The third Coastal Resilience Conference runs over two days in November, hosted jointly by the Department of Marine Policy and Economics and the Department of Ocean and Earth Sciences.
The conference is deliberately mixed. Roughly half the attendance is practitioners — municipal planners, emergency managers, coastal engineers, state agency staff — and half is researchers. The program is built so that the two halves are in the same rooms rather than in parallel tracks.
Program
Day one covers the science: regional sea level projection, storm climatology, and shoreline and wetland response. The closing session of the day is on uncertainty communication, and is run as a workshop rather than a panel.
Day two covers decisions: planning and zoning instruments, financing and insurance, managed retreat, and a closing session of case presentations from municipalities in the region describing what they have actually done.
Registration
Registration is $180 for general attendance and $40 for students, and includes lunch on both days. The student rate applies to anyone currently enrolled anywhere, not only at Northmoor.
Remote attendance is available for the plenary sessions at the same rates. The workshop sessions are in person only.
Registration closes on 30 October, or earlier if capacity is reached.
Getting here
The conference is held in the Halloran Building. Visitor parking is signposted from the north entrance. Accommodation in town books up in November; delegates travelling from a distance should arrange it early.