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Appendix B: Agenda
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... B Agenda Committee on Applied Research Topics for Hazard Mitigation and Resilience Workshop 2: Motivating Local Action to Mitigate Climate Threats and Build Resilience Tuesday, May 25, 2021 Objectives: Determine unmet applied research needs about motivating local action to promote hazard mitigation and resilience, including • Practical, achievable, sustainable solutions that are transferrable and scalable • An emphasis on community-engaged research • Considering the framing assumptions of equity, applicability and affordability at a local level, economic feasibility and justifiability, and support of resilience education and knowledge transfer 11:00AM-11:10AM Welcome Charles Branas, Chair, Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University 11:10AM-12:15PM Panel 1: Climate and Data Science for Hazard Mitigation and Resilience at the Local Level Speaker 1: Victoria Keener, Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow, East West Center Speaker 2: Mark Shafer, Ph.D., Associate Professor, University of Oklahoma Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability, and Director of the Southern Climate Impacts Planning Program Speaker 3: Aashka Patel, Resilience Specialist, FernLeaf Interactive Speaker 4: Arthur DeGaetano, Ph.D., Professor, Cornell University Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, and Director of the NOAA Northeast Regional Climate Center. Moderator: Mark Abkowitz, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Vanderbilt University 12:30PM-1:30PM Panel 2: Translating Data for Motivating Local Resilience Action Speaker 1: Abigail Sullivan, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Earth & Environment, Boston University Speaker 2: Jennifer Helgeson, Ph.D., Research Economist, National Institute of Standards and Technology Speaker 3: Amy Snover, Ph.D., Director, Climate Impacts Group, University of Washington 37
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... Abraham, Ph.D., Faculty member, Natural Sciences, Rice University; Principal Investigator, Houston Sustainability Indicators Project Speaker 3: Rose Whitehair, Diné Nation, Disaster Response & Recovery Speaker 4: Scott Gabriel Knowles, Ph.D., Professor, Graduate School of Science and Technology Policy, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Moderator: Monica Sanders, Associate Professor, University of Delaware; Adjunct, School of Continuing Studies, and Adjunct Professor, Law Center, Georgetown University 3:00PM-4:00PM Panel 4: Reactive and Proactive Local Actions and Data Translation for Decision-Makers Speaker 1: Tonya Graham, City Councilor, City of Ashland, Oregon Speaker 2: Ann Phillips, Special Assistant to the Governor of Virginia for Coastal Adaptation and Protection Speaker 3: Chad Berginnis, Executive Director, Association of State Floodplain Managers, Inc. Speaker 4: Harriet Festing, Executive Director, Anthropocene Alliance Moderators: Linda Langston, President, Langston Strategies Group, and Robin McGuire, Senior Principal, Lettis Consultants International, Inc.


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