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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 ...


Ray Toll, Lead organizer of the event, opens the conference.


The conference brought together a wide range of stakeholders, including many representatives of the U.S. Navy.


The panel discussing the Hampton Roads Pilot Project included representatives of the Navy, the US Army Corps of Engineers, State and local governments, and businesses.


The ODU Provost, Carol Simpson opened the second day and underlined the determination of ODU to help develop options for adaptation to sea level rise and climate change,


Dr. Richard Spinrad, Vice President for Research, Oregon State University and prospective Chief Scientist, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shared his thoughts on the challenge of climate change and the urgent need for more environmental intelligence.


The conference was concluded with a speech by E.P.A. Administrator McCarthy, who ensured the audience that the U.S. President and the federal agencies are determined to do as much as possible to limit the changes in the climate.


TECHNICAL SUPPORT FOR COASTAL RESILIENCY

June 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

  • Technical experts in observation techniques for measuring coastal flooding and coastal resiliency
  • Decision-makers and engineers dependent on those observations to help formulate a strategy for addressing the impacts of sea level rise

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 - 0830Registration and Exhibit Setup.
0830 - 0850Conference Goals and Introductions
   Ray Toll, Toll, Chair-MTS Hampton Roads Section and Navy Liaison-Old Dominion University
0850 - 0900Welcome
   John Broderick, President, Old Dominion University
0900 - 1200Hampton 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 - 1320Water Level Observing Technologies Overview - Sutron Corporation representative (presentation)
1325 - 1345Tracking Sea Level Rise and Coastal Inundation
Dr. William Sweet, National Ocean Service/Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (presentation)
1350 - 1410NOAA's Storm Surge Roadmap and Storm Surge Modeling Portfolio
Dr. Jesse Feyen, Coastal Survey Development Laboratory (presentation)
1415 - 1435Impacts 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 - 1510Break and Exhibits
1510 - 1530Using Continuous GPS Observations to Observe Land Subsidence
Dr. Hans-Peter Plag, Director, Mitigation and Adaptation Research Institute, Old Dominion University (presentation - keynote)
1535 - 1555Microwave Water Level Sensors
Robert Heitsenrether, National Ocean Service/Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (presentation)
1600 - 1620Virginia 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 - 1645Why 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 - 1700Closing Remarks of the Day
1900 - 2100Social at Nauticus

Wednesday, June 4, 2014

0730 - 0830Breakfast and Exhibit
0830 - 0840Welcome
   Dr. Carol Simpson, ODU Provost
0840 - 0905Data Integration
Dr. Richard Spinrad, Vice President for Research, Oregon State University and prospective Chief Scientist, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (presentation)
0910 - 1200Technical Session Resumes
0910 - 0930Sea 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 - 0955Achieving Total and True Commonality with Collaboration Across Stakeholder Common Operating Pictures (COPs)
Dave Jones, Rafael Ameller, StormCenter Communications, Inc. (presentation)
1000 - 1020Risk Considerations for Water Level Stations
Richard Edwing, Director, National Ocean Service/Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (presentation)
1025 - 1100Break and Exhibit
1100 - 1120A New Coastal Flood Exposure Web Tool from Climate Central
Dan Rizza, Climate Central (presentation)
1125 - 1145U.S. Geological Survey Tide and Storm Surge Monitoring in Response to Hurricane Sandy
Mark Bennett, Director, U.S. Geological Survey (presentation)
1150 - 1300Boxed 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 - 1345Possibilities of Adding Water Level Sensors to the WeatherFlow Observing Site
Jay Titlow, Senior Meteorologist, WeatherFlow (presentation)
1350 - 1410Data Communications Advances
Mark Bushnell, CoastalObsTechServices, LLC (presentation)
1410 - 1445Compilation of Actions: What Achievements Will Be Presented at the 2016 Technical Support for Coastal Resiliency TechSurge?
1445 - 1500Gina McCharthy, Administrator of EPA: Remarks