Speaker Abstracts and Bios
Adam Parris Mapping resilience not risk: Turning the tide in New York City and Jamaica Bay Abstract: Resilience in urban coastal areas is affected by actions at multiple levels from individuals to community groups to city, state and federal governments. At any level,...Published Paper as a result of 2012 NYMSC Annual Conference!
Dough Ofiara, a speaker at our 2012 NYMSC conference, has published a paper on the New York Bight. Enjoy!
NYMSC 2015 Conference “Protecting our Coastal Environments: The Outlook for Green and Gray Solutions”
NYMSC Annual Conference
24 October 2015
8:30am-3:30pm
SUNY Maritime College
Protecting our Coastal Environments: The Outlook for Green and Gray Solutions
Our coastal environment is increasingly threatened by over-development, harmful algal blooms, destructive storm surges and rising sea level. Two broad approaches to these threats have been proposed: “Green” solutions that seek to use vegetation or organisms to improve water quality and protect coastlines, and “Gray” solutions that use hard structures and storm barriers. These two approaches are often viewed as mutually exclusive.
The purpose of the 2015 NYMSC conference is to provide a forum where diverse perspectives on green and gray solutions can be presented and discussed. The program brings together experts from the conservation communities, government environmental agencies, academic scientists, and the professional engineering community. Sessions will focus on regulatory and economic aspects of coastal protection and present several examples of both green and gray infrastructure projects. The diversity of ideas and opinions will be discussed and argued in an afternoon debate.
There will be a student poster competition, for both graduate and undergraduate students, with a $250 prize. More information will be coming on that matter, as well as how to register for the conference. Please stay tuned.
Congratulations to the 2014 Poster Winners Soren Dahl, and Joanna Wells and Megan Ossmann
Soren Dahl, a graduate student from Stony Brook University, won with the poster titled: “Will climate change help New York hard clams fight disease?”
Joanna Wells and Megan Ossmann, undergraduate students from Adelphi University, won with the poster titled, “Sand, Sand, and Sandy: a grain size analysis of coastal sediments at Long Beach and Fire Island”