Below you will find the most up-to date conference schedule. Additional events and information will be added as the conference approaches.
| Monday, May 10 | (All times in Central) | |||
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| Workshops (additonal cost of $25 per workshop) | ||||
| Time | Title | Description | Presenters | CECs |
| 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM | Cooperating Technical Partners Bootcamp | This workshop provides a well-rounded “crash course” in grant/program management, communications, and technical topics so that CTPs are better equipped to manage risk identification and reduction projects. This will drive towards increasing awareness, mitigation investments and resilience at the local level. Following this workshop, attendees will: - Walk away with first-hand experience regarding the strategy and “how to” of CTP Program implementation and reporting - Understanding of how to develop key messages for communities to better understand their risk. - Take away handouts on the program’s published best practices templates as well as tools and resources CTPs can use when they get home. - Be able to implement their CTP projects more effectively, with an emphasis on using CTP projects as a platform for catalyzing mitigation investment within their local communities. | Laura Algeo, PE, National CTP Program Coordinator, FEMA Necolle Maccerone, CFM, CERC National CTP Lead, Michael Baker International Marc Pearson, GISP, CFM, Senior Principal, Stantec | 3.5 |
| 9:00 - 11:00 AM | FEMA BCAs in the Age of BRIC | Benefit-Cost Analysis (BCA) is a key element to FEMA's hazard mitigation programs. In recent years, FEMA has updated its BCA Tools and policies and instituted the Building Resilience Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) mitigation program to replace the Pre-Disaster Mitigation (PDM) program. This workshop will focus on how to prepare well-documented BCAs for FEMA grants in light of these changes. | John Squerciati, PE, CFM Senior Associate, Dewberry | 2 |
| 1:00 - 5:00 PM | Hands-On HEC-RAS 2D Workshop (for Intermediate HEC-RAS 1D Users) | This workshop covers the latest capabilities of HEC-RAS with a focus on two-dimensional modeling. It alternates between brief lectures and hands-on practice at individual laptops. Participants should have intermediate familiarity with HEC-RAS 1D modeling. Participants will be provided with materials containing a copy of HEC-RAS and example models. Over the past 2 years, Freese and Nichols instructors have led this workshop for ASFPM, the Texas Floodplain Management Association, Oklahoma Water Resources Board, Georgia Safe Dams Program, Georgia Safe Dams Program, North Carolina Dam Safety, and the Association of State Dam Safety Officials. | Garrett Johnston, PE, GISP, CFM, Engineer, Freese and Nichols Jeremy Dixon, PE, CFM Engineer, Freese and Nichols | 3.5 |
| Tuesday, May 11 | |||||
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| Session A (Tuesday, May 11 - 9:00AM-10:30AM) | |||||
| A1: CRS - National Focus | NFIP | ||||
| Rachel Sears, CFM | FEMA | CRS Transformation: Incentivizing the Future of Risk Reduction | |||
| Bill Lesser, CFM | FEMA | The Community Rating System: Program Updates and the 2021 Addendum | |||
| French Wetmore, CFM | French & Associates, Ltd. | New CRS Credits for Conservation and Recovery of Threatened and Endangered Species | |||
| A2: Mitigation Successes and Loss Avoidance Studies | Mitigation | ||||
| Jonathan Westcott, PE | FEMA Headquarters | The Results are in! Building Codes Save | |||
| Lisa Graff, GISP, CFM | Prairie Research Institute, Illinios State Water Survey | Shorewood, Illinois Loss Avoidance Study: 14 years and 17 floods later | |||
| John Callen, PE, CFM | JEO Consulting Group, Inc. | Bomb Cyclone Shelter – Why Grand Island Stayed Dry in the Flood of 2019 | |||
| A3: 2D Floodways: The Confluence of Modeling and Regulations | Modeling | ||||
| Isaac Allen, PE, CFM | AECOM | Two-Dimensional Floodway Testing and Evaluation | |||
| Lori Schrader, PE, CFM | Stantec | 2D Hydraulic Modeling including Multiple Levee Systems and Floodway Analyses – A Case Study of the Payette River in Payette County, Idaho | |||
| Stephen Sands, PE, CFM | Hazen & Sawyer, P.C. | Floodway Assessment: 1D vs 2D Modeling Perspectives | |||
| A4: Evolution of the National Flood Mapping Program | Mapping | ||||
| Sponsored by: Dewberry | |||||
| Cindy Engelhardt, PE, CFM | Halff Associates | Evolution of Floodplain Mapping | |||
| Jen Marcy, PMP, CFM | Atkins | Stakeholder Feedback on the Future of Flood Risk Data: Insights from the TMAC 2020 Stakeholder Engagement Effort | |||
| David Bascom | FEMA | Dream. Design. Deliver: Demonstrating the Future of Flood Risk Data | |||
| A5: Innovative Risk Communications | Risk Communication | ||||
| Rocky Schneider, MBA, CFM | Advanced Engineering and Environmental Services, Inc. (AE2S) | Communicating Changing Floodplains, Maps and a Cartoon or Two | |||
| Danielle Dami | Stantec | A 3D Visualization Experiment: Integrating Unity and Unreal Engine in ARCGIS SDKs | |||
| Andrew Warren | Deltares | Playing for Keeps: Serious Games for Floodplain Management | |||
| A6: Showcase #1 | Showcase | ||||
| A7: Dam and Levee Risk Education | Dams & Levees | ||||
| Kelly Soule, PE, MBA | CA Department of Water Resources | State of California Model Floodplain Management Ordinances, Higher Standards, and Quick Guide | |||
| Thomas Langan, PE, CFM | North Carolina Floodplain Mapping Program | North Carolina Dam Monitoring Gauges and Alert System | |||
| Jim Maroukis, CMAP, Six Sigma | Booz Allen Hamilton | Dam Safety Signage Guidance – Promoting Public Awareness and Preventing Loss of Life and Property | |||
| Plenary Session (Tuesday, May 11 - 11:00AM - 12:30 PM) | |||||
| Opening Plenary Session | |||||
| Session B (Tuesday, May 11 - 1:30PM-3:00PM) | |||||
| B1: Floodplain Management Compliance | NFIP | ||||
| Sarah Owen | FEMA, Floodplain Management Division | A Fresh Look at Community Compliance with the National Flood Insurance Program | |||
| Jessica Artz, CFM | SCDNR | Long Term Substantial Damage in South Carolina | |||
| Bret Gates | FEMA | FEMA’s New Direction on NFIP ESA Compliance | |||
| B2: Mitigation and Resilience Planning | Mitigation | ||||
| Jennifer Burmester | FEMA | Mitigation Planning Program Essentials for Floodplain Managers | |||
| Mike Robinson, CFM | Moffatt & Nichol | Resilience is More than a Word: A New Bern, NC Case Study | |||
| Sarah Edwards, J.D. | The Pew Charitable Trusts | State Resilience Planning: Learnings from Emerging Practices Across the Country | |||
| B3: Modeling Coastal Hazards | Modeling | ||||
| Brian Caufield, PE, PMP, CFM, D.CE | CDM Smith | Conveying the Various Messages around Coastal Erosion | |||
| Matthew Lauffer, PE, CPM | NCDOT | Extreme Storm Event Preparedness – GIS Mapping of NCDOT’s Vulnerable Bridges | |||
| Ashley Kauppila | Taylor Engineering | Leveraging 2D Storm Surge Modeling Results to Support Coastal Graduate Risk Analyses | |||
| B4: Mapping Communication and Outreach Adaptation to the Virtual World | Mapping | ||||
| Shannon Brewer, PMP, CFM | Dewberry | Innovative Community Outreach Solutions: How the GA CTP Program Has Overcome Community Engagement Obstacles Through Customized Approaches and Technological Innovations | |||
| Carey Johnson | Kentucky Division of Water | Outreach During the Pandemic: Making Virtual Risk MAP Connections | |||
| Cameron Druery, BE MIEAust | Worley | Flooding Information On The Cloud – Sharing Understanding Without Transferring Any Data | |||
| B5: Social Justice, Equity, and Flood Risk Management | Risk Communication | ||||
| Alyx Colgan, MPH | Guidehouse | Adapting Risk Communications to Create Equitable Mitigation Strategies | |||
| Terence Milstead, PhD | Resilience Action Partners | Housing Security and Flood-Risk Mitigation Activities | |||
| Merrie Koester, PhD | USC Center for Science Education | Get Hurricane Smart! Taking on the Problem of Educational Vulnerability | |||
| B6: Showcase #2 | Showcase | ||||
| B7: Local Urban Flooding Initiatives | Stormwater & Urban Flooding | ||||
| Edward Schenk, CFM | Flagstaff Water Services | Going digital with open channel storm water asset management for a high elevation municipality | |||
| Eddie Paulino, PE, CFM | MWRDGC | A Decision Modeling Approach to Project Selection | |||
| Brian Joyner, PE | Moffatt & Nichol | Resilient Hampton: Spotlight on Innovative Stormwater Designs and Financing | |||
| Session C (Tuesday, May 11 - 3:30PM-5:00PM) | |||||
| C1: Local Floodplain Management Initiatives | NFIP | ||||
| Stefani Bell, PE, CFM | Michael Baker International | Reimagining the City of San Diego’s Approach to Floodplain Management | |||
| Joe Waln, PE, CFM | Barr Engineering Co. | How strong is your local floodplain ordinance? Findings and recommendations from the Red River Basin | |||
| David Knipe, PE, CFM | Indiana Dept. Natural Resources | Structure Level Floodplain Analysis and Flood Elevation Points in Indiana | |||
| C2: Highlighting Local Mitigation Projects | Mitigation | ||||
| Shaun Gannon, PE, D.WRE, CFM, P.H. | Ramboll | Forensics of Flood Evaluation in Sauquoit Cree, NY and Innovative Flood Mitigations | |||
| David Kroening, PG, CFM, GC | Charlotte-Mecklenburg Storm Water Services | Development of a Joint Water Quality and Flood Mitigation Goal Driven Capital Improvement Program | |||
| Joel Paulsen, PE, CFM | Metro Flood Diversion Authority | Implementing the Largest Flood Protection P3 Project in the World | |||
| C3: Flood Risk Assessment in Complex Urban Environments | Modeling | ||||
| Sivaramakrishnan Sangameswaranm, PhD, PE, D.WRE, CFM | Dewberry | CHOOSING THE RIGHT MODEL TO ESTIMATE URBAN FLOOD RISK IN THE CONTINENTAL USA | |||
| Karen Kabbes, PE, CFM | Kabbes Engineering, Inc | Comparison of 2D HEC-RAS Models of Shallow Urban Floodplain, Without and Without Buildings | |||
| Jeremy McCall, PE, CFM | Arcadis | 1D and 2D Riverine and Collection System Models to Solve Local Flooding Issues in NC | |||
| C4: Understanding and Mitigating Coastal Flooding | Coastal | ||||
| Renee Collini | MS-AL Sea Grant/Mississippi State University | Sea-Level Rise: Turning uncertainty into action | |||
| D.J. Rasmussen | Princeton University | The political complexity of coastal flood risk reduction | |||
| Dr. Lauren Knapp | CSS Inc. on contract to NOAA/Office of Coastal Management | Property Values, Taxes, Infrastructure: What’s at Stake? Assessing Coastal Infrastructure at Risk | |||
| C5: Behavioral Science and Risk Communication | Risk Communication | ||||
| Jordanna Rubin, LEED AP O+M, ENV SP | AECOM | Behavior-based change – What Can Flood Mitigation Leaders Learn from the Energy Industry | |||
| Glenn Locke, PMP, PMI-ACP | Booz Allen Hamilton | Common Barriers to Achieving Resilience in Hazard Mitigation and Personal Financial Planning | |||
| Kristin Murphy, ICAgile Certified Professional, Level 4 Social Marketer (CIM) | Booz Allen Hamilton | Using Data and Science to Influence Complex Decisions in a Complex World | |||
| C6: Showcase #3 | Showcase | ||||
| C7: Building Resilience into Recovery | Post-Disaster | ||||
| Del Scwalls, PE, CFM | Schwalls Consulting | Mexico Beach: A Hurricane Michael Story of a Small Beach Community on the "Never" Forgotten Coast | |||
| WB Smith, PE, CFM | HISIINC LLC | Roll’n on the River – 2019 Flood – Arkansas River Park Remediation | |||
| Dan Fricke, PE, CFM | JEO Consulting Group | Responding to Near Drowning with Resilient Actions – A Real World Example | |||
| Wednesday, May 12 | |||||
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| Session D (Wednesday, May 12 - 9:00AM-10:30AM) | |||||
| D1: Flood Insurance | NFIP | ||||
| Lloyd "Tony" Hake | FEMA | Risk Rating 2.0: Progress to Date and Next Steps | |||
| Bruce Bender, CFM | Bender Consulting Services, Inc. | The Evolution of the Private Flood Insurance Market: A Look at the Past, Present and Future of Flood Insurance | |||
| David Stearrett, CFM | FEMA | Office of the Flood Insurance Advocate: 5 Years of Advocacy | |||
| D2: Spotlight on Mitigation Techniques | Mitigation | ||||
| Mary-Carson Stiff | Wetlands Watch | A Match (Maybe) Made in Heaven: FEMA Acquired Properties & Land Trusts | |||
| Tammie DeVooght Blaney | International Assn of Structural Movers | Home Elevation for Flood Hazard Mitigation | |||
| Michael MacGowan, CFM | ILC Dover | Flood Protection Measures - When, Where, and How | |||
| D3: Modeling for Flood Warning Systems | Modeling/Warning Systems | ||||
| David Key, PE, CFM | ESP Associates, Inc. | FIMAN-T: NCDOT’s Response Tool for Managing Flood Impacts to Transportation Assets | |||
| David Leone, PE, CFM | GZA | Feed the Machine: Flood Response Automated Predictions to Improve Emergency Planning | |||
| Venkatesh Merwade | Purdue University | Urban Flooding Open Knowledge Network: Delivering Flood Information to Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere | |||
| D4: Mapping Avant-Garde | Mapping | ||||
| David Stuley, PE | Dewberry Engineers, Inc. | Developing Floodplain Designations that Account for Future Climate Change: A Case Study on Implementation of the Community Risk and Resiliency Act (CRRA) in New York. | |||
| Sarada Kalikivaya, PE,PMP,CFM | Atkins North America | Why Do People Keep Talking about Probabilistic? Is it Probability? Now, I Am Confused! | |||
| Lee Beshoner, PE, CFM | FTN Associates, Ltd. | BLEs and the Flood Risk Factor: Competing Sources, Different Stories, or Beneficial Partners? | |||
| D5: Case Studies in Risk Communication | Risk Communication | ||||
| James Scanlon, CFM, GISP | Charlotte-Mecklenburg Storm Water Services | DHS Flood Apex: Enhancing Flood Mitigation Strategies and Tools in Mecklenburg County | |||
| Bruna Attila, PMP, LEED, AP, CFM | City of Baltimore | City of Baltimore Public Outreach Campaign for Flood Awareness | |||
| Olivia Humilde | FEMA | Communicating the Value of Flood Insurance During Flood Awareness Campaigns | |||
| D6: Showcase #4 | Showcase | ||||
| D7: Joint USACE & FEMA Levee Session | Dams & Levees | ||||
| Tammy Comforti, PE, CFM | USACE | National Levee Safety Program and National Levee Database Updates: Improving Community Resilience | |||
| Suzanne Vermeer, PE, CFM | FEMA | ||||
| Brian VanBockern | USACE | ||||
| Will Lehman | USACE | ||||
| David Bascom | FEMA | ||||
| Plenary Session (Wednesday, May 12 - 11:00AM - 12:30 PM) | |||||
| Wednesday Plenary Session | |||||
| Session E (Wednesday, May 12 - 1:30PM-3:00PM) | |||||
| E1: International Floodplain Management | NFIP | ||||
| Alejandro Riano, PE, CFM | AECOM | Flood Risk Management Along the US Borders: When the water is a shared resource | |||
| Marc Daniel Heintz | International Commission for the Protection of the Rhine (ICPR) | The Complexity of Transnational Cooperation – 70 Years of International River Basin Flood Management along the River Rhine | |||
| Dr. Anna Serra-Llobet | University of California, Berkeley | Transboundary River Basin Management to Prevent Drowning of the Mekong Delta | |||
| E2: Nature-Based Mitigation Actions | Mitigation | ||||
| Johnny Mojica | Earth Economics | Nature Based Solutions to Hazard Mitigation | |||
| Matt Lyttle | Guidehouse | Bootstrapping Federal Grants on your way to Green Resilience | |||
| Elise Ibendahl, PE, PMP, CFM, ENV SP, F.ASCE | Jacobs | Biomimicry and Nature-Based Solutions: Designing for Optimized Social and Ecological Value | |||
| E3: Beyond Regulatory: Risk Assessment and Climate Adaptation | Modeling | ||||
| Gray Minton, PE, GISP | AECOM | North Carolina Floodplain Mapping Program’s (NCFMP) Advisory Floods Studies & Website | |||
| Matthew Jones, CCM | Woodard & Curran | America’s Next Top Model: Comparing Climate Change Modeling Tools and Data Sets for Practical Applications | |||
| Sarah Abdelrahim | FEMA | Great Interagency Collaboration, Greater Mitigation Outcomes | |||
| E4: CTP Ensemble | Mapping | ||||
| Jerry Snead, PE, CFM | NCDOT | Better Together – The Value of a State CTP and Interagency Partnership | |||
| Nancy Durham, MURP, CFM | Fairbanks North Star Borough | Correcting an Overstated Un-Numbered "A" Flood Zone for the Chena Slough through a CTP Grant | |||
| Laura Algeo, PE | FEMA HQ | Cooperating Technical Partners 5-Year Operations Plan (2022-2027) | |||
| E5: Flood Risk Training & Education Programs and Practices | Risk Communication | ||||
| Tony Mendes, CFM | FEMA | RISE Challenge - Engaging Youth to Build Resilient Communities | |||
| Michael Rimoldi, MPA, CFM, CBO | Florida Floodplain Managers Association | Statewide Virtual Training - FFMA’s Approach to Education During the Pandemic | |||
| Kelly Keefe, CFM | AECOM | The A, B, C’s of Facilitating a Virtual Community Meeting | |||
| E6: Challenges in Dealing with Rising Tides | Coastal | ||||
| Carey Schafer | The National Academies / Northern Gulf of Mexico Sentinel Site Cooperative | High Tide Flooding Thresholds: Real-World Consequences of Scientific Datums | |||
| Camille Sicangco | University of Florida | Considering Sea-Level Rise in Long-Term Infrastructure Planning - What is it worth? | |||
| Gabe Lederman | Wapro Inc | Staying dry with rising tides - case study Miami Beach | |||
| E7: Addressing Social Justice in Floodplain Management | Social Justice | ||||
| Eileen Shader, CFM | American Rivers | ASFPM Social Justice Committee: Working for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Floodplain Management | |||
| Peter Herrick | FEMA | Laying the Foundation for an Equity-Centered Directorate | |||
| Jessica Ludy, CFM | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | Flood Risk at the Frontline: Systemic Inequities in Floodplain Management | |||
| Session F (Wednesday, May 12 - 3:30PM-5:00PM) | |||||
| F1: Discussions on Floodplain Management Policy | NFIP | ||||
| Joel Scata, esq. | NRDC | Changing the NFIP for a Changing Climate: Update the NFIP’s Floodplain Management Regulations | |||
| Phetmano Phannavong, PE, PMP, CFM | Atkins | Shifting from Binary to Graduated View of Flood Risks: Workable and Flexible Minimum NFIP Requirements | |||
| Stuart Adams, EI, CFM, ENV SP | The Compelling Case for a Residential Flood-Resistant Construction Appraisal Addendum | ||||
| F2: FEMA Hazard Mitigation Programs and Requirements | Mitigation | ||||
| Kayed Lakhia | FEMA | Overview of FEMA’s Hazard Mitigation Assistance (HMA) Grant Programs 2021: What Applicants Should Know | |||
| Eric Kenney, PE, PMP, CFM | CDM Smith | Technical Observations from the Inaugural BRIC Application Cycle | |||
| Chris Levitz, PE, CFM | AECOM | Making Nature-Based Solutions Possible with Hazard Mitigation Funding | |||
| F3: Assessing Impact of Unique Factors on Flood Risk | Modeling | ||||
| Tara Lanzrath, CFM | Kansas Department of Agriculture | Western Kansas: The Wild West of Hydrology | |||
| Sravan Krovidi, PE, CFM | Atkins - SNC Lavalin Group | Deforestation, Reforestation / Afforestation, What Has It Got To Do With My H&H? | |||
| Mark McBroom, PE | Michael Baker International | Ice Jam Flood Risk Assessment: Methods & Lessons Learned | |||
| F4: FEMA Tools and Resources | Mapping | ||||
| Bradford Hartley, Jr., PMP, GISP, CFM | ABS Group, a member of Compass PTS JV | Life after 80% NVUE: Exploring New Initiatives | |||
| Daniel Horner, CFM | NiyamIT | Viewing Best Available Flood Hazard Data for a Location and Creating a Report on Proposed Changes | |||
| David Mummert | Michael Baker Intl. | eLOMA – A Collaborative Tool for Licensed Professionals, Communities, and FEMA | |||
| F5: Student Paper Competition | ASFPM Foundation | ||||
| F6: Natural & Beneficial Floodplain Functions | Natural & Beneficial Functions | ||||
| Olivia Dorothy, CFM | American Rivers | Nutrient Retention in Ecologically Functional Floodplains: A Review | |||
| Ricardo Aguirre, PE | WEST Consultants | Building Healthy Soil to Reduce Flooding – A Case Study of Holistic Land Management in Arizona | |||
| Jason York, Environmental Scientist | Michael Baker International | The Coast Is Clear in Carolina: Water Quality, Biology, and Stream Transformations | |||
| F7: Modeling for Urban Flooding Project Prioritization | Stormwater & Urban Flooding | ||||
| Thirumurugan Bose, PE, CFM | Michael Baker International | Mitigation Alternatives for Regional Flooding Issues in Cudia City Wash | |||
| Maria Neeland, PE, CFM | Wood | Utilizing BLE Modeling in Stormwater Master Planning | |||
| David White, PE, CFM | Redeveloping the City of Presidents in 2D | ||||
| Thursday, May 13 | |||||
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| Session G (Thursday, May 13 - 9:00AM-10:30AM) | |||||
| G1: CRS - Local Focus | NFIP | ||||
| Shannon Hulst, CFM | Barnstable County Cape Cod Cooperative Extension / Woods Hole Sea Grant | Regional CRS and Floodplain Management: Making it Work for Resource-Limited Communities | |||
| Josh Overmyer, CFM | Charlotte County | CRS Retrograde, Now What? | |||
| Heather Hilliard, CEM, CFM | City of Kenner | Using Emergency Management as a Lever to Improve your CRS Score | |||
| G2: Risk Assessments | Mitigation | ||||
| Casey Zuzak | FEMA | Establishing a nationwide baseline for natural hazard risk in the U.S. | |||
| Matt Hutchins | FernLeaf Interactive | Integrating Social Vulnerability in Flood Risk Assessments: A New Bern, NC Case Study | |||
| Richard Fogleman, GISP, CFM | AECOM | North Carolina Emergency Management's (NCEM) Statewide Building Footprint Maintenance Plan | |||
| G3: Hydraulic Analysis for Risk and Structure Evaluation | Modeling | ||||
| Chris Hanstad, PE, CFM | Illinois State Water Survey | Cache River Valley 2D Floodplain Analysis | |||
| Scott Hogan, PE | FHWA | Understanding the Importance of Hydraulic Controls and Mesh Resolution in 2D Hydraulic Modeling | |||
| Mark Bartlett, PhD, PE | Stantec | Machine Learning Insight for Rapid Inundation Screening | |||
| G4: Risk MAP Lifecycle | Mapping | ||||
| Taylor Leahy, PE, CFM, ENV-SP | CDM Smith | Third-Party Data and the Golden Triangle (Cost, Schedule, Quality) | |||
| Lauren Finegan, PE, PMP, CFM | Atkins North America | Evaluating Opportunities to Engage: Mapping to Mitigation | |||
| Emily Whitehead, CFM, GISP | Stantec / STARR II | Leveraging Local Mapping Needs into FEMA’s Discovery Process: A Discovery Needs Ranking System Overview | |||
| G5: Crowd-Sourcing for Risk Communications | Risk Communication | ||||
| Patrick Heck, CSM | Guidehouse | Using Social Media to Crowdsource Community Feedback Throughout Project Implementation | |||
| Daniel Tomczak, CFM | Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc. | Correlating Citizen Tidal Flooding Observations with Understanding Roadway Impacts | |||
| Jeff Stone, GISP, CFM | ASFPM | A Community Flood Notebook: Gilbert White Meets Crowdsourcing | |||
| G6: Tech & Tools for Warning Systems | Warning Systems | ||||
| Mark Jense, PE | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | Explorations of a community-based repository for rapid flood response data using cloud technologies – OpenWELL | |||
| Matthew Storosh, CFM | Charlotte-Mecklenburg Storm Water Services | Low Cost Flood Sensors: An Urban Installation Guidebook | |||
| Gordon Nedd, Military Officer | GDF | Towards Coastal Communities' Resilience: Near-Real-Time Non-Obstructed Flood Inundation Detection and Mapping Using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) | |||
| G7: Post-Flood Floodplain Management Compliance Assistance | Post-Disaster | ||||
| John Ingargiola, EI, CBO, CFM | FEMA Headquarters | Leveraging Mutual Aid Teams and DRRA 1206 for Post-Disaster Compliance Success | |||
| Jennifer Tylander | FEMA HQ | Implementing the DRRA Section 1206, Code Implementation and Enforcement, Policy for Floodplain Managers | |||
| Celinda Adair, CFM | State of Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development (DLCD) | Post-Disaster Community Engagement Resources, Recommendations, & Challenges - Lessons Learned from the 2020 Oregon Wildfires | |||
| Plenary Session (Thursday, May 13 - 11:00AM - 12:30 PM) | |||||
| Thursday Plenary Session | |||||
| Session H (Thursday, May 13 - 1:30PM-3:00PM) | |||||
| H1: Local Floodplain Management Initiatives 2 | NFIP | ||||
| Kimberly Dewailly, PE, CFM | City of Dallas - Dallas Water Utilities | 4 Score and Seven Years Ago – City of Dallas Journey towards becoming a CRS Class 4 | |||
| Glenn Shephard, PE | Ventura County Public Works Agency Watershed Protection | Floodplain Management and COVID-19 Pandemic Response – An Essential Industry’s Agility and Opportunities | |||
| Sandy Cross, CFM | Town of Duck | Community Planning, Support and Engagement in Floodplain Protection | |||
| H2: Hazard Mitigation Policy | Mitigation | ||||
| Laura Marshall | ECONorthwest | Johnson Creek Willing Seller Program Assessment | |||
| Anna Webber | Natural Resources Defense Council | Losing Ground: Mitigation Status of Severe Repetitive Loss Properties | |||
| Matt Fuchs, J.D. | The Pew Charitable Trusts | Policies to Help Communities Benefit from Buyouts: Partnerships, Valuing Multiple Benefits, and Other Key Strategies | |||
| H3: Advancing Hydrologic Methods for Flood Risk Assessment | Modeling | ||||
| Clark Barlow, PE, CFM | Atkins | Adapting 1D Hydrologic Methods for 2D Hydraulic Applications in Clark County, Nevada and Orange County, California | |||
| Mark Forest, PE, CFM | HDR | Transformations in Hydrologic Methods without Transforms, Testing of New HEC-RAS 6.0 Rain-On-Grid Solution | |||
| Sheila Thomas-Ambat, PE, CFM, CCM, CSM | City of Fayetteville, NC | Utilizing a Citywide Rain-on-Mesh Analysis to Identify Flood Risk for the City of Fayetteville | |||
| H4: Coastal Mapping Advances | Mapping | ||||
| Jennifer Pongratz, CFM | DE Dept. of Natural Resources and Enviornmental Control | Is Holding the Line Sustainable? Retreat as a Means of Defense | |||
| Jeff Gangai, CFM | Dewberry | Storm Surge Study Update for Select Communities in North Carolina | |||
| Fatema Begum, PE | EFA Research & Consulting, LLC | Letter of Map Revision (LOMR) for Village in Long Island | |||
| H5: FEMA Program Tools and Resources | Risk Communication | ||||
| Kimberley Schwenk, CFM | Michael Baker International | Reinforce Mitigation Messaging – Leverage the FEMA Mapping and Insurance eXchange | |||
| Steve Greene | FEMA | Finding the Right Fit: FEMA Region 5’s Mitigation Funding Resource Guides | |||
| Will Zung, PMP, CFM | STARR II | Living with Levees: FEMA’s Products and Tools for Community Officials and Professionals | |||
| H6: Green Infrastructure and Living Shorelines for Coastal Flood Mitigation | Coastal | ||||
| Jannek Cederberg, PE | Cummins Cederberg, Inc. | Waterfront Parks Sea Level Rise and Flooding Adaptations | |||
| Alaurah Moss | Dewberry | Fortifying our Coastal Economies and Ecosystems with Living Shorelines | |||
| Millicent Cowley-Crawford, PE, CFM | Woodard & Curran | Beyond Local Boundaries: Local and Regional Sea Level Rise Adaptation Strategies on the San Francisco Peninsula | |||
| H7: Local Levee Challenges | Dams & Levees | ||||
| Patti Sexton, PE, CFM | Tetra Tech | One Levee’s Journey Towards FEMA Certification – Case Study in New Orleans | |||
| Amit Sachan, PE, CFM | Atkins | Making Lumberton Resilient by putting Floodgate in the Levee System | |||
| Phil Martin | Fort Bend County Levee Improvement District No. 2 | Hurricane Harvey Recovery: Modernizing drainage systems inside a fully developed levee. | |||
| Session J (Thursday, May 13 - 3:30PM-5:00PM) | |||||
| J1: Data Analysis for Floodplain Management Decisions | NFIP | ||||
| Susanna Pho, CFM | Forerunner | Elevation Certificate Data: Unlocking Opportunities for More Informed Floodplain Management | |||
| Quentin Cummings, CFM | FEMA | Emerging Technologies: Web-Based Tools to Analyze Data and Drive Decisions | |||
| Christopher Moss, PE, CFM | AECOM | Post Disaster Rapid Screening for Likely Substantially Damaged Structures | |||
| J2: Building Science and Mitigation | Mitigation | ||||
| Adam Reeder, PE, CFM | CDM Smith | Using Asset Vulnerability To Assess Flood Mitigation For Multiple Building Facilities | |||
| Daniel Bass, RA | FEMA Headquarters | Virtual Damage and Building Performance Assessments During a Pandemic | |||
| Jessica Waters | FM Global | Out-Smarting Flood: Resilience in the Face of the Storm | |||
| J3: Analyzing and Leveraging Data for H&H Analysis | Modeling | ||||
| Seth Lawler | Dewberry | Model Library: Approaches for cataloguing and querying flood hazard models in the cloud | |||
| Al Sound PhD, PE, CFM | Wood, PLC. | Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analysis for Risk Assessments and Planning | |||
| Peter McCarthy | USGS | StreamStats: A web-based application for retrieving basin characteristics and streamflow statistics (such as the 1-percent flood) for gaged and ungaged streams | |||
| J4: GIS-Geospatial Data Advancements, Workflow & Tools | Mapping | ||||
| Hope Morgan, NCPLS, CFM, GISP, TBM | AECOM | We’re not finished - Flood maps, the impact of ongoing collection of high resolution lidar, and the public understanding of what that all means. | |||
| Andrew MacDonald, CFM | Atkins | Introducing QGIS to Communities as a Free and Open Source Tool for Floodplain Management: | |||
| Eliza Ledwell, CFM | NiyamIT | Simplifying and Automating Geospatial Data Workflows - Quality, Transformation, and Geoprocessing | |||
| J5: Mitigation Planning and Outreach | Risk Communication | ||||
| Lori Laster, PE, CFM | Papio-Missouri River Natural Resources District | PIVOT! The One with the New Approach to Public Outreach | |||
| Alison Miskiman, GISP, CFM | Tetra Tech | Staying Engaged in Mitigation During a Global Pandemic | |||
| Vikram Shrivastava, PE, PMP, D.WRE, CFM | Atkins | “Turning Obstacles into Opportunities” | |||
| J6: Watershed Management Initiatives | Water Resources Management | ||||
| Alexandra Carter, AICP | Louisiana Watershed Initiative | Introduction to Louisiana's Watershed Initiative | |||
| Mia Brown, CFM | North Central Texas Council of Governments | The Trinity River Common Vision Program: 30 Years and Growing | |||
| Larry Trout, PE | RK&K | Watershed Scale Coastal Resilience: Concept through Delivery Case Study: Delaware’s Inland Bays/Town of Dewey Beach – Read Avenue Area Resilience | |||
| J7: Spotlighting Stormwater Management Techniques | Stormwater & Urban Flooding | ||||
| Dustin Atchison, PE, PMP | Jacobs | Healthy Streets for Urban Flooding in Your Neighborhood | |||
| Chris Jansen, PE, LEED GA | Tetra Tech | Flood Management: An Ancillary Benefit to Site Development and Public Works Projects | |||
| Kristiane Huber | The Pew Charitable Trusts | Action Plan for Advancing Nature-based Stormwater Strategies in North Carolina | |||
| Friday, May 14 | (All times in Central) | |||
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| Workshops (additonal cost of $25 per workshop) | ||||
| Time | Title | Description | Presenters | CECs |
| 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM | Elevation Certificates and How to Review Them: Instructions for NFIP Communities | This workshop will go through the Elevation Certificate section by section to help participants verify forms are being completed correctly by both licensed professionals and local community officials. Specific focus will be applied to building diagrams since they are very important in floodplain management at the local level and insurance rating by the NFIP. The workshop will then go through the proper review procedures for floodplain managers and communities in the CRS. | Becca Fricke-Croft, CFM, Sr. Project Manager, Atkins | 3.5 |
| 9:00 - 11:00 AM | Coordinate Your Floodplain Management Ordinance with the Building Code | This workshop is for everyone who works in one of the nearly 10,000 NFIP communities that also enforce building codes with requirements for buildings in special flood hazard areas. We’ll: highlight advantages of relying on the flood provisions of the building codes to govern design and construction of buildings; review some distinctions between International Code provisions and NFIP floodplain management requirements; introduce three versions of a code-coordinated model ordinance prepared by FEMA; and help you answer questions to jumpstart the coordination process. This workshop is based on the recently updated ICC/FEMA publication "Reducing Flood Losses through the I-Codes." | John Ingargiola, EI, CFM, CBO, Lead Physical Scientist, FEMA/FIMA Adrienne Sheldon, PE, CFM, Regional and Field Support Branch Chief, FEMA Rebecca Quinn, CFM, President, RCQuinn Consulting, Inc. | 2 |
| 1:00 - 3:00 PM | Maximizing FEMA Funding Mechanisms to Advance Mitigation | Laura Algeo will lead a 2-hour workshop with FEMA grant leaders about how to utilize a blend of FEMA funding mechanisms to develop and implement mitigation projects in different situations and across the entire project lifecycle to reduce risk to life and property. Presenters will provide an update on different grant programs and opportunities. Q & A to follow. | Laura Algeo, PE, National CTP Program Coordinator, FEMA | 2 |