APPENDIX A
AGENDA
NATURAL DISASTERS ROUNDTABLE
Thursday, October 25, 2001
National Academy of Sciences
LECTURE ROOM
Forum on Sea Level Rise and Coastal Disasters
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9:00 AM |
Welcome and Introductions Rutherford H. Platt, Chair |
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9:05 AM |
Sea Level Rise and Coastal Disasters Stephen P. Leatherman, Florida International University |
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9:35 AM |
Ecological Impacts of Sea Level Rise J. Court Stevenson, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science |
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10:05 AM |
Science Issues and Monitoring Capabilities Bruce C. Douglas, Florida International University |
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10:35 AM |
Coffee break |
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10:50 AM |
Tides, Sea Level, and Storm Tracks During El Niño Events in California Reinhard E. Flick, Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
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11:20 AM |
Political Realities of Coping with Sea Level Rise The Honorable James N. Mathias, Jr., Mayor of Ocean City, Maryland |
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11:50 AM |
Lunch break |
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1:00 PM |
Case Study: New Orleans Virginia R. Burkett, USGS National Wetlands Research Center |
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1:30 PM |
Case Study: Outer Banks of North Carolina Stanley R. Riggs, East Carolina University |
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2:00 PM |
Case Study: Saving Venice, Italy Rafael L. Bras, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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2:30 PM |
Mitigation: The Insurance Industry Perspective James W. Russell, Institute for Business and Home Safety |
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3:00 PM |
Coffee break |
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3:15 PM |
Public Policy Panel Discussion, Rutherford H. Platt, Moderator Margaret Davidson, NOAA James G. Titus, EPA S. Jeffress (Jeff) Williams, USGS Cornelia Pasche Wikar, Maryland Department of Natural Resources |
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4:45 PM |
Concluding Remarks |
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5:00 PM |
Adjourn |
