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Sea Level Rise and Coastal Disasters: Summary of a Forum October 25, 2001 Washington, DC
APPENDIX A
AGENDA
NATURAL DISASTERS ROUNDTABLE
Thursday, October 25, 2001
National Academy of Sciences
LECTURE ROOM
Forum on Sea Level Rise and Coastal Disasters
9:00 AM
Welcome and Introductions
Rutherford H. Platt, Chair
9:05 AM
Sea Level Rise and Coastal Disasters
Stephen P. Leatherman, Florida International University
9:35 AM
Ecological Impacts of Sea Level Rise
J. Court Stevenson, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
10:05 AM
Science Issues and Monitoring Capabilities
Bruce C. Douglas, Florida International University
10:35 AM
Coffee break
10:50 AM
Tides, Sea Level, and Storm Tracks During El Niño Events in California
Reinhard E. Flick, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
11:20 AM
Political Realities of Coping with Sea Level Rise
The Honorable James N. Mathias, Jr., Mayor of Ocean City, Maryland
11:50 AM
Lunch break
1:00 PM
Case Study: New Orleans
Virginia R. Burkett, USGS National Wetlands Research Center
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Sea Level Rise and Coastal Disasters: Summary of a Forum October 25, 2001 Washington, DC
1:30 PM
Case Study: Outer Banks of North Carolina
Stanley R. Riggs, East Carolina University
2:00 PM
Case Study: Saving Venice, Italy
Rafael L. Bras, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2:30 PM
Mitigation: The Insurance Industry Perspective
James W. Russell, Institute for Business and Home Safety
3:00 PM
Coffee break
3:15 PM
Public Policy Panel Discussion, Rutherford H. Platt, Moderator
Margaret Davidson, NOAA
James G. Titus, EPA
S. Jeffress (Jeff) Williams, USGS
Cornelia Pasche Wikar, Maryland Department of Natural Resources
4:45 PM
Concluding Remarks
5:00 PM
Adjourn
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