Climate Change, Infrastructure, Economies, and Governance in the Great Lakes Basin
WATER RESILIENT CITIES PROGRAM | WRC CONFERENCE | PRESENTATIONS
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PRESENTATIONS
Day 1
Keynote Address and Plenary Speakers
| Name | Presentation Title |
| Hillary Brown | "Future-proofing” Infrastructure for the Anthropocene |
| Elizabeth Gibbons | Resilient Waters, Resilient Cities Climate Change in the Great Lakes |
| John Austin | |
| Carol Howe | Transitioning to Integrated Water Management |
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Wendy Kellogg |
Water Resilient Cities: Climate Change, Infrastructure, Economies and Governance in the Great Lakes Basin |
Variations on Conference Themes
| Name | Organization | Presentation Title |
| Sanda Kaufman | Cleveland State University | Scenarios for Robust Watershed Decisions Under High Uncertainty |
| Tom Denbow | Biohabitats Inc | Going Beyond Sustainability: Applying a Regenerative Design Approach to Restoring Our Future, Biodiversity, and Urban Landscape Ecology (Tentative Title) |
| Katy Lackey | Water Environment Research Foundation | Extreme Climate/Weather Events: Lessons Learned from Water and Wastewater Utilities |
| Derek Kauneckis | Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs | How Do Great Lakes Cities Compare? Patterns of Climate Resilience in Regional Water Policy |
| Bryan Stubbs | Cleveland Water Alliance | Value of Water: Water Based Industrial Attraction Strategy |
Best Practices and Research (with Discussion)
Session IA: Systems: Cross Sector, Scale and Time, Dively Auditorium (112)
| Name | Organization | Presentation Title |
| Angela Larsen | Alliance for the Great Lakes | Planning Strategies that Achieve Implementation of Policies, Projects and Programs |
| Charles Frederick | Kent State University | The Design Studio as Experiment: KSU/CAED Graduate Landscape Architecture Program and the Speculation of Urban Futures |
| John Hazlett | Williams Creek Consulting | Taking it to the Streets: Consolidated Green Infrastructure Case Study |
| Kyle Dreyfuss-Wells | NEORSD | Grey and Green: Addressing Legacy Infrastructure and Water Quality Impacts in NE Ohio (Preliminary Title) |
| Katie Hall | Great Lakes Commons | Systems Thinking Approach to Water Management and Stewardship |
Session 1B: Decision Support & Feedback Loops, Bonda Board Room (253)
| Name | Organization | Presentation Title |
| Gary Hunter | NASA Glenn Research Center |
Smart Sensor Systems Water Quality Monitoring (Preliminary Title) |
| Duane Verner | Argonne National Lab |
Using Climate Data to Inform Critical Infrastructure Resilience |
| Marcus Quigley | OptiRTC | Continuous Monitoring and Adaptive Control (CMAC) of Stormwater Infrastructure |
| Samar Khoury | EPA (OCHP)/ASPPH | Extreme Precipitation from Climate Change, CSOs and Diarrheal Disease in Children |
| Simon Belisle | Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative |
Climate-Ready Infrastructure and Strategic Sites Protocol (CRISSP): A Simplified Municipal Adaptation Tool |
Session 1C: Adaptive Capacity, Sweet Seminar Room (241)
| Name | Organization | Presentation Title |
| Anthony Body | NEORSD | Workforce Development (Preliminary Title) |
| Joel Bingham | EnviroScience, Inc./University of Akron | A Conceptual Framework for Restoration Performance Assessment |
| Katie Rousseau & Malcolm Mossman | American Rivers | When a Bandaid’s Not Enough: Implementing Stormwater Utilities in the Great Lakes Basin |
| Sammis White | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | The Milwaukee Water Technology Cluster |
| Scott Hardy | Ohio Sea Grant | Coastal Storm Hazards in Northeast Ohio: A Case Study of Community Vulnerability and Resilience |
Day 2
Best Practices and Research
Session 2A: Systems: Cross Sector, Scale and Time, Dively Auditorium (112)
| Name | Organization | Presentation Title |
| Abe Bruckman | City of Mentor | Sub-Watershed Projects: Western Lake County, Ohio |
| Michael Cook | Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc. | Combining Gray with Green Infrastructure for Triple Bottom Line Stormwater Success |
| Shaun O'Rourke | Trust for Public Land | Green Infrastructure and Creative Placemaking: Linking climate justice, environmental performance, and community engagement |
| Patekka Pope-Bannister | Toledo Water Resources | Municipal Water Management in Toledo (preliminary title) |
Session 2B: Decision Support & Feedback Loops, Bonda Board Room (253)
| Name | Organization | Presentation Title |
| Amy Samples | Michigan Sea Grant | Best Practices for Increasing Resilience at Marinas and Harbors |
| Ebie Holst | Splashlink | A Web-based Tools for Water Solutions and Funding: Splashlink |
| Robert Coville & Thomas Taggart | Davey Tree | i-Tree Hydro: A First-Order Hydrologic Model for Land-Use Decision Making |
| Benjamin Clark | Cleveland State University | Engaging Citizens to Reduce Costs & Improve Water Quality—Pilot Project in Detroit, MI |
| John Hoornbeek | Kent State University | Addressing Harmful Algal Blooms in Lake Erie: Policy Instruments for Reducing Nutrient Loads to Lake Erie from Cities and Rural |
Session 2C: Adaptive Capacity, Sweet Seminar Room (241)
| Name | Organization | Presentation Title |
| Samuel Molnar | Great Lakes Commission | Climate Ready Great Lakes Cities: Lessons, Tools, and Critical Future Steps |
| Zach Rable | University of Michigan | Managing Great Lakes Shorelands for More Resilient Communities |
| James White | Cleveland-Cuyahoga Port Authority | Sediment Choreography For Cleveland Harbor |
| Todd Danielson | Avon Lake Regional Water | Preparing for the Worst: How One Water Utility is Becoming More Resilient to Combat Extreme Weather |
| Matt Schmidt | Trust for Public Land |