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Tuesday, Oct. 9

8:00 a.m. -5:00 p.m. Full day USACE Planning Workshop
"The Future of US Army Corps of Engineers Coastal Project Planning and Implementation" Presented by USACE National Planning Center for Coastal Storm Damage Reduction. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is in the midst of a Civil Works Transformation that is intended to change how the Corps performs planning, budgeting, and lifecycle management of Water Resources Projects. There are 4 Pillars to the Civil Works Transformation (Planning Transformation (i.e. 3,3,3), Transforming the Budget Development Process, Asset Management, and Methods of Delivery). This course will provide the attendees with an overview and update of the Corps’ Civil Works Transformation, with an emphasis on the planning transformation and the application of this initiative to coastal projects. The course will provide an overview of the Corps process, and how it is changing under this initiative. The course will utilize several west-coast specific case studies to demonstrate the application of the Civil Works Transformation. The session will be rounded out with a panel discussion of Corps’ representatives to discuss the broader implications of this initiative.

Wednesday, Oct. 10
Plenary Sessions - Russ Boudreau, Susan Brodeur, & Shelby Tucker, moderators

Time Session Presenter(s)
8 a.m. - noon.
ASBPA Board of Directors’ meeting
  
10:00 a.m. Registration opens  
1:00-2:30 p.m.

Conference welcome — ASBPA Conference Committee
Welcome remarks –
“An Overview of the San Diego County Coast” – Dr. Reinhard Flick
“Shoreline Management and Sea Level Rise” – John Headland, Moffatt & Nichol
“Managed Retreat – a Californian Adaptation Strategy” – Robert Battalio, ESA PWA
2:30-3:00 p.m. Networking break  
3:00-4:20 p.m.

“Beyond Counting Critters: The Ecological Economics of Beaches” – Philip King, Economics Department San Francisco State University  
“Impacts of the Severance Lawsuit on Texas Open Beaches” – Helen Young, Texas General Land Office
“The Water Institute of the Gulf” – Charles Groat, CEO, The Water Institute of the Gulf
“The Great Tavarua, Fiji Swell of July 2011: A Tribute to Sean Collins” – Mark Willis, Surfline/Wavetrak, Inc
4:20-4:40 p.m. Welcoming Members and ASBPA Update  
4:40-5:00 p.m.

“The Link Between Science and Policy” – Michael Walther, Coastal Tech
6:00-7:30 p.m.

Opening reception in the exhibit hall

  

Thursday, Oct.11
Concurrent sessions morning and afternoon

7:00-8:00 a.m. 2013 ASBPA Coastal Summit Committee Meeting

8:00 to 9:20 a.m.— Concurrent sessions #1

1A –Shoreline Restoration – Toucan
TBD, moderator

Time Session Presenter(s)
8:00 a.m. “Waikiki Beach Nourishment Project (2012)” — Samuel Lemmo, Office of Conservation and Coastal Lands, State of Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources
8:20 a.m.

“Managing an Estuarine Shoreline, Sussex County Delaware” — Kimberly McKenna, Delaware Dept. of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, Division of Watershed Stewardship
8:40 a.m.

“The Role of Coastal Processes and Shoreline Geomorphology in the Design of Two Small Coastal Bank Restoration Projects" ― Lee Weishar, Woods Hole Group
9:00 a.m.

“Alligator Bend Shoreline Protection Project Lake Borgne, LA Alternatives Study & Engineering Recommendations” — Jeffrey Tabar, Atkins North America, Coastal Engineering Division

1B –Sediment Budgets – Macaw
TBD, moderator

Time Session Presenter(s)
8:00 a.m.

“Automated Feature Extraction for Sediment Budgets” — Lauren Dunkin, US Army Engineer Research and Development Center Coastal Hydraulics Laboratory Joint Airborne Lidar Bathymetry Technical Center of Expertise
8:20 a.m.

“Sediment Budget Formulation via Exhaustive Search Method” — Jason Engle, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District
8:40 a.m.

“Extent of Inlet Influence via Inlet Sink Method” — Jason Engle, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville  District
9:00 a.m.

“Comprehensive Sediment Budgets: Predictive Tools for Quantifying Planned Engineering Activities” — Kenneth Connell, Golder Associates Inc.

1C –Multipurpose Reefs, Response to Submerged Structures and Beach Nourishment (1) - Cockatoo
TBD, moderator

Time Session Presenter(s)
8:00 a.m.

“An Overview of Recent Multipurpose Reefs Projects” — Jose Borrero, eCoast Ltd

8:20 a.m.

“A Detailed Analysis of Beach Nourishment and its Impact on the Surfing Wave Environment of Brevard County, Florida” — John Hearin, Ocean Engineering Department of Marine and Environmental Systems Florida Institute of Technology
8:40 a.m. “Surfrider Foundation San Diego chapter’s Surf Spot Monitoring Program” — Tom Cook, Surfrider Foundation  San Diego County Chapter
9:00 a.m. “Using Characteristics of Natural Reefs in Multipurpose Artificial Reef Design” — Seamus Innes, Everest International Consultants

9:20 to 9:40 a.m.— Networking break

9:40 to 11:00 a.m. — Concurrent sessions #2

2A – Beach Protection & Enhancement – Toucan
TBD, moderator

Time Session Presenter(s)
9:40 a.m.

“Waikiki Beach Nourishment” — David Smith, Sea Engineering, Inc.
10:00 a.m.

“The History of Beach Nourishment in South Carolina” — Tim Kana, Coastal Science & Engineering, Inc.
10:20 a.m.

“Case Study: How to Design, Fund and Build a “Best Restored Beach” — Michael Walther, Coastal Tech
10:40 a.m.

“Beach Nourishment Case Study:  Homeowners Take Action to Privately Fund a Significant Private/Public Benefit Project at Broad Beach Malibu, CA” — Russell Boudreau, Moffatt & Nichol

2B – Regional Sediment Management (1) – Macaw
TBD, moderator

Time Session Presenter(s)
9:40 a.m.

“Coastal Regional Sediment Management Planning" — Jon Moore, Noble Consultants, Inc.
10:00 a.m.

“Working with Nature to Implement Regional Sediment Management at the Mouth of the Columbia River – A Nearshore Perspective” — Katharine Groth, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Portland District
10:20 a.m.

“The Orange County Coastal Regional Sediment Management Plan” — David Cannon, Everest International Consultants, Inc.
10:40 a.m.

“Louisiana Surficial Sediment Distribution Mapping” — Melany Larenas, Coastal Planning & Engineering, Inc./A Shaw Group Company

2C – Multipurpose Reefs, Response to Submerged Structures and Beach Nourishment (2) - Cockatoo
TBD, moderator

Time Session Presenter(s)
9:40 a.m.

“Expectation vs. Reality: the History of Pratte’s Reef” — Craig Leidersdorf, Coastal Frontiers Corporation
10:00 a.m.

“Optimization of Offshore Focusing MPR’s” — Shaw Mead, eCoast Marine Consulting and Research Design
10:20 a.m.

“The Effects of Natural Oyster Reefs as Shore Protection” — Tyler Ortego, ORA Engineering, LLC
10:40 a.m.

“Evaluating Sediment Mobilization Risk in Nearshore Coastal Regions Due to the Presence of Marine Renewable Energy Arrays” — Craig Jones, Sea Engineering, Inc.

11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. — Lunch on the Bay — Located Outside on Mission Bay
ASBPA awards, Gary Griggs, Director of the Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz,
 “NRC Sea Level Rise Study for the West Coast”

1:00 to 2:20 p.m. — Concurrent sessions #3

3A – Climate Change, Sea Level Rise Guidance, Adaptive Management – Toucan
TBD, moderator

Time Session Presenter(s)
1:00 p.m.

“Corps of Engineers Guidance on Planning for Sea Level Change” — Thomas Kendall, US Army Corps of Engineers, San Francisco District
1:20 p.m.

“Climate Change Impacts on the Erosion Processes of the Magdalen Islands, St-Lawrence Gulf, Province of Quebec, Canada” — Steve Renaud, GENIVAR
1:40 p.m.

“Project Incorporation of Sea Level Rise – City of Newport Beach Approach for Balboa Islands” — Ying Poon, Everest International Consultants, Inc.
2:00 p.m.

“Anthropogenic Sea Level Rise” — Edward Pryor, Chairman of the Beach and Dune Committee of Ocean Village

3B – Regional Sediment Management (2) – Macaw
TBD, moderator

Time Session Presenter(s)
1:00 p.m.

“Strategies for Implementing Regional Sediment Management Plans Along the California Coast” — Susan Ming, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District
1:20 p.m.

“Beach Replenishments are a Controversial Subject Especially in Today’s Economic Climate” — Spicer Bak, Stevens Institute of Technology
1:40 p.m.

“West Galveston Bay Regional Sediment Management Plan” — Juan Moya, Atkins North America.
2:00 p.m.

“The Benefits of Regional Beach and Inlet Management at South Padre, TX” — Cameron Perry, HDR  Engineering

3C - Initiatives, Extreme Events, & Sustainable Communities – Cockatoo
TBD, moderator

Time Session Presenter(s)
1:00 p.m.

“Coastal Systems Portfolio Initiative” — Donald Cresitello, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District
1:20 p.m.

“Blue Ribbon Resilient Communities: Building a Resilient Gulf Coast” — Valsin Marmillion, America’s WETLAND Foundation
1:40 p.m.

“A Comparison of the Impacts of Hurricane Irene and the “Friday the 13th” Northeaster in New Jersey” — Omar Lopez, Center for Maritime Systems, Stevens Institute of Technology
2:00 p.m.

“Making Beaches Accessible” — M. Boswell, Moffatt & Nichol

2:20 to 2:40 p.m.— Networking break

2:40 to 4:00 p.m.— Concurrent sessions #4

4A – Adaptive Management – Toucan
TBD, moderator

Time Session Presenter(s)
2:40 p.m.

“Where's The Beach? Adapting To Coastal Erosion In Southern Monterey Bay? - Results of A Novel Tool” — David Revell, ESA PWA.
3:00 p.m.

“Adaptive Inlet Management of Florida East Coast Inlet – an Overview of Five Case Studies” — Peter Seidle, Applied Technology & Management
3:20 p.m. “Design, Implementation and Monitoring of a Managed Retreat Project at Surfer’s Point, Ventura, California” — Louis White, ESA PWA
4:00 p.m.

“Initial Morphological Evolution of an Artificial Intertidal Berm at Perdido Key Beach, Florida” — Ping Wang, University of South Florida

4B – Lagoon & Estuary Restoration – Macaw
TBD, moderator

Time Session Presenter(s)
2:40 p.m.

“Ballona Wetlands Restoration: Recreating Estuarine Habitats in Los Angeles” — Nicholas Garrity, ESA PWA
3:00 p.m.

“Restoration of Halfmoon Reef in Matagorda Bay, Texas” — Paul Jensen, Atkins North America, Inc.
3:20 p.m.

“Masonville Cove Environmental Restoration Mitigation Design Including Shore Protection, Reef Creation and Wetlands Restoration” — Peter Kotulak, Moffatt & Nichol
4:00 p.m.

“The Impact of Groundwater Flow on Coastal Fish Ponds” — Joseph Kennedy, University of Hawaii Manoa

4C – San Francisco Bay Regional Sediment Management – Cockatoo
TBD, moderator

Time Session Presenter(s)
2:40 p.m.

“Past, present and projected changes to the San Francisco Bay Coastal System” — Patrick Barnard, United States Geological Survey, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center
3:00 p.m.

“The use of continuous SSC measurements as a proxy for sediment flux through the Golden Gate inlet, San Francisco Bay” — Li Erikson, U.S. Geological Survey, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center
3:20 p.m.

“The San Francisco Littoral Cell Coastal Regional Sediment Management Plan” — Douglas George, ESA PWA
4:00 p.m.

“Anthropogenically driven changes in wave focusing, sediment transport and coastal change at the mouth of San Francisco Bay” — Jeff Hansen, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

4:00 to 5:20 p.m.— Concurrent sessions #5

5A – Coastal Modeling – Toucan
TBD, moderator

Time Session Presenter(s)
4:00 p.m.

“Coastal Engineering Applications of Regression Trees on the New Jersey Coast” — Elizabeth Livermont, The Center for Maritime Systems, Stevens Institute of Technology
4:20 p.m.

“Coastal Storm Modeling – Spiral 2 Developments” — Chris Massey, USACE-ERDC
4:40 p.m.

“A Methodology for the Reconstruction of Stillwater Level Records at Tide Stations along the California Open Pacific Coast” — Justin Vandever, AECOM
5:00 p.m.

“Application of the Storm Erosion Index (SEI) for predicting erosion due to increased waves and water levels" — Jennifer Wehof, Center for Maritime Systems, Stevens Institute of Technology

5B – Sand Investigations & Resource Management – Macaw
TBD, moderator

Time Session Presenter(s)
4:00 p.m.

“Monitoring of the Louisiana Emergency Berm Project” — Gordon Thomson, Coastal Planning & Engineering, A Shaw Group Company
4:20 p.m.

“If you share permits, you can share sand…” — Tara Marden, Woods Hole Group
4:40 p.m.

“Coastal Sediments Geodatabase Project (TxSed)” — Daniel Gao, Texas General Land Office Texas
5:00 p.m.

“Assessment Framework for Minor Existing Seawalls around the Australian Coast” — Doug Lord, Coastal Environment Pty Ltd

5C – Regional Planning, Wave Climate, and Erosion Processes – Cockatoo
TBD, moderator

Time Session Presenter(s)
4:00 p.m. “Coastal Erosion Variability Along the Arctic Coast of Alaska” — Brady Richmond, Coastal Frontiers Corporation
4:20 p.m.

“Projected Wave Climate along San Francisco Outer Coast” — Christie Hegermiller, University of California at Santa Cruz
4:40 p.m. “California’s Delta – Is This Critically Important Area Sustainable in its Current form?” — Curt Schmutte, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California

5:30-6:30 p.m. Beach Volleyball: Geologists vs. Coastal Engineers

Friday, Oct. 21
Continental Breakfast
8:00 to 9:20a.m. — Concurrent sessions #6

6A – SANDAG – Toucan
TBD, moderator

Time Session Presenter(s)
8:00 a.m.

“Getting to Construction: The 2012 San Diego Regional Beach Sand Project” — Shelby Tucker, SANDAG
8:20 a.m.

“San Diego’s Regional Beach Sand Project – Environmental and Permitting Challenge” — Cindy Kinkade, AECOM
8:40 a.m.

“Shoreline Monitoring Strategy for SANDAG’s Regional Beach Sand Project II” — Greg Hearon, Coastal Frontiers Corporation
9:00 a.m.

“Environmental Monitoring for the 2012 San Diego Regional Beach Sand Project” — Lawrence Honma, Merkel & Associates, Inc.

6B – Measurements & Engineering Design – Macaw
TBD, moderator

Time Session Presenter(s)
8:00 a.m.

“Prototype Scale Measurement of Littoral Transport at the Columbia River Mouth Using Sediment Tracer Technology” — Trap Puckette, Evans Hamilton
8:20 a.m.

“Effectiveness of Levee Scour Protection Measures for Storm Wave” — Firat Testik, Civil Engineering, Clemson University

8:40 a.m.

“Maintaining Coastal Access while Protecting Transportation Links and Infrastructure – The San Francisco Ocean Beach Challenge” — Dilip Trivedi, Moffat & Nichol
9:00 a.m.

“Lagoon Road Coastal Erosion and Sea Cliff Retreat” — Eva von Thury, Fugro Consultants, Inc.

6C – Ecosystem Valuation & Economics of Beach Nourishment – Cockatoo
TBD, moderator

Time Session Presenter(s)
8:00 a.m.

“Valuing Ecosystem Services of Dunes and Beaches on a Sandy Barrier Island” — Eleonor Barraza, Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
8:20 a.m.

“A New Approach to Beach Ecosystem Health” — Karen Martin, Pepperdine University
8:40 a.m.

“Using Wetland Functional Assessments to Optimize Restoration Design” — Timothy Jackson, PWS, Great Ecology Environmental Consulting
9:00 a.m.

“Tracing Economic Benefits of the Galveston Beach Nourishment Project 17 Years Later” — Kelly de Schaun, Galveston Park Board of Trustees

9:20 to 10:00 a.m. — Networking break

10:00 to 11:20 a.m.— Concurrent sessions #7

7A – Hurricane Disaster Planning & Innovative Technologies – Toucan
TBD, moderator

Time Session Presenter(s)
10:00 a.m.

“National Assessment of Hurricane-Induced Coastal Erosion” — Hilary Stockdon, U.S. Geological Survey
10:20 a.m.

“What does the National Disaster Recovery Framework (NDRF) do for us, and the Basics of Recovery Planning for Coastal Communities” — Teresa Carter, The Louis Berger Group, Inc.
10:40 a.m.

“Geologic Hazard Abatement Districts – An Innovative Solution to Mitigate Coastal Issues” — Jeffrey Adams, ENGEO Incorporated

7B - Environmental Characterization & Monitoring – Macaw
TBD, moderator

Time Session Presenter(s)
10:00 a.m.

“Braddock Bay Investigation: Contribution from a National Coastal Mapping Program” — Nicholas Johnson, Joint Airborne Lidar Bathymetry Technical Center of Expertise
10:20 a.m.

“Falling into the sea? Evaluation of Coastal Vulnerability through Advanced Survey Technology” — Todd Mitchell, FUGRO Consultants, Inc.
10:40 a.m.

“Prediction of Optical Variability in Dynamic Nearshore Environments” — Kurt Nelson, Sea Engineering, Inc.
11:00 a.m. “Differences in the Morphodynamics of a Sandy and a Mixed Sand and Gravel Beach" – Tiffany Roberts, Louisiana State University
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7C - Tidal Inlets and Coastal Processes – Cockatoo
TBD, moderator

Time Session Presenter(s)
10:00 a.m.

“Inlets to California Coastal Lagoons: Historic, Current, and Future Management Challenges” — Christina Toms, ESA PWA

10:20a.m.

“Geomorphic Controls of Dune Accretion on a Barrier Island: South Padre Island, TX” — Diana Del Angel,Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, Texas A&M University Corpus Christi

11:20 a.m. Adjourn

Post-conference field trip sponsored by Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company

This tour will highlight some of the unique characteristics of the San Diego region, including a visit to the Regional Beach Sand Project construction site to view active dredging activities and several stops along San Diego’s north county coastline. The Field trip will depart from the hotel at approximately 12:00 noon. We will return at approximately 5 p.m.. Registration for the field trip includes lunch; pre-registration required, additional fee charged, space is limited.

*Program as of September 25 2012. Subject to change
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