1100 - 1120 | A New Coastal Flood Exposure Web Tool from Climate Central Dan Rizza, Climate Central (presentation) |
1125 - 1145 | U.S. Geological Survey Tide and Storm Surge Monitoring in Response to Hurricane Sandy Mark Bennett, Director, U.S. Geological Survey (presentation) |
1150 - 1300 | Boxed Lunch Remarks - Dr. Gerhard Kuska, Executive Director, Mid-Atlantic Regional Association Coastal Ocean Observing System (presentation) |
1300 - 1320 | Leveraging LIDAR: The Critical Importance of Positional Accuracy George McLeod, Lead GIS Engineer, Adjunct Faculty, and Ph.D. Candidate in Oceanography, Old Dominion University (presentation) |
1325 - 1345 | Possibilities of Adding Water Level Sensors to the WeatherFlow Observing Site Jay Titlow, Senior Meteorologist, WeatherFlow (presentation) |
1350 - 1410 | Data Communications Advances Mark Bushnell, CoastalObsTechServices, LLC (presentation) |
1410 - 1445 | Compilation of Actions: What Achievements Will Be Presented at the 2016 Technical Support for Coastal Resiliency TechSurge? |
1445 - 1500 | Gina McCharthy, Administrator of EPA: Remarks |