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Monday, March 30th, 2009 – Part I. THE THREAT OF COASTAL FLOODING
First Half – Session Chair: Michael Lorczak, P.E., AECOM, New York, NY (ASCE Met Section President)
- Introduction – Dr. Douglas Hill, P.E., Consulting Engineer, Huntington, NY
- The New Orleans Levees: The Worst Engineering Catastrophe in U.S. History – What Went Wrong and Why –Lawrence H. Roth, P.E., G.E., F.ASCE, Deputy Executive Director, American Society of Civil Engineers, Reston, VA
- Quantifying Wind Risk: Present and Future – Dr. Kerry Emanuel and Dr. Sai Ravela, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
- Storm Surge Modeling and Climatology for the New York City Metropolitan Region – Dr. Brian A. Colle and Dr. Frank Buonaiuto, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
Second Half – Session Chair: Mike Bobker, Co-Chair, Environmental Sciences Steering Committee, NYAS
- Hydrodynamic/GIS Simulation of Storm Surge Flooding in the NY/NJ Harbor System – Nicholas Kim, Brian George and Philip Simmons, HydroQual, Inc., Mahwah, NJ
- Vulnerability and Potential Losses in NYC from Coastal Flooding – Joshua Friedman, Hazard Impact Modeler, New York City Office of Emergency Management, New York, NY
- Hydrologic Feasibility of Storm Surge Barriers – Dr. Malcolm Bowman, P.E., Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
- Review Panel: Should Barriers be Built in NYC? – Warren Kurtz, P.E., Chairman, Consulting Engineer, Armonk, NY; Joseph Seebode, Deputy District Engineer, New York District, US Army Corps of Engineers, New York City; Larry Roth, P.E., G.E., Deputy Executive Director, American Society of Civil Engineers, Reston, VA
Tuesday, March 31st – Part II. ENGINEERING THE STORM SURGE BARRIERS
First Half – Session Chair: Dr. Rae Zimmerman, Professor, NYU-Wagner Graduate School, New York, NY
- The Delta Project: Past and Future – Dr. Jeroen Aerts and W. Botzen, IVM-VU University, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Regulatory Considerations for a Storm Barrier System – Michael Scarano, P.E., Deputy Chief, Regulatory Branch, US Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, New York City
- Storm Surge Barriers: Several Ecological and Social Concerns – Dr. R.L. Swanson, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
- Geotechnical Aspects of Three Storm Surge Barrier Sites – Hugh S. Lacy, P.E., Hugh S. Lacy, P.E., Anthony DeVito, P.E., and Athena C. De Nivo, P.E., Mueser Rutledge Consulting Engineers, New York, NY
- A Global Overview of Navigable Storm Surge Barriers from a Dutch Perspective – Piet Dircke, Arcadis NV, Arnhem, Netherlands
Second Half – Session Chair: Dr. Douglas Hill, P.E., Consulting Engineer, Huntington, NY
- Student Designs of Storm Surge Barriers for the New York Metropolitan Area – Dr. Anne Ronan, P.E., Cooper Union, New York, NY
- Conceptual Design of an East River Storm Surge Barrier – Michael J. Abrahams, P.E., F.ASCE, Parsons Brinckerhoff, New York, NY
- Verrazano Narrows Storm Surge Barrier – Peter Jansen and Piet Dircke, Arcadis NV, Arnhem, Netherlands
- Arthur Kill Storm Surge Barrier Design Concept – Lawrence J. Murphy, P.E. and Thomas R. Schoettle, P.E., Camp Dresser & McKee, New York City
- NY-NJ Outer Harbor Gateway – Dennis V. Padron, P.E., Halcrow Inc., New York City; Graeme Forsythe, FICE, FIES, Halcrow Group, United Kingdom
- Panel Discussion – Can Barriers be Built in NYC? – Dr. F.H. “Bud” Griffis, Chairman, Department of Civil Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of NYU, Brooklyn, NY and the above speakers