“Water Has a Memory: Preserving Historic Port Cities from Sea Level Rise”
The conference opens with a reception the evening of Sunday, May 7th featuring keynote Howard Mansfield, author of the Yankee Magazine cover story, “Rising Seas” and several books.
How One Non-Profit is Tackling Climate Change, Margaret Back, Newport Restoration Foundation
Host Case: “Water Has a Memory”, Strawbery Banke, City of Portsmouth, and the UNH Earth Sciences Center
Case:City of Portsmouth “Think Blue” Initiative, Brian Goetz, City of Portsmouth Deputy Director DPW
Case:Measuring & Monitoring with Well Sensors, Michael Routhier, UNH Earth Sciences Center
Case: Black Heritage Trail of NH Groundwater Sensor Project, Barbara Ward, BHTNH
Case:Implementing Resiliency Measures: A Case History of the Portsmouth’s 1860 Historic Shaw Warehouse, Cassie Bethoney, Weston + Sampson
Case:Charting Solutions in a Resilient City 2.0, Tidewater VA, Kerry Shackleford and Paige Pollard, Building Resilient Solutions, Suffolk VA
Case:Preparing Historic Sites Now for Carbon Neutrality and Resilience, Ben Haavik, Historic New England Team Leader, Property Care
Case:Salem’s House of Seven Gables and MA Coastal Zone Management, Susan Baker, House of Seven Gables and the MA Coastal Zone Management
Case: The Provincetown MA Flood Plain: Preservation Case StudiesPanel, Regina Binder, Provincetown Comprehensive Plan Committee
Case: Increasing Climate Resiliency through Selective Dam Removal While Preserving Our Past, Quinn Stuart and Peter Walker, VHB Cultural and Environmental Services
Lunch
Monday, May 8, 3-5pm: Tours
A site visit to examine how Strawbery Banke master plan process to deflect surface flooding from its 17th, 18th and 19th century buildings, with Horsley-Witten and PlaceWorks
A site visit examining the City’s resiliency plan to raise and move the 1806 Shaw warehouse back from the waterfront, with Weston + Sampson, Inc.
NOAA’s Flood Risk Assessment & Application Guide, Mark Osler, NOAA Senior Advisor for Coastal Inundation and Resilience
New Hampshire Coastal Flood Risk Assessment & Guidance, Cameron Wake, Research Professor, UNH Earth Systems Research Center and Josephine A. Lamprey, Professor in Climate and Sustainability at the UNH Sustainability Institute
Advisory Council on Historic Preservation Update:Role of the federal government in climate change policy development, Sara Bronin, Chair, ACHP, and Cornell University Fellow, Atkinson Center on Sustainability
Case: A Tale of Three Storms: National Park Service superintendent’s super-storm experiences at three NPS historic sites, Dave Luchsinger, former NPS Superintendent
Case: Living Above the Street: Flood Retrofitting and Adaptive Streetscape of New York City’s Historic Districts, Ziming Wang, M.S. Columbia University
Case: Adapting to Sea Level Rise in Southern Maine’s Historic Waterfront Communities, David Reidmiller, Gulf of Maine Research Institute; Ian Stevenson & Sarah Hansen, Greater Portland Landmarks and Abbie Sherwin, Southern Maine Planning & Development Commission
