Integrating Coastal Flood Research, Modeling and Monitoring to Improve Coastal Resiliency in the Mid-Atlantic

On Wednesday, September 16, 2015, a technical workshop on coastal flooding was held at the University of Delaware, Clayton Hall Conference Center on the Newark campus. This workshop focused on science-based research and the application of data and resources related to modeling and monitoring of coastal flooding in the Mid-Atlantic region. The workshop consisted of both presentations and discussion sessions with a eye toward collaboration. An expected outcome of this workshop is a document summarizing commonalities and geographic coverage overlap among existing efforts and possible directions for collaboration now and into the future.

Workshop Goals:
• Improve communication throughout community of coastal flood-related research practitioners
• Promote an integrated science approach to use existing assets, networks, environmental sensing platforms, early warning system efforts, etc...
• Identify overlap in geographic coverage and major topics of interest of existing and planned projects
• Initiate conversation regarding a regional approach to coastal flood-related research and project prioritization

Workshop Program

8:30am	Continental Breakfast and Registration
9:00am	Welcome and Opening Remarks
	Mohsen Badiey, Acting Dean, College of Earth, Ocean, & Environment, University of Delaware Caroline Massey, Assistant Director for Management Operations, NASA Wallops Dan Leathers, Professor, Department of Geography, University of Delaware, and Delaware State Climatologist
9:10am	SESSION I. Mid-Atlantic Coastal Flooding Research and Analysis
	Storm Surge Forecasting in the Middle Atlantic Bight: Review and Prospects (pdf) William Boicourt, Professor, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Hydrodynamic Modeling in NOAA’s National Ocean Service in Support of Operational Forecast System Development and Storm Surge Forecasting (pdf) Ed Myers, NOAA NOS Coast Survey Development Laboratory Modeling and Mapping Coastal Flood Risk in the Mid-Atlantic (pdf) Christine Estes Worley, Senior Project Manager, AECOM/RAMPP, a FEMA Region III Mapping Partner North Atlantic Coast Comprehensive Study: Resilient Adaptation to Identifying Increasing Risk (pdf) J. Bailey Smith, Regional Technical Specialist, National Planning Center for Coastal Storm Risk Management, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
10:50am	Break
11:00am	Breakout Group Discussion (Session I)
11:45am	Lunch and Invited Speaker
	From the Extreme to the Mean: The Effects of Sea-Level Rise on Coastal Flooding (pdf) William Sweet, Oceanographer, NOAA Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services
1:00pm	SESSION II. Mid-Atlantic Coastal Flood Monitoring and Early Warning System Initiatives
	USGS SWaTH Network - Rapidly Deployed Sensor Networks (pdf) Mark Nardi, Geographer, U.S. Geological Survey, MD-DE-DC Water Science Center High-resolution Overland Inundation Forecasting for the Issuance of Storm Surge Warnings (pdf) Thomas Herrington, Research Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental & Ocean Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology The Delaware Coastal Flood Monitoring System (pdf) John Callahan, Research Scientist, Delaware Geological Survey, University of Delaware NWS Advisory/Warning System and Data Used for Coastal Flood Advisories (pdf) Dean Iovino, Coastal Flooding Focal Point, NOAA National Weather Service WFO Mt. Holly, New Jersey
2:40pm	Break
3:00pm	Breakout Group Discussion (Session II)
3:45pm	SESSION III. Moving Forward - MACRI Collaborations
	Facilitated Group Discussion (pdf) Caroline Massey, Assistant Director for Management Operations, NASA Wallops
4:30pm	Adjourn