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2025 Living Shorelines Tech Transfer Workshop Agenda

 

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Wednesday, October 29 

 
7:30 am  Check-in desk opens  Assembly
8:30 – 9:30 am  Welcome Remarks &  Opening Plenary 

  • Daniel Hayden, President and CEO, Restore America’s Estuaries
  • Leah Lopez Schmalz, President, Save the Sound
  • Bill Lucey, Long Island Soundkeeper
 Ballroom
9:30 am  Instructions for Field Trips  Ballroom 
9:45 am  Begin Loading Buses  Lobby
9:50 – 10:20 am  Depart for Field Trips  Lobby
2:30 pm  Return from Field Trips  Lobby
3 pm  Panel Discussion: Perspectives on Nature-Based Solutions and the Future

  • Ram Mohan, PhD., P.E. – Sr. Principal, Anchor QEA, & Professor of Practice and Co-Director, Sustainable Sediment Management Hub, UGA IRIS
  • Todd Bridges, PhD., Founder of the US Army Corps of Engineers’ Engineering With Nature Program; currently with the University of Georgia and Environmental Science Associates
  Ballroom
4:30 – 6:30 pm  Mixer: Exhibitor Space, Poster Session and Reception & Appetizers   Ballroom

Thursday, October 30 

 
8:30 – 10 am  Morning Session 1   
  Plan, Fail, Adapt, Repeat: Lessons in Living Shorelines York
  Engineering for Ecology George
  Living Shorelines from Alabama to New England: Design, Permitting, and Implementation Considerations Wooster
  What’s Working Where? Innovations in Living Shoreline Techniques Across Regions Temple
10 – 10:30 am  Coffee Break   
10:30 am – noon  Morning Session 2   
  Scaling Living Shorelines into Expansive Marsh Systems: Lessons from the Baltimore Harbor and Sandusky Bay York
  Adaptive Management: A Living Shoreline Game Temple
  Application of using large wood and woody material in coastal restoration George
  Urban Living Shoreline Design: Purpose in Mind Wooster
12:00 – 1:30 pm  Lunch   
1:30 – 3 pm  Afternoon Session 1   
  The evolution of living shoreline techniques to better inform planning and implementation regionally Wooster
  Project development challenges, pitfalls, and pain points…we want to hear from you! Temple
  Re-Seeding the Sound: Collaborative Approaches to Eelgrass Restoration in Long Island Sound York
  Sustainable Sediment Management: An Approach to Sediment Management for the 21st Century George
3 – 4 pm  Closing Keynote:

Pippa Brashear, RLA, WEDG, Resilience Principle at SCAPE Landscape Architecture

  Ballroom