SPEAKER SERIES
The Envision Resilience Nantucket Challenge's 10-week Speaker Series has wrapped all 10 lectures are available below. The series brought renowned speakers from around the country who delivered inspiring and informative lectures on sea level rise through the lens of everything from finance and historic policy to human dynamics and decision-making. Explore the library of recordings for insightful conversations and takeaways that can be applied to coastal communities around the world and check out our suggested reading and weekly pre-reads as well.
Date
February 1
February 3
Theme
Course Introduction by Envision Resilience Nantucket Challenge Co-Chairs Marty and Bob
Transportation, Mobility and Infrastructure Management
Speaker
Marty Hylton
Director of the University of Florida Historic Preservation Program and the Center for World Heritage Research and Stewardship
Bob Miklos
Founding Principal, DesignLAB Architects
Kirk Bosma
Senior Coastal Engineer with the Woods Hole Group
Paul Kirshen
Engineering, UMass Boston
February 10
Green Infrastructure
Susannah Drake
Founding Principal of DLAND Studio
Dr. Sarah Bois
Director of Research and Education, The Linda Loring Nature Foundation
Dr. Jennifer Karberg
Research Supervisor, Nantucket Conservation Foundation
February 17
Urban Ecology Case Studies
Amy Whitesides
Director of Resilience and Research at Stoss Landscape Urbanism
Carly Foster
Principal Resilience Lead at Arcadis
February 24
Preservation Architecture Studies
Allan Shulman
University of Miami School of Architecture and Lead on the Miami Beach Buoyant City Report
Jennifer Wellock
Technical Reviewer, Architectural Historian, National Park Service Federal Response
March 10
Sea level rise, Flooding and Living with water through Design
Iñaki Alday
Dean, Richard Koch Chair in Architecture, Tulane School of Architecture and Founder, aldayjover architecture and landscape
Dr. Kristina Hill
Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning and Urban Design, UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design
March 17
Resilience and Exploration of successful Adaptations
Chris Reed
Founder and Director, Stoss Landscape Urbanism
David Waggonner
Architect and Principal, Waggonner and Ball, New Orleans
March 24
Human Dynamics and Decision Making
Robert Lempert
Director, Frederick S. Pardee Center for Longer Range Global Policy and the Future Human Condition; Principal Researcher; Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School
AR Siders
Core faculty at Disaster Research Center and Assistant Professor Biden School of Public Policy and Administration at University of Delaware
March 31
Coastal Policy & Historic Policy
Thomas Ruppert
Attorney and Coastal Planning Specialist, Florida Sea Grant
Read Porter
Senior Staff Attorney Marine Affairs Institute, Rhode Island Sea Grant Legal Program, Roger Williams University School of Law
Greg Berman
Coastal Processes Specialist, Woods Hole Sea Grant and Cape Cod Cooperative Extension
Lisa Craig
Principal, Craig Group
April 7
Finance and Real Estate
John Macomber
Senior Lecturer in the Finance unit at Harvard Business School
Dr. Jesse M. Keenan
Associate Professor of Real Estate, School of Architecture, Tulane University