ASBPA

ASBPA's National Coastal Conference: Chicago 2008 "Sustainable Shorelines"
Wednesday, October 15, 2008 1:00 pm - Friday, October 17, 2008 12:00 pm

Holiday Inn Chicago Mart Plaza
350 West Mart Center Drive
Chicago, IL 60654
USA

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Tuesday, Oct. 14
Sustainable Beach Restoration-Adaptive and Structural Solutions: A short course (Info here)

Wednesday, Oct. 15
Plenary Session

Time	Session	Presenter(s)
8 a.m. - noon.	ASBPA Board of Directors Meeting
10:00 a.m.	Conference Registration
1:00 p.m.	Opening of the 2008 Conference • Conference Co-chairs Michael Chrzastowski and Charles Shabica • ASBPA President Harry Simmons	Chrzastowski Shabica Simmons
1:10 p.m.	Welcome: State Representative Harry Osterman
1:15 p.m.	Welcome: Office of the Mayor, City of Chicago, Commissioner of the Environment Suzanne Malec-McKenna	Malec-McKenna
1:30 p.m.	Jan Miller USACE Coastal Programs in the Great Lakes	Miller
2:00 p.m.	Nicholas Kraus Accommodating Sea Level Rise in Coastal Engineering Functional Design	Kraus
2:30 p.m.	Philip King The Impact of Global Warming on Beaches in Los Angeles and Orange County	King
3:00-3:30 p.m.	Break-sponsored by Coastal Science and Engineering
3:30 p.m.	Thomas Campbell Reintroduction of Coastal Structures into a National Beach Nourishment Program	Campbell
4:00 p.m.	Reinhard Flick Shore & Beach: A 75-Year Look at the Shores and Beaches of America	Flick
4:30 p.m.	Chicago 2016: Highlighting the Chicago Lakefront in the 2016 Olympic bid
5:00 p.m.	Michael Chrzastowski The Chicago Lakefront: A Centennial Celebration; A Potential International Spotlight	Chrzastowski
5:30 p.m.	ASBPA Annual Meeting
6:30 p.m.	Grand Opening Reception

Thursday, Oct. 16
Concurrent sessions morning and afternoon

1A - State Policy: Programs

Time	Session	Presenter(s)
8:30 a.m.	Luke Le Bas Coastal Programs and Policies – The Louisiana Department of Natural Resources, Coastal Engineering Division	LeBas
9:00 a.m.	Nicole Elko Maintaining Sandy Shorelines in Florida	Elko
9:25 a.m.	Scott Geis North Carolina's Approach to Evolving Ocean and Coastal Policy	Geis
9:50a.m.	Amanda Wenczel Development of Ohio’s Lake Erie Shore Erosion Management Plan	Wenczel

1B - Water Quality

Time	Session	Presenter(s)
8:30 a.m.	Meredith Nevers Summer E. coli Patterns and Responses Along 23 Chicago Beaches	Nevers
9:00 a.m.	Mindy Granley A Regional Approach to Stormwater Education and Outreach: Combining Resources to Reach Multiple Audiences	Granley
9:25 a.m.	Kate Nierenberg Florida Red Tide and Human Health: A Beach Conditions Reporting System to Minimize Exposure	Nierenberg
9:50a.m.	Tomoyuki Shibata Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment of Beach Sand Contaminated with Wastewater	Shibata

1C - Sustainable Coastal Management

Time	Session	Presenter(s)
8:30 a.m.	David Basco The Incalculable Benefits of Shore Protection at Jamestown	Basco
9:00 a.m.	William Seitz Geospatial Tools and Homeland Security: Democratic vs. Autocratic Applications	Seitz
9:25 a.m.	Richard Davis What Can We Learn From Water Level Changes in the Great Lakes About Coastal Management?	Davis
9:50a.m.	Elizabeth Livermont Evidence of a Recent Increase in Storminess along the New Jersey Coast?	Livermont

1D - Field Trip
8:30-12:00

10:15 – 10:45 Break - Sponsored by Weeks Marine

2A - State Policy: Issues

Time	Session	Presenter(s)
10:45 a.m	Lorrie Council Responding to Coastal Erosion Challenges at the Village of Surfside Beach, Texas	Council
11:10 a.m.	Mack Paul Sandbags, Groins and the North Carolina’s Struggle for a Comprehensive Beach Management Strategy	Paul
11:35 a.m.	Daniel Injerd A Moratorium on Private Shore Protection: The Illinois Experience	Injerd
12:00 p.m.	Lee Weishar The Reluctance of Massachusetts to Embrace Beach Nourishment; Are They Right?	Weishar

2B - Water Quality

Time	Session	Presenter(s)
10:45 a.m	Mindy Granley Weather & Water: Stream and beach water quality data animations to protect Lake Superior streams and coastal zones	Granley
11:10 a.m.	Russ Boudreau Trouble in Paradise – Shoreline Erosion Threatens Maui Infrastructure – Problems And Solutions	Boudreau
11:35 a.m.	Brian Caufield Field Data Collection In Support of the Design of Silt Curtain Massena, NY	Caufield
12:00 p.m.	Maynard Riley; Stefanie Nagelbach Stabilization of Urbanized Coastal Ravines to Reduce Sediment and Non-point Source Pollution Entering Lake Michigan	Riley

2C - Sustainable Coastal Management

Time	Session	Presenter(s)
10:45 a.m	William Weaver Great Lakes Shoreline Restoration Strategies in Urban and Suburban Areas	Weaver
11:10 a.m.	Charles Shabica Sustainable Great Lakes Beaches: The Illinois Experiment	Shabica
11:35 a.m.	Dan Veriotti Shoreline Rehabilitation in Highland Park, Illinois	Veriotti
12:00 p.m.	Adam Hosking Planning For a Sustainable Coast	Hosking

12:25-2:00 LUNCHEON
Speaker: Tab Brown (WRDA and Principles & Guidelines Revisions)
Peer to Peer Sessions

3A - Beach Projects 101

Time	Session	Presenter(s)
2:00 p.m.	Peter Luisa Corps of Engineers 101: How a Project Becomes a Project	Luisa
2:25 p.m.	John Furry NEPA 101	Furry
2:50 p.m.	Bill Hanson How did those Dredging Costs get so high?	Hanson
3:15 p.m.	Peter Luisa Corps of Engineers 102: Budgeting and Funding Process	Luisa

3B - Sand Resources

Time	Session	Presenter(s)
2:00 p.m.	Shelby Tucker, Steve Aceti Regional Beach Replenishment in the San Diego Region: Rebuilding the RBSP	Tucker Aceti
2:25 p.m.	C. Finkl Sand Resources on the Florida Continental Shelf: Evaluation of the Potential of Seafloor Sediments for Beach Nourishment	Finkl
2:50 p.m.	Stephen Keehn Finding the second 12 million cy of sand: Where do you go after the easiest sand sources are used up? Panama City Beaches, Florida Erosion Control Project	Keehn
3:15 p.m.	Syed Khalil Sand Prospects and Hydrodynamic Implications of Dredging an Offshore Shoal in Southern Louisiana, USA	Khalil

3C - Modeling

Time	Session	Presenter(s)
2:00 p.m.	Scott Douglass A Portable Wave Flume	Douglass
2:25 p.m.	Dennis Trizna A Coherent Marine Radar for Decametric-Scale Current Mapping and Direct Measurements of Directional Ocean Wave Spectra	Trizna
2:50 p.m.	Marrisa Yates Overview of Seasonal Sand Level Changes on Southern California Beaches	Yates
3:15 p.m.	Peter Seidle Advanced Wave Modeling of Inlets	Seidle

3D - Field Trip
2:00-5:50

3:40 – 4:10 Break - sponsored by McKim & Creed

4A - How to…

Time	Session	Presenter(s)
4:10 p.m.	Kate Gooderham Both sides now: Working with your editorial board	Gooderham
4:35 p.m.	Tina Haisman Media Relations 101: Why is Media Relations so Important, Anyway?	Haisman
5:00 p.m.	Howard Marlowe How to be an Effective Advocate	Marlowe
5:25 p.m.	Richard Adams Seeing Beaches in a different light	Adams

4B -Sand Resources

Time	Session	Presenter(s)
4:10 p.m.	Jim Marino A Regional Review of Sand Source Sustainability in Southeast Florida	Marino
4:35 p.m.	Cameron Perry Sand Source Investigations at South Padre Island, Texas	Perry
5:00 p.m.	Doug Rubin Regional Sediment Management	Rubin
5:25 p.m.	Harley Winer Restoring the Louisiana Coastline	Winer

4C - Extreme Storms

Time	Session	Presenter(s)
4:10 p.m.	Todd DeMunda Storm Surge and Flood Modeling of the Ogeechee River, Fort McAllister, GA	DeMunda
4:35 p.m.	Alicia Mahon A Joint Distribution to Calculate Extreme Water Levels	Mahon
5:00 p.m.	Quin Robertson Determination of Event Depth of Closure (EDOC) for the South Florida Atlantic Coast Using Airborne Laser Bathymetry	Robertson
5:25 p.m.	Jeffrey Tabar Slope Stability for Analyzing Shoreline Vulnerability And Coastal Structures Following Storm Activity	Tabar

6:30 Evening Reception featuring Karen Melander-Magoon (Developing Awareness of the Coastline for Families through use of Song and Story) and ASBPA Awards Banquet

FRIDAY Oct. 17
Concurrent sessions morning

1A - Inlet Management

Time	Session	Presenter(s)
8:30 a.m.	David Stites Creating a Navigation Channel through Critical Ecological Habitats –Sebastian Inlet, Florida	Stites
9:00 a.m.	Karyn Erickson Re-Opening of Midnight Pass: Design Goals, Objectives & Challenges	Erickson
9:25 a.m.	Michael Walther Case Study: Lake Michigan Inlet-Beach Interaction	Walther
9:50a.m.	Rob Nairn Erosion Processes in the Vicinity of St. Joseph Harbor, Michigan	Nairn

1B - Nourishment

Time	Session	Presenter(s)
8:30 a.m.	Julio Zyserman Optimization of Shoreface Nourishment Performance using Coastal Area Morphological Modeling Tools	Zyserman
9:00 a.m.	John Ramsey Shore Protection Needs vs. Environmental Protection: An Example Restoration Program at Winthrop Beach, MA	Ramsey
9:25 a.m.	Lester Smith Beach Nourishment as the “Least Environmentally-Damaging Practicable Alternative” for Protection at Sconset: The Importance of Collaboration for Facilitating Soft Shoreline Protection	Smith
9:50a.m.	Jennifer Bistyga Boca Raton North Beach Nourishment Project: Long Term Success of a Best Restored Beach	Bistyga

1C - Local Management

Time	Session	Presenter(s)
8:30 a.m.	Russ Joffrion Pass Chaland to Grand Bayou Pass Barrier Shoreline Restoration Project, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana	Joffrion
9:00 a.m.	Mark Wagstaff Beaches along Chicago’s Lake Michigan Shoreline: A Case Study	Wagstaff
9:25 a.m.	Joanne Bauer Morgan Shoal: Planning for a Sustainable Ecosystem and Shoreline Protection for the Lake Michigan Shoreline	Bauer
9:50a.m.	John Winkelman Nantasket Beach, Hull, MA Beach Characterization Study	Winkelman

1D - Structures

Time	Session	Presenter(s)
8:30 a.m.	Nabil Ismail Coastal Management of Nile Delta Shoreline at Rosetta Headland	Ismail
9:00 a.m.	Timothy Kana Design and Performance of Groins at Hunting Island (SC)	Kana
9:25 a.m.	Erik Olsen Geosynthetic Marine Mattress Applications in Coastal Engineering	Olsen
9:50a.m.	Kevin MacIntosh Barbados Coastal Infrastructure Project	MacIntosh

10:15 – 10:45 Break - sponsored by Baird & Associates

2A - General

Time	Session	Presenter(s)
10:45 a.m	William Stronge Economic Assessment of the Value of Beach Restoration	Stronge
11:10 a.m.	Mark Rits A Multi-Parameter Approach to Nearshore Subtidal Habitat Assessment and Replication	Rits
11:35 a.m.	Karen Melander-Magoon The Coastal Environment and the Human Psyche	Melander-Magoon

2B - Nourishment

Time	Session	Presenter(s)
10:45 a.m	Rick McMillen Successful Implementation of Sand By-Passing Measures At St. Lucie Inlet, Florida	McMillen
11:10 a.m.	Kristen Odroniec The Ft. Pierce, FL Shore Protection Project: History, Performance, and Future	Odroniec
11:35 a.m.	Tiffany Roberts First Year Performance of Several Adjacent Beach Nourishment Projects, West Central Florida	Roberts

2C – Surfing

Time	Session	Presenter(s)
10:45 a.m	Kevin Hall Hydraulic Model Study of Artificial Surf Reefs – Identification of Governing Design Criteria	Hall
11:10 a.m.	John Hearin Hybrid Solutions for Coastal Protection and Amenity Enhancement	Hearin
11:35 a.m.	Tom Pierro Incorporating Surfing Concerns into Federal Projects	Pierro

2D - Structures

Time	Session	Presenter(s)
10:45 a.m	David Werren Design and Construction of a Port in Southeast Madagascar	Werren
11:10 a.m.	Stuart Seabrook Hydraulic Model Investigation of Revised Plan for the Fort Pierce Marina Reconstruction	Seabrook
11:35 a.m.	Gordon Thomson Sediment Transport Considerations in Long Breakwater Fields	Thomson

12:00 Adjourn
*Program and speakers subject to change