Day 1, March 15: (7:30 am-4:30 pm)
| 7:30-8:30 am | Registration and Continental Breakfast: Registration will take place in the Marine Resources Research Institute (MRRI) lobby. Pick up name tags and meeting materials |
| 8:30 am | Welcome to NOAA in the Carolinas 2010 Meeting | MRRI Auditorium |
| Bob Van Dolah, Director, Marine Resources Research Institute, Fort Johnson |
| Mike Voiland, Director, North Carolina Sea Grant |
| 9:00 am | Keynote address: Water Resources | MRRI Auditorium |
| Trevor Clements, Tetra Tech |
| • A Fundamental Change in Managing Our Community Water Infrastructure |
| 9:45 am | Keynote address: Resiliency | MRRI Auditorium |
| Gavin Smith, UNC Chapel Hill |
| • Applying Lessons from Hazards Management to Climate Change Adaptation in the Coastal Zone |
| 10:30 am | Break |
| 11:00 am | Open Floor Forum: Reactions to Keynote Addresses | MRRI Auditorium |
| 11:45 am | Introduction to foci |
| 12:00 pm | Lunch, catered | Outdoor Classroom |
| Session 1: | Concurrent breakout sessions for Resiliency and Water Resources |
| 1:15 pm | Breakout Session 1A | MRRI Auditorium |
| Water Resources (each topic will have 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for discussion) |
| Topic 1: Richard Heim, Jr., NCDC - Drought Monitoring, Global Drought Monitoring Portal, and other NCDC drought monitor efforts and studies. |
| Topic 2: John Feldt, Hydrologist-in-Charge, NWS SERFC-NIDIS status in the ACF, plans to extend NIDIS into the Carolinas,other river forecast science updates. |
| Breakout Session 1B | DNR Indoor Classroom |
| Resiliency (each topic will have 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for discussion)
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| Topic 1: John Dorman, GTM Director and IHRM Lead - Integrated Hazards Risk Management and Sea Level Rise |
| Topic 2: April Turner, South Carolina Sea Grant - Climate impacts of shallow coastal flooding in Charleston - what is the impact as sea level continues to rise? |
| Session 2: | Concurrent Breakout sessions for Resiliency and Water Resources |
| 2:15 pm | Breakout Session 2A | MRRI Auditorium |
| Water Resources (each topic will have 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for discussion) |
| Topic 1: Sankar Arumugam, NC State University - Role of Climate Variability in Modulating the Surface Water and Groundwater Interaction over the Southeast United States. |
| Topic 2: Greg Carbone, Carolinas Integrated Sciences & Assessments (CISA) - Improving the Characterization of Drought and Understating of Impacts on Water and Ecological Resources |
| Breakout Session 2B | DNR Indoor Classroom |
| Resiliency (each topic will have 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for discussion)
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| Topic 1: Linda Rimer, EPA-NC EPA-FEMA-MOA Community Pilot Projects |
| Topic 2: Tom Allen, East Carolina University-Storm surge visualization projects |
| 3:15 pm | Break |
| Session 3: | Plenary | MRRI Auditorium |
| 3:45 pm | CIFLOW update |
| Kodi Nemunaitis-Monroe, NOAA CIMMS/NSSL |
| • Ties with Water Resources and Resiliency |
| • Current status |
| • Successes during Hurricane Irene |
| • Future work and challenges |
| 4:15 pm | Summary of day one, plan for day two, other logistical items |
| 4:45 pm | Adjourn |
Day 2, March 16: (8:00 am-3:00 pm)
| 8:00 am | Continental Breakfast and Informal Conversation | MRRI Lobby |
| Session 4: | Plenary | MRRI Auditorium |
| 8:30 am | NOAA in the Region Highlights |
| Geno Olmi, Coordinator, NOAA Southeast and Caribbean Regional Team |
| 9:00 am | Governor's South Atlantic Alliance Highlights: Water Resources and Resiliency |
| Rick DeVoe, Director, South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium |
| 9:30 am | Break |
| Session 5: | Concurrent breakout sessions for Resiliency and Water Resources |
| 10:00 am | Breakout Session 5A | MRRI Auditorium |
| Water Resources (each topic will have 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for discussion) |
| Topic 1: Eric Strom, USGS - Ongoing work and challenges,coastal and inland |
| Topic 2: Mark Endries, USFWS - Predictive Habitat Maps for 226 Aquatic Species in Western NC using Maxent Modeling |
| Breakout Session 5B | DNR Indoor Classroom | /tr>
| Resiliency (each topic will have 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for discussion) |
| Topic 1: Allison Hardin, City of Myrtle Beach - Coastal No Adverse Impact |
| Topic 2: Jess Whitehead, South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium - Vulnerability and Consequences Adaptation Planning Scenarios (VCAPS) |
| 11:10 am | Group Photo | Location TBD based on weather |
| 11:30 am | Lunch, catered | Outdoor Classroom |
| Session 6: | Plenary | MRRI Auditorium |
| 12:30 pm | Coastal Services Center Climate and Hazards Resilience Activities |
| Doug Marcy, Coastal Hazards Specialist, NOAA's Coastal Services Center |
| 1:00 pm | Coastal Urbanization and Climate Change: A Recipe for Disaster |
| Geoff Scott, Director, Center For Coastal Environmental Health and Biomolecular Research, Hollings Marine Lab |
| 1:45 pm | Facilitated open forum on NOAA services, gaps, and collaborative opportunities |
| 3:00 pm | Adjourn |
