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Historic Buildings Theaters Charleston Marriott…… Aiken-Rhett House...........H:2 Dock Street Theatre……….H:6 Calhoun Mansion..........F/G:9 Footlight Players………….…H:6 Hotel Shuttle…………… Edmondston-Alston......G/H:9 Gaillard Auditorium………..G:2 drops off every half hour Heyward-Washington.......H:7 Sottile Theatre…………….G:3/4 at Waterfront Park Joseph Manigault..............H:7 Nathaniel Russell House...G:7 Miscellaneous Restaurants…………….. Old Exchange.....................I:7 Charleston Place…………….H:5 Area with dining options Old Powder Magazine….H:5/6 The Citadel…………………..…D:1 - King Street Rainbow Row.....................I:7 City Marina……………….…...C:3 - N/S Market Street St. Michael’s Church…...G:6/7 College of Charleston…….G:3 - East Bay (Waterfront Park) St. Philip’s Church…………..H:6 Gallery Row……………..….H:1:7 Maritime Center…………….K:4 Museums MUSC………………….………….D:2 Avery Research Center…...D:3 SC Aquarium…………………..K:3 Charleston Museum……....H:2 The Battery……………………F:10 Children’s Museum…………G:2 The City Market…………..H/I:5 Confederate Museum…G/H:5 Visitors Center………….……G:2 Gibbes Museum….…..G/H:5/6 Waterfront Park……………...J:7 2 Charleston Marriott | 170 Lockwood Blvd | Emerald Ballroom Tuesday, June 11 7:30 AM Registration & Room Open 8:30 – 9:15 Workshop Welcome Welcome to Charleston John Tecklenburg, Mayor of Charleston Opening Remarks Mark Risse, Georgia Sea Grant, University of Georgia Fiona Horsfall, Climate Services Branch, NOAA National Weather Service Kirstin Dow, Carolinas Integrated Sciences and Assessments Welcome Address: Building a Weather-Ready Nation John Murphy, NOAA National Weather Service 9:15 – 10:00 Keynote Address Enhancing the Health of Coastal Ecosystems and Building Community Resilience Mona Behl, Georgia Sea Grant, University of Georgia 10:00 – 10:30 Break Session 1: Supporting Natural Resources Management 10:30 – 11:45 Moderator: Renee Tatusko, NOAA NWS Alaska Region Headquarters A Coastal Resilience Assessment for the United States Greg Dobson, UNC Asheville’s NEMAC Linking Land Use, Climate, and Coastal Ecosystems: a watershed perspective for a changing South Carolina coast Lloyd Hill, College of Charleston NOAA and Water: Connecting End User Needs with Decision Support Tools Brenna Sweetman, NOAA Office for Coastal Management Building Resilience to Extreme Events and Water Hazard Planning in Rural Communities Sarah Trainor, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy (presented by Richard Thoman, ACCAP) Identifying Resilient Coastal Sites for Conservation Mark Anderson & Elizabeth Fly, The Nature Conservancy, South Carolina 3 11:45 AM – Lunch (on your own) 1:30 PM Session 2: Informing Sector-Based Decisions 1:30 – 2:45 Moderator: Hunter Jones, NOAA Climate Program Office Delivering Broader Impacts through Climate Change Communication Paula Jasinski, Chesapeake Environmental Communications Overview of the New Drought.gov Website Steve Ansari, NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information Week-2 Probabilistic Forecasts of Wind Hazards and Extremes Melissa Ou, NOAA Climate Prediction Center Improvement of Two-week Temperature Forecast of JMA Shoichiro Miyawaki, Japan Meteorological Agency NASA Disasters Program: A Partner for Coastal Disaster Response, Resiliency, and Risk Reduction Jordan Bell, NASA Earth Science Disasters Program 2:45 – 3:00 Discussion 3:00 – 3:30 Break 3:30 – 4:45 Session 3: Informing Sector-Based Decisions Moderator: Adrienne Antoine, NOAA Climate Program Office The Value of Climate Data from NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information Tamara Houston, NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information Understanding Sector-Based Decisions for Heat-Health Risk Reduction Hunter Jones, NOAA Climate Program Office Delivering Climate Services to Rural Alaska: Challenges and Opportunities Richard Thoman, Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy Applications of Satellite Altimetry Mission Assets for Understanding and Assessing Coastal Risk Margaret Srinivasan, Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Caltech Development and Applications of Climate Projections in India Jenny Dissen, NOAA Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites 4:45 – 5:00 Discussion 5:30 – 7:30 PM Reception & Poster Viewing: Yellow Topaz Meeting Room Poster list on page 11 4 Tuesday Morning Welcome Speaker: John Murphy, NOAA National Weather Service John D. Murphy is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of NOAA’s National Weather Service. He has overall responsibility for day-to-day mission execution units responsible for delivering NWS weather, water, climate, and space weather products, services, and information as well as the budgetary planning for 11 National Service Programs. He joined NWS in 2011 after serving more than 29 years with the United States Air Force as a career meteorologist and finally as Commander of the Air Force Weather Agency and Deputy Foreign Policy Advisor to United States Strategic Command. Tuesday Keynote Address Speaker: Dr. Mona Behl, Georgia Sea Grant / University of Georgia Mona Behl serves as the associate director of NOAA's Sea Grant Program at the University of Georgia (UGA), where she also holds public service and academic appointments. An innovative leader with a broad programmatic vision, Behl is responsible for providing administrative and financial leadership to Georgia Sea Grant (GASG). Behl is an award-winning teacher who is committed to transforming education by developing innovative programs for a diverse range of audiences. She serves as chair of Sea Grant’s Research Coordinators Network, member of American Meteorological Society’s (AMS) Committee on Coastal Environment, member of AMS Board on Continuing Professional Development, and member of the Predictability, Predictions, and Applications Interface panel of the U.S. Climate Variability and Predictability (CLIVAR) Program. Behl also contributed to the development of the AMS Early Career Leadership Academy (ECLA), a leadership experience for professionals working in weather, water and climate science fields. Prior to her current position, she directed Texas Sea Grant’s research program from 2013-2015, and worked as a Visiting Fellow with the AMS Policy Program from 2012-2013. She received her Ph.D. in Physical Oceanography from Florida State University, and B.S. and M.S. in Physics (Honors) from Panjab University (India). Behl believes in the scientific underpinning of decision-making, and is committed to instill love for problem-solving through scientific research, education, communication and service. 5 Charleston Marriott | 170 Lockwood Blvd | Emerald Ballroom Wednesday, June 12 7:30 AM Registration & Room Open 8:30 – 9:00 Kick-off Keynote Taking Care of Our Own: Public Health Preparedness for Adaptation Professionals Susanne Moser, Director, Susanne Moser Research & Consulting ***Sponsored by South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium*** 9:00 – 9:30 Session 4: Addressing Emotional Well-Being and Empathy Drain In Climate and Weather Work Panel Facilitator: Susanne Moser Becky DePodwin, AccuWeather Daniel Gilford, Rutgers Rebecca Moulton, FEMA Region 5 Sarah Watson, S.C. Sea Grant Consortium and Carolinas Integrated Sciences and Assessments 9:30 – 10:00 Panel Discussion 10:00 – 10:30 Break 10:30 – 11:45 Session 5: Guiding Public Health Preparedness Moderator: Amanda Farris, CISA Susceptibility of Public Health Impacts from Flooded Water, Wastewater and Public Health Infrastructure Susan Lovelace, South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium Development of a Web-Based Tool to Forecast Wet Bulb Globe Temperature for Populations Who Engage in Exertional Outdoor Activities Charles Konrad, Southeast Regional Climate Center (SERCC) / CISA Subseasonal Forecasting of Heatwaves at the NOAA Climate Prediction Center Evan Oswald, NOAA Climate Prediction Center A Framework for Forecasting Indoor Temperatures for Populations at Risk from Heat Waves Brian Vant-hull, NOAA-CREST / City College of New York Health Impact Oriented Excessive Heat Forecasting at Sub-seasonal Lead Times: Evaluation of Performance of the Real-time Global Sub-seasonal Excessive Heat Outlook System Augustin Vintzileos, University of Maryland / ESSIC 6 11:45 AM – Lunch (boxed lunch) 1:00 PM 1:00 – 1:30 Invited Talk Warning Fatigue? No, U.S. coasts ARE flooding more often William Sweet, NOAA National Ocean Service Session 6 Panel: Approaches to Engaging Decision Makers in Design and Evaluation 1:30 – 2:15 Moderator: Kirstin Dow, CISA Susan Lovelace, South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium Brenna Sweetman, NOAA Office for Coastal Management Hunter Jones, NOAA Climate Program Office Matt Rosencrans, NOAA Climate Prediction Center Blair Holloway, NOAA National Weather Service Charleston Paulina Ćwik, The University of Oklahoma 2:15 – 2:45 Panel Discussion 2:45 – 3:00 Break 3:00 – 5:00 Field Trip Walking tour - City of Charleston Adaptation and Mitigation Efforts: The City of Charleston is often plagued with flooding concerns, whether it be from nuisance "sunny day" flooding or from higher impact weather events. The City of Charleston's Chief Resilience Officer, Mark Wilbert, will provide a walking tour of parts of the peninsula that are frequent trouble spots and will discuss mitigation measures that have been put in place to combat these issues. 6:00 – 8:00 PM Banquet Dinner: Opal Meeting Room The Resilience Imperative: Proactively Engaging Vulnerable Populations Impacted by Global Climate Change, Sea Level Rise, and Aquatic Debris Albert George, Director of Conservation, South Carolina Aquarium 7 Wednesday Kick-off Keynote Speaker: Susanne