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ASBPA Coastal Summit 2013

“America’s Coastal Voice” Dates: Tuesday, Feb. 26, 8 a.m. – Thursday, Feb. 28, noon

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Summit Sessions

A list of brief speaker biographies in alphabetical order is available here.

Tuesday, February 26
8:00-12:00pm ASBPA Board of Directors’ Meeting – Sponsored by Coastal Planning & Engineering, Inc., A CBI Company

10:00 Registration opens
1 pm Preparing to Advocate (Moderator: Harry Simmons)

1:00-1:20 Welcoming remarks & Conference overview: Sessions, Advocacy, & Awards, Nicole Elko, ASBPA Secretary & Lee Weishar, Woods Hole Group

1:20-1:45 ASBPA’s Legislative Agenda/USACE agenda + Current events, Harry Simmons, ASPBA President & Tony Pratt, ASBPA Vice President and Chair of Government Affairs Committee

1:45-2:25 Keynote speaker: Opportunities for Better Business Line Management, Theodore A. (Tab) Brown, P.E. Chief, Planning and Policy Division and Mississippi Valley Division Regional Integration Team

2:25-3:00 Performance of US Restored Beaches during Major Storms and Hurricane Sandy Introduction, Tom Campbell - Vice president, Coastal Planning & Engineering, Inc., A CBI Company

3:00-3:20 Break - Sponsored by Marinex Construction

3:20-4:50 Property Rights and Beachfront Property Ownership – Regional Legal Issues Panel

Helen Young - Deputy Commissioner, Coastal Resources, Texas General Land Office
Brad Pickel – Principal of Seahaven Consulting and Former Director of Beach Management for Walton County, Florida
David Apy – Special Counsel at Saul Ewing, LLP, Princeton, New Jersey
Braxton Davis – Director of NC Division of Coastal Management and Chair, Coastal States Organization
Moderator: Todd Roessler - Kirkpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP

4:50-5:15 The CERB Experience, John Headland, Vice President, Moffatt & Nichol

5:15-5:30 Having effective advocacy meetings, Bill Hanson - Vice president, Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company

5:30 Informal networking - P.J. Clark’s Side Car: 1600 K Street NW
5:30 National Coastal Conference committee meeting – P.J. Clark’s Side Car: 1600 K Street NW

Wednesday, February 27
8:00 am Coastal policy in the wake of Hurricane Sandy (Moderator: Tony Pratt)
Breakfast sponsored by Crowder Gulf

8:15-8:45 Resilient Coastal Communities - Jason McNamara, Chief of Staff, FEMA (invited)

8:45-10:10 Hurricane Sandy Damage Assessment Panel

Hilary Stockdon - Research Oceanographer, US Geologic Survey
Mike Aslaksen - Chief, Remote Sensing Division, NOAA
Jennifer Wozencraft - Director, Joint Airborne Lidar Bathymetry Technical Center of Expertise, USACE
Moderator: Nicole Elko - ASBPA Science & Technology Committee Co-Chair

10:10-10:30 Break – Sponsored by Norfolk Dredging

10:30-noon Hurricane Sandy Response Panel

Cliff Jones, North Atlantic Division Planning, USACE
Tom Herrington - Assistant Director, Center for Maritime Systems, Stevens Institute of Technology
Margot Walsh, Executive Director, Jersey Shore Partnership
Doug Bellomo, Risk Analysis Division Director, FEMA
Moderator: Gwen Baker, Vice President, CDM Smith

Noon-5 p.m. Targeted Advocacy: USACE, FEMA, NOAA, CSO (meetings arranged in advance)
Noon-5 p.m. Individual meetings with Members of Congress

Noon-12:30 Central East Coast Chapter meeting
1:30-3:00 Improving your coastal NSF proposal, Barbara Ransom - Program Director, Ocean Sciences, National Science Foundation

5:30-7:30 Hill Reception & Awards - Rayburn House Office Building Room B-354
Sponsored by Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co.
Awards Sponsored by Coastal Tech

Thursday, February 28
8:00 am Environmental Restoration (Moderator: Harry Simmons)
Breakfast sponsored by Moffatt & Nichol

8:15-8:45 Keynote speaker: Outer Continental Shelf Resources and Coastal Restoration, Walter Cruickshank – Deputy Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management

8:45-10:10 Environmental coordination on beach restoration permitting panel

Richard E. Sayers, Jr., Ph.D., Chief, Division of Consultation, Habitat Conservation Planning, Recovery, and State Grants, US Fish and Wildlife Service
Theresa Conant - National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA
Stacey Jensen - Regulatory Program Manager at HQ, USACE
Geoffrey Wikel - Chief, Branch of Environmental Coordination, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
Moderator: Mike McGarry - Beach Project Manager, Brevard County, Florida

10:10-10:30 Break – Sponsored by the Town of Holden Beach, NC

10:30-11 Hill & Advocacy recap, Harry Simmons - President, ASBPA

11-11:20 Facing the Future, Margaret Davidson - Acting Director, Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management, NOAA

11:20-11:40 Update on the RESTORE Act, Jim Wyerman - Director of Strategic Partnerships and Communications, Mississippi River Delta Restoration, Environmental Defense Fund

11:40-noon U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Coastal Engineering Certificate Program debut, Bill Martin, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory

Draft Program as of Feb. 19. Subject to change

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